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You may have noticed preferred pronouns included in email signatures more frequently, or more options than “male” or “female” when signing up for a new app. This is because gender is not binary, it is a spectrum of various identities. A person’s pronouns relate to their gender identity or their choice in how they name their gender. This may or may not differ from sex assigned at birth, but that’s not our business. Including pronouns when introducing yourself or in an email signature is a way to show mutual respect for others’ gender identity. One of the many benefits of this practice is to invite gender non-conforming (gnc) individuals to feel more comfortable in identifying their pronouns and to normalize the conversation across the board. When we do this with everyone we meet it reduces the chances of making others feel like they are being put on the spot. It also creates an inclusive environment for all. Using pronouns in email signatures, name tags, and introductions decreases the chances of misgendering a person. Misgendering is when someone uses the wrong pronouns for another individual. The act of misgendering is very hurtful to the person who has been misgendered. If this happens one should acknowledge the mistake with a simple yet authentic apology, not put the mistake on the misgendered person and make sure the misgendering doesn’t continue to happen. Here are some tips on how to incorporate gender-neutral language into your everyday life, from the experts at GLSEN – an organization whose mission is to create safe and affirming schools for all, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. - If you feel comfortable, introduce yourself with your pronouns as a model. For example: “Hi, I’m Anjelique. I use she/her and they/them pronouns” or “I’m Milo, and I use they/them pronouns.” - Practice, practice, practice! Use gender-neutral pronouns such as “they” and “ze” while visualizing the person who uses them. - Whenever possible, take the lead from the transgender and GNC individuals around you to align with others’ norms. - Welcome feedback, and be ready to make adjustments as you continue to make your spaces more inclusive: “If you have any feedback for us on how to make this DEI Task Force a more welcoming space for transgender, gender nonconforming and gender non-binary people, please let us know!” - When addressing groups of people or people whose pronouns you haven’t been told, use gender-neutral language such as, “friends,” “folks,” “all,” or “y’all,” rather than “guys,” “ladies,” “ma’am,” or “sir.” We also suggest using the person’s name rather than pronouns until you know. How else can you ask or offer pronouns in the workplace? (From Human Rights Campaign) - Interviewing & Onboarding process: Create a place to declare preferred name and pronouns. Many Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) are driven by legal name. Creating an opportunity to disclose preferred names is a recommended best practice not only for transgender people, but for anyone who uses a preferred (or “nick”) name. Use these as basis of introducing new employees - Corporate social networks or platforms: Allow employees to self-ID preferred name and pronouns as part of their profile. - Make offering personal pronoun part of introduction process at the start of meetings or events. Example: “We’re going to go around the room to introduce ourselves. Please say your name, the department you work in and, if you want, your personal pronouns.” “My name is John Smith. I work in Quality Control. My pronouns are they, them, theirs.” - Role model appropriate pronoun when introducing people to their new workgroup Example: “Everyone I am pleased to introduce John Smith who is transferring over from Quality Control. They will be the lead person on the new product development project.” Want to know more? Here are some additional resources related to gender identity, diversity and pronouns: Resource: LGBTQ Glossary of Terms

A new method is proposed for unravelling the patterns between a set of experiments and the features that characterize those experiments. The aims are to extract these patterns in the form of a coupling between the rows and columns of the corresponding data matrix and to use this geometry as a support for model testing. These aims are reached through two key steps, namely application of an iterative geometric approach to couple the metric spaces associated with the rows and columns, and use of statistical physics to generate matrices that mimic the original data while maintaining their inherent structure, thereby providing the basis for hypothesis testing and statistical inference. The power of this new method is illustrated on the study of the impact of water stress conditions on the attributes of ‘Cabernet Sauvignon’ Grapes, Juice, Wine and Bottled Wine from two vintages. The first step, named data mechanics, de-convolutes the intrinsic effects of grape berries and wine attributes due to the experimental irrigation conditions from the extrinsic effects of the environment. The second step provides an analysis of the associations of some attributes of the bottled wine with characteristics of either the matured grape berries or the resulting juice, thereby identifying statistically significant associations between the juice pH, yeast assimilable nitrogen, and sugar content and the bottled wine alcohol level. The ever-growing roles of digital sensors whose technologies are constantly advancing, allowing for better and broader experimental coverage of the parameters defining a process, and the corresponding advances in the technologies of the computers that monitor and analyse the output of these sensors have led to an exponential growth in the amount of data that scientists collect. Research may be at the threshold of an era in which hypothesis-driven science is being complemented with data-driven discovery. This alternative way to pursue research affects all fields, from genomics in biology, to astrophysics and many domains in social sciences. The collected data allow for the study of processes at scales never observed before. Of even higher significance, the seemingly unlimited breadth and depth of their sources provide the means to move beyond reductionism and develop efforts to study complex systems using a more comprehensive approach. These data, however, come with a high level of complexity and heterogeneity, usually providing indirect measurements of hidden, albeit essential, processes that are key to the systems under study. The analyses of such complex data require developments pertaining to many disciplines that are directly or indirectly coupled to data sciences. In this paper, we introduce a new method for detecting patterns within, and between datasets collected in a longitudinal study. This method draws from such interdisciplinary efforts; we illustrate its applications to the analysis of the effects of water stress on the process of winemaking. Winemaking is the process of producing wine, starting from the growing of grapes and ending with bottling the finished wine. It has been presented as an art, a skill, or a science that predates recorded history. Competition among wines, continuous consumer demand for new wine styles, the economic importance of wine, and the growing concern about the impact of winemaking on the environment make winemaking one of the most studied processes in agriculture. Among all factors potentially affecting wine quality, the amount of irrigation and/or rainfall available during the growing season has become a recent focus. Indeed, most of the world's wine-producing regions experience seasonal drought conditions. With the increased aridity predicted from climatic shifts, water availability is likely to become a limiting factor for wine production. Some European regions are already experiencing low precipitation incapable of supporting optimum grapevine growth . Understanding the relationships between irrigation (or lack thereof) and wine quality has, therefore, become the subject of a multitude of studies (see e.g. [2–6]). In this article, we focus on characterizing those relationships at four stages of the process of winemaking, namely the composition of grapes at harvest, the juice after processing, wine composition after alcoholic fermentation and the composition of the bottled wine. There are many difficulties to overcome when assessing the effects of changing one or many variables that may affect the quality of wine. Firstly, a definition of ‘quality’ is needed. While ultimately quality should be defined based on customers' appreciation, the latter is definitely subjective, prone to biases and not amenable to quantitative measures. Instead, quality is usually considered as a generic term that refers to levels of a diverse range of chemical constituents in the wine. While the specific chemical components that determine the overall ‘quality’ of a wine are difficult to identify [7,8], it is generally understood that flavonoid (such as tannins) concentrations, acidity, pH and sugar content are some of the key attributes . Secondly, the concentrations of these components either in the grapes, juice or wine are influenced by many factors, such as soil physico-chemical properties, weather, water availability during grape growth, and yeast types and possible adducts during alcoholic fermentation. Most inference analyses of winemaking are designed to analyse the effects of modifying only a few (sometimes even just one) of these factors; it is, however, often unclear whether the observed responses in wine quality are direct or indirect effects, as those factors are not independent. Understanding how these factors interact and consequently influence the levels of the various chemical constituents is therefore integral to a proper analysis of any experiments that study the impacts of the manipulation of even a few factors on wine quality . Finally, the nature of these interactions between these different factors is not known, that is, one does not possess the information that would allow us to disentangle their effects. Accordingly, a method is needed that is able to analyse the relationships between factors affecting grape growth and wine quality in the context of these unknown dependences between the factors and the measures of quality; this method should also allow for estimating the relationships between these stages, i.e. identify factors whose effects carry through the whole process. Such a method is introduced in this paper. In a typical manipulative experiment designed to assess the effect of environment on winemaking a few factors, n, are manipulated, and a few descriptors, m, of wine quality (usually based on biochemical assays), are evaluated. We refer to the n factors as ‘nodes’ belonging to a space and to the m descriptors as ‘features’ belonging to a space . The relationships within each of the two spaces are unknown, while the relationships between the two spaces are stored in a data matrix with n rows and m columns. In the experiments considered in this paper, similar node spaces are tested at four different stages of the process of winemaking, corresponding to four feature spaces , with . We are interested in characterizing the relationships between and for all i, as well as in finding possible coupling between the phases, i.e. identifying factors (nodes) that have persistent effects throughout the different phases as well as pairs of features from two phases that show strong associations. Our procedure for extracting this information proceeds through two steps. In the first step, we build a coupling geometry between and its associated feature space by computing iteratively two tightly coupled ultrametric trees onto the rows and columns of the data matrix . Based on this coupling geometry, we extract interacting patterns within nodes, within features, and between nodes and features. This bears similarity with the topological concept of shapes, as introduced by Carlsson to analyse data, or by Mémoli for shape comparison. The result of this analysis is a new data matrix that is a permutation of , with the rows and columns re-organized to highlight the patterns described above. This matrix is then further optimized so that it corresponds to the minimum or ‘macrostate’ of an energy function E, akin to the energy of an Ising model in statistical mechanics [12,13]. In the second step, bootstrapping is applied to generate a set of random matrices that emulate , i.e. that conform to its internal structure. Each of these matrices is then characterized by its energy , and the distribution of those energies characterizes the space of states or configurations for the coupling that conforms with the data. These matrices serve as support for estimating the significance of associations between features at one phase and features at another phase of winemaking. The method presented here is an extension of our recent work on analysing the geometry of data and networks. We have recently developed a new methodology, called data cloud geometry-tree (DCG-tree) to capture the underlying geometry of a set of data points [14,15]. It is an integral part of the data mechanics approach which captures the coupling geometry in binary bipartite networks, a prelude to step 1 of our method. The novelties of the approach included in this paper include extensions of those methods to weighted matrices, and the development of a bootstrapping technique for generating matrices that mimic weighted matrices. The paper is organized as follows: in the next section, the experiments on the effects of water stress on winemaking are briefly described. A complete depiction of the methods used to quantify the chemical components of grapes, juice and wine is provided in the electronic supplementary material. In addition, we include in the latter a qualitative analysis of the data of the water stress experiments, discussed in the light of recent similar studies. In the main body of the paper, we focus on describing a new statistical framework for analysing those data, and the results of the corresponding analyses. The following section comprehensively covers the data analysis methods and their implementation. In the results section, we use our method to characterize the relationships between different conditions of water stress and wine attributes at four stages of winemaking, as well as the degrees of association between the chemical composition at different phases. Finally, we conclude with a discussion of the advantages as well as limitations of our approach and propose directions for future improvement. 2. Experimental: measuring the effects of water stress on grapes, juice and wine 2.1. Grape cultivation, winemaking and irrigation regimes Six irrigation regimes were designed to analyse the effects of timed water stress on grape growth (table 1). Those water regimes are switched at veraison, a key time point of berry maturation which typically occurs in mid-summer. Irrigation regimes were based on stem-water potential measurements taken at solar noon, which are accepted to be the most sensitive measures of whole-plant water status, while also being easily converted into the prevalent measure of leaf-water potential (LWP) as described in . Twenty-four measurements were taken twice a week using a calibrated manual pump-up pressure chamber (PMS Instruments, Albany, OR, USA). The six irrigation regimes were implemented during the 2011 growing season in a commercial vineyard (Mast Ranch) in the Dunnigan Hills American Viticultural Area (AVA; Esparto, CA, USA) (38°45 N, 125°57 W), planted in 1999 to ‘Cabernet Sauvignon’ grapevines on 1103P rootstock and followed during the 2012 and 2013 growing seasons. Each treatment comprised a ‘data row’ of 80 grapevines split into four sub-sample groups of 20 grapevines each. Two buffer rows on each side of the data row were treated identically with regard to irrigation, but were not sampled. The Dunnigan Hills AVA is classified as region 5 under the Winkler Growing-Degree-Day (GDD) concept, a heat-summation of the growing season between 1 April and 31 October (2012: 4878 GDD; 2013: 4899 GDD). Winter precipitations amounted to 23.10 inches in 2012 and 3.14 inches in 2013. For the 2013 season, winter irrigation was applied to saturate the soil-profile to levels comparable with the 2012 season. All irrigation applied was accounted for with flow-meters positioned at the end of each data row. Grapes were harvested separately for each water treatment, based on a target concentration of soluble solids of 24 Brix. Accordingly, treatments were harvested over a three-week period during both seasons, with the water treatments RHP, LD and ED− consistently harvested the earliest, and ED+ the latest. Differences in the onset of ripening were not observed. Four samples are considered for each regime, leading to a total of 48 different experiments for the grapes at harvest. After harvest, grapes from the four replicates of one irrigation regime were pooled and crushed. The resulting, homogenized must was divided into triplicate fermentations, leading to 36 wines. All winemaking occurred at the Robert Mondavi Institute Teaching and Research Winery at the University of California, Davis. The use of this facility enables full control over all parameters of the winemaking process, with high precision and reproducibility. A previous R&D red wine fermentation protocol of the Constellation R&D department was adopted to function with the 200 l TJ fermenters available at the Pilot winery. The whole winemaking process is thus characterized by four major phases: grapes at harvest, juice sampled from the processed grapes (2 days after harvest), wine at the time of bottling and bottled wine; these four phases will be referred to as ‘Grape’, ‘Juice’, ‘Wine’ and ‘Bottled Wine’, respectively. The authors do acknowledge that this is not a traditional longitudinal study, as the Grape phase included 48 samples, while the subsequent phases comprised 36 samples. 2.2. Chemical composition at the different phases of winemaking Each stage of the winemaking process has its own set of attributes that will ultimately affect wine quality. We, therefore, consider different aspects of chemical composition, one for each phase, that include 14 measurements in the grapes, six measures for the juice, six other measures for the wine at bottling time, and finally 13 measures for the bottled wine; the list of those measures is provided in table 2. Details on how those measures are performed are provided in the electronic supplementary material. It should be noted that the chemical composition discussed here only comprises critical factors that are commonly assessed in the wine industry. The dimension of further aroma- and flavour-molecules was not explored as part of this project. 2.3. Preprocessing the data Based on our experimental setting, each phase of the winemaking process is characterized with a data matrix, where , the number of rows, is the number of water stress experiments considered (i.e. 48 for Grapes, and 36 for the other phases), and is the number of attributes or features considered at that phase (table 2). Each feature is measured using a specific technique, and its quantification is expressed with a unit reflecting the chemistry considered. As a consequence, the columns of the data matrix have different scales and ranges. To minimize these scale effects, each column of the data matrix is preprocessed to have 0 mean and variance of 1. We note that there is implicit and explicit collinearity in the data matrices. In the Juice phase, yeast assimilable nitrogen (YAN) is in fact the sum of NOPA and ammonia. At the Bottled Wine phase, intensity is the sum of A420 and A520, while hue is the ratio A420/A520. The effects of the presence of collinearity are minimized, but not removed by the preprocessing of the data. 3. Data mechanics: a new method to detect coupling between nodes and features Consider m water stress experiments at a phase i in the winemaking process, where i varies from 1 to 4. As part of each experiment, n measurements are taken, corresponding to n features designed to estimate the quality of the wine at this stage. The set of experiments forms a node space denoted , while the set of measurements forms a feature space and is denoted as . For simplicity, we consider that neither nor are ordered with respect to temporal, spatial or ordinal axes of any kind. Let be the data matrix whose rows are the experiments, columns the measurements, and the value of measurement j for experiment i. The latter is usually a real number; as such, we refer to as being weighted, in opposition to a binary matrix whose values are either 0 or 1. Our goals are to characterize the relationships between and each of the feature spaces and to measure the coupling between the different phases during winemaking. Our approach mirrors these two goals in that it proceeds in two stages, firstly building statistical models that capture the coupled geometry between and the feature space for all four phases, and secondly, assessing possible associations between two phases based on these statistical models. These two stages can themselves be broken down into three steps: (1) capture the geometry of the data matrix by building coupled ultrametric tree structures on its node and feature spaces; (2) use the ultrametric tree structure to optimize a matrix equivalent to that minimizes an Ising model-like potential field built upon the matrix; represents the ‘macrostate’ of ; and (3) generate sampling matrices that mimic while conforming to its structure; build the distribution of energies of those matrices. Steps 1 and 2 are used to define the macrostate of the data matrix , while step 3 allows for the construction of an ensemble of matrices or microstates that conform to the macrostate. These matrices are then used to assess the significance of associations between features from two different phases. 3.1. Step 1: capturing the geometry of the data matrix Capturing the structure of a data matrix can be stated as the problem of identifying sub-matrices, i.e. blocks formed with subsets of rows that exhibit similar behaviour over a subset of the columns. It is very unlikely that the data matrix obtained by simply collecting measurements over a set of experiments will reveal those blocks. Indeed, the initial ordering is often arbitrary, without prior knowledge of similarity. The method proposed here uses successive permutations of the rows and columns in order to reveal this similarity. As a first step, the rows and columns are clustered separately: experiments are regrouped based on similarities over the values of their features, while features are regrouped based on their distributions of values over the different experiments. We use the DCG engine [14,15] to perform this clustering. The output of DCG is a tree, as well as an ultrametric. It should be noted that an ultrametric d on a space is a metric that satisfies the strong triangular inequality for any nodes x, y and z in . The initial, independent clustering of the rows and columns of the data matrix does not take into account possible correlations. Two rows are paired based on similarities over all features, while only a subset of those features may be relevant to those two rows. To capture those correlations, we follow the concept of coupling geometries between metric spaces . Namely, we connect the ultrametric on the rows of the matrix with the ultrametric on its columns using a metric equivalent to a Gromov–Wasserstein distance [11,21]. The two ultrametric and are then updated iteratively through this connection, until they do not change anymore. The whole procedure is implemented as the data mechanics procedure. An initial version of this procedure applied to binary matrices is described in . Its extension to weighted matrices is fully explained in the electronic supplementary material. The outputs of data mechanics include the converged ultrametric trees and , as well as a matrix , the reordered version of that conforms to those trees. The block structure of can be visualized using a heat map. 3.2. Step 2: finding the macrostate of the data matrix The data matrix is akin to the bi-adjacency matrix of a weighted bipartite network, which we write as . As such, any permutation of the rows and/or columns of lead to a new matrix that represents the same network. Let us refer to such a permutation as , where and are permutation matrices of sizes m × m and n × n, respectively; those matrices belong to the corresponding groups and . Finally, let be the set of all permutations of the matrix . Clearly, both and the optimized matrix generated by the data mechanics algorithm described above belong to this set S. While they represent the same data, their structures are quite different: corresponds to uninformed ordering of the m experiments and n features, while puts order in the rows and columns by conforming to coupled similarity measures given by their respective optimized ultrametrics. As such, the latter is a better representation of the shape of the data . It is not clear, however, whether this representation is optimal. Indeed, we note that an ultrametric tree is invariant with respect to switching arrangements between branches on the same level, and to switching arrangements among nodes within the lowest branches. Ultimately, we are interested in a representation of the data that would explicitly identify the coupling geometries within and between rows and columns. Such a representation is identified with the ground state, or macrostate of a ferromagnetic potential field E, defined by 3.1where is the set of the four nearest neighbours to the (i, j) entry and the interaction potential is taken to be constant 1 for simplicity. This potential is equivalent to the potential of a two-dimensional Ising model in statistical physics . The second term mimics the action of an external magnetic field with magnetic moment equal to 1. The coefficient μ can be seen as a chemical potential, in which case the second term becomes a coupling to an external ‘bath’ of spins. The ground state corresponding to equation (3.1) is expected to reveal the patterns of the data, implicitly present but hidden in . This ground state is a permutation of , written as . There are m! and n! permutation matrices in the groups and , respectively. Therefore, finding the ground state defined above amounts to performing a search in a space of dimension m! × n!. The computational complexity of such a search would make it completely prohibitive. To alleviate this problem, the search is constrained to conform to the block structures identified in the optimized matrix , i.e. by constraining the permutation matrix σ to the structure encoded in the ultrametric tree and the permutation matrix π to the structure encoded in the ultrametric tree . We perform this constrained search using algorithm 1 in . The output of this search is an optimized matrix that represents the ground state of the potential energy imposed on the matrix, i.e. that captures the inherent geometry of the data. 3.3. Step 3: generate random matrices that mimic the input data matrix The key concept of this stage may be likened to mimicry. We rely on the principle that all random matrices are constructed such that they possess all (or at least most of) the global characteristics embedded within the input matrix . The global characteristics of particular interest are those patterns that capture