Killings of transgender Argentines test nation’s liberal laws
[...] in September, in Santa Fe, a city on Argentina’s Pampas lowlands, the corpse of Fernanda Olmos, 59, was discovered on her bedroom floor, a plastic bag pulled over her...
View ArticleFor 'The Danish Girl,' Eddie Redmayne studied issues facing transgender people
Eddie Redmayne rattles off statistics about the transgender community: "In 31 states, you can still be fired for being transgender," he says by phone from London. "The suicide rate within the community...
View ArticleGiving thanks for higher ed
Give thanks this weekend for some indirect blessings of liberty, including the behavior-beyond-satire of what are generously called institutions of higher education. People who are imprecisely called...
View ArticleChronicle of Sex Reassignment Surgery: Juliet Jacques’s “Trans: a Memoir”
There’s something downright depressing about Juliet Jacques’s account of her transition from male to female, because Jacques himself is depressed, at least when he’s still a male. And, still, Jacques’s...
View ArticleHC verdict too failed to deliver justice to third gender
Nagpur: In April 2014, the Supreme Court upheld the identity and rights of the third gender in a landmark judgment. However, most of these rights still remain on paper, forcing members of the third...
View ArticleWhy Kerala's new transgender policy could show other states in recognising...
Western culture likes binaries: life feels less threatening when we can separate good and evil into tidy heaps, when we split off the mind from the body, when men are masculine and women are feminine....
View ArticleRevival of Sick MSMEs (Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises of the...
(Source: Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises of the Republic of India) The Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the sector is collected by conducting All India Census...
View ArticleSchool drops planned reading of book about transgender girl
A Wisconsin elementary school has called off a planned reading of a children's book about a transgender girl after it was threatened with a lawsuit. The uproar began after the principal of Mount Horeb...
View ArticleKerala Sunni cleric says 'women only fit to deliver children'
Thiruvananthapuram: In a controversial remark, Sunni leader Kanthapuram AP Aboobacker Musliar on Saturday described as "un-Islamic" the concept of gender equality and said that women could never equal...
View ArticleMen Need to Stop Telling Women What to Write, Say, Think, Feel...
I'm a feminist author/blogger, and with that comes much unwanted attention from men who believe they know better. Before I launch into my rant, I'd like to make something very clear: I'm not referring...
View ArticleWorking women feel safe in Coimbatore, says survey
COIMBATORE: The city is among top 10 cities in India preferred by women employees, states the India Skills Report 2016. This is not the first time that the cotton city has been featured in this list....
View Article'Women fit only to deliver children'
Thiruvananthapuram: In a controversial remark, Sunni leader Kanthapuram A P Aboobacker Musliar on Saturday described as "un-Islamic" the...
View ArticleEngineers flood Sub-Inspector posts
Chennai: The selectors at the Tamil Nadu uniformed service recruitment board were in for a big surprise when they found out that 32 percent of 881 fresh recruits were engineering graduates. Of 881 male...
View ArticlePolitician and Norwegian MP Sylvi Graham in an exclusive interview with The...
Sylvi Graham is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. From 2004 to 2005, during the second cabinet Bondevik, Graham was appointed State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She...
View ArticleNow, Venkaiah Naidu talks about ‘intolerance’
Parliamentary Affairs Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu on Monday said there was “some amount” of intolerance in the society which has to be identified and dealt with firmly, instead of generalising it....
View ArticleOperable Mines (Ministry of Mines of the Republic of India)
(Source: Ministry of Mines of the Republic of India) According to information received from State Government of Jharkhand, total number of Non-Coal operable Mines for Major Mineral in the State are...
View ArticleWomen Entrepreneurship Development Programme (Ministry of Micro, Small and...
(Source: Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises of the Republic of India) The Ministry is implementing schemes for imparting training and to promote women entrepreneurship by setting up micro,...
View ArticleMedia sexism
Reham Khan has lamented the manner in which her recent divorce was treated by the media. With journalists scrambling to reveal all the ‘skeletons in her closet’ for primetime slots and snide judgements...
View ArticleThe mysteries behind women’s body shape
It takes a zoologist to study the weirdest animal of all: humans. And one of the biggest mysteries concerns the woman of the species — not just her habit of sharing some small plates with her man and...
View Articlesparks & honey Explores Gender, Sexuality and Language in Its Latest Culture...
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - November 30, 2015) - sparks & honey, the New York-based agency that synchronizes brands with culture in the now, next and future, today announced the release of its...
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