Hmmm. I just had a bizarre experience, involving a global news organisation and a trillion dollar corporation. (I got caught in the middle, so... owch.)
It’s not the sort of experience the people involved usually talk about in public… so I think I’ll talk about it in public.
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We *know* that the UK media has become really trans-hostile over the last decade, both in the quantity and quality of news articles.
But let's have a look at the data...
There have been 21,917 articles on trans topics in the UK media since Jan 2012.
Why we can't stop saying gay, a story
On the first day of my senior year of high school, a new boy showed up in my AP English class.
He had transferred from a prestigious private school to my public school, and I was confused.
I asked him why he moved and he shrugged
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1/ The goal of externally facing Russian propaganda is not to convince you that Putin is unequivocally right.
They'd like that but know it's unrealistic and more importantly unnecessary to achieve their objectives.
All they need is for you to become confused or ambivalent. Why?
Albert Cashier was born in Clogherhead, Ireland in 1843. He began dressing in male clothing as a child.
In 1862, age 19, he began serving in the union army in the American civil war, where he was the shortest soldier in the regiment. #LGBTQIA (Thread)