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Canadian Indigenous, Transgender, Mumble-Punk Frontman Jesse Jams
Award-winning Writer / Director — Trevor Anderson’s new documentary short film introduces the extraordinary, transgender, indigenous, mumble-punk pioneer — Jesse Jams.
VIDEO: Part III of III: Marriage equality around the world
An 8-year-old boy was recently the center of a controversy. At a Fairfax County School Board meeting in the United States, people of the board spoke against a change in the school’s policy to include “gender identity” in their anti-discrimination […]
PART 3: VISUAL: Defining LGBTQ+
Video: Lia Conger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIU0ulmGr7s
VIDEO: LGBTQ is a Liminal Identity: What you see is not always what you get Part 1
Culturs sat down with columnist and member of the LGBTQ community, Kendall McElhaney, to talk about issues both in the US and all over the world throughout the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community in the first of this […]
Orange is the New Black: Pushing Heteronormative Boundaries One Character at a Time
Since its’ premiere in July 2013, the popular Netflix original show, Orange is the New Black, has opened up the door for more diverse identities to be presented in the mainstream. The newest addition to the fictional Litchfield Federal Correctional […]
Technology Quells Restroom Privilege
A new app called Refuge Restrooms provides transgender, intersex, genderqueer, non-binary and gender non-conforming individuals a position based resource to find safe bathrooms to use near their location. The tagline for the app says, “Sometimes life is tough, find refuge,” […]
Sweden Adds Gender-Neutral Pronoun To its Dictionary
The pronoun, “hen,” (pronounced like a female chicken), will join “han” (he) and “hon” (she) as new official gender-neutral pronouns in the Swedish language in the new SAOL. Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL) is a glossary published by the Swedish Academy. […]
Andreja Pejić – A new role Model for Trans* Youth
Androgynous facial structures and body types have always been desired attributes in the fashion industry, but what happens when your androgynous look is centered in your gender identity, not in your attempt to further your success? You may come across […]