the coupling within, and between the nodes (rows) and features (columns) represented in . To ensure that the random matrices inherit those characteristics, we enforce that they ‘conform’ to the geometry encoded in the input matrix. Thus, the block information identified using steps 1 and 2 described above is retained in every random matrix generated. This principle is drawn from the idea that a real dynamic system is characterized by a combination of deterministic structures and randomness within these structures . The low energy matrix serves therefore as a natural basis for generating the random matrices, as it was designed to capture the geometric patterns of the data. The generation of one random matrix is then performed as follows: we isolate the diagonal and off-diagonal blocks from , generate random sub-matrices for each of these blocks with constraints on their marginal sums of rows and columns, and combine the corresponding sub-matrices into the final random matrix. While most of these steps are straightforward, an algorithm is needed for generating a random matrix from a given matrix that conforms to constraints on its geometry. We distinguish the cases where the matrix is binary or weighted. The problem of counting the total number of binary matrices with given constraints and testing hypotheses about them appear in many fields, including mathematics, statistics, ecology and social sciences. As a consequence, there is a large body of literature on generating random binary matrices with constraints, see e.g. [24–27] and references therein. We use for this purpose an adapted version of the algorithm originally developed by Bayati and co-workers to generate random binary graphs with prescribed degrees on their nodes . Our version is described in detail in [13,16]. Much less has been developed for non-binary matrices (i.e. matrices with positive real, categorical or even signed values). To our knowledge, there are no algorithms available for generating random weighted matrices. We propose a method based on the concept of breaking the matrix up into a series of binary matrices (i.e. a form of binary splitting) that can then be sampled with one of the methods cited above. This method is implemented in algorithm S2 described in the electronic supplementary material. An energy E(AR) is computed for each random matrix AR generated using this scheme, using equation (3.1). The random matrices enable hypothesis testing on the input data matrix; this will be used to assess the significance of association between features. We analyse the impact of water stress on four phases of the winemaking process, namely grape composition at harvest, juice composition after processing, wine composition after fermentations and bottled wine. Each phase is characterized with a set of chemical constituents meant to capture the qualities of the pre-wine products. First, our analyses of the couplings between water stress and those compounds are reported, using the data mechanics method introduced above. Subsequently, a sensitivity analysis of the relationships between composition of the bottled wine with that of previous phases in winemaking is documented as an attempt to identify key constituents in pre-wine products that correlate with the quality of the bottled wine. 4.1. Coupling geometries in four different phases of winemaking Six different irrigation regimes were designed to analyse the effects of water stress on grape maturation in the field, as well as on the subsequent wine at three different phases, namely as Juice just after harvest, as Wine after the fermentation stage and as Bottled Wine (see table 1 and §2 for details). The whole analysis was repeated over two successive years, 2012 and 2013. The results of all those experiments are stored in four data matrices, one for each phase. The Grape matrix has size 48 × 14, while the Juice, Wine and Bottled Wine matrices have 36 rows, and 6, 6 and 13 columns for the corresponding measurements, respectively. Each of these matrices was subsequently analysed using the data mechanics method introduced in the §3.1. The data mechanics method was designed to reveal patterns, or coupled geometries between nodes (water stress experiments) and features (wine attributes). The outcomes include two ultrametric trees, one for the nodes and one for the features, as well as a reorganized (i.e. permuted) data matrix that conforms to those trees. In figure 1, we show these resulting matrices for all four phases of the winemaking process. Surprisingly, the most significant association observed between water stress conditions and wine attribute measurements relates to the years in which the experiments were performed rather than to the water stress itself. Indeed, the ultrametric trees on the irrigation experiments identify two groups at a coarse level, with each group mapping to either 2012, highlighted with a blue bar, or 2013, highlighted with a black bar (figure 1). This behaviour is strong at the Grape maturation and Juice phase, and is still present, if somewhat weaker at the Wine and Bottled Wine phases. A minor exception is presented by one of the 2013 LD treatments in the Wine phase, which clusters among the otherwise homogeneous 2012 treatments. The strong influence of the year illustrates that the effects of the environment (external conditions) dominate over the effects of management (irrigation) in this specific set of experiments. The actual environmental factor that explains these results is unclear. All experiments were performed in the same field. Growing season heat sums (degree days) were comparable. Winter rainfall differed among vintages, but was accounted for by irrigation. These 2 years in fact coincide with the beginning of the recent drought that California is experiencing. The weather was warm both years, with a relatively cool month of July (average high temperature of 95°F) and relatively warm month of August (average high temperature of 99°F) in 2012, and opposite trends in 2013, namely hot July (99°F on average) and cool August, (95°F on average). In figure 1, the ultrametric trees for the experiments (rows of each of the four data matrices) have been coloured according to the water stress conditions considered (see legend). Regroupings of the replicates for each water stress condition over each year were observed, without consistent patterns between these conditions over the 2 different years, or between the four different phases. The two opposite experiments CTL (control, with full irrigation over the whole period) and ED− (constant stress over the whole period) are usually observed to be close in the ultrametric trees corresponding to 2013, but not in those for 2012. The two conditions ED (coloured in yellow) and ED+ (coloured in magenta) are expected to show similar behaviours as both include high stress levels before veraison and nearly normal irrigation afterwards. These similarities are observed in the ultrametric trees for 2013, especially at the Wine and Bottled Wine phases, but not in the ultrametric trees corresponding to 2012. Clearly, in the experiments reported here, differences between irrigation regimes are too small compared with differences in the environment in 2 different years of winemaking to be of significance. Figure 1 also reveals the ultrametric trees on the attributes (features) at different phases of the winemaking process. At the Grape phase, a regrouping of the main acids (tartaric, malic, lactic and acetic) with the anthocyanins is evident, while tannins, total soluble solids (TSS) and pyrazines form a different group. This separation into two main groups reveals, for example, a well-known relationship in wine, namely that low acidity in the grapes is usually associated with high sugar content (as measured by TSS) especially in warm climates, and vice versa. As a more minor observation, the two independent measures of anthocyanin contents (ACY1 and ACY2) are found to be very similar over the whole range of experiments. The clustering of attributes at the Juice phase is less informative. Two main groups are found, with the first group corresponding to those attributes associated with nitrogen content, and the second including all the other attributes. At the two Wine phases, the marginal residual sugar amount in wine is directly associated with its levels of tartaric acid and malic acid: the wines from 2012 have relatively low levels of these three attributes, while wines from 2013 exhibit an opposite behaviour. 4.2. Sampling a data matrix Each measurement included in a data matrix, such as those considered in this study, is prone to experimental errors. To generate a meaningful model from such measurements would, therefore, require sampling according to these experimental errors. The situation is, however, more complicated when the model is designed from the whole data matrix, i.e. is meant to capture coupling between experiments and measurements. In such a situation, the sampling needs to accommodate this coupling. In practice, this amounts to generating random matrices that conform to the geometry of the data matrix. In §3.3 a method to build such random matrices was proposed. We considered four different (geometric) structures for the Juice data matrix: a fine level that accounts for both rows and columns clustering, two levels for which only the clustering of either the rows or the columns of the matrix is considered, and a level with no prior information on the organization of the matrix. Each level corresponds to a partitioning of the full matrix into sub-blocks, whose structures are conserved in the random matrices. One hundred random matrices were generated at each level. Figure 2 shows the distributions of the energies of those random matrices, computed using equation (3.1). Given the original data matrix for the Juice phase, we note first that the energy of the ‘ground state’ is low, but not lower than the energies of all the random matrices generated, which may seem counterintuitive. The ground state is in fact the result of permutations of the original data matrix, while the random matrices conform to its structure, without a global constraint on its values (see §3.3 for details). As such, the sum of the elements of any random matrix is not guaranteed to be equal to the sum of the elements of . The second term on the left of equation (3.1) is meant to account for this, as it sets a coupling to a ‘bath of spins’. The corresponding coupling constant, μ, was arbitrarily set to 1, leading to the small discrepancy seen here. The key observation from figure 2, however, is that the matrices generated from constraints on both rows and columns of the data matrix have significantly lower energies than matrices generated without block constraints, and that their energies indicate that they resemble the ground state. The same behaviours were observed for the data matrices corresponding to the other phases of winemaking. 4.3. Associations between wine characteristics and grape and juice properties The associations between the bottled wine hue and alcohol content were studied (as those two characteristics are usually considered as good indicators of ‘quality’), and all chemical characteristics characterizing the Grape and Juice phases. Let W be the vector that contains the values for one wine attribute observed over m fermentations, and let Fi, for be the corresponding values for the ith feature of either the Grape phase or Juice phase. It should be noted that while the correspondence is direct for the Juice phase, it requires some preprocessing for the Grape phase. Indeed, there are 36 fermentation conditions associated with the Bottled Wine, and 48 field conditions associated with the Grapes. These two sets can be mapped as follows. Each irrigation regime is characterized with four field replicates and three fermentation replicates. We randomly assign one of the field replicates to each fermentation. While we understand that this mapping is not exact, it does conform to the water regime and year structures of the data. Random assignments and the subsequent analyses were repeated multiple times and were not found to produce significant differences. The traditional approach of building a multilinear regression model between W and the K feature vectors Fi is likely to fail, or at least generate noisy and unreliable models because of the collinearity of the features. The authors propose to use the concept of model selection instead, combined with an empirical assessment of significance, in lieu of using significance tests based on the assumption of data being normally distributed. We generate a comprehensive set of models by systematically sampling the contribution of each and all of the features. Namely, the following multilinear model is considered, 4.1where each αi may take the value of 0 or 1 to indicate if the feature Fi is included in the model or not. There are 2K possible values for the K-dimensional vector α. A regression model is built for each of these values and characterized with its Akaike information criterion (AIC) . The model with the lowest AIC is selected. Features whose coefficient αi is set to 1 for this model are deemed significant. This analysis is repeated over the 100 random matrices described above. The results are stored in a table S of size 100 × K, such that element S(i, j) = 1 if feature Fj was found significant in experiment i, and 0 otherwise. Figure 3 shows the corresponding tables as bar plots for the two bottled wine features alcohol and hue, and the attributes of Grape and Juice. There are no significant associations between both wine alcohol and hue and the chemical composition of the grape berries in the study presented here. While general associations of irrigation and grape composition were present, this study focuses on the modelling of four data matrices starting at harvest. Additional dimensions, such as variable extractability, could not be considered in detail. On the other hand, significant associations are found when wine is compared with the juice composition. For example, the alcohol content of bottled wine is found to be related significantly to the pH, YAN and total suspended solids (TSS) of the juice. All three associations are expected. Indeed, pH is an indirect measure of the amount of acids in the juice, and acidity influences the growth and vitality of yeast during fermentation. YAN measures the amount of nitrogen available to the yeast, with nitrogen being its second most important nutrient needed to carry out successful fermentation. The most important nutrients are sugars, which are the main soluble solids in Juice, whose concentrations are given by the TSS value. It may be noted that the association with sugar appears less significant than the associations with pH and YAN. Hue, i.e. a measure of the colour of the wine, is found to be related significantly to the amounts of ammonia, malic acid and suspended solids in the juice. Understanding the effects of water stress on grapes and subsequently on the quality of wine has long been of interest to winemakers [2–6], especially in the current context of global warming and regional water limitations. Experiments designed to analyse those effects typically proceed by applying multiple regimes of irrigation during the growing season, and studying their impact using the resulting composition of grapes or wines. Unfortunately, this system is laden with difficulties, the most important being that the chemical constituents are often covariant, making it difficult to differentiate their individual effects. This work uses a new approach to circumvent at least some of these difficulties. Our goal is to study the relationships between the experiments (i.e. the different water stress conditions), between the features (i.e. the chemical composition of the winemaking phase considered), as well as the coupling between those two dimensions, as encoded in the corresponding data matrix. Principal component analysis (PCA), and partial least squares (PLS), while the most common techniques used to analyse such data matrices, provide only partial representations of their underlying patterns due to the assumptions behind them, mostly the idea of linearity of the relationships. A new method that circumvents those problems is introduced in this paper. The reader is referred to the electronic supplementary material for detailed descriptions of these three techniques as well as for the when and why of applying them on their data. This new approach includes two key steps: (i) a geometric approach to capture the coupling structure embedded in the data matrix and (ii) a statistical physics approach to generate matrices that mimic the original data matrix while maintaining its inherent structure, thereby providing the basis for hypothesis testing and statistical inference. Applications of the former to study the impact of water stress on the attributes of Grapes, Juice, Wine and Bottled Wine phases in making ‘Cabernet Sauvignon’ over 2 years, 2012 and 2013, has allowed us to separate the intrinsic effects due to the experimental conditions, from the extrinsic effects due to the environment. Applications of the latter enabled analyses of the association of some attributes of the bottled wine with characteristics of either the matured grapes or the resulting juice, thereby identifying statistically significant associations between the Juice pH, YAN and sugar content with the bottled wine alcohol level. In this work, a data matrix collects the measurements of a list of chemical constituents at a given phase in the winemaking process (columns of the matrix), for a series of experimental conditions, namely water stress conditions over two independent years (rows of the matrix). Originally, the data are organized using arbitrary orders both along the rows and along the columns. The purpose of step 1 in our approach is to reorganize this matrix through permutations to identify its ‘geometry’, i.e. a block structure that exposes similarities between rows, between columns, as well as coupling between rows and columns. This concept of coupling is often referred to as ‘biclusters', namely subsets of rows which exhibit similar behaviour for a subset of columns, especially in the context of clustering microarray gene expression data in genomics studies . Finding the biclusters in a data matrix usually depends on a merit function that evaluates the quality of these biclusters. Several methods have been developed to solve this NP-hard problem. These methods can be divided into two somewhat opposite groups: those that directly reorganize the rows and columns of the matrix to increase local coherence between rows and columns , thereby revealing biclusters, and those that instead narrow down the rows and column to directly identify stable biclusters, as implemented for example in the coupled two way clustering (CTWC) method [32,33]. The data mechanics approach proposed in this work differs in that it does not look at biclusters as such. Instead, it iteratively refines a coupling between metrics defined on the row and columns, much akin to a Gromov–Wasserstein distance [11,21], thereby identifying the ‘geometry’ of the data matrix as a whole. Applications of this technique to the data considered here provide insight into the relative importance of intrinsic versus extrinsic effects on grape maturation, and subsequently on wine quality, as we could clearly identify a dominant effect of the year of the study over the individual water stress conditions considered in the experiments reported here (figure 1). While it is always possible to compute a multivariate regression model between an observation and features that influence this observation, it is usually difficult to assess the significance of this model. This is notably true when there is implicit or explicit collinearity in the data. A multiple regression model with correlated features may indicate how well the entire set of features predicts the observation, but it may not give valid results about any individual feature, or about which features of the model are significant. Step 2 in our approach is a means to avoid this complication. First, we use a model selection approach based on AIC to select the best model between observation and features. Secondly, we repeat the model selection on multiple variants of the data matrix generated by a random sampling procedure that conforms to the geometry of the original matrix. This second step enables us to estimate significance explicitly and not based on a statistical model that is likely to be unreliable in the presence of collinearity. The essence of our approach lies in its step 2, namely the bootstrapping of the data matrix , i.e. the generation of a collection of random matrices that mimic . Indeed, those matrices serve to generate a statistical model on the relationship between the nodes and features that define the data matrix, which can then be used to test hypotheses, such as the dependence of different phases in the winemaking process. The problem of generating matrices that are similar to a given matrix is much akin to the problem of randomizing the edges of a network (see for a short review). There are many options to perform the latter. The simplest is to assume that interactions are equally likely between nodes in the network, in which case edges can be rearranged randomly. Most real networks, however, are unlikely to satisfy this assumption. It is then necessary to constrain the randomization such that it conforms with the structure (geometry) of the network. This requires that the geometry of the network be known, the so-called community extraction problem [35,36], and that this geometry be translated into constraints for the random generation of edges. This task remains a challenge for the network bootstrapping community [37,38]. In our case, it is solved using step 1 of our approach. To generate the random matrices, we have proposed a method that relies on sequential binary splitting of the matrix of interest. This method still requires development. For example, constraints on the random matrices have not been considered. This leads to the problem that the energies of these matrices may not reflect their true differences with the ground state matrix (figure 2). The authors are currently working on solving this problem. All authors contributed to the conception, design and interpretation of the experiments presented in the paper. C.H. collected all the data on the winemaking process, while C.-H.H. performed the data analysis. All authors participated in the drafting and revision of the paper, and approve its final version. We declare we have no competing interests. This work was partially funded by the USDA Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI), specifically ‘Precision canopy and water management of specialty crops through sensor-based decision making’, grant number 2010-51181-21068. H.F. acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation, grant DMS-1007219 (co-funded by Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) programme). P.K. acknowledges support from the Ministry of Education of Singapore by grant number: MOE2012-T3-1-008. The authors acknowledge our colleagues Yannis Toutounzis, Oren Kaye and Jim Orvis at Constellation Brands for assistance with fruit production and analyses. - Received August 23, 2015. - Accepted September 23, 2015. - © 2015 The Author(s)

