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politics, both trans & otherwise

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NCTE’s Responding to Hate Crimes manual

Just in time for the Transgender Day of Remembrance, held annually on November 20th, NCTE has published a small manual called Responding to Hate Crimes: A Community Resource Manual, which, according to NCTE’s Simon Aronoff, “represents a holistic, community-based approach to responding to hate violence in a wya that aims to curb the number of attacks faced by transgender people.”

Read the full press release from NCTE below the break, and read or download a copy of the manual at NCTE’s website: http://www.nctequality.org/resources/hatecrimes.pdf

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Countess’ Court?

A very long time ago, a friend sent me this postcard from the UK. The text on the back says:

Julian Howes resigned from London Underground when his employers refused to allow him to wear a female uniform, London 1979.

and on the bottom is says, in caps:

BETTER BLATANT THAN LATENT

Kinda cool, no?

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Keith Olbermann

Vis a vis the Democratic Party wins tonight, Keith Olbermann just concluded, “The dog has caught the car.” He is too damned funny (and spot on).

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Unusual Romance

People find Betty’s and my romance odd for the way it’s gendered, but tonight, as I sit here watching election results with my husband, laughing over references to Bob LaFollette (that was Keith Olbermann, of course) and getting aggravated at how grating Tweety’s voice gets (that would be Chris Matthews), it strikes me that the political part of Betty’s and my romance is a lot weirder, maybe, than our genders.

Maybe.

I was supposed to be at the meeting of the MHB group at the Center tonight, but Betty had to work late and we have never *not* voted together. So instead I waited for her to get home and we took a short walk to our polling place together. We don’t always vote the same – I tend to vote Green or WFP or occasionally even Socialist (it took a lot to resist a Socialist named Willie Cotton this year, I mean he sounds like a character in The Grapes of Wrath), and Betty occasionally votes Libertarian – but we share a deep belief in democracy having muscle, but moreso in the crazy notion that people should choose how their lives are run.

So apologies to the people who went to the group expecting me, but Election Day is a little like Valentine’s Day for us. I mean, we did see Point of Order on our first date, & all.

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The #1 Reason to Vote

From Michael Moore:

1. IT’S A NATIONAL REFERENDUM. Although candidates’ names will be on the ballot today, this election is NOT about this candidate or that candidate. Make no mistake about it: This election is nothing less than a National Referendum on George W. Bush and his War. Don’t waste your time trying to learn about who the schlump is that’s running for office. You know they’re all pretty much the same, a few are better than others, but… please. They is who they is. THIS election is not about them. It’s a simple up or down vote on staying the course.

To vote in favor of the war, vote for the Republican. To vote against the war, vote for the Democrat. As crazy as it sounds, even if the Republican is against the war, or the Democrat is for it, it doesn’t matter. All that will matter by midnight tonight is the math on the big tote board. Did America say YES to Bush or NO to Bush? The ONLY way they’re going to add it up is by counting the number of votes under the big D and the big R. The only way to take a stand against Bush today is to vote for the Dems on the ballot.