QWOC Media Wire, a media advocacy organization and online platform that amplifies the voices and thought leadership of sexual minorities around the world, is seeking three new editors to join their team. Application deadline May 20th.…
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Happy Spring! Here’s some QWOC News for your Spring Fever.…
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The Trans Justice Funding Project (TJFP) application deadline is coming up on February 15th. Got an organization and/or project idea that would benefit trans people of color in mind but are stumped for funding ideas? Apply!…
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We’re seeing more transgender women in the media these days, which is great… and nerve-wrecking, especially when the media frequently gets it wrong. But, when a show like The Double Divas, which follows two lingerie shop owners’ quests to fit women with the right bras, gets it right, now that’s great television. …
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MTV’s most recent episode of Catfish, a show about fake online dating profiles tackles transgender issues, and fails. Read our intern Breanne’s review with powerful commentary about the role of TV producers from trans advocate, Janet Mock. …
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Digital humanities dissident, Moya Bailey, has sculpted a yellow brick road in cyberspace for women of color. This summer she will travel to Detroit, along with her collective, Shawty Got Skillz, to conduct a three-hour workshop at the 14th annual Allied Media Conference. As the ‘founder and co-conspirator’ of Quirky Black Girls, blogger for the…
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The Glee Project’s cast includes a blind African American man, a disabled woman, a bi-racial trans man, a lesbian, and in all, four people of color. Is this inclusiveness overload or the kind of diversity Glee desperately needs?…
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Meet spoken-word artists, food justice advocate, and all-round badass brown boi, Kay Barrett. “As long as I have a breath, I have a pen and I am one of many vessels for humanity, a sloppy and healing humanity.”…
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Michael David Battle, a black female-to-male (FTM) trans maan, who has been documenting his transition online is currently compiling an anthology of stories with the working title, “Here, Our Voices: The Black Trans-Identified Experience.” We are looking for original, well-written personal essays, memoirs, or stories that are based on autobiographical experiences. The narrative must be…
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Trans author and former fitness model Toni Newman and gay author in the hip hop industry Terrance Dean discuss their new books. …
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