1. INTRODUCTION & DEFINITION In this document and the Agreement, “you” refers to you as the user of the GiveawayListing.com application(App) or any of GiveawayListing.com’s related Service(s), including its website. As a user of GiveawayListing.com, you are entitled to use our provided Service only by reading, understanding, complying, accepting, and following the terms and provisions found in the Agreement. “Service” refers to the access or use of any of SocioBright’s products and services, including your access and use of the GiveawayListing.com application or website. The term “user” refers to the user of the Service, regardless of when or for how long the Service was used. 2.1. General Description 2.3. Information we collect about you When you register, use or subscribe to any of our Services, we may collect a variety of information including: - Sensitive Account information such as your full name, date of birth, email address, phone number, billing/living address, credit card data and related billing information, that allow GiveawayListing.com to personalize your contact/customer experience, monitor your account security and securely process your payments. That information is confidential and you should not share it with any GiveawayListing.com users. - Public Account Information including first name, age, gender, gender of sexual preference and manually set location (or GPS location if you wish), that will be shared publicly on your profile to ensure a high standard of online dating experience. - Other Personal Information such as appearance characteristics, preferences, known languages, education level, occupation, GPS location, interests etc. Those information are voluntarily completed by you, and will be shared with all users visiting your profile. The purpose of those information are to allow other users to know you better and identify common information with you, or search for you based on some specific characteristics on our customized search tool. - Uploaded Content Information such as the personal pictures and other personal data that you upload on your profile. At least one uploaded personal picture has to be verified by us in order for you to unlock the chatting mode with other users for free. In the verification process, three consecutive verification purpose pictures will be taken live in order for us to confirm that the user has uploaded his/her real pictures. The personal pictures uploaded by the user will be shared publicly among GiveawayListing.com users while the verification purpose pictures will be kept hidden from GiveawayListing.com users and used strictly for moderation purposes. - Your Communication with Other Users. Currently when our users exchange information by messaging each other they see an expiration timer that starts counting once the user who received the new information opens the message. The expiration timer for all messages is set by default at 7 days, meaning that in approximately 7 days after both users view the new information, the specific information will expire from their screens. However, users who have an active subscription can manually set/change the expiration time for the messages that they send to be less than the 7 days. Even though the exchanged information may thus expire in 7 days or less from both the sender’s and the receiver’s phones, our company may keep records of all the exchanged information for a longer period of time for safety and moderating reasons. For these reasons, the company by default is keeping the records all personal communication information for one month, and after that period of time this information is automatically set to be deleted from our records permanently. However, the company reserves the right to change the time that it keeps such information with or without any notice. - Your Communication with Us. We collect information that you send to us (such as emails or via the contact us form found in the GiveawayListing.com app), comments that you post on the pages we have on a third-party service, such as our YouTube, Twitter and Facebook pages and messages that you send us directly through those services. - Information from Social Media Accounts. If you choose to integrate a third-party social media account such as Facebook, Google+ or Vkontakte with our services, you permit GiveawayListing.com to access certain information about you that is made available from the connected Social Networking Site. The information obtained by GiveawayListing.com varies by Social Networking Site and may be affected by the privacy settings you establish at that Social Networking Site, but can include information such as your name, email, profile picture, gender, age or birthday, language, location, interests, contacts’ list, friends’ lists and other information. Specifically, when choosing to connect your Facebook account to GiveawayListing.com, you grant to the app permissions to obtain your email address that will be used as your default email when creating your account and that should not be shared among other GiveawayListing.com users. Additional information we can collect by your Facebook account is your friend list, age range, gender, public profile and Facebook profile url and that information should be publicly available among other GiveawayListing.com users. Accepting this integration means that you agree that this information can be shared among other users of the App. Regarding your friend list, only common friends who both use GiveawayListing.com and Facebook services will show on your as your “Common Friends” on the appropriate app sections, and only if both GiveawayListing.com users have chosen to give us those permissions by connecting Facebook with our App. - Information Provided by Others.We may be provided with information relating to you or your conduct on the Services by other users of the Services. We also collect information that third-party organizations may provide to us, such as contact details, demographic information, internet navigation details, credit reference or fraud prevention information. Financial institutions or payment processors may also provide us updated payment information or payment methods related to your paid account or paid subscription. - Information Automatically Collected.When you access the Services we may automatically record information from your device and its software about your participation and actions on the Services, by using in-house or third party technologies such as cookies and web beacons. We may collect all of the information mentioned in this document through a website or a mobile application or other means. By using the Service, you agree that you are authorizing us to gather, parse and retain data related to the provision of the Service. Below you can see a more analytical table of the information we collect from you: Table1: Data collection Table |Purpose for which data is used||Data||Source||Legal basis of collecting the data| |To provide you with the GiveawayListing.com social networking service||Name, email address, date of birth, location (CCPA Categories A and B)||You provide your name, email address and date of birth to us. We obtain location data from the device that you use to access the Service||Contractual necessity| |To facilitate networking opportunities on the GiveawayListing.com site||Optional information that you choose to provide in your profile, including through profile verification, which may include information about your sexual preferences, non-binary gender, religion, ethnic background, photos etc. (CCPA Categories C, H, I, J)||You provide this information to us||Consent| |To verify your identity and prevent fraud and to ensure the safety and security of Users||Phone number and if requested, photo provided as part of profile verification (CCPA Category B and H)||You provide this information to us||Legitimate interests – it is in our legitimate interests to ensure that accounts are not set up fraudulently and to safeguard Users of the site| |To take payment for premium services (not applicable for Users making payments via the Apple App Store)||Payment card details (CCPA Categories B and D)||You provide this information to us||Contractual necessity| |To allow our Advertising Partners to serve targeted advertisements on our App and Sites (this includes rewarded video ads) (not currently available)||Advertising identifier associated with your device (Device ID), age, gender, and IP address (and your estimated locations based on your IP address) (CCPA Categories A, C and G)||We obtain age and gender from you, and Device ID and IP address from the device that you use to access the Service||Consent – as indicated by you in your Privacy Settings/Cookie Settings preferences and via your browser or device privacy preferences (where required by your device manufacturer (for example Apple devices using iOS 14.5)| |To serve advertisements to Users of our Sites/App on third party networks and measure the effectiveness of such ads (not currently available)||Data about your visit to our Sites or App and action taken on those (for example if you downloaded our App or created an account with GiveawayListing.com) IP address (and your estimated location based on your IP address) age, gender, Device ID (CCPA Categories A, C, G, F and K)||We obtain age and gender from you and we obtain other information from the device or browser that you use to access the Service||Consent – as indicated by you in your Privacy Settings/Cookie Settings preferences and via your browser or device privacy preferences (where required by your device manufacturer (for example Apple devices using iOS 14.5)| |To serve promo cards and advertisements on the App (not currently available)||Location, gender, age, and information that you have optionally provided us with via your profile (CCPA Categories A, C and G)||We obtain age, gender and profile information from you, and location data from the device that you use to access the Service||Legitimate interests – it is in our legitimate interests to target advertisements so that Users see relevant advertisements and to allow us to generate income from advertising revenue| |To send you marketing information about our events, offers and services||Name, email address, postal address, Instagram handle and mobile phone number (CCPA Categories A and B)||You provide this information to us||Consent or legitimate interests and in accordance with the laws applying to our marketing activities. We have a legitimate interest in promoting our business and products| |To contact you in order to run surveys for research purposes and to obtain feedback, and to find out if you want to take part in marketing campaigns||Email address and mobile phone number (CCPA Category B)||You provide this information to us||Legitimate interests – it is in our legitimate interests to carry out research so that we can further develop the App and improve the Service| |To enable Users to create and enhance their GiveawayListing.com profile and log into the App via third party accounts||Data from Facebook and other third party accounts (see section 7 of this policy for more details) (CCPA Categories A, B, C, and H)||We obtain this information from Facebook or the providers of any other accounts you use to log in or connect with your GiveawayListing.com account||Legitimate interests – it is in our legitimate interests to facilitate access to our services| |To show you other Users near you||WiFi access points and location data when you use the App (if you give us permission) (CCPA Category G)||We obtain this information from the device that you use to access the Service (if you give us permission)||Legitimate interests – it is in our legitimate interests to provide this functionality as part of the services| |To carry out research and analysis to help us improve the App||Log and usage data, including IP address, browser type, referring domain, pages accessed, mobile carrier and search terms, images and videos (CCPA Categories F and H)||You provide photos and videos to use. We obtain the log and usage information from the device that you use to access the Service||Legitimate interests – it is in our interests to analyse the way in which Users are accessing and using our services so that we can further develop the App, implement security measures and improve the Service| |To respond to correspondence and queries that you submit to us, including social media queries||Email address, IP address, social media name, phone number (CCPA Categories B and F)||You provide your email address, social media name and phone number to us when you contact us and we obtain your IP address from the device that you use to contact us||Legitimate interests – it is in our legitimate interests to respond to your queries to ensure that we provide a good service to Users and troubleshoot problems| |To investigate and block Users for reported infringements of our Terms and Conditions of Use||Name and user registration details, profile information, content of messages and photographs; usage and device data such as IP address and IP session information (CCPA Categories A, B, C, F and H)||You provide your registration details, profile information, messages and photographs to us. We obtain the other information from the device that you use to access the Service.||Legitimate interests – it is in our legitimate interests to prevent unauthorised behaviour to maintain the safety and integrity of our services.| |To block payment transactions as part of our anti-fraud procedures||Name, IP address, email address, mobile number, cardholder name, payments received, type of payment, user ID, country (CCPA Categories, A, B, and D)||You provide your name, email address, phone number and card details to us. We obtain your IP address from the device that you use to contact us. We obtain your payment information from your interactions with our Service||Legitimate interests – it is in our legitimate interests to prevent fraudulent transactions and to maintain the security of our services| |To enable media (text, video, images, audio) sharing functions||Video and audio call usage data, images and video (CCPA Categories F and H)||We obtain this information from the device you use to access the Service||Legitimate interests – it is in our legitimate interest to provide these functionalities as part of the services.| |To build a more accurate profile of you, which helps us with matches and to personalise the Service||The apps installed on your device (Android only) (CCPA Categories F and K)||We obtain this information from the device that you use to access our Service||Consent| |To defend legal claims, protect legal rights and to protect people from harm||This could include any information that is relevant to the issue||This information may be obtained directly from you, from your device or from third parties, depending on the information involved||Legitimate interests – it is in our legitimate interests to protect our legal rights, defend legal claims and to protect our Users and third parties from harm| 2.4. How we use the information we collect & to whom we may share it with We may use information that we collect about you in the following ways: - manage your account and provide you with a high quality of customer support; - protect our users’ safety and maintain a respectful social community that uses our products; - deliver and improve our products and services, and manage our business; - perform research and analysis about your use of, or interest in our products, services, or content; - communicate with you by email, mail, telephone and/or mobile devices about products or services that may be of interest to you either from us or from third parties; - develop, display, and track content and advertising tailored to your interests on our Service and other sites; - enforce or exercise any rights in our Terms and Conditions and in our Agreement and - perform functions or services as otherwise described to you at the time of collection. We can share you information in those circumstances and with the following 3rd parties: - Information Shared with Other Users. When you register or use our services, your GiveawayListing.com public profile data will be viewable by other users of the Service within various areas in the Service. - Service providers/ 3rd Parties. We may share information, with third parties that perform certain services on our behalf. Those third parties include Facebook, Google, and Instagram. These services may include fulfilling orders, providing customer service and marketing assistance, performing business and sales analysis, ad tracking and analytics, member screenings, supporting our Service functionality and technical assistance, or other features offered through our Service. These service providers may have access to personal information needed to perform their explicitly assigned functions but are not permitted to share or use such information for any other purposes. - Other Situations. Also in extraordinary cases we may disclose your information, including personal information: - In response to a subpoena or similar investigative demand, a court order, or a request for cooperation from a law enforcement or other government agency; to establish or exercise our legal rights; to defend against legal claims; or as otherwise required by law. In such cases, we may raise or waive any legal objection or right available to us. - When we believe disclosure is appropriate in connection with efforts to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing; to protect and defend the rights, property or safety of our company, our users, our employees, or others; to comply with applicable law or cooperate with law enforcement; or to enforce our Terms or other agreements or policies. In some circumstances, we may perform these functions directly or use a third party vendor to perform these functions on our behalf. Also, if you access our Service from a third party social platform, such as Facebook, we may share non-personal information with that platform to the extent permitted by your Agreement with it and its privacy settings. For a more analytical explanation on how we use your information, please consult Table 1 above, at section 2.3. Our policy is to not disclose your personal data, except in the limited circumstances described below: |Circumstances where data may be disclosed||Disclosed data| |Service Providers – We engage certain trusted third parties to perform functions and provide services to us. We may share your personal data with these third parties, but only for the purposes of performing these functions and providing such services. More information about this is available directly below||This could include all data, including all CCPA Categories listed above| |Moderators – to monitor activity on the site/apps and approve content||Name and user registration details, profile information, content of messages and photographs (CCPA Categories A, B, C, and H)| |Advertising Partners – our Advertising Partners serve targeted advertisements on our App and Sites (this includes rewarded video ads) – more information on this is available below||Advertising identifier associated with your device (Device ID), age, gender, and IP address (and your estimated locations based on your IP address) (CCPA Categories A, C and G)| |Law and Harm – As we mentioned in the Terms, we think it is very important that all GiveawayListing.com members behave whilst using the App. We will cooperate with all third parties to enforce their intellectual property or other rights. We will also cooperate with law enforcement enquiries from within or outside your country of residence where we are required to by law, where there is an investigation into alleged criminal behavior or to protect the vital interests of a person. This may include preserving or disclosing any of your information, including your Registration Information, if we believe in good faith that it is necessary to comply with a law or regulation, or when we believe that disclosure is necessary to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal request; to protect the safety of any person; to address fraud, security or technical issues e.g. through anti-spam providers to protect the Service from criminal activity or to protect our rights or property or those of third parties. In such cases we may raise or waive any legal objection or right available to us.||This could include any personal data that GiveawayListing.com holds about you, depending on the nature of the request or the issue that we are dealing with, including all CCPA Categories listed above| |Marketing Services Providers – To help us serve marketing and advertising on third party websites and applications and measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns. More information on this is available below.||Advertising identifier associated with your device (Device ID), estimated location (based on your IP address), age, gender and data about your visit to our Sites or App and action taken on those (for example if you downloaded our App or created an account with our App), hashed email address (for ‘custom audiences’ only) (CCPA Categories B, C, G, F and K)| |Payment processing and telecommunications companies – To facilitate payments for our premium services||Cardholder name, cardholder address, card number, payment amount, transaction date/time (CCPA Categories A, B, and D)| |Business Transfers – In the event that a GiveawayListing.com Group entity or any of its affiliates undergoes a business transition or change of ownership, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, re-organisation, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, or in the event of insolvency or administration, we may be required to disclose your personal data to a purchaser of all or part of the business or to an insolvency practitioner||This could include all personal data that GiveawayListing.com holds about you, including all CCPA Categories listed above| |Anti-Spam and Anti-Fraud – Your data may be shared with other GiveawayListing.com Group companies, for example, to block accounts and suspected fraudulent payment transactions as part of our anti-spam and anti-fraud procedures.||This could include email address, phone number, IP address and IP session information, social network ID, username, user agent string, and transaction and payment data (CCPA Categories B, F and D)| |Aggregated Information – We may share aggregated information with third parties that includes your personal data (but which doesn’t identify you directly) together with other information including log data for industry analysis and demographic profiling.||This could services provided by Google Analytics and other data analytics serviceres| Sharing your personal data with Service Providers We engage certain trusted third parties to perform functions and provide services to us (“Service Providers”). The suppliers with which GiveawayListing.com shares User personal data vary depending on a variety of factors, such as which of our Apps and Sites a User engages with. For example, to provide our services to GiveawayListing.com App Users, we typically use the following suppliers: - Billing services – to allow customers to purchase paid features of our App (for example, Google Play) - Authentication services – to allow customers to authenticate their account (for example, Twilio) - Social media providers – to allow customers to create/connect their GiveawayListing.com account with their account(s) on such platforms (for example Apple, Google, Facebook or Instagram) - Product improvement and market research – we use third party platforms (such as Typeform) and agencies to carry out customer surveys and market research to improve our products and services - Growth marketing services – to allow us to market and advertise GiveawayListing.com to potential customers (for example Facebook) - IT services – some of the third-party software providers used in the operation of our business may process customers’ personal data We carry out due diligence on all Service Providers we engage to ensure they have adequate data protection and information security measures in place and only provide them with the personal data necessary to the Service they are providing. Our suppliers are also subject to extensive obligations under our contractual arrangements, including strict data retention limits. Sharing your personal data with Marketing Service Providers and Advertising Partners We may partner with advertising publishers to place third party adverts on our App and Sites (‘Advertising Partners’). We also partner with providers of marketing services (such as Facebook for example) (‘Marketing Services Providers’) to help us market and advertise our App and services on third party websites and applications and measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns. For example: - to exclude you from advertising campaigns aimed at finding new users, if you already have a GiveawayListing.com account; - to show GiveawayListing.com adverts to users who have visited the GiveawayListing.com App/Sites but haven’t yet created a GiveawayListing.com account; - to create an audience for our advertisements of other potential users who have similar characteristics to you based on the information the Marketing Service Providers hold about you (also known as a Lookalike Audience); or - to include you in a ‘custom audience’ that will receive GiveawayListing.com advertising content (a custom audience is essentially a list of people who we think are most likely to be interested in a particular advertisement). We share a limited amount of your personal data with companies that help us with marketing and advertising, such as: - the advertising identifier associated with your device (this is a random number assigned by your mobile device manufacturer (for example Apple or Google) to your device to help advertisers (including the manufacturer), know when an ad has been viewed or clicked on in the App or sites, and when an ad causes a “conversion” (for example downloading the App advertised to you)) - your estimated location (based on your IP address) - age and gender - data about your visit to our Sites or App and action taken on those (for example if you download our App or created an Account with our App) - a hashed* version of your email address (to create ‘custom audiences’). *Hashing is a way of encrypting information by turning it into a combination of random numbers and letters – this code cannot be traced back to the email address. 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I’m proud to be the presenter at the 2017 Harvard Orgasm Seminar! Below you’ll find video of my presentation (once available), my slides, plus lots of additional resources. References and Resources - What is Gender? by West Anderson is a great introductory overview. - My personal favorite book around gender is Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation by Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman. This is a follow-up to Kate’s groundbreaking book (newly revised and updated!) Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us. I’d also recommend her books My New Gender Workbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving World Peace Through Gender Anarchy and Sex and her memoir, A Queer and Pleasant Danger. - Justin Hubbell is a fellow non-binary person who makes great comics about gender. My favorite is The Great Divide. - The Gender Unicorn was designed by Laandyn Pan and Anna Moore and published by TSER (Trans Student Educational Resources). - For more information on biological sex as a social construct, see Trans women are not ‘biologically male’ by Riley J. Dennis (video includes transcription below). What is “Sex” - The alternative definition of sex I present is from Dr. Marty Klein: Sexual Intelligence: What We Really Want From Sex - Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan offers another great perspective in their comic “What is Sex?” from Oh Joy, Sex Toy. - Consent is a necessary component of ethical sex. Two of my favorite metaphors for understanding consent are consent and having tea by Rockstar Dinosaur Pirate Princess (incidentally, also the author of a great erotic comic) and Building Consent Castles by Robot Hugs. - Every year or so the “orgasm gap” comes across my radar. No one particular piece comes to mind at the moment, so here’s what you can find via Google. - For more information on the difference between equality and equity, check out Equality Is Not Enough: What the Classroom Has Taught Me About Justice by Amy Sun and, as a follow-up, The problem with that equity vs. equality graphic you’re using by Paul Kuttner. - I’ve included photos and diagrams from the Wikipedia pages on vulvas and the Anterior fornix erogenous zone (AFE zone or A-spot). - I first heard about the “G-zone” (as opposed to the “G-spot”) on the podcast Science Vs. I’ve read and would recommend Tristan Taormino’s book The Secrets of Great G-Spot Orgasms and Female Ejaculation as one way to learn more about playing with G-zones. - I first heard about the A-spot (AFE zone) from @girly_juice on Twitter, who’s blogged about it here. - I’ve included photos and diagrams from the Wikipedia pages on penises and penis size. - Huge thanks to Nicole M. of Pleasure Pie for allowing me to use her beautiful drawings of genitals! - I’ve included photos and diagrams from the Wikipedia pages on the anus, the rectum, and the prostate. - I learned pretty much everything I know about anal play, including “ringing the doorbell,” from Tristan Taormino. She’s blogged, made educational videos, and authored books about many different aspects of sexuality and relationships. Tristan is one of my favorite presenters, and if you ever have the chance to hear her speak or take a workshop with her, I strongly recommend it! - If you’re just getting started with anal play, check out the comic Butt Sex featuring the Anal Safety Snails by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan on Oh Joy, Sex Toy. Fun Things to Make and Do - Safer sex practices are designed to reduce the possibility that you contract or transmit an STI (sexually transmitted infection). For more info, check out Safe, Sound & Sexy: A Safer Sex How-To by Heather Corinna of the fabulous sex-ed site Scarleteen. - Want some ideas of how to make safer sex sexier? Check out Sex Nerd Sandra podcast episode 105, “Sexy Safer Sex with Kate McCombs”. Kate is a friend of mine and the founder of Sex Geekdom. - Want to go down on someone with a vulva, or tongue someone’s asshole, and you don’t have a dental dam? Yes, you can use saran wrap (video by the amazing Megan Andelloux). - Sex toy safety is important! See The Trouble with Toxic Sex Toys by Caitlin Murphy for an overview. There are a number of guides on safe (and unsafe) sex toy materials, including What is my sex toy made of? and Toxic Toys by Dangerous Lily. - If you’re interested in learning more, there are many resources in the Boston area, including - Pleasure Pie, which runs the Sex-Positive Boston meetup group and Boston’s Sex-Positive Newsletter - Good Vibrations is a feminist, queer- and trans-friendly retailer which has a shop near Harvard and one in Brookline - teasecraft-boston, a meetup group that I co-organize for people who are interested in making their own sex toys, BDSM equipment, and other kinky and fun things - The Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health in Pawtuckett, RI, offers lots of sex-positive educational events Questions & Answers I’ll flesh this section out after the lecture.

