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My name is: Michelle, but most people call me Dark online.
My gender-pronouns are: They/them/their.
I am: 26 years old, a feminist, liberal, an atheist, an omnivore, and an ISFJ.
The Feminist: Intersectional, body positive, pro-choice, and sex positive.
My privileged identities include: Female assigned at birth (trans* privilege), white, able-bodied, allistic (?), dyadic, monogamous.
My non-privileged/oppressed identities include: Gender-fluid, fat, gray-a, neuroatypical, and gay.
I have: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and Major Depressive Disorder.
I like: Pets & animals, animal welfare, pet care & pet care education, ~*SCIENCE!*~, anatomy & physiology, roleplaying, anime/manga, computer & video games, rock & metal music.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Transgender Contestant Can Compete in Miss Universe
Jenna TalackovaAfter being rebuked from groups like GLAAD, the Miss Universe Organization will allow Jenna Talackova, a transgender woman, to compete in the Miss Universe Canada pageant.
“The Miss Universe Organization will allow Jenna Talackova to compete in the 2012 Miss Universe Canada pageant provided she meets the legal gender recognition requirements of Canada, and the standards established by other international competitions,” according to a statement released by the organization late Monday night.
GLAAD contacted the pageant organization after Talackova was disqualified for her transgender status; the group urged Miss Universe to change their policies. GLAAD is hoping to change the policy for all transgender competitors.
“The Miss Universe Organization made the right decision and has taken an important first step,” GLAAD’s Herndon Graddick said in a statement. “Now, GLAAD urges the Organization to include all women and use this incident to speak out in support of the transgender community.”
I think Roland Martin deserved censure and suspension, just like Don Imus deserved being terminated. But where is GLAAD when Andrew Sullivan and Dan Savage make their racist statements? I sense a double standard and it REEKS of racism.” ~ Son of Baldwin
Son of Baldwin (via afrolez)
