Category Archives: Trans Issues
Back off, TERFs
Note: The author recognizes that this piece was written on the ancestral, traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples, specifically the sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) nations. It is important to recognize the ways in which settler colonialism has attempted to impose gender binarism and cisheteropatriarchal gender roles. The author would […]
It’s Time to Queer the Digital Humanities
Though, despite this work being done, the Digital Humanities still rely heavily on cisgender, heterosexual, white men. BIPOC queers, Two-Spirit’s and women are tired of being the anomaly. Or, at least, I am; and I’m sure I’m not the only one.
Collectively Speaking: A Teach-In On Free Speech
Title: Collectively Speaking: A Teach-In on Free Speech Date: October 31, 2018 Location: Outside the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts Description: A gathering outside the Chan Centre, where the Free Speech Club hosted American conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro. While our event is not a direct protest against Shapiro, it is a logical civic […]
Social Trustice, The Struggles of Detangling
Anonymous wants to highlight their positionality as an economically privileged and financially dependent disabled settler of colour with other significant intersections; Anonymous uses all the pronouns, but prefers “he/they”. I’ll stand up to the white men the rich men the Old Boys and the new start a magazine and stop eating so many bloody […]
Letter: PRIDE To the UBC community
To the UBC community, This letter is intended as a set of guidelines towards the creation of a queer- and trans-friendly, and broadly socially-just, learning environment. We begin with the acknowledgement that the authors of this letter are settlers on this land, which is the unceded, ancestral, traditional, occupied, and stolen land of the Musqueam […]
A Reflection on “March On, Vancouver! The Next Step March”
“What if we shift the question from ‘who do I want to be?’ to the question, ‘what kind of life do I want to live with others?’?… If the I who wants this name or seeks to live a certain kind of life is bound up with a ‘you’ and a ‘they’ then we are […]
The Post-Truth Politics of Jordan Peterson’s Gender Nonbinary Pronoun Debate
Is there some legitimacy in what he brings up about free speech and a culture of polarization that we too are concerned about? Absolutely. But what Peterson is using his “free speech” towards is the suppression of minority rights that he takes ideological issue with. We don’t support such “intellectual” thinking, or argument.
All-Gender Washrooms: A Trans* Issue and Beyond
Content warning: Transphobia None of the authors of this post are transgender or gender-variant. For that reason, we are cognizant of the privilege we have to advocate for transgender rights as allies who do not face the repercussions that transgender, or gender-variant people continue to face today. Many transgender and gender-variant people have advocated for […]
Open letter against transmisogyny and anti-sex work rhetoric in Vancouver
In the spirit of anti-hate and a truly intersectional politics, we the undersigned express our solidarity with trans women and sex workers by denouncing discourses and practices that engender a culture of discrimination towards trans women and sex workers, prevent their access to health and social services, and otherwise expose trans women and sex workers […]
seasons of gender: reflections on trans day of remembrance
gender can be a daunting topic – daunting for trans and cis people alike. for the latter, discussing gender can seem difficult. anxiety-provoking. tentative to engage, cis people often avoid asking about pronouns, avoid trying with pronouns, avoid learning about gender altogether. all this employed in the spirit of fragility: as if it is better […]