tv Hearing on Reproductive Health Care CSPAN November 14, 2019 9:48pm-12:58am EST public impeachment hearings. we will hear from the former ambassador to ukraine. and attorney general william barr addresses the federalist society. at 1:00 eastern c-span3, stacey abrams speaks at the national press club on voter suppression. a look at how some states are restricting access to reproductive health care. the house oversight and reform committee are hearing testimony on how services like abortion rights are negatively impacting communities. this is over three hours. >> the committee will now come to order. good morning. to rest of this hearing is examine how state policies like those in missouri are impacting residents' access to comprehensive reproductive health care services including abortion. without objections the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. for audience purposes we welcome you and respect your interest in being here. in turn we request and we ask you to respect the proceedings as we go forward in today's hearings. with that i will recognize myself to give an opening statement. i would like to begin by acknowledging that this is the first full committee hearing we have held since our friend, our colleague and our beloved chairman elijah cummings passed away. chairman cummings spent his entire life fighting for justice and equality for everyone. he was a fierce champion for women's access to health care. across the country, extreme forces and state governments are taking draconian steps to violate women's rights by restricting access to reproductive health services including abortion. ae state actions include ,rerequisite on do burden restrictions and outrageously invasive procedures for patients seeking abortions. let me be clear about what these restrictions are. they are a denial of basic health care services women have a right to receive, no matter where they live. i want to thank my good friend for his leadership in requesting today's hearing. missouri has taken some of the most extreme actions to limit access to reproductive health care. withy is one of six states one remaining abortion provider. as we will here today, it is at risk of having no providers at all. clinici's one remaining is planned parenthood. director,hat clinic's dr. nicholas, for testifying here today, and for her brave service to the women in her community every single day. earlier this year, dr. randall williams, director of the misery state health department, ordered planned parenthood to perform medically unnecessary pelvic examinations on every single woman seeking abortion. invasivean state-sponsored abuse of women seeking care. after significant public backlash, the state suspended cruel practice. but dr. williams also recently was forced to admit that he directed state employees to collect information about patients' menstrual cycles to advance his ideological crusade. that is what they were spending taxpayers' dollars on. i can't begin to describe my discussed at these violations of privacy and breaches of trust by government officials. actions are not taking place in isolation. other states have pushed for similar restrictions. i believe these states have been emboldened by the trump administration'a systemic -- administration's systemic attacks and general disregard for women. our former chairman darrell issa held a hearing in this room with an all-male panel of religious leaders who were trying to take away contraceptive coverage for women. one singlet invite woman to testify on that panel. ton they refused our request have sandra fluke, a georgetown law school student at the time, testify about the importance of health insurance coverage of contraceptives. they said she was "not qualified." i asked in protest, where are the women? it is time to let women speak and time for everyone to listen. it is time for elected representatives in congress and in state houses to protect the right to privacy and a woman's right to abortion services rather than attack it, undermine it and try to eliminate it. i want to thank jennifer box for sharing her family story with us. no one should ever have to make the heartbreaking decision you and your husband had to make. it is your decision and it doesn't belong to anyone else. thank marcela howell from in our own voice, part of the national reproductive agenda. the lawma graves from center for all of her work and being here today and for helping the committee and me on this. i know recognize the ranking member jordan for his opening statement and i yield back area -- yield back. rep. jordan: thank you madam , chair. i want to thank our witnesses for being here today. in the declaration of independent signed 243 years ago our founding fathers enshrines the principle that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are inalienable for everyone. i think it is always interesting to note the order of the rights they chose to mention. can you really pursue happiness? can you chase down your goals and dreams if you first don't have freedom? if you first don't have liberty? and do you ever enjoy true liberty, true freedom if government won't protect your most fundamental right, your right to live, your right to life? life is precious. it's a sacred gift from god. during an earlier time here in congress, whatever disagreements that we had, colleagues who didn't share those beliefs there was a common understanding about this fundamental principle. that life, in fact, is precious. over the past few years, it seems our two sides have moved away from this basic understanding. today my colleagues on the other side of the aisle will charge me and republicans as being against women. today this congress is in the midst of an unprecedented impeachment inquiry against president trump. i am proud that president trump is one of the most pro-life presidents to ever lead our nation. president trump has taken bold steps to stop federal funding of abortions and enabled better legal protections for health care workers who are opposed to providing, assisting or participating in these procedures. the hearing today is an attack on that pro-life record. today's culture, standing for life, it's not easy. i'm always guided by one of my favorite scripture verses. :7 fight thehy 4 , good fight. finish the course. keep the faith. that's what we have to do. keep the faith in those basic principles outlined in that document that started our nation over 200 years ago. we came to this congress to fight for the right of all americans to have life, liberty and pursue happiness. i yield back. rep. maloney: i will -- i will now yield one minute to the member from the great state of missouri, lacy clay, who requested this hearing. you madam thank , chairwoman. i along with my constituents appreciate your calling this hearing today on an urgent issue that threatens the health and personal freedom of millions of american women. the assault against a woman's right to make their own health care decisions is an insult to the basic values of individual freedom and limited government. nowhere in the nation is that assault more urgent than in my home state of missouri, specifically in the city of st. louis which i am so proud to represent. planned parenthood of st. louis is the last remaining women's health care clinic in the entire state of missouri that also provides abortion services. i visited the clinic staff and physicians this past june as the battle was elevating, and i wanted to lend my support and voice to their efforts. as a husband, father, and brother, i support and trust the private personal health choices of women. i am truly amazed that the missouri department of health went along with efforts to shut down the clinic, intimidate patients and threaten providers, and would allegedly and bizarrely track women's menstrual periods on spreadsheets to determine if they had had an abortion. no woman should be subjected to this violation of their personhood. this is america. it's her body. it's her health care and it's her decision. i stand with planned parenthood because they are truly on the front lines of defending women's health care across america. madam chairwoman, i would also like to introduce into the record a personal statement by ms. meevie mead, the director of policy and planned parenthood advocates in missouri. rep. maloney: without objection. so ordered. rep. clay: thank you. i yield back. rep. maloney: and i will now yield time to the member from the great state of north carolina, dr. fox. >> >> i welcome you to your first hearing as active chairwoman, and look forward to working with you and your new role. i committed to continuing in that spirit. i want to save my sympathy goes out to any woman who feels she must seek an abortion. it must be a horrible situation to be in. i will admit i am perplexed by the scope of the hearing. my colleagues on the other side are quick to assert that roe v. wade is "the law of the land." allows states to implement abortion restrictions, even ones that apply during the first trimester. states are grappling with issues of how to defend and preserve lives and support standards for women's health care. as states continue to explore ways to do so, in recent years, we are at a reflection point. after the governor of virginia's horrific comments, there has been a national outcry over the apathy shown by the pro-abortion movement towards babies that have been born after an abortion. this issue has been close to my heart and the hearts of millions of americans. i am going to quote the governor. "if a mother is in labor, the infant would be kept comfortable. the infant would be resuscitated if that is what the mother and family desire. then a discussion would ensure." governor northam does not stand alone in this appalling stance. he echoes a planned parenthood support who expressed for leaving a abortion survivor on the table to die, if that is what is decided. in new york, the reproductive health act removes protections for children born during an abortion attempt, leaving them at the mercy of the abortionist who just minutes earlier was trying to kill them. illinois has enacted a law that revealed the illinois partial ban act, removes licensing requirements for abortion facilities. other states, massachusetts and virginia, having proposed legislation equally as alarming. only two thirds of the state have any laws to protect infants who survive abortion and enshrined there right to life into law -- enshrine their right to life into law. i hardly find anyone is losing access to anything, anyone save the unborn. they are the ones having their rights deprived, and the american people find this intolerable. i find it to be an abomination. the pendulum in the states is not swinging against women, not in the slightest. some of my colleagues used to espouse the idea that abortion should be safe, legal, and rare. they espouse it no longer. instead, on demand access to abortion after birth is the new mantra. the fact that extremists wants to keep this ever-expanding restriction on the right to life buttressed against babies born outside the womb, this should be a wake-up cal. -- wake-up call. i call on speaker pelosi against the -- to support the born alive babies protection act. life is sacred. the regard with which we hold it is what defines who we are as a society. we live in a society that mistakes choice for liberty and denies the dignity of unborn life. the beauty of living in a free country is we can use our liberty for love. we must put love into action every day, affirming the value of life at all stages, no matter the difficulties it presents. starting to love daily is not easy, yet it is the greatest exercise of our freedom, and there is no life unworthy of that love. i yield back. thank you. >> i will briefly yield to congressman clay to introduce his constituent. rep. clay: i am happy to introduce to the committee one of my distinguished constituents, a highly skilled position who has dedicated her life to providing exceptional health care for all women, the chief medical officer of planned parenthood of the st. louis region in southwest missouri. as aas also served distinguished assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at washington university of medicine in st. louis. the doctor is also a champion for closing health care disparities like high maternal and infant mortality rates that affect minority and low income patients, most because of a lack of access to basic medical care. the doctor performs her duties with skill and compassion. she is a compassionate healer who fiercely defends her patient's rights, and their privacy as well. she is a warrior for access to quality health care for women, not just in st. louis, but across missouri and across the nation as well. welcome, doctor. i peeled back. -- yield back. >> we are also joined by jennifer from st. louis, missouri. she was holding that beautiful baby girl. andre joined by president chief executive officer of the national women's law center. and founder and president, chief executive officer in our own voice, national black women's reproductive justice agenda. if you would all please rise and raise your right hand, i will begin to swear you in. raise your right hand. do you swear to a firm the testimony you are about to get is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you god? let the record show the witnesses answered in the affirmative. thank you, and please be seated. the microphones are sensitive, so please speak directly into them. without objection, your written statement will be made part of the record. you are recognized for your opening statement. >> good afternoon acting chairwoman maloney and members of this committee. i am a mother of three living children, and i am here today with my three month old and husband. i am a small business owner, a white, and -missouri- a wife, and a missourian. i am here to share with you as someone in need of an abortion how difficult my home state of missouri makes it for pregnant people to access abortion. imagined i never would have to navigate when learning the most devastating news of our life. it was in the same breath i learned my pregnancy had a fatal fetal diagnosis, that my home state of missouri would insert itself in the middle of my grief. i searched for answers everywhere, yet we found no solace. stillborn,r is not would be born into a life of immediate and repeated invasive medical intervention. she would have essentially have been born onto life support. with broken hearts, we knew the greatest act of love that we could undertake as her parents would be to suffer ourselves instead, to end the pregnancy, grant her peace, and spare her tiny broken body a short life full of pain. we had made our decision, and we are still grappling with the reality of it. there was little time to spare. missourians like me who speak for abortion are confronted with a litany of restrictions, including waiting periods, public and private insurance bans and more. this means i move at the direction of the government. my doctor's catholic hospital where i delivered my two older children refused me care. we had to pay thousands of dollars out of pocket because of the state's insurance ban against abortion coverage. perhaps most surprising, our procedure was rushed due to the state's consent and mandatory delay laws. despite how difficult it was to access the care i needed, my actual abortion procedure was the most compassionate care i received from a physician. jake and i left that day knowing we made the most merciful choice for our daughter. i thought after the procedure, my family could begin to heal privately. i never imagined watching the state of the union and hearing the president referred to women like me, women who had abortions later in pregnancy, as programmers. -- as murderers. i never found the government -- the governor would weaponize this issue. my story doesr, not give anyone the right to make judgments about good and bad reasons for abortion. a fetal diagnosis was my reason, but nobody should have to explain themselves or compare their stories to justify a deeply personal decision. i tell my story knowing i am a woman of privilege with means to access the care i needed, despite a complicated landscape of laws. women of color face racist and discriminatory policies carry the heaviest burdens. politicians like governor parson are focused on finishing off what remains of reproductive health care in my state. members of congress, i urge you to remember who you represent. i am the one in four women who will have an abortion in their lifetime. you have the power to change a broken system working against us. i ask you work in our best interests. i am not asking you to condone my choice. i am begging lawmakers like you to allow families to make the choice for themselves. i speak for libby. it is an honor to share her name with this committee and the country today. libby. i have a rose tattoo above my heart so that she was with me every day. i am her mother. she is my daughter and will always be my daughter. i make decisions from day one as her mother. i made the most important decision of libby's life when we decided to terminate the pregnancy. it was a sacred, painful, personal decision. that is our story, unique to our family, and one that never should have included any politician. thank you for your time. >> thank you for sharing your story. >> thinking active chairwoman -- thank you active chairwoman maloney. thank you for the kind introduction. ob/gyn incticing missouri. chief acting officer of planned parenthood in missouri. for more than a decade, i have been honored with the trust of patients seeking a broad spectrum of reproductive services, including abortion. there is only one health center left in missouri that provides abortion to meet the needs of 1.1 million women of reproductive age in my state. planned parenthood's reproductive health services in st. louis. i am here today because if governor parson and health director williams get their way, missouri could soon become the first state since roe v. wade without a single health center that provides abortion care. i want to tell you the dangers we face when state officials abuse their power and disregard patients lives to pursue a physical agenda -- patient's lives to pursue a political agenda. restriction after restriction range from long waiting periods to insurance bans in an deliberate attempt to end abortion access. over the last 30 years, missouri has gone from nearly 30 clinics to one clinic today. earlier this year, governor parsons signed one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the country, banning abortion as early as eight weeks, and altogether if roe were overruled. fortunately that ban, for now, is blocked in the courts. unable to get the job done through legislation, the parsons administration weaponize the process -- with an iced the process -- weaponized the process. officials admitted under oath they selected planned parenthood for extra scrutiny. they came to our clinic five times in the first five months of this year. -- theye htey can conceded hospitals performing much riskier procedures went without a single inspection. the department also admitted to keeping a spreadsheet of my patient's menstrual cycles, a misuse of data motivated by an agenda to find something, anything they could use to justify further scrutiny. as shocking as that sounds, more egregious was director william'' interpretation that forced patients to go through multiple pelvic exams. my colleagues could not force patients to take their clothes off unnecessarily and injure -- and endure a state-mandated vaginal exam. the department relented due to public outcry. that confirms there was no real medical reason for the exam. missourians want to believe state officials charged with protecting public health have the best interests in mind. they want to trust that when they go to the doctor, their private medical information will not be mined as part of a political fishing expedition. governor parsons and director theiams repeatedly violated trust of the community to push a political agenda. it is not just missouri. antiabortion politicians in other states refuse to license abortion facilities, simply because they do not agree with the health care that is provided there. this year alone, 12 states have enacted 25 different abortion bans. that is on top of the nearly 500 abortion restrictions enacted in the state since 2011. this obsession with abortion has not only proved detrimental to our patients, but has lasting effects on health of an entire community. while missouri goes to incredible lengths to ban abortion, maternal mortality is rising. black women are dying in pregnancy at three times the rate of white women. displaying this and other serious public health crises, antiabortion politicians continue to divert precious resources to the overregulation of abortion providers. in missouri, despite the unrelenting attempts on reproductive health care, our doors remain open, for now. planned parenthood will continue to work of ensuring every patient that wants an abortion is able to access care with dignity and respect consistent with their values, despite this possible landscape. in my exam room, abortion is not political, it is simply health care. it is time we listen to the majority of americans and end this rampant abuse of power and keep abortion safe, legal, and accessible. rep. maloney: thank you for your work and testimony today. i am now going to recognize fatima. >> thank you acting chairwoman maloney and members of the committee. thank you for the invitation to testify today, especially on this first hearing following congressmen coming -- congressman cummings' passing. i am president and ceo at the national women's law center. we know access to abortion is vital to gender justice. access to abortion is a key part of the person's liberty and economic security, and everyone, no matter where they live or financial needs, should have access to abortion. sent, thereme court ability of women to participate in the economic and social life of this nation has been facilitated by their ability to control their reproductive lives. we note legislation passion now legislation k passing restrictions on abortion would limit -- we are on the eve of the hundredth anniversary of the 19th amendment. the fight to secure the vote was symbolic of a broad societal change regarding women's ability to be politically equal and make politically independent decisions. now there is a broader movement in this country that will transform the relationship between gender and power. it is against this backdrop we must view missouri's legislative efforts to shut down the state's last abortion clinic. missouri is not the only or even the first state to speak to end abortion, but what is unique are the types of abortion bills being passed. before this year, bans on abortion presented a direct challenge to roe, banning an abortion two weeks before and missed period, were typically seen as too radical, even by many antiabortion advocates. what is unique is the state sayslature's willingness to why they are presenting these measures, giving the supreme court an opportunity to overturn roe v. wade. these legislators believe between president trump and vice president pence and the newly constituted supreme court, that their goal will be realized. during his first campaign, president trump promised some form of punishment for women who have abortions, and he would automatically overturn roe v. wade. in the three years trump has been in power, he reshaped our judiciary in shocking terms. it i disturbings that earlier this year the district of health a louisiana -- upheld a lawsiana law similar to a struck down in 2016. courtremee -- the supreme just agreed to review this decision. this should be an easy decision. nothing relevant has changed in the last three years, except the composition of the supreme court. it does nothing to make abortion safer. intendedsuch laws are to close clinics. they have done just that. the resulting shortage of abortion providers has led to longer waiting times, increased travels to clinics, which result in increased costs, hotel stays, additional childcare expenses, more time off work when people don't have it, and getting delays in the care they are seeking. these compound the other restrictions already in place, including restrictions on insurance coverage of abortion, intended to make abortion and accessible. these politicians are not representative of the will of the people. in the wake of these extreme abortion bans, public sentiment showed people flooded the streets this past summer to protest these laws in the middle of the week. as president of an organization that fights for gender justice care, ils, work, health have a birds eye view of how these fights are connected. the same misogyny driving these abortion bans drives much of the opposition we are seeing in other gender justice battles. that is why at this moment of reckoning on the constitutional right to abortion, we need congress to lead. they can start by passing laws such as the women's health protection act. thank you. rep. maloney: thank you so much. thank chairwoman maloney and ranking chair member jordan for the opportunity to appear before the committee. podcast host,, a a wife, and a mom. i spent the last few years studying the pro-abortion movement, showing the radicalization and speaking out of the injustice occurring on the state and federal levels against pre-born children and their mothers. i'm here today as a mom fighting for a future for their kids in which rights are dependent upon their humanity. i believe female empowerment, equality, and freedom are not defined by her ability to terminate the life of a child. i am here afraid for the fate of a country that no longer considers the right to life a prerequisite for the pursuit of happiness. it is surreal to be here, and not because i am testifying before congress, but because of the subject at hand. it is incumbent principal we are having a debate whether -- is incomprehensible that we are having a debate whether it is ok to kill a baby before they are born. i want to remind the committee of the true victims of radical legislation, pre-born babies. there was a time when you could claim ignorance at the justification for allowing abortion. only a few decades ago, we knew little about pre-born babies in early stages of development. it seems appropriate to some to deem abortion an issue of bodily autonomy. even then the model was safe, legal, and rare. pro-abortion advocates have abandoned these qualifications in favor of on-demand for any reason. barbaric laws in new york and virginia aim to codify that -- codify unrestricted access to abortion. science and technology have advanced. we know that a baby's heart begins to beat as early as six weeks. the child can feel pain halfway through the pregnancy. babies born as early as 21 weeks gestation have survived outside of the womb. by 24 weeks, a fetus has a significant probability of surviving if born premature. babies at this age have received life-saving treatments for spina bifida. any woman that has been pregnant knows the undeniable humanity of their pre-born babies. i was shocked to see my daughter in the womb at 11.5 weeks, kicking and flipping around. 