Campaigners have expressed concern with the findings of the first round of public consultation on what schools should be teaching in the Relationships Education and Relationship and Sex Education (RSE) curricula. The consultation, which runs until November 7, 2018, was called following government plans to introduce the mandatory subjects in schools across the country by September 2020. Then-Education(…)
Shipley has accomplished a meditation on gender, time, and the forms of life that is a gift to his readers. Shipley gives gifts in layers. We observe each by its inversion into another: poets and psychologists, bits of trivia or miscellany rest alongside intimacy, and bodies appear as bound until they are freed, or free(…)
FRI, OCT 12 AT 6:30 PM Project Nunway Nunlimited: To Infinity and Beyond Guerneville Veterans Hall · Guerneville, CA Tickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3617422 Greetings and Welcome to the First Annual Russian River Sisters Project Nunway! This event was first created by the San Francisco Sisters over ten years ago by Sister Babra Ganesha and has become a world(…)
Dance Film SF announces its 2018 selections for the 9th annual San Francisco Dance Film Festival (SFDFF), featuring dance films from the Bay Area and around the world, running Thursday, October 4 through Sunday, October 14 across five venues. Along with screenings, the festival will include brief live performances, free presentations, a VR/360 experience room,(…)
Protesting intersex surgeries | Photo: Flickr/Stuart Crawford 18 September 2018 The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) in the United States has taken a stance against performing unnecessary surgery on intersex children. The organization, which was founded in 1947, issued the new guidelines earlier this year. Intersex people are those born with variations in their(…)
The State Department says its policy towards transgender passport holders remains the same after changes to its website sparked concern among advocates. The State Department on Thursday said its policy towards transgender passport holders has not changed after changes to its website sparked concern.The National Center for Transgender Equality on Wednesday said, “language concerning the(…)
Eminem used the word ‘faggot’ and absolutely no one was shocked. A couple of weeks ago Eminem dropped his surprise album, Kamikaze, featuring one of the diss tracks he’s built his entire career perfecting. But you’d think that someone so known for weaving together insulting tracks could steer away from such lazy expressions like the(…)
Photo: Gary Campbell 12 September 2018 A Christian College has stopped a man from returning to finish his degree because he’s gay. Gary Campbell hoped to resume his classes at Clarks Summit University in order to receive the final six credits for a Bachelor’s degree. Afterwards, he planned to start a job working with recovering(…)
A gay student is suing his school after teachers ignored him as he was being attacked by bullies. Guadalupe Paredes, 19, has said the school were ‘deliberately indifferent’ to his daily torment. One official even allegedly told his mother Parades brought it on himself by ‘acting gay and telling other students he was gay’. The(…)
Britain’s High Court today ruled to overturn pharmaceutical company Gilead Science’s patent extension on Truvada. The HIV medication is also used for PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis). When taken as advised, this stops HIV negative people acquiring HIV. PrEP is not yet available on the NHS in England and Wales. The NHS is currently conducting a trial(…)
