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dan sedran

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from Soviet Bus Stops by Christopher Herwig

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Milky Way Over Mt. Rainer (by Matt Sahli)

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This is what solidarity with black trans women looks like 

On Tuesday, a national day of action took place in more than 20 cities across the country calling for an end to the record number of black transgender women who’ve been killed in recent years. Organizers hope the movement will help cisgender people confront the ways that they’re complicit in transphobia.

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Take Me Away

© 2015, Kirsten Rothbart

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Yes, Caitlyn’s cover was great. Yes, every time Laverne does a cover our hearts soar. Yes, the outpouring of #MyVanityFair covers was inspiring. Now let’s add even more faces to the collection. These gorgeous illustrations by Julio Salgado depict trans people of color who are doing fantastic work in the movement, but who you probably won’t see on a magazine cover anytime soon. Read Julio’s full guest post at the Transgender Law Center’s blog to learn more about each person and the work they do. 

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At a Tent Theater Near You: Traveling Tent Cinemas of India

Nomadic cinemas travel to remote villages in India, far from fixed-site theaters. Films are shown in large tents, often using makeshift equipment, with the audience seated on the ground. Although India is home to the most prolific movie industry in the world, producing around 800 films a year, it has one of the lowest ratios of screens to population – 13 screens per million people. The traveling cinemas show mixed fare, including regional language films, Bollywood blockbusters and Hollywood movies, but they are facing a fight for survival as DVDs become more easily accessible and cable networks penetrate further into the country.

(World Press Photo, Arts and Entertainment, first prize stories, 2011)

Photographs by Amit Madheshiya

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Christian Josef, Novum Gebrauchs Graphik, August, 1978.

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Monica Barengo

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I want to believe.

how much longer??

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René Burri, Garden restaurant near Tehran, Iran, 1960

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kelly mittendorf photographed by yasutomo ebisu

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And that shit is hard work. Is it harder than learning to look over your shoulder without looking or to make mental notes of every exit when you enter a building? Probably not, but I’ve had less time to practice.

For me, day-to-day feminism in action is creating safer spaces for women—the ones I know and especially the ones I do not. With women I don’t know I avoid eye contact, and when I can’t avoid it I give a polite nod and then busy myself with something in the opposite direction. I make my body language say, “uninterested.” I make my face a careful construction of passive and placid. I never stand too close. I never walk too fast behind. I’m mindful to not let my body take up more room than I absolutely need. I speak up less, or not at all, in groups where women are trying to be heard.

This article is great, and a great example of day-to-day feminism men — cis, queer, trans — can do to smash the patriarchy one brick at a time.

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