11.5 weeks is still the first trimester. embryology tells us from conception a baby is a human being with distinct dna, yet abortion advocates have doubled down on their efforts. many members of the so-called party of science insist on referring to pre-born children as cells. speaking of abortion, as defenders ignore the existence of the child entirely, terms like autonomy and women's empowerment of scare the reality that the life inside the mom's body is a human, her baby. if abortion were a truly winning issue for women, a moral good, this deception would not be necessary. abortion advocates know using accurate terminology is not effective pr, and does not make for a profitable business model. late-term abortions are performed by acting the uterus of -- emptying the uterus of amniotic fluid. there are other more grotesque methods utilized. members have testified to congress about the neglect of babies who survived abortion. virginia governor ralph northam declared a baby who survives an abortion would be delivered and resuscitated if that is what the mother and family desired. tragic, pro-lifers should not be surprised by pro-choice radicalism. this is the end of the logic of the pro-abortion case. there is no argument for abortion that does not apply to people that are born. america is included on the list of seven countries to allow abortion after 20 weeks gestation. the same legislators who are pro-abortion were happy to vote yes on the bill criminalizing animal cruelty on the federal level. i wish the same basic compassion could be extended to the most vulnerable members of our own species. thank you. rep. maloney: thank you very much. >> honorable members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify at today's hearing. i would like to take a moment to mour the passing ofn chairman cummings, a fearless champion of civil rights. we promise to pick up his mental and continue his fight for universal justice. i am founder and president of "in her own voice" women's reproduction agenda, a state partnership with black women's reproductive justice organizations. black women for wellness, black women's health imperative, new voices for reproductive justice, sister love, sister reach, spark reproductive justice now, and women with a vision. reproductive justice is a human right to control our bodies, our sexuality, our gender, our work, and our reproduction. that right can only be achieved when all people have the complete economic, social, political power and resources to make healthy decisions about our bodies and families and communities. this includes the right to choose if, when, and how to start a family. when it comes to abortion, we focused specifically on access rather than rights, asserting the legal right to abortion is meaningless for pregnant people when they cannot access such care due to the cost, distance to the nearest provider, or other obstacles. faced the country, we are with the ever complicated wave of abortion restrictions that continue to compound already existing barriers, making access to quality abortion care a privilege for the few rather than a human right for all. after the 1973 landmark roe v wade decision, the supreme court victory was immediately undermined and invalidated for people with low incomes with the passage of the height amendment. -- hyde amendment. because of social and economic inequality linked to systemic racism and discrimination, women of color are disproportionately likely to be injured through medicaid. -- be insured through medicaid, therefore subject to the hyde amendment's ban on abortion. the decision when to start or grow a family is a decision that should be made by a person and those they trust, not politicians. over the last decades, abortion access in the u.s. has become increasingly fraught with restrictive laws. such abortion restrictions include everything from parental consent laws for individuals under 18, often course is mandated counseling -- coercive mandated counseling, and burdensome regulations on providers and clinics. this web of restrictions and bans ultimately created an unjust landscape. as the country grapples with the maternal mortality crisis, one that disproportionately impacts black women, research has found that the states with the higher numbers of abortion restrictions are the exact same states that have poorer maternal health outcomes. that is not a coincidence. reproductive justice is economic justice. one reason people choose to have an abortion is because of the significant expense of having and raising another child, given that many are already apparents. -- already parents. we cannot afford to injure -- to endure another abortion ban, because we experience discrimination, low wages, debilitating childcare costs and threats to our voting rights. these issues cannot be separated. together, they are an attack to live with full agency and raise our children with dignity. i thank the committee for its dedication to addressing these and valuing the experiences of underserved communities, pacific islanders, transgender non-binary people, lgbtq people, people with low income, people in rural communities, those with disabilities, youth, and immigrants. i explicitly name us all, because all of our struggles are tied together. many of us live at the margins of multiple oppressed identities. i urge the committee to address these abortion restrictions with urgency as we collectively work toward bodily autonomy and a world where for reproductive justice can be actualized. -- full reproductive justice can be actualized. rep. maloney: without objection, the following numbers are - -me mbers are authorized to participate in today's hearing. now call to begin the questioning. he is the originator of this hearing. you fory: let me thank convening this hearing to call attention to the obtrusive restrictions on the well-being of thousands of women in my congressional district. in missouri, we are down to one last abortion clinic. state health officials are doing everything in their power to try to shut the clinic down. they are trying to regulate missouri's last clinic out of existence by proposing regulations that are medically unnecessary, overly intrusive, or virtually impossible for any health care provider to comply with. doctorheard the explained, the health department begin enforcing a medically unnecessary requirement that women submit to an additional pelvic exam three days before allowing -- before being allowed to have an abortion. any physician, is there medical reason fo suchr a requirement? >> thank you for the question. forcingviously stated, women to undergo medically unnecessary pelvic exams shows clear disregard for the potential traumatic impact that has. we are talking about a country where, every 73 seconds, an american is victimized with sexual assault. that rape is 12 times higher for women with intellectual disabilities. within days of having to comply with the mandate, we saw a minor accompanied by her mom who was a victim of sexual assault, who has never had a public exam before, who didn't even know what her parts were. as a reminder for those who never had a pelvic exam, that means putting your fingers inside someone's vagina, forcing someone -- this minor, never having had a pelvic exam, to have that invasive procedure when there was no medically relevant reason to do so, was traumatic for her, her mother, and for the physician required to do it. clay: how did that make you and your staff feel? >> in the times we had to comply, i'm not sure who cried staff,he physicians, the the patient's. we had patients apologizing to us that we were forced to do this to them. our patients are accustomed to jump into to get an abortion. to get through hoops an abortion. they were resigned that this was part of the deal. rep. clay: just weeks ago, we learned state staff were ordered to keep a spreadsheet tracking the menstrual cycles of women that visited st. louis's planned parenthood clinic. doctor, do you find the practice of tracking the dates of patient's periods problematic? >> i find it bizarre and a violation of the trust the community puts in the public health department. it was clearly part of an orchestrated attack on planned parenthood, and really demonstrates an abuse of power and misuse of data. what do you make of the fact that a trained physician has imposed these intrusive requirements on providers and patients? >> it is shocking our department of health is head by a physician, and more shocking is he is a ob/gyn. he knows better, but instead of relying on the medical ethics he was taught and patient experiences over his career, he instead decided his job was to act on the behest of the politician to end abortion as part of a political agenda and forgetting to treat patients. rep. clay: what would it mean for patients in missouri if your clinic closes? dr. mcnicholas the consequence -- people will be forced to carry pregnancies they shouldn't and don't want to, continuing the cycle of poverty for some. many will be forced to travel forced to travel long distances, expending resources they don't have to access that care. people will have lost the trust they have in the state of missouri, who have been advocated its sensitivity to providing basic health care. rep. clay: thank you for your response. i thank the panel for being here today. i yield back. rep. maloney: i will now recognize representative roy. roy: in 2015, i got a call from a young woman who was one of my dearest friends. she said the baby in her belly, her third, might be missing part of his brain. she was terrified and couldn't ask questions fast enough. her husband had to work, but she took her two boys with her. the checkups were usually routine. she went into the appointment expecting her doctor to reassure her. the doctor looked her straight in the eye and asked if she wanted to terminate the pregnancy. she called us after the appointment, terrified. terminate? the question with the same tone of ordering a copy at starbucks. she asked without her husband there. it was cold. the doctor told her she had to decide quickly, because she was approaching 22 weeks, which is as long as you can take legally in virginia. she told us she almost laughed and publicly responded termination was not an option. she walked out of the doctor's office and never returned. her ultrasound was completely normal at 24 weeks. they could not get a good read at her 20 week appointment. 15r baby was born in may 20 and was healthy. he is my godsend. in the winter of 1996, a couple went in for a checkup. they were informed they had twins. the doctor performed more tests. the doctor returned. the doctor seemed concerned, as they believe the twins had cystic fibrosis. they would only survive for a few hours, they were told. the couple said the first thing that came into their mind, no, and walked out. they chose life. those twins grew up to become excellent men. i know this because jonah works for me. he is one of my staffers. planned parenthood is not about health care, it is about abortion, no? planned parenthood took in $1.67 billion in revenue, a 14% increase the year before. does that sound right to you? >> yes. togovernment funded amount $563 million. planned parenthood received $60 million under title 10. 2019, planned parenthood confirmed they would withdraw from title x funding rather than comply with the new rule. does that sound right? >> yes. >> do we need planned parenthood for health care for women? >> planned parenthood is not in the business of health care, they are in the business of abortion, by refusing title x cap. they could have financially and physically separated their abortion services from the rest of their health care services, but they refused. they decided abortionists whosel to their mission, ceo was ousted because she did not prioritize abortion high enough. 5> in texas, we have 43 federally qualified health centers. there are 327 pregnancy centers, 130 of which are medical pregnancy centers. according to the planned parenthood website, there are 40 planned parenthood centers in texas. does texas provide health care solutions for women? >> yes. i am from texas as well. texas program was established in 2016 helping women in texas with more providers and planned parenthood . in fy 2018, helping women served 172,000 clients. in 2018, planned parenthood served only 83,000 patients. does that sound right? >> yes. i my point is simply this, can't speak to the other 49 create-- we should entities and allow the market to thrive. if we can get a healthy health care system, we can get more options. could you please share your view of the ways in which we can provide better health care than allowing planned parenthood, which throws babies in garbage bags, to be the center of health care for women? >> abortion is not health care. that is all i have time for. rep. maloney: chernow recognizes -- chair now recognizes congresswoman norton. norton: what kind of health services do you provide? dr. mcnicholas: planned parenthood provides a broad spectrum of reproductive health care services, including cancer l spectrum ofhe ful birth control options, transgender care, primary care. some planned parenthood's provide prenatal care. provide thelike you kind of across-the-board care .hat a young woman may need one stop fits all. dr. mcnicholas: the goal is to meet the patient's needs and the community needs and to make sure it is accessible to them. rep. norton: i have a question. perhaps i should start with ms. graves. i represent 700,000 residents. they pay the highest federal taxes, a little-known fact. highest federal taxes per capita in the united states. we are trying to make the district of columbia the 51st state. when you look at where there are care, you into health will find that there are federal bans that include federal employees, federal prisoners. included on thisincluded on thiw income residents of the district of columbia. our jurisdiction wants to provide -- on their own -- pay for abortion services for low income women the way almost 20 states already do. we are not demanding the federal government does this. question is -- why we are finding that restrictions on coverage are related to economic mobility for women, on coverage for abortion and other such services. apparently there is a correlation not only for women generally, but especially for women of color. so why do restrictions on abortion relate to economic mobility? why are they correlated in that way? dr. mcnicholas: i very much appreciate you raising the issue as a resident of the district that lacks the voting rights you describe. often times there is a deep focus on the levels of restrictions in places like missouri, but even in the district, because of restrictions on insurance. for low income women in particular, what that means is that abortion is inaccessible and unavailable, and having to scrap together the money to be able to afford it is not possible. what it also means is for the lks, thenerable of fo right to abortion does not feel meaningful. that connection between the ability to have economic security for yourself and for your family is deeply tied to your ability to access the health care you need. this is a travesty that is deeply felt by people who live part becauseict, in of restrictions on medicaid, but you also see it show up in medical insurance. so many people here are also working for the federal government. rep. norton: you can see there are many reasons why the district of columbia wants to become the 51st state. i want to say to my republican colleagues, whose mantra is we want government out of our business -- my friends on the other side of the aisle vote against government doing things which the american people want government to do. all the district of columbia is asking is you get out of their business so that we can deal with our business alone. i yield back. >> the chair recognizes -- >> my friend yields her 20 seconds. norton? would you yield? >> i just want to give dr. mcnic holas an opportunity. it is a stunning statement that planned parenthood is not in the business of health care. dr. mcnicholas: abortion is health care. the best way to demonstrate is to share the story of a patient unable tohen -- when express an abortion, died because conditions worsened. a patient from out-of-state visited my clinic for a consultation after understanding that her current medical condition would worsen with pregnancy. she returned to her out-of-state home, having to wait the mandated amount of time between those visits before she can receive that care. when she didn't return and we called to follow up, we were later told she passed away from competitions of her prepregnancy medical condition. this is the definition of why abortion is needed and necessary when they need it aware people live. rep. maloney: thank you very much. earlier this year, governor northern virginia said if a mother is in labor, the infant would be delivered, the infant would be kept comfortable, the infant would be resuscitated if that is what the family desired, then a discussion with ensue. do you support governor northern's comments? dr. mcnicholas: i can't speak for governor northam. i can say there is no way to oversimplify the medical conditions in which people present in the second trimester that i think he was referring to. so as a physician -- int would be the harm legislation such as the born alive abortion survivors act to make sure a child born alive would not be put to death? dr. mcnicholas: there are several harms. using that line which and percussion reading the notion that is a real thing -- and perpetuating the notion that is a real thing only serves two purposes. one is to shame people that need life-saving care in the trimesters of pregnancy. it also creates an environment in which abortion providers like myself are targeted and harassed. first and foremost, it is dangerous for those reasons. the second is because medicine is complicated. there really is no way for me to boil down more than a decade of education and practice to give you a single reason why doing such things is harmful to patients. rep. foxx: the answer should have been yes or no. thousands of fetal remains were found in the home of a deceased abortionist. do you believe that all fetal remains should be disposed of in a manner that treats them with dignity and respect? dr. mcnicholas: just like i believe patients are capable of making a decision to continue their pregnancy or not, i believe patients are capable of deciding what happens to the remains of the pregnancy. rep. foxx: is it ok for those fetal remains to be sold for profit by planned parenthood? dr. mcnicholas: planned parenthood has never sold fetal tissue and never has. rep. foxx: does planned parenthood give states the authority to regulate abortion in accordance with the opinion of the respective constituencies? dr. mcnicholas: i believe the wholeecent decision in women's health set a precedent that restrictions must be grounded in science. that is what we are asking for, that abortion is treated to the medical standards and evidence in science. rep. foxx: are there more federally qualified health inters than abortion clinics the united states? >> yes. the ratio is 26 to 1 of health care centers federally funded to planned parenthoods. rep. foxx: which offers more comprehensive services to women? >> the ones that are not planned parenthood. rep. foxx: if we want access to comprehensive health services for women, would we be better off supporting abortion clinics or federally qualified health care centers? >> federally qualified health care centers. rep. foxx: thank you. a planneda -- 2005, parenthood study found a baby would interfere with education and work, or would not want to be a single mother -- what are your thoughts on the findings of this study? >> it belies this notion that abortion is used only in extreme cases, that extreme rare cases are typically used to cast pro-lifers into an extremist radical misogynist light, which is not accurate. the majority of abortions, according to planned parenthood, is done on the basis of convenience. i don't see a logical justification for killing an unborn child on the basis of simply not being wanted. rep. foxx: thank you. mcnicchair, earlier dr. holas said director williams had taken an ethics oath, and should know to do better. i want to quote from the classic hippocratic of. -- oath. i will use the regimes that benefit my patients and i will do no harm or injustice to them. i will not give a lethal drug to anyone if i am asked, nor will i advised such a plan, and i will not cause an abortion. did you swear a hippocratic oath? dr. mcnicholas: i did, and i continue to live that every day. rep. foxx: amazing. i would like to enter into the record this article. i yield back. rep. maloney: the chair now recognizes representative lynch. lynch: thank you for holding this hearing. to the gentleman from missouri, thank you for your leadership. i want to thank the women here today for your willingness and your courage to come before this committee to share your own experience, and all of you for sharing your perspectives. as i noted in my op-ed in the boston globe when this state legislation arose, in missouri, alabama, georgia, legislatures have adopted draconian measures on abortion. alabama has banned abortion at any stage of pregnancy, apparently even in the case of rape or interest, while several other states have banned abortions as early as six weeks , which has some witnesses noted, is often before many women know they are pregnant. in georgia, a woman terminating a pregnancy after six weeks could be charged with homicide. these laws are far more punitive than those in place before the roe v. wade decision. they are so intrusive and restrictive that the core constitutional right to privacy be effectively and totally eliminated. meanwhile, other states are actively considering similar restrictive measures. this all occurs against a backdrop in which republicans in congress have repeatedly attempted to eliminate women's access to contraceptive services, often by groups such as planned parenthood. ironically, even though those contraceptive services actually prevent unwanted pregnancies, and thereby reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies and abortions. they would also be cutting off expectant mothers, especially those in low income areas who rely on these services for the prenatal and postnatal care to have safe and healthy pregnancies. it is to be noted that to be pro-life includes supporting the life of another women. simply opposing abortion does not make you pro-life. the supreme court's decision on reproductive rights have sought to balance the constitutional interests at stake on this issue. while critics abound, the number of abortions that are performed in the united states each year has dropped dramatically. that is largely due to the impact of effective and widely available contraception, family planning, and education. women are and should be in charge of the reproductive health, and their efforts to reduce unwanted pregnancies are actually working, on which leads many to believe the timing of this multistate campaign reveal a purely political strategy to energize and motivate the religious right. that is truly shameful. while i am personally informed by my faith, my actions as a legislator must be in support of and defense of the constitution. that is the oath that i took, and i stand by it. as i said in may, if these recent developments, closing all clinics, obstruction, denying women every option, denying women every option in health care decisions, if this defines the new pro-life movement, you can count me out. i have one question for either counsel grades or miss howell. thank you for your kind words regarding mr. cummings. there are millions of women each year -- and miss mcnicholas, -- dr. missed -- dr. mcnicholas, you might have some input. if we have millions of women who come to planned parenthood and yet, theviders and government steps in test -- to deny funding, and this came to the floor -- this actually came to the floor and the republicans were in control of the house. they proposed to zero out any federal funding for planned parenthood to carry on its contraceptive services. what would the impact on the abortion rate be -- the rate of unwanted pregnancies and the abortion rate -- if the measure had been implemented? >> so i think you raise a very important point, which is, one of the best strategies we have to reduce unintended poignancy is actually multilayered. it is first, improving the sexual education we provide to our young children. helping them know how their body works, and being very positive about understanding how sex works and how you get pregnant. themdly, it is providing access to the available contraceptive method of their choice when they need it and without barriers. included going to a clinic in their neighborhood, making sure it is affordable for them, and making sure they can change that method as often as they need to when their history or preference changes. >> do you want to add to that? actually go to planned parenthood for a number of different health care services. they go not only for birth testsl, but also to have for diabetes, for mammogram screenings. a lot of the people we represent and we work with go to planned parenthood clinics as they are primary providers. they thinkervices are vital to them because people are opposed to the fact that some planned parenthood's also do abortions means that you are cutting off health care for people who most desperately need it. >> thank you. >> the only thing i would add -- it is a good opportunity for me to correct something she said about planned parenthood. wanted parenthood did not to do right by its patients. it was not going to lie to them. it was not going to misinform them. the idea we are now in a situation where providers are being forced to make that decision about whether or not they can continue to serve the lowest income population in communities is really terrible. patients are going to suffer for it. >> thank you very much. the yield back. -- i yield back. there is no particular gestational age. there is some princi's in which a fetus will never be viable. there are a number of factors we are taking about when we consider if a pregnancy is or is not viable. >> is there a legal consensus on the age of viability? >> not to my understanding. i am a physician. not a lawyer. >> in your>> 10 years as a doctor, how many abortions have you performed? >> i provide a variety of services. you -- not providing >> i have had a long career of taking care of people. or you aretell me -- the medical overseer. can you tell many how many abortions the facility in missouri performs each week? >> i believe it is publicly available i can give. you a rough. estimate how many abortions we perform a year. roughly around 3000. >> have you dispose of 3000 fetus is? state law that a requires we send the remains to pathology. >> what is the latest term abortion you have performed? >> my practice includes the provision of abortion up until the point of viability. >> give me the number in weeks. >> i do not know. >> you do not remember the number of weeks? >> that is correct. >> what about size of the unborn baby? do you know the largest baby you have aborted? >> i am not sure how i would even quantify that? >> if i use the word fetus -- you have no idea the age or of the fetusiod you are aborting? >> my practice includes abortion care through the point of viability. as we discussed -- >> let me put it this way. is there any point of gestation beyond which you personally would not abort a fetus? >> medicine is not black and white. i recognize in my 10 years of practice informs this opinion that pregnancy can be really complicated. given there are pregnancies for which a fetus may never be viable, i think it is important we allow physicians and patients to have every medical resource to make decisions that are appropriate for them. >> in the absence of a law preventing, would you probe or a -- would you abort a viable fetus? >> every patient is different>>. i am asking about a viable fetus. would you consider it a limitation morally for you to abort a viable fetus? >> i think you are forgetting there are number of reasons. >> at your clinic, does it matter what the reason is? >> at my clinic, i trust that women have a valid reason, every reason they have is valid. >> given that you think every reason is valid, would you abort a viable fetus if there was not a low preventing it? reality, given that the for people choosing abortion as there are many reasons, there is not a single thing that defined somebody's choice. >> you seem to have a hard time saying this. this tells me you have a heart or you know that people watching this have a heart. they would be concerned if you would just admit, which you will not admit, that you would abort a viable fetus for any reason if the law did not prevent it. >> abortion is moral it is important. it is health care. i support people being experts in their own lives in making decisions for themselves. that gives me some hope here understand that people do not support you if you would say you would abort a viable fetus for any reason. given what you told us in your opening statement, and knowing what you have said, we know that you would. it does give me hope that you still know in your heart that is wrong. >> can i respond to that? >> if you would answer my question, you could. my will not, so i will use remaining time asking mr. stuckey, should any reason -- asking mr. stuckey, should any reason be a good reason for having a abortion? from is a life in the womb any point. i am troubled by her saying there are 3000 abortions performed every year. the remark that abortion is moral -- >> time has expired. the time has expired. i recognize -- >> you gave the others over two minutes over, mr. chairman. we need to be fair on both sides of the aisle. >> you want to finish? .inish your answer go ahead. >> i do not understand the illogic of saying that killing a child inside the womb is moral. in what other situation besides when a child is defenseless we call killing someone health care or moral? can anyone on the pro-abortion side a situation outside of the defenseless child inside the womb in which it is morally justifiable to kill someone because they are not wanted? that is the answer i would like. that is the question i have. i do not think anyone is able to answer it. >> i recognize the gentlewoman from illinois for five minutes. >> thank you for this hearing. our republican colleagues have suggested earlier restrictions on abortion have become necessary because advances in medicine are moving the point of viability earlier. i am interested in hearing your thoughts on this point. , as i previously alluded to, viability is not an easy thing to assess. inrequires knowledge multiple things about any individuals painted teaching >> thank you for clarifying. i want to thank the witnesses for being here. thank you for sharing your story with us. i want to let you know i was a proud board member of planned member -- planned parenthood in pay area. of illinoisy state is an oasis in the sand . you say you want to see the same basic compassion. i wanted to see the same basic compassion for maternal mortality. i had to water down the bill i had because the compassionate republicans, not one, would sign onto the bill to extend the decayed. we have not been able to get a gun violence prevention bill passed because we do not have the same basic compassion once the unborn fetus comes a baby and they grow up. we do not seem to have compassion in the area. we do not have the same compassion when it comes to feeding our young people. we do not seem to care about that. we are looking at cutting back so 500,000 people do not have the food they had. where is the compassion once you are born? that is the question i have. >> thank you for bringing up these points because i agree we should have compassion from the womb to the tomb. >> it is not there. >> i do not necessarily agree with all of your legislative solutions. i do believe the private sector does a much better job. your premise is that these -- is that these things are mutually exclusive. >> you never