Discrimination

admin on February 14th, 2011
reading-in-context

On my usual commute home this past Thursday, I encountered what is fast becoming a usual occurrence on my train, namely problems with overhead cables. To the chorus of moans and complaints bubbling around me, I resigned myself to the longer ulterior route and took the chance to pay the Evening Standard more than my [...]

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admin on October 10th, 2010
i-hate-it-when-people-judge-others

Yesterday, my lovely girlfriend and I were shopping in Hamburg. After a really fun day out, we returned to the car which was parked in the Gertrudentor car park next to the Europa Passage shopping centre. Unfortunately, this car park has the slowest lifts on the planet – I can feel the wrinkles growing as [...]

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whats-in-common-between-an-ex-con-and-a-trans-person

The title to this post may seem flippant to some and may seem touchy to others. I use it for a simple reason: There is really something in common. When someone goes to prison, they do so because our legal system has found them guilty of a crime. There’s a huge stigma attached to this [...]

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admin on October 16th, 2009
a-crappy-situation

This Monday, I approached my boss to start working with him on when I could have my surgery. I’ve finally put together the money after having lost it twice (with the failure of my company in 2006 and losing my job in 2008) so I am rather sensitive about having this done as soon as [...]

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admin on April 4th, 2009

Imagine your boyfriend finding something out about you which made him angry. He breaks into your home and beats you with such force with a glass ashtray that it tears one of your lips off. Imagine that this happens because the police tell your boyfriend something about your past, something you shared with them only [...]

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admin on April 4th, 2009

When I hear the shocked hysteria about the gay/lesbian/trans lifestyle, it always raises a giggle. I love it when the conservatives use these phrases because it shows how isolated and myopic they are. You see, there is a gay/lesbian/trans lifestyle, but the only reason for that is because the hetero and cis communities create an [...]

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admin on December 20th, 2008

In Britain, there’s been quite a bit of news coverage over Lillian Ladele, a registrar in Islington, a bourough of London. Under British law, registrars are responsible for civil marriages, including the civil unions which allow gay and lesbian people some of the rights of a married heterosexual couple. She made the headlines when Islington [...]

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