The following reposted here from a local queer mailing list: If you are a transsexual, transgender, or gender variant person who has physically transitioned outside of the traditional route, WE WANT YOUR STORY! For people who wish to physically transition – to change their body in ways related to their …
Windi Earthworm was an institution of the radical anglo left in 1980s Montreal. A crossdressing openly gay street musician who took it upon himself to educate the public about the Vancouver 5, the genocide of Indigenous peoples, the destruction of nature, and the miseries of life under capitalism, Windi was …
From Gaywired by way of IntelligentaIndigena: Iraq is one of only nine countries in the world where homosexual people are executed simply for being gay. While the New York Times reports that Iraqis are now able to “enjoy freedoms unthinkable two years ago,” – women are able to walk the …
The following excellent article about killing cops in Oakland is from the radical queer Back Back News blog : Lovelle Mixon, Police, and the Politics of Race/Rape by Raider Nation Collective( raidernationcollective [at] gmail.com)Monday Apr 13th, 2009 3:40 PM In short, there are those who are automatically guilty and those …
An excellent statement from the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, FIERCE, Queers for Economic Justice, the Peter Cicchino Youth Project and the Audre Lorde Project, about how hate crimes legislation is a bad idea, as is incarceration as a solution to violence in our communities: SRLP announces non-support of the Gender …
The above is a video recording of Ward Churchill Speaking On Colonialism as Genocide at Concordia University in Montreal last Wednesday, recorded by Maximilian Forte on Vimeo. i was tabling so i missed the talk, which makes me extra-grateful to have this video available. i certainly don’t agree with …
Queen of the Bolsheviks: The Hidden History of Dr. Marie Equi by Nancy Krieger $2.00 from left-wing books dot net Saddle-stitched pamphlet 30 pages Published by Kersplebedeb in 2009 ISBN 1-894946-30-8 Now forgotten, Dr. Marie Equi was a physician for working-class women and children, a lesbian, and a dynamic and …
We have entered a new stage of struggle, a new moment of possibility and danger. Western Europe is in the news; Iceland’s government has fallen, hundreds of thousands from across the political spectrum shut down France for a day, and now a wave of wildcat strikes is giving England’s government …
An interesting post by Jed Brandt on Mike Ely’s Kasama blog about the anti-queer political line advanced by the (u.s.) Revolutionary Communist Party up until a few years ago: Misuses of the Erotic: Debate Among Revolutionary Youth.
From the May 6, 2008 issue of New Scientist: The image of biofuels is rapidly tarnishing. Already under fire for displacing food production and tropical forests, they are now charged with marginalising poor rural women. In a report published on 21 April, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization concludes that …