heard me. i am just saying -- you are saying we are violently murdering, but there are a lot of kids being murdered every day. >> why can't we hear about both? >> reclaiming my time. of manager county and measures -- of truck company in -- the illinois reproductive health act ensures coverage for abortion care and updates clinic regulations to lift the abortion provided. how does limiting coverage bands improve access to abortion care for women who are working to make ends meet? >> will mean the right to abortion will actually be a right that is accessible for women. income.r their whether or not that right is accessible to you should not be depending on your financial means. that is not what the court says. >> the other thing we never talk about is, wealthier women who tend not to be women of color, they have been having abortions for a long time whether they are in red states or blue states or however they vote. of will rolling back targets abortions provide as improved access? >> here is what we know. these targeted regulations of abortion providers are designed shutdown clinics. there designed to shame patients. they are designed to confuse people and disrupt the doctor-patient relationship. all of that makes abortion less accessible. rhetoric that the is surrounding it on top of the sorts of regulations and restrictions have made all of this so difficult for people who are just trying to live their lives and get the health care they need. >> i know from a lot of college students they are not going to planned parenthood to get an abortion. there going for health. that is the place of choice to get health care and not for abortions. >> planned parenthood is very proud to be able to provide services to people who are financially insecure and to do that in a way that serves their needs and respects their dignity. >> thank you. >> the gentleman from georgia is recognized for five minutes. >> a lot of this debate and argument centers around whether or not the baby is a person or fetus. i recognize many on the others the aisle refused to recognize the baby as a baby. refused to recognize it is a person. been a lot of medical advances over the last several decades. specificell us about scientific evidence supporting the personhood, the humanity of the baby and the viability? childryology tells us the , from the moment of conception, as a separate dna. when we hear these euphemisms being thrown around like my body, my choice, a shows me the pro-abortion argument does not deal with fact. it deals with feeling. that is why we have had a hard a clearting a answer for what abortion is. talking about tearing a child apart them by limb with forceps is not a beer -- is apr strategy. all i am trying to do is remind us when we are having this conversation that there are two people. i do not believe we have to pit a mother against her child for a woman to be successful. we talked about legislative solutions and showing compassion for children after they are born. i believe in that. every pro-life pregnancy center i have been a part of, they do not just councilwomen. they of her parenting classes. they offer help from abusive situations. they are offering programs for young women to get affordable baby clothes and things like that. every pro-life denies asian --es about children in the every pro-life organization cares about children. let's not ignore the scientific reality that a baby is a baby. it is deserving of the right to life. >> and the way this is going on abortion in the womb. horrified,ere virginia governor ralph northam in his description of however they could be described as a post birth abortion, one of the most horrifying things i have heard in my life where the baby would sit there on the table, and we would decide what to do with it. how do you respond to this? >> unfortunately, this has been a reality across the country. we do not -- we like to act that this is not a thing. the cdc says at least 143 these were born alive and not attended to are cared for. only six states requires reporting. the number 143 is probably a lot higher. this is not just a degradation of children inside the womb. it is a degradation of babies in general. it is a degradation of life based on whether or not the child is wanted. in what other state of life do we decide someone gets to die because they are not wanted? not to provoke a slippery slope fallacy, but what we have seen from governor northam's statements and other statements is that it is a slope. and moral logical slope, and seems the pro-abortion side is sliding down quickly. >> it was an excellent point you brought forth that planned parenthood -- the majority of women have abortions because of convenience. that -- those findings from planned parenthood itself -- undermined, particularly about late term abortions, that it has something to do with the health of the mother? >> we can have conversations about the health of the mother in those where circumstances -- those rare circumstances. the vast majority of cases are for any reason whatsoever, including not wanting the child, wanting to finish school. if the pro-abortion side were honest, they are fine with that. they are completely open to the normalization their organizations exist to normalize abortion and destigmatize abortion. that means they believe abortion to be not only normal, but good. we are the doctors say she believes abortion is good. if you believe that a more -- that abortion is morally good, of course, you do not think it should be limited to the life of the mother. it is all nine months, on demand, without apology. that is the new motto. >> and the fact that the baby is a person. how can it be moral to kill it? >> i do not know what else it is if it is not a person. >> i recognize the gentlewoman from michigan. to be here for this hearing. this hearing should be a substantive discussion on how to expand access to care for women. i am disappointed in my republican colleagues who are using this hearing as -- to make such blatantly false claims. lady who speaks in generalization, and for the record, while one side calls itself pro-life, there is not a person i know who says they are pro-abortion. they are pro-choice. abortion are not -- abortions are not -- that is not how abortion works. this type of deceptive rhetoric is another attempt to distract from efforts to make abortion out of the reach for women and to shut down clinics. i constantly have had this debate and number of times on this panel. spokentruths that are full-sized babies out of wounds and killing them. that is not true. selling parts is not true. enjoyedseems like it is to say because it paints this horrific picture. we should say the truth. statistics. about therry to hear pain you and your family had to suffer. thank you for bringing the beautiful baby in the room. have you considered whether this law, that is being proposed or haved in missouri would prevented you from having an abortion if it existed two years ago? >> thank you. it absolutely would have prevented me from having an abortion. at eight weeks, which is when the band that my state legislature passed, it is impossible to know of the chromosomal abnormalities. i am not the doctor here today. we did the early genetic testing because i am of advanced maternal age. another one of my not favorite terms. before most that women and families would find out. we found out earlier because of that. most people would not find out until the 20 week anatomy scan. i was able to successfully get pregnant again as evidenced by my beautiful daughter who is now being quite gin -- being quiet. i was pregnant during the time the state legislature was enacting the ban. ultrasound, they could not get a couple views of the heart. physicians were not concerned. what should have been a happy day to know we were having a successful day because a poignancy is a stressful pregnancy after a field diagnosis, ended with me being hystericallybbing because they would not see me again until i was 24 weeks along. because they were not worried. that was my next regularly scheduled appointment. in missouri, that would have been too late. but i kept saying to my husband is, what if they find something devastating? i cannot protect my daughter. i understand this is stuckey and i do not agree -- misses stuckey and i do not agree on things, that i would like you to remember that you are calling my husband and i mutters. anduld ask for compassion respect when you speak about these decisions. americans make these decisions that are difficult and personal. we deserve to be treated with respect to whether or not you condone our choice. i do not need your approval, but i would ask for your respect. i appreciate what you are saying. in the few minutes i have left, i would like to bring another issue to the table. we in this country have the highest maternal mortality rate of any civilized country in the world. for women to be dying to give birth in america is unacceptable. with the same energy we are making health decisions and decisions about our bodies, and we should, as women in america, have the same choices and have without -- men have without the government telling them what to do. i used a comparison because now there is discussion about birth control. i would love to have a debate about viagra and whether the government should regulate or restrict viagra for men. that has never been on the table. we are targeted. for us to have the same passion on a discussion about saving women who want to have their babies and this medical industry is failing us, we need to have the same passion. i yield back my time. >> i'm going to say, we are sorry u.n. your family had to experience -- you and your family had to experience what you did. i'm going to recognize mr. grossman for five minutes. >> a couple quick questions for dr. mcnicholas. if someone came to you it was eight months pregnant with a healthy baby girl and said they wanted to have an abortion because they did not want another girl, would you perform that abortion? >> that sensationalized hypothetical is not real, and i have never had that happen. >> you said you perform an abortion. or let's say, ok. someone came in within a month pregnancy and wanted to have an abortion because they did not feel they had the time to care for the baby. >> i first want to reject the notion that people make decisions of continuing princi out of convenience. i have never in 10 years of taking care of in people have people reject a pregnancy because it was convenient. >> people presumably come to planned parenthood for contraceptive care as well. if a 14-year-old or 13-year-old came to you, would you give them the contraceptives? all of ourto patients about the availability of all of their contraceptive methods. particularly for young people, we would have an in-depth discussion about healthy behaviors, prevention of sexually transmitted infections, the importance of making informed decisions. >> if a 13-year-old is sexually active, that is a serious sexual assault. you make any efforts to report the person who is engaging illegal -- in illegal activity with the young lady? >> we at planned parenthood follow all the rules and laws, so if by law, we are required to do it, we would do it. >> would you make any efforts? >> if we are required to do it, we would do it. >> if you would not -- if you are not required to do, you would not? >> talking to young people about their sexual health -- >> i will ask you another question. if someone comes in as a 13-year-old girl and was to have an abortion, which means certainly, something illegal was done, would you probe into the anymore, or would you just do the abortion? >> one of the most impactful times i have with patient is discussing around issues of sexual assault. we to provide our patients the space to discuss what happened if they want to discuss that. recognizing a can be incredibly traumatic to discuss the in.rience . any health situation i would respect whatever is comfortable for her. >> i will give you another question. if someone comes in and does not have the money for an abortion and says they are broke, but i went and abortion, you perform the abortion? >> we make every effort to take care of patients every needs regardless of their financial insecurities. >> as i understand it, talking to people in your industry, you will find a way to do an abortion whether the government is paying or nobody is paying, you will find the money to do the abortion. >> to set the record straight, government does not pay for abortions. people are navigating the complexity of paying for basic health care because the government has abdicated its responsibility. >> you do not turn people down. >> we do not turn people away. >> i have toward some abortion clinics. one thing that struck me -- it has been 20 years since i toward them -- they never use the word abortion. they always use the words, procedure and tissue. do you still follow the policy in which we try to avoid using the word fetus and abortion and use the words procedure and fetus? >> 20 years is a long time. but you back to the clinic. use the word fetus and abortion. i take the direction from my patients, who absolutely understand the potential life that is in their uterus. most patients who have abortions are parents. they are well aware of the fact that what would happen if they did not have abortion, is that they would have a baby. >> we are out of time. did pass the 24 hour waiting time in wisconsin. you have one in missouri? >> we have 72 hours. >> the question i have for you. it came out as part of a lawsuit in madison, wisconsin. about 10% of the women who came in the first time around did not come back a second time. it would indicate they are on the fence. given more time, they decided not to have the abortion. percentagewise, what percent do not come back a second time in missouri yucca >> i think he made an assumption about what that 10% means. my informed assessment of that would be those 10% of women really struggled to figure out a way to get back because they did not have the financial means, the secure transportation needs, the ability to navigate additional time off of work, or find somebody to watch their children while they were trying to access the care. >> the gentleman's time has expired. recognize the gentleman from california, mr. connor, for five minutes. >> thank you, representative clay, for convening this hearing. stated like to discuss and federal restrictions to abortion access and the disproportionate impact they have on lgbtq plus patients. dr. mcnicholas, a few questions for you. first, could you briefly describe the need for abortion care among the lgbtq plus community? >> thank you for your question. the most basic thing people forget is that your sexual orientation does not define who you are having sex with. people in all of those communities they experience pregnancy -- may experience pregnancy. i have had the honor of taking care of many trans and career.ry folks in my as long as you have a uterus, you have the capability of getting pregnant. if you think that accessing abortion care is stigmatizing when you present as a woman, imagine what it is as you are presenting as your male self. >> i appreciate you mentioning there are transgender men and non-binary individuals who rely on abortion services. in 2015 when the national center for transit quality survey transgender americans, 23% of respondents did not see a doctor when they needed to because of, .ear of being mistreated as a transgender person as a doctor, can you describe sound of the challenges gender diverse patients face in accessing health care and abortion care? >> i have had the honor of taking care of many specifically transmitted seeking hysterectomies in their transformation process. one of the things i hear from therenequivocally is that have been tremendous delays in accessing basic care because they are afraid they will not be treated with deity or respect. the second because that is their lived experience. they have been turned down by many physicians and have been intentionally degraded with, for example, use of intentional miss jen during of the patient -- gendering of the patient. it is important to remember that gay and lesbian folks also want to build families. they are parents. i myself have a wife and child. i fit into that group as well. it is important they are able to access that care in a place where they feel respected and dignified. planned parenthood is happy to be one of those places. >> thank you for speaking to those issues. turning to you, transgender people are four times more likely than the general population to live below the poverty line. close to one in four lesbian and bisexual women in the united states live in property. current laws prevent federal medicaid dollars from being used to cover. . abortion services out of these restrictions overlap with identity to make abortion even less accessible for the lgbtq plus community? the discrimination that people go toward, and because they are either trans or changed trans or gender non-binary or lgbtq, really does hit them harder because as was mentioned, they are afraid to go get services. when they go to get services, they find that current regulations allow people to discriminate against them. they find they do not have any access to getting good reproductive health services, much less regular health care services. our organization does believe all people have the right to get reproductive health services regardless of whether they identify as lgbtq, whether they are trans, whether they are low income, all of these factors should be taken into account to allow them to get the kind of services they deserve. regulations done by this government that allows other people to discriminate against them push them at higher risk. -- puts them at higher risk. those are the laws we fight against. >> thank you. for your advocacy for some of the most vulnerable populations. i believe we have to consider their access to health care as we craft these levels. cloud.esentative >> thank you for being here. i appreciate you all coming to take part in discussion that is emotionally charged with deeply held beliefs of conscience on both sides of the issue. for me, the most difficult decisions we have to make as lawmakers are those in which individual rights are in conflict with each other. for me on this issue or i come down is to the whole life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. which rates supersede. i do believe, while having compassion for anyone who has to go through a difficult situation, that the right to toe supersedes the right liberty and the pursuit of happiness. in that context, i approach this conversation. can you describe what happens in the process of an abortion to the baby yucca >> i appreciate your -- of an abortion to the baby? thebortion was around for concept of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. the abortion procedure depends on the clinical situation. when i speak to patients about their option for terminating a painted tea, i start with, where are we in pregnancy? >> can you speak to the process please? >> i realize it is difficult, but in medicine, things are not short. there are 100 shades of gray. it is impossible for me to take what is a 50 minute conversation with a patient and answer it in 30 seconds for you. as i approached patients, i talk to them about what their options are for princi termination. that depends on a variety of things including what stage of poignancy they are in, what have,health problems they where there any particular instances -- >> could you describe what happens in the process of an abortion? the only one, i am willing to talk about specifics. this is free online. even planned parenthood's website describes what a dnc abortion is, which is taking out the amniotic fluid, drying it out of the fetus. dismembering the baby them by them with forceps. ms. lawrence spoke to that being deceitful or hyperbolic. it is not at all. look online, and you can see what an abortion is. we see it is not me speaking in generalities. it is the pro-abortion side speaking in generalities because they know the grotesque nature of what an abortion is. you do not have to be an abortion provider to know what an abortion is. that is why i'm here, to talk about the brutality of the killing of life inside a worm. i also want to address miss box. murdererssay the term to my recollection. i do not think that me being passionate about the subject means that i disrespect you. i think we can agree or disagree even passionately without taking that as a personal slight. i did not mean it that way. i just care about life inside the room -- inside the womb. >> i have very little time left now. mentioned, you nothing has changed since roe v. wade besides the makeup of the supreme court. >> i want to correct you because i was talking about the women's health decision, which was three years ago. the case that is going to be before the court -- >> but a lot has changed. science has developed a whole lot. back in the 1970's, it was rare for a woman to have an ultrasound. now, we know i hold up. we know abb can be viable at 20 weeks. we know a baby feels pain. i ask unanimous consent to fetal this peer review on pain that a baby feels during abortion. there is a lot that has happened. the scientific advances merits us looking at this. >> the supreme court did three years ago considered -- >> you mentioned a number of health inspections. were you aware of the history of health violations at your clinic before you took over? >> our clinic has been subject to repeated inspections every year, which we have passed. with a single inspection every year up until this year when clearly, it was no longer about ensuring the safety of patients. ut a quest to end abortion access. >> i ask request to submit to the record. >> objection. we accept the entry -- no objection. we accept the entry. i know recognize congresswoman presley for her questioning. she has been a tireless advocate for these issues on this committee. thank you for your leadership. >> thank you, acting chair for your -- for holding the line on this first full committee ition fromnt the trans chairman cummings. we thank all of you for being here. elijah cummings often reminded us we are to be an efficient and effective pursuit of the truth. we are still trying to arrive at that it seems, today. this conversation could not be more timely as we bear witness to an experience this administration's calculated and systemic attacks on our constitutional and rights of freedom. the right to determine our own economic future and the audacity to determine our own fate and the freedom to determine when, if eddo, to have a child. even in states like the commonwealth of massachusetts, individuals with low income and young people and black and brown folks continue to encounter barriers in accessing reproductive health care. let me be care. health care is abortion care. we have seen states pass restrictions that hinder access to abortion, endangering lives and criminalizing individuals for decisions that should be kept between themselves and their doctor. as chair of the abortion rights and access task force of this first-ever pro-choice majority in the history of congress, i would be remiss if i did not shed light on the impact that federal coverage bands are voting on our vulnerable communities. current law restricts medicaid funds from covering abortion care for women in communities across the state. the good mocker institute, restrictions on medicaid coverage for abortion covered forces one in four women to carry unwanted trinities to turn. s lure coverage ban individuals to poverty? >> for some women, what is the hardest time in their life, they are now in a situation where, because they are on medicaid or because they are on a federal health plan or other federal restrictions, they no longer have or are in a situation where there health care can be covered by insurance like the rest of their health care. all of a sudden, you're having to scrap together money on top of a range of other barriers. those barriers may look like having to travel long distances. those barriers may look like having to pay for childcare because of multi-day waiting periods. it is not only the restrictions on coverage. you have these other costs. further right to abortion count -- for the right to abortion, which has been legal for almost 50 years and reaffirmed again and again by the supreme court, most recently, just three years ago. that right is not just for those who are affluent. it is not just for those who happen to live in a state or the state is trying to make up the serious gaps in federal coverage. that right is a fundamental right. tois a right that is tied your ability to have dignity in this country. it is tied to your ability to have freedom in this country. it is fundamental to your economic security. >> thank you. i would be remiss if i did not acknowledge sitting next to me, a champion in the efforts to repeal hide. my physician -- physicians in service. thank you for being here. the u.s., 700 women in are likely to die during childbirth. these numbers are worse for a and native american women. could you speak to your report recently issued connecting the ?mpacts of abortion bans there was this conversation about compassion for the innocent kid earlier today, i rode out the peoples just as guarantee, which calls for the abolishing of the death penalty. one in 25 or wrongly convicted or innocent. i look forward to my colleagues the other side of the aisle signing onto my legislation. >> the report that you referred to looks at the correlation between maternal mortality and states that have placed these bans against abortion. what we know is that -- if you decide you need to terminate a pregnancy, and you are denied that care, it puts additional stress on you. we also know that women who are denied abortion care tend to delay prenatal care. asre is an additional stress well. i want to give you some of the states that have some of the , and sometion bans of the worst maternal mortality outcomes. alabama, georgia, ohio, missouri, unfortunately, and a lot of the southern states. south carolina, texas. those are the states that primarily have these outrageous which prevent people from accessing abortion care. >> would you please climb down? >> -- please wind down? >> they also have the highest hotel at he rates. we have to look at those things together in terms of what it means to access good reproductive health care for people. >> thank you, madam chair. >> the chair recognizes representative miller. >> thank you. you for being here today. as a mother, i have had the quickene to feel life in my room -- in my womb. joy grandmother, i know the of grandchildren. i've gotten to experience endless joy having grandchildren because it is unconditional love. i have had family members and friends who have yearned to be parents. the run able to have children of their own. i have had friends and family who have been adopted, and they are very grateful. i have friends and family who have adopted children, and they are very grateful. they have brought such blessings to their family. however, i have become increasingly concerned as of late about the actions taken by my colleagues across the aisle. washington democrats refused to protect babies, even after they are born alive after an abortion attempt. it is so heartbreaking. our most vulnerable and youngest citizens deserve our most protection. speaking of medical innovation, i think we can all agree that women having access to all health care is important to that not every planned parenthood provides comprehensive women's health care. can you elaborate on the positive steps trump administration has done to not only protect life, but to ensure women have better access to health care through federally qualified health care center? >> first, i do want to address an issue i think we can all agree on, maternal mortality rate in a developed country is way too high. the number is 3.3 times higher for african-american women than it is for what women. i fully believe we need to address that. i would encourage the trump administration to address that. i do not understand why the exclusive solution we discussed his abortion. why is that the only solution we discussed. can we not come together and talk about how we can best care for a woman and her child? why do we have to sacrifice the child for the health of the mother when it is not necessary? president trump has been the most pro-life, most antiabortion. i am fine with that too. maybe even more so than ronald reagan. know, enacting the final role for title x that says you have to physically and financially separate your abortion services from the rest of your controversial -- for the rest of your contraceptive care. i heard earlier a comment about this gag rule. someone toencourage get an abortion, but you can counsel them neutrally. it is not actually a gag rule. president trump has insured that these policies can go forth. given states the freedom to protect life inside the womb. for that, i am thankful. >> may be familiar with efforts by house republicans to protect babies who are born alive after an abortion attempt. isy argue the born alive act necessary because doing so violates existing criminal law. you believe federal law should be clarified to ensure babies born alive after a failed abortion should receive critical medical care? >> needs to be clarified. this new law the democrats have tried to blockade criminalizes the neglect of an abortion provider to attend to the medical needs of a child who survives an abortion, for the recognizes the child's personhood and says this is the medical treatment required. we are not even talking inside the womb anymore. democrats cannot even get on board with that. they're not any undue burdens or regulations. it is not preventing abortion providers from giving abortion. it is saying if a child survives an abortion, attend to the child. it should be really simple. if you really are pro-choice and abortion, that should >> >> be a no-brainer. i understand a baby can survive as early as 23 years old. can you elaborate on how viability has changed in recent years? medicinehnology and advances, hospitals are able to prenatal care. that is pretty early in the second trimester. but it only halfway through the printed t. at 24 weeks, that is tenderly accepted as the age of viability. that means that child has a really good chance to live outside the womb. she would spend some time in nicu, but she would grow up if everything went well, and she was healthy, into a normal functioning child. you would not be able to tell the child was premature. when we are talking about these children as if they are not babies, on the one hand, we talk about them as if they are just these parasites to be discarded. remains of princi is what i heard the doctor say earlier. -- remains of pregnancy is what i heard the doctor say earlier. as you have pointed out, even then, they do not seem to be respected by the pro-abortion side. yield back.d -- i i understand the witness has a flight she needs to catch. i will dismiss her, noting there may be other additional questions. i request she answered them in writing. i thank you for your testimony. i hope you do not miss your flight. >> the next speaker will be debbie wasserman schultz. bottom chair, i have a question of you. i would like missed ducky to hear my question -- miss stuckey to hear my question. clarify that miss stuckey is here expressing her own opinion and has no expertise in the subject matter whatsoever. is that accurate? i want to ask you from what your knowledge of her is. >> that is my understanding. >> thank you. i just wanted to clarify that fact. >> i think the witness should answer in all fairness. >> i think it says something when i, the one without the scientific or medical background, and the only want -- >> reclaiming my time. canuestion was not a view -- not of you. you have acknowledged you here expressing an opinion, which we appreciate. the other thing i wanted to point out is that no one here today has said abortion is the only solution to address the maternal mortality rate. how about access to prenatal care? how about the passage of the affordable care act to ensure it remains the law of the land to that women are not considered pre-existing conditions because of our existence as women. all the timed before the affordable care act was the law of the land. i can go on with many other provisions we advocate to make sure we can reduce the maternal mortality rate. certainly, abortion is not the only thing we suggest. it is not a solution that we ever suggest to reduce the maternal mortality rate. it is a ridiculous edition. what is not a ridiculous edition is the discussion to become a parent is one of the most important and most personal life decisions we make. watching the expansion of state laws that limit a woman's autonomy to make this choice is troubling. the fight for reproductive freedom is when we are all too familiar with in 40. i have seen republicans in my state introduce bills that ban abortion after six weeks. they're fast tracking a proposed consent law. we need to be unequivocal about calling the load out for what they are, sinister attempts to interfere with woman's right to make a choice on her own health choices. missouri hasard, enacted semi restrictions on providing abortion care that only one clinic is left standing. because my time is limited, i , theto ask dr. mcnicholas excuse a patient can drive to another state to receive medical care, is that an acceptable rationale for any other type of medical service, and is it accurate to say that requiring wouldary patient delays lead to women having leader abortions, which are more expensive and compose a higher health risk? >> thank you for the >> thank you for the question and acknowledging the sort of many intersecting realities that people are navigating when they're trying to access basic care, and in missouri, for many of them that means driving hundreds of miles multiple times. i'm reminded, actually, of a patient i took care of recently in the second trimester who actually was able to get to the clinic the first time very early at six weeks of pregnancy. she went home and scheduled her clinic procedural date for about a week and a half later, but unfortunately, was in a car accident on the way to that appointment. because missouri's law not only requires a waiting period, but requires it to be with the same physician who will ultimately perform your procedure, she was then -- her two-visit abortion became a four-visit appointment visit, and she was pushed from seven weeks to 15 weeks. this is exactly what happens when there is no context and no medical or scientific grounding in abortion restrictions. patients are pushed to later and later in pregnancy, which is quite ironic for a cohort of folks who want to limit abortion later in pregnancy. >> thank you. ms. box, i want to end with you. and i'm so sorry for your loss, but i know you're overjoyed and that your daughter that you -- and your daughter that you brought with you. you received test results that revealed your daughter, libby, had a chromosomeal anomaly when you were andround 13 weeks pregnant. if the missouri law that would ban abortion after eight weeks had been the law in the state of missouri at that time, would you have considered leaving the state to have an abortion? how difficult would it have been for you and your family if you had needed to travel out of state to obtain your abortion care? >> so, the answer is, yes, i would have looked at how i could have protected my daughter, regardless of what regulations the state tried to interfere with. the truth is, even though abortion -- the ban had not come into effect yet, the eight-week ban, we did look at leaving missouri and going to representative kelly's state of illinois, because the restrictions there are fewer. >> the gentlewoman's time has expired. if you could please wrap up real quick. >> yep. so, yes, we would have done whatever we could to protect our daughter, regardless of governmental intrusion. >> thank you for sharing your personal story. and i yield back the balance of my time. >> i now recognize representative green. >> thank you, madam chairwoman. my first question is for dr. mcnicholas. am i pronounceing that correctly? yeah. if the dna from a fetus and a mother were found at, say, a crime scene, say it's two blood samples, take fetal blood, take mother's blood, we put them at the crime scene, the investigators know nothing, they find two samples, would the investigators see these as two separate people? >> i have no idea. >> of course, they would. the answer is, yes. you know as a physician, it's two different dnas.they'd see -- two different dna's. they'd see two dna's, so they'd say it's two people. my next question, question for you as well, recently in california, a mother was charged for killing her unborn baby by excessive methamphetamine usage. if the mother had just gotten an abortion and killed the baby, that way, she wouldn't have been charged. -- and killed the baby that way, she wouldn't have been charged. do you see the hypocrisy in this? >> i think it's tragic that we're criminalizing people who need basic health care and treatment for their drug addiction problem. that's what i think is a problem in this country. >> absolutely. someone who uses methamphetamines should get help. there's no doubt about it. and she was charged with a crime for the death that she caused of her baby with methamphetamine use. the child was stillborn. i just -- i find that hypocritical, that if she had just gone a week prior to planned parenthood and gotten an abortion, she wouldn't be charged. you know, i'm going to transition a little bit here. i want people to make their own choices. i'm for freedom, but when one person's freedom impinges on the freedom of another, and, for example, if someone in this room yelled "fire," that'd be against the law, because potentially, a stampede could occur and people would be hurt. abortion is a decision where one person makes it, and it leads to the death of another person. so that's -- that's something to take into consideration. my next question, i was going to actually ask ms. stuckey, but she's gone. i'll just read the question and let the audience and others consider it. a few years ago, a freezer unit protecting previously fertilized human eggs, meaning a sperm, ovum, where they combined a form of fertilized egg, was broken and thousands of these fertilized eggs were lost. i just want to ask people in the room to -- whether or not they would agree with the headline in the newspaper the following day that said it was a human tragedy that these lives were lost. just consider that. my next question, again, is back to you, dr. mcnicholas. in regards to abo and rh incompatibility, why do i as an e.r. physician have to treat the mothers with rogam to prevent her antibodies from attacking the blood supply of the baby? >> oh, so two minutes for this. >> no, you got 30 seconds. >> oh. >> or i can do it because, i do it -- i treat these patients all the time. go ahead. >> sure. so, in the instance in which the fetus has a different blood type than mom, there are occasions where mom can create her own defense mechanism to that situation, which would in a subsequent pregnancy, attack a subsequent pregnancy and have some serious conditions for the fetus. >> that was pretty good. i mean, you did it in about 30 seconds, but she's absolutely correct. basically, the mother's immune system sees that second child as foreign, and attacks it because it's got a different blood type than the mother. let's see. i also want to share a few quick observations in a little bit of time that i have left as an e.r. physician. i know that there are a lot of statements about the safety of abortion. i just want to tell you that i have treated many, many patients in the emergency department where the abortion hasn't gone as intended. where products of conception, the medical term, or baby parts, are left inside the mother, and sepsis results and those patients come to us and we take care of them in the emergency department, we save their life from that infection. i also want to say, i've taken care of many over the years as a emergency medicine physician, patients who've come in bleeding from an abortion, and the unfortunate thing is, the obstetrician who has to take care of that patient didn't do the abortion. so he doesn't know the patient's history, and they're rushing them into surgery to stop the bleeding and save the patient's life. that does happen. and it happens more frequently than many people would want you to know. but it is a reality, and i just want to say, that's why i support abortion providers having credentials at a hospital where they can treat the complications of the surgical procedure of an abortion that results when they do that. oh, am i out? thank you, madam chairman. -- chairwoman. >> thank you. i'd now like to recognize congressman raskin. >> madam chair, thank you and thank you for calling this important hearing. big brother seems to have come to missouri. and all of our colleagues who like to strike a libertarian note when it comes to people possessing ar-15s -- ar-15's and military-style assault weapons, the kinds that are wreaking havoc across the land, suddenly become the champions of leviathan, big brother, gilead, and the all-powerful state. politicians making health care choices for our people. ms. goss-graves, let me start you with you. presumably, you know something about the history of sterilization in our country. where certainly tens of thousands of women, at least, were sterilized. if government has the power to prevent a woman from having an abortion against her will, won't government also have the power to sterilize women against their will? which was so much a part of our history. >> you know, i think it's important to put the right to abortion, which is so core and fundamental, in the context of a range of rights. the right to abortion is in the context of the right to make reproductive health care decisions broadly, including contraception, including around sterilization, and not having forced sterilization, but it is also among the set of rights around the right to be intimate. the right to marry. all of those things follow a long line of decisions that animate from the 14th amendment's guarantee around liberty and around our -- your ability to sort of live with dignity. >> dr. mcnicholas, officials in missouri, including dr. randall williams, the director of the department of health, senior services, and governor parsons, have reaserted the restrictions adopted in missouri are necessary for the health and safety of people seeking abortions. in your opinion, is the requirement that a physician have admitting privileges at a local hospital necessary for the health or safety of a woman seeking an abortion? >> so the short answer is no, and the longer answer is, it's not my opinion. it is what science and fact and the most recent publication out of the national academies of science has told us. >> what about this 72-hour waiting period between a woman seeking an abortion and being able to get one? and then also, i understand they adopted a provision for two pelvic exams during that time. is that necessary for the health and safety of women in missouri? >> none of those are required to maintain health and safety. >> how do you know that? >> science. there is plenty of published literature supported by the american college of ob-gyn, again, supported by the national academy's publication, that has demonstrated not only are they not medically relevant or necessary, but they actually cause harm. >> well, what about from the standpoint of the patient? ms. box, let me come to you. did you feel that any of the procedural hurdles and hoops that were set up in missouri and you were forced to jump through were necessary for your health and safety? >> no, i found them insulting. they presumed that my husband and i didn't have the ability to make a decision for ourselves. the waiting period that dr. mcnicholas was talking about and the mandatory same-physician rule meant that my abortion, which happened at around 15 weeks, had i not been able to do the available date that the physician had, i actually would have been outside of when the legal timeframe in missouri, and i was well short of it. i would have had to reconsent, been given another booklet of medically inaccurate information, which my husband and i refer to as the book of shame, and that -- all of that presumes that -- i think what i find most insulting as a patient is that i didn't have the ability to think for myself. that i needed my state government to put that time in for me. >> i thank you for that really important insight when you talk about this book of shame. i think you started your testimony by saying that one quarter of american women will have an abortion over the course of their lifetime. most of them, also mothers, as you are. you have, how many kids? two kids? >> i have three living children. >> you have three living children. okay. well, they want to throw the book of shame at tens of millions of american women. how does that feel to you as a citizen in missouri? that you get hit by the book of shame? >> i mean, it's -- it's devastating. i mean, in our particular case, we are in the middle of a very grief grief-stricken process. we were in a crisis. and to have confusing and misleading information when you're trying to make a medical decision is horrifying that we would ever allow patients to get mischaracterization and misinformation and hope they can make the best decision for themselves. >> okay. and finally, i wanted to ask this question while all the witnesses were there. i was thinking we could make history by getting the pro-choice witnesses and the anti-choice witnesses to agree on a pro-life program which is a -- on a pro-life program, which is a universal criminal mental background check on all gun purchases, at least for the witnesses who are still leer. -- still here. would you reach across the aisle to the pro-life witnesses to stay you would stand for that? -- say you would stand for that? i'd let the record reflect i think they all nodded their heads, madam chair. >> congressman conley. >> thank you, madam chairman. thank you for holding this hear hearing. thank you, mr. clay, for being our inspiration in highlighting -- and highlighting what's happening in your state. i think we need to be honest here. everything designed to make your very difficult decision, personal decision, not a state decision, ms. box, was designed to take away your choice. what mr. green described was insidious logic. because there might have been complications from some abortions, all abortions should be eliminated. even though the overwhelming majority of legal abortions, because of roe v. wade, are done medically supervised conditions and are safe and allow women and families to have choices. the changes in title 10 are designed, again, to take awooiay -- take away or limit choices. the attack on planned parenthood, designed to take away choices. and being willing to deny women health care is the price you have to pay for their ideological stance. and the stuckeys' misguided moral absolutism for all the rest of us. and, of course, the sacrifice of science, as you point out, dr. mcnicholas. that has to be in there, too, because science is an inconvenient source of information and truth. i, again, denied you and your family, ms. box, in a critical moment in a decision you had to make. go ahead. i thought you wanted to comment. dr. mcnichols, how many women, patients, does planned parenthood see every year? the planned parenthood in the st. louis region -- >> no, no, nationwide. >> oh, i don't know. >> all right. st. louis. >> missouri affiliate says more 50,000. >> how many? >> 50,000. >> would you guess that's a lot more than dr. green sees in a year? >> it is. i would actually like to highlight to dr. green's point about safety that i have yet to see an oral surgeon brought before congress to talk about having wisdom teeth removed. mischaracterizing abortion as anything other than safe is in inappropriate. it's health care. yes, unfortunate outcomes will happen for some people. by in large it's safer than colonoscopy, wisdom teeth and will also mention it's far safer than carrying a pregnancy to term. >> and it's safe because roe v. wade made one law for the whole united states including missouri. is that correct? >> we have lots of examples internationally to show legalization of abortion is one of the most important public health and life-saving interventions for women. >> would it be fair to say that absent roe v. wade, it's not that abortion will disappear, it is that people will be forced once again to go into the shadows to secure those services, to make those decisions, or go to states that do protect it legally. is that a fair statement? >> so as i mentioned before, abortion was around before the constitution, and it will not go anywhere if we remove those barriers. >> right. so our choices make it safe, hopefully it's rare, because contraception is available, family planning is available, but it has to be an option, as ms. box's personal experience tells us. it's a health decision, a hard one, a heartbreaking one for many people. but to deny them access to it because you've decided on the morality of it, or you've made up science to justify your own personal beliefs, is to impose your will on the majority of americans, including women who are affected by this choice. title 10, dr. mcnichols, planned parenthood decided to pull out of title 10 even though it does not provide funding for abortions. is that correct? >> that's correct. >> why did planned parenthood decide to leave title 10? >> i think as was previously mentioned by ms. goss-graves, there's a really fundamental issue for planned parenthood, which is that the new rule would force us to lie to patients and intentionally exclude information that could be important and life saving for them. >> and real quickly, because title 10 provides other health care for women, they're now going to be denied that coverage because of planned parenthoods being forced out of the program, is that correct? >> we are going to try our very best to meet all the needs of our patients, including those who were previously receiving title 10, but i think the point is well taken that with reduction of planned parenthood seeing title 10 patients, there will be a tremendous gap in services for patients, particularly who are low income or people of color. >> my time is expired. i thank you all for being here and for the courage of sharing, especially you, ms. box. >> to recognize congresswoman tlaib. >> sorry, i didn't know i was next. thank you so much. it really is incredibly important that you all are here to talk about this particular issue, especially as a woman serving the united states congress, i just want to personally thank you for defend defending my right to choose. one of the things i want to discuss is the impact of politically motivated restrictions of abortion that we've been talking about, access to maternal health, but even more -- even around infant mortality. when i served six years in the michigan state legislature, i was always taken aback by so much time and effort in debate and conversation around the right to choose versus infant mortality. you know, maternal health. all of those things that i think are interconnected with some of the, you know, reasoning behind folks that want to support life. right? and there's an issue that is deeply, you know, concerning to me, is that parts of my home district have among the highest maternal mortality rates in the iterates in the country. in 2014, a woman giving birth in detroit was three times more likely to die in child birth than the rest of the country. infant mortality in detroit is double the national rate in the country, and it just goes on and on. and so dr. mcnichols, missouri has the highest rates of maternal mortality in the country, and it continues to rise, especially among women of color. in fact, black women in missouri are three times more likely to die with pregnancy complications -- die from pregnancy complications than other women. is that correct? >> that's correct. >> what state official again is responsible for addressing maternal mortality in missouri? >> that would be the director of public health, dr. williams. >> dr. williams is the same official on enforcing unnecessary pelvic exams on women and tracking their menstrual cycles at planned parenthood, correct? >> yes. >> how do you think that he should be spending time? what do you think he should be doing right now and again, around the same ideals, right? that they're supporting this. >> -- they won't support the women that are having children. >> yeah. you raise a great point. under dr. williams, missouri went from 42nd in the country to 44th in the country with maternal mortality. while he's spending his time visiting -- his time and resources on visiting planned parenthood multiple times, he could be focusing on things like addressing maternal mortality, addressing the systemic and institutional racism that is ingrained in that rate of three times higher for black women. he could be working on improving access particularly for our rural women. missouri is one of the states that because we haven't expanded medicaid, that's another thing he can do. we have rural hospitals closing at alarming rates. so if you want to continue your pregnancy, your chance of having a healthy pregnancy is sabotaged by the fact that there's no hospital that you can go to to get care during that pregnancy. there are a number of things that he could be doing with maternal mortality. the hypocrisy is so unjust and absurd. -- >> the hypocrisy is so unjust and absurd. ms. howell, your organization did a phenomenal study finding that black women face greater barriers to reproductive health reproductiveto health care and abortion care. what are some of the factors that are with the discrepancy in health outcomes? >> some of the factors are that black women are disproportionately get their -- that black women get disproportionately get their health insurance from medicaid which already then bans their access to abortion care and to get coverage. so what happens is that when they find they are pregnant and they decide they want to terminate a pregnancy, they have to go through a number of steps. they've got to figure out how to afford it, how they can take off work, how they can get child care. how far they have to travel. one of the things that we did was we asked black women in a poll, what are the factors that you take into account when deciding whether or not to have a child? and it wasn't just about having money. it was also about having a neighborhood where neighborhood services were happening. it was about being able to get quality food sources. it was about clean water. there were a number of factors, and if you are a woman of low income and you get your healthcare from medicaid, you also have all these other factors that come in, too. and that's why when we were talking about no one knowing how to decide to terminate a pregnancy, our organization trusts black women to make those personal decisions that are best for themselves and their families, and the other side clearly does not trust us to make those decisions. >> no. they want to control us. thank you so much, and i yield the rest of my time. >> i thank my friend from michigan for her powerful voice for her state, and i now call upon one of congress' most outstanding leaders. my good friend and colleague, barbara lee, and i want to publicly thank her for her tireless work and for being such a powerful advocate for progress, gender, justice, and equality. thank you for sitting here all day long. she's not even a member of the committee, so i appreciate you being here, and i appreciate your voice. >> thank you, chairwoman maloney, for holding this and -- this hearing and for your tremendous work and leadership, and for allowing me to sit through this very, very important hearing. and i want to thank our pro-choice caucus and the congresswoman ayanna presley and judy chu, who have been such clear-thinking and passionate leaders on so many issues since they have been here in the house of representatives. first, let me just -- and throughout their life, quite frankly. let me start by stating a couple of statistics, banning access to safe legal abortion is not what the majority of this country wants. according to recent polling published in september, 77% of americans support access to abortion, and we know and we see how many of these restrictions disproportionately, as we talked about, impact women of color and low-income women. access to the full range of reproductive health care should be accessible to all and not based on one's rashgs income or -- one's race, income, or zip code. accessg for equitable for abortion is deeply personal for me, and i do, and it's hard to talk about this, but today i'll mention it again. i remember the days of back alley abortions before roe versus wade. i was a teenager only 16 years old and had to go to mexico for a gut wrenching back alley abortion. abortions were not safe nor legal in my own country. so, i refuse to stand by and see even one more woman's life put in danger because of lack of access to safe and legal abortions. many of my republican colleagues here today, and the minority witness, they want to portray women who have had abortions as evil, or as murderers, but i'm here today with several of my sisters, several, who have personally had an abortion, and when you say these comments, they also say them to me. they say them to you, and we're not going to stand for it. many, and i serve on the appropriations committee, and let me tell you what i see. many of our republican colleagues, they oppose teen pregnancy prevention programs. they oppose comprehensive sex education, they oppose family planning. they oppose contraception and they oppose abortions, and i see these budgets zeroing out funding for health care programs that would prevent pregnancies, prevent pregnancies. also, i see budget cuts every day to child care, snap benefit, nutrition, early childhood education, everything that would help raise families and children in a way that they deserve to be raised. so i want to just ask you your feedback. maybe, miss howell, we know that these programs are disproportionately impacting women of color. how do you see this whole movement now and what we're seeing? i still call it a war on women's health, because when you look at the comprehensive nature of these cuts and the policies and the restrictions, what else is it? what are we to do as women in this country? >> i think that one of the things that we have -- we've seen over the last couple of years is women taking back their rights, and it's not just women. it's people. it's lgbtq people, it's trans people, basically standing up and saying, "we won't allow this to happen anymore," and we saw it in the 2018 election. we saw it where women of color, for instance, came out and voted to change the house of representatives, voted very strongly, and one of those issues that they voted on was hyde, eliminating hyde, and they -- and having the each woman at. they were very clear on what they were looking for and the right to make decisions for themselves without political interference, and i think that that's critical. >> thank you. i want to thank ms. box for your being here today and your stories and for being so brave in terms of given the real deal about what women go through as a result of trying to exercise their constitutional rights, so thank you. ms. grace? >> i just want to add that it is true that people are outraged and rising up against the bans that are sweeping this country, but this is a dangerous time. it is dangerous to ban abortion. it is dangerous to have states where people think they can't get care even though abortion is legal in every state of this country, and it is dangerous the rhetoric that we heard in this room today and that we hear outside of this ream that demonizes patients, that demonizes women and that goes sort of to the core of who we are as a country. this today has reminded me how dangerous these are. -- these times are. >> thank you. >> thank you, madam chair, very much. i want to thank my friend barbara lee for sharing really one of the most personal and heartbreaking events of her life. she's sharing it not only with this hearing, but with the whole world, and barbara lee, your courage has made us stronger and your leadership. i will now call on an incredible woman. a newly elected woman, ken schryer, from the state of washington, a powerful advocate for science or women across this country. thank you for being here. she's not a member of this committee, but she wanted to be here and to speak out, and i thank you for being here all day and in supporting our efforts. >> i laugh because i thought you were going to talk about ayanna presley. >> i already talked about her. >> i came here today to talk about these unnecessary restrictions on a woman's access to full reproductive care, access to abortion, and we have heard about a million ways that local governments and state governments are trying to restrict a woman's access to a safe and legal medical procedure . and every one of these unnecessary ultrasounds, bogus scripts, hallway size, admitting privileges at local hospitals and second pelvic exams, even first pelvic exams, admitting privileges i mentioned and even waiting periods and all of those are unnecessary. they make it harder for women. they especially make it harder for women who are poor. who would have to take additional time off work and who would have to travel great distances. these do not stop abortions. if you want that as your goal, you should be doubling down on funding for planned parenthood for pregnancy. -- for pregnancy prevention. abortions, they make them later and they make them less safe. they're totally inappropriate. i came to talk about that and i want to enforce that this is a safe and illegal procedure, something that one out of four women has before she's 45 years old. this is more common than eight tonsillectomy. -- a tonsillectomy. which is very common, pretty much 100% knows someone who has one. so i came to discuss those things. all that -- those kinds of rhetoric. backl like i have to push on comments. pseudoscience, total baloney. i don't feel like i can let those things just stand. everything from not understanding a difference between an embryo and a baby, which by the way, if she believes they are the same, that and religiousical decision, it is not a medical distinction or something congress should be involved in or something she should have any say over any other woman's decision. but there are other things that she talks about, like 20 weeks in pain, totally unproven, bogus. she talked about the gag rule not being a gag rule. it is when a physician cannot mention that one option for her patient is abortion, that is a gag rule, and by the way, it's a dangerous gag rule, because if a woman is diagnosed with pregnancy and cervical cancer in the exact same visit, an abortion would save her life. let's be clear. the other one she mentioned was she painted a very happy picture of a 23-week microprimie. i'm a pediatrician, and i've spent a lot of time in nicu's. the real picture is you have a 50-50 shot at survival. and if you do survive, you have a high likelihood of having consequences down the line. that doesn't mean i didn't resuscitate those babies and take care of them in the nicu, but it does mean that she is not giving you the full, correct picture of the situation. but the most egregious one is this discussion that somehow, you could pull a baby out three days before the delivery and call that an abortion. we call that an induced delivery. that is a baby who is pulled out and handed to their mother or taken to the nicu, where a doctor like me would take care of them if they are in trouble or in distress. if you want to have a conversation about pregnancies and abortions, later in reg -- later in pregnancy, let's have a real discussion about it. about 1% of abortions happen after 20 weeks, and none of these is because a woman just decided one woman i don't want to be pregnant anymore. that does not happen. these are all for a reason. some devastating turn -- something devastating has taken a turn in a pregnancy. something has happened either with the health of the mother or the health of the pregnancy, and it is so important that congress not get into that discussion. this is a decision between a woman and her god and her doctor and her life, and only she knows how to make that decision and there is absolutely no place for me or anybody in congress to get in that discussion. what we owe that woman is a little grace and a little trust to make the best decision about her body. i will end there. thank you. i am sorry that you had to put up with such harassment today. thank you for your services. >> i now recognize mr. keller. >> thank you, madam chair. what i want to start with is, i heard testimony about the viability of the pregnancy being difficult to determine because they're all based on a different diagnosis and different situation. i'll get to that later in my comments. i just want to start out with knowing that, and it was just mentioned that some babies have a 50/50 shot at survival and dr. schryer mentioned that. i just want to say this, every life has opportunity and hope, and sometimes doctors, despite their best effort, do not calculate the appropriate outcome for their diagnosis. i've had a personal experience with this. when my son, freddy, was 3 years old, he had an injury, result -- -- resulting -- it led to a devastating head injury and the doctors despite their best efforts thought fred was not going to live. he was put on life support and as we waited and prayed the doctors' prognosis was that the mortal iterate of children in his condition was not 50%. >> i hope and pray that is not easy, and i would never characterize a woman who makes that decision as people. -- evil. >> i yield myself five minutes. this hearing is very important to me and very meaningful, because usually when i am attending a hearing on women's health care and women's needs, i panel.ing to an all-male , where areave to ask the women? especially on the hearings that affect their well-being and health care. it is personally thrilling and inspiring to me to see a panel made entirely of women's voices and america should listen to women's voices. i want to thank all of the panelists, but i particularly want to thank ms. his box. is the mostur voice important of all the voices we have heard today, because to me you represent every person who has been shamed and judged for making a deeply personal decision about their own body and their own health care, and for them wanting to access the very best health care that they need to take care of themselves and their families. i just want to ask you, ms. his box, and i know it's difficult before congress on anything, but especially something that is so personal. to hearit feel officials in your state and across the country say hate all, about theetoric decision you are making. how did it feel? >> it's insulting, and i appreciate representative fox's sympathy. while my feeble diagnosis was sad for our family, most women, including myself, experience relief after having an abortion. our abortion was the first day we began to heal from the grief of our diagnosis. i have cried a lot of t ears about it, but they have all been grieving my daughter rather than regret. -- i'mwanted to say sorry, sir, i can't say your name, but i am really glad your son had a positive outcome, and i believe in supporting parents and making the best decisions for their family and their children. that's what my husband and i did for libby. >> thank you for sharing your experience. you have cared for hundreds of patients in ms. box' situation. what impact have you seen on the patients you care for in missouri has these restrictive laws are enacted and enforced upon them? >> i think first and foremost the outright confusion that people have about what is happening in terms of their access to abortion and reproductive care more broadly is important to lift up. as abortion bands are passed, whether they are active or not, patients think that means they can't access abortion. we have done a tremendous work in making sure the country knows that abortion is still legal in every state in this country. >> what are you most worried about for your patience? they have theied full realization that people who are charged with protecting their health have completely abdicated their responsibility based on an ideological viewpoint. 100%, people who don't believe in abortion, choosing not to have one, but i believe it is also the right of every other individual to make that choice based on their values. >> i thank you for the courage yourall of you have in work for other women and your country. i have in my district two planned parenthood centers. when women are getting off work, women are lined up through the halls of the building, outside, to the sidewalk, down the street, into the next block, waiting to get basic health care services. planned parenthood centers provide primary and preventative health care to many who would otherwise have nowhere else to turn for care. i want to point out that 54% of planned parenthood centers are in areas where there is health care shortages, and we have heard testimony from medical experts that if planned , there is is defunded no other health facility that can address these needs and help these women. i cannot tell you how many women come to my office and tell me that at certain times in their life, the only place they could get health care was planned parenthood. recordto put that on the , that i think it is a scandal that anyone would try to defund soervice that is providing much help to people that needed. this has been an important hearing to me, and i intend to continue working on this area thehelping women receive respect and health care deserve. i would like to call on my good friend jackie spier. give her five minutes and thank her for her relentless leadership in women's issues. aspire --r -- rep providing a panel of committed women to the service of other women. ms. box, when you testified earlier, i was sitting here and started to cry, because i share the same experience that you've had. i lost a child, a fetus when i was 17 weeks, and i told my story on the house floor in part because i sat there and listened to such false information coming from my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, that it outraged me so much that i said you have no idea what you're talking about. you have not lived through this kind of experience, and to hear you talk about libby rose and keep her on your chest is just very powerful because it underscores what we all go through when we lose a fetus at late term. it is never by choice, and i find it so offensive that we continue to have members here in congress think that they can somehow take hold of our bodies and tell us what we can do. so thank you. thank you for your presence here, for your new infant's presence here. having the gurgling of your child was just music to all of our ears. and thank you to all of you, as well. i'm going to share one story, though, that relates to missouri. my daughter went to the university of missouri and graduated there. she had a girlfriend who became pregnant, who then drove an hour and a half to st. louis to be seen, and then was told that she had to wait three days and so then she had to drive an hour and a half back and then, of course, she couldn't get the abortion in three days because there was such a long waiting list. now, this friend of my daughter's then finally called her mother, who lived in another state, who was not pro-choice, and her mother picked her up and took her to another state to get the abortion. we cannot force women to have to jump through hoops and travel long distances to get the healthcare that they deserve and is legal under the law in this country. is legal urn the law in this country, and to see what missouri has done with their laws and how difficult they have made it is so repugnant to me and it should be repugnant to every woman in this country. now, ms. box, let me ask you the question that i -- i think about a lot. when you were required to wait your 72 hours and received this counseling, what was the counseling that you had received? well, first i want to say that i -- thank you for sharing your story with me, and i am sorry for your loss. i know how painful that is. >> thank you. >> am not the legal expert and we don't really have -- is it -- is it counseling? >> you didn't recognize it as counseling. >> oh, okay. yeah. you're right. i didn't understand that was considered counseling. what was it? it's a booklet that has -- so the consent process is -- i apologize. they had to go over this information and they provided me with a booklet that is written by the state that has medically inaccurate information in an attempt to help me make an informed decision which just doesn't make sense to me, but what i will say is that -- how it works in missouri currently is you have to consent with the provider who will perform the abortion. so my consent and my counseling, the book, like i said earlier, i call book of shame, but my conversation with the provider and the doctor who works at mapped parenthood mapped planned parenthood was the most compassionate care i'd ever received. she took something that was the worst experience of my husband and my life and showed us love and showed no judgment and counselled us and all of the thing available to us and gave us accurate, science-based information so that we could make a decision as parents that was informed and full of love. >> thank you. thank you again all of you and i yield back. thank you. thank you so much. i would like to enter into the record a series of letters that the committee has received in recent days from organizations, including the american college of obstetricians anyd -- and gynecologists and repro action and the good mocker institute and the american with -- the american civil liberties union. these letters express grave concern on restrictions are having on the health and economic well-being of women in america and their families. i ask unanimous consent that these letters be entered into the official hearing record, and i so order. i would like now to thank our incredible witnesses for testifying, and for their life's work, and without objection, all members will have five legislative days within which to submit additional written questions for the witnesses to the chair, which will be forwarded to the witnesses for their response. i ask our witnesses to please respond as promptly as possible and this hearing is now -- but before i conclude this hearing, i would like to thank the powerful women of this committee -- especially especially miss speier, miss presley, miss kelly, miss ocasio-cortez for their leadership on this issue and her encouraging the committee to examine it. i would also like to thank congresswoman judy chu, congresswoman barbara lee, and congresswoman kim schryer for joining us this afternoon and for their tireless work to preserve access to abortion and reproductive health care for women across this nation, and i would also like to thank lacy clay, who has worked with me on this hearing, and for his leadership on this issue. this hearing is adjourned, but we're going to continue on this issue. thank you. announcer: the house intelligence committee and terrorist-in and care adam schiff continue testimony on c-span2 with testimony marie why don't y.marie we have more on our c-span website, c-span.org/impeachment. listen live forever you are with this free dish with the free c-span radio app. announcer: c-span's washington journal -- live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up friday morning, michigan democratic congresswoman dan k. discusses the latest on the impeachment inquiry. columnist and colder talks about 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The following is an alphabetical list of the professionals, facilitators, and parents who took part in the various sessions for the 2021 Philly Family Pride conference. This conference would not be possible without their commitment to improving the lives of LGBTQ+ led families. Jon Argaman (he/him) is a Lecturer in Critical Writing at the University of Pennsylvania. He, his husband, and their son Solomon live in West Philly. Suz Atlas (she/her) and Mary Groce (she/her), partners since 1994, are both advocates for women, progressive causes, and the LGBTQ+ senior community. Suz (pictured right) and Mary are both writers and artists. Between them they have seven children and six grandchildren. Suz is a retired medical massage therapist, and Mary is a retired harpist and vocalist. Suz and Mary produce the monthly newsletter for the John C. Anderson LGBTQ-Friendly Apartments community (in the heart of the Philadelphia Gayborhood), where they’ve been residents since 2017. Michaelina Bendig (she/her) is an Adoption Caseworker who has been employed with Adoptions From The Heart for 21 years and has a total of 31 years of experience in the adoption field. She is an adoptive mom of three grown daughters and a graduate of Holy Family University with a Bachelors in Education. Marquita Bolden (she/her) is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker providing mental health therapy, specializing in helping people manage issues related to anxiety, grief, life transitions, depression, and traumatic experiences. In addition to being in private practice, she also serves as the Executive Director of the Therapy Center of Philadelphia (TCP). More about Marquita. Tariem Burroughs (he/him) is a PFP parent and completing his term as the group's Chair of the Board of Directors for PFP this year. Tariem is in the process of completing his PhD in Sociology at Temple University. Tiffany Byrd, MSW (she/her) is a director of permanency with A Second Chance, Inc. She was born and raised in Philadelphia, prior to moving to West Virginia to study social work at West Virginia State University. Tiffany later obtained her master’s in social work locally at West Chester University. Tiffany is the oldest of nine siblings and values family and the kinship triad. Tiffany is a PFP parent and a member of the Philly Family Pride board of directors. More about Tiffany. Dr. Damon Constantinides (he/him) is a clinical social worker, sex therapist, and trainer in private practice. He is a queer, white, trans man and parent who works from a social justice frame and his approach is influenced by intersectionality, transfeminism, relational, narrative, and trauma informed therapists. Damon is a dad to a 7-year-old who shares his love of camping, gardening, and musical theater in addition to her love of gymnastics and learning about animals. Sarah Craig (they/them) is a Black nonbinary queer femme based in Philadelphia, PA. They are a warm, powerful force in their classes in accessible vinyasa flows. Sarah aspires to bring yoga to marginalized communities to cultivate space for rest, strength for resistance, and knowledge of accessibility tools and methods for a suitable practice for any body. Follow Sarah on Facebook and Instagram. Sana DelCorazón (she/her) is a seminary student pursuing an MDIv at United Theological Seminary. She is a member of Tabernacle United Church, a queer mom, meditation and yoga practitioner, and Philly native. She currently resides with her family and two fur babies in the Twin Cities. Erica Desper (she/her) founded Confident Parenting in 2011, as a certified baby and child sleep consultant offering group and private counseling for families struggling to get their baby or child to fall and stay asleep. Since then, she and her team of consultants have supported over 1,300 families in and around the Main Line and Philadelphia area and internationally to improve the quality of their families’ sleep and have brought together a village of additional family resources. More about Erica. LaRoyce Miles Fulton (she/her) is a financial screener who lives in Philadelphia. She has four children and seven grandchildren. Galia Godel (she/he) works at Jewish Family & Children’s Service as the program manager of the LGBTQ Initiative. She leads queer Jewish program across greater Philadelphia, and lives with her partner, three cats, and a variety of tchotchkes. Shannon Graves (she/her) and Paige Davis (she/her) have been foster parents in Philadelphia since 2015, especially for teenagers. Paige is the owner of a child care center and Shannon is a nurse at RMA of Philadelphia. Dr. Jackie Gutmann (she/her), who completed her medical training at Yale University, has devoted her career to helping people create their families of choice. She practices at RMA Philadelphia and is on the faculty of Jefferson University. Dr. Gutmann has published numerous articles and has lectured extensively on topics including LGBTQ+ family building, third party reproduction, and the use of complementary and alternative medicine in infertility. She has held leadership positions in many professional organizations and is on the advisory board of several patient advocacy groups. She is the recipient of many awards, though the one she values most is the Joyce M. Vargyas, M.D. Visionary Award for her impact in the fields of fertility, reproductive health, and family building within the LGBTQ+ community. Robin Hornstein, PhD (she/her) is a co-founder of Hornstein, Platt and Associates and has been a Licensed Psychologist and counselor for over 30 years. Follow her on Instagram @robinmindfulcounseling. More about Robin. Lucinda Megill Legendre (she/her) is an educator and parent at a Philadelphia charter school. She is also a member of the Tabernacle United Church in West Philadelphia. She has lived in Philadelphia since 2009. Miss Brittany Lynn (she/they) is the creator and founder of Philly’s Drag Mafia, the city’s Miss Fancy Brigade and Philly's Drag Queen Story Time. She's been dubbed Philly's "Hardest Working Drag Queen" and PGN's "Drag Queen of the Year" many times. Andrea McAfee (she/her) is the Founder and Director of the Surrogacy Center of Philadelphia. She has been assisting others in building their families through surrogacy for over a decade. Andrea resides in Manayunk with her husband, two daughters, and giant Bernese Mountain Dog. April Murdock (she/her) has been an activist and advocate for the LGBTQ+ & Disabled communities for many years. April is also a proud grandparent of two grandchildren. Rebecca Nayak (she/her) is a partner with Jerner Law Group, P.C. whose practice is focused on assisted reproduction law, adoption law and family law. Rebecca also handles cases involving legal parentage issues. Rebecca is a PFP parent and serves on the PFP board of directors. She lives with her blended family in Mt. Airy. More about Rebecca. River Nice (they/them) is the owner and financial planner of Be Intentional Financial, a remote, independent financial services firm based in Philadelphia. River approaches financial planning through an anti-capitalist lens, and seeks to reduce the harm done by capitalism to specifically trans and queer individuals and families by providing education, tools, advice, and a place to talk about money. More about River. Michelle Ottey (she/her) is the Laboratory Director and Director of Operations at Fairfax Cryobank Inc., Michelle is responsible for managing the labs of the Cryobank which includes staff and donor management, working with Client Depositors and Directed Donors, and the storage program for semen, embryos and reproductive tissues. Adam Podowitz-Thomas (he/him) is a legal researcher for the Princeton Gerrymandering Project and Electoral Innovation Lab and is a PFP Board Member. He lives with his husband, Stephen, and their two adopted kids, Edith (5) and EJ (6 months) in Wynnewood, PA. Ray Rachlin, LM, CPM, CLC (they/she) is a midwife and founder of Refuge Midwifery, an inclusive midwifery practice providing fertility counseling and home IUI, home birth midwifery care, and community education throughout the greater Philadelphia area. More about Ray. Anthony Rodriguez, MD (he/him) and Michael Williams, Esq (he/him) met in 1984 before Tony started medical school. They had a commitment ceremony in LA in 1986 and were legally married in 2008. They adopted their two boys who were teenagers at the time, now in their mid-30s. They have one granddaughter. Tony started the medical center at Mazzoni, worked for 10 years as the diversity dean at the Drexel College of Medicine, now a family doctor in Lansdale. Michael, who experienced homelessness for a period during his first time at college, worked at Community Legal Services after attending Penn Law, worked as deputy finance director with Mayor Street and in the Law Department for Mayor Nutter. (Photo from Christmas, 2019 with their granddaughter.) Lorenzo Shedrick (he/him) has been in working in child-welfare for roughly 7 years with non-profit organizations doing work surrounding Resource Family Recruitment, programming for aging out youth, and services for older youth with mental health diagnoses. Lorenzo currently works with the Philadelphia Department of Human Services continuing Resource Family recruitment work and program development with Foster Care agencies throughout Philadelphia. Basha Smolen (she/her) is a School Social Worker working with adolescents in the School District of Philadelphia. She grew up in Boston, the child of a lesbian couple who used anonymous sperm donation to conceive both her and her sister. Basha and her partner used a known donor to conceive their 3 year old Ruth. Kat Steele LPC, MeD (they/them) identifies as a non-binary individual. Kat uses their lived experience and counseling training to support families as a Licensed mental health therapist at Arrive Therapy. More about Kat. Alexander Stefanini MS, LPC (he/him) has been working with kids, teens, families and adults since 2004. Alex received his Master's degree in Counseling from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and has been a Licensed Professional Counselor since 2004. He is the owner of Arrive Therapy in Paoli. More about Alex. Skott Stotland (he/him) is a writer, a student, a stay-at-home dad and a PFP board member. He lives in South Philly with his wife, Heather, and their daughter, Beatrix. Marina Patrice Vare (she/they/MP) is an IAYT certified yoga therapist and trained Daring to Rest™ yoga nidra facilitator. MP serves folks who are feeling disconnected, disengaged, or disembodied as they learn to (re)inhabit their bodies and lives. Her private practice, Sweet Perfection Yoga Therapy, specializes in serving folks working through transitions and milestones, healing from interpersonal trauma, and during their fertility journeys from trying to conceive through postpartum. (MP conceived her son, born in 2020, using IVF with donor eggs.) Naomi Washington-Leapheart, M.Div. (she/her) is a faith organizer and PFP parent. Naomi was our conference keynote speaker in 2018 and a part of the PFP keynote conversation in 2020. More about Naomi. Kris White (he/him) is originally from Cincinnati, Ohio and moved to the Philadelphia area in 2014. Kris is married to Dr. Oscar Holmes IV and they adopted their son July 14, 2020. Sherry Wyche (she/her) is a very PROUD wife and mother of 1 human and 3 dogs residing in Greensboro, NC.

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But the key is to follow your own rules. Whether they relate to how the ships fly, or to environments of the planets you’ve created, be consistent. Readers will notice if you aren’t. Get Beta Feedback from Experts Because I’ve never served in the military, I felt it was important to get feedback from a reader who did. He understood this was science fiction, and knew his job wasn’t to critique my use of advanced stealth technology. Rather, I needed him to tell me that in the heat of battle my soldiers’ behavior felt authentic. I asked him specifically to evaluate the culture and characters I’d created. I asked if anything pulled him out of the story. His feedback was constructive, relevant, and helped me deliver a much better final draft. Where there are battles, even in space, there’s often a military involved. With research, effective feedback, and consistency in your world building, you can give readers an exciting, authentic experience. When I came out as demisexual (someone who can’t feel sexual attraction without a deep emotional connection) four years ago, it did not go well. I was told that I wasn’t what I thought I was and given evidence why, as if another person could know anyone better than they know themselves. This person was a dear friend of mine; I had known them for over 13 years. I thought they were right. It made me feel like I was wrong, as if there were something inherently incorrect in how I viewed myself. It also made me keep quiet about the fact that I didn’t feel like a man or a woman, but something in between. At the time, I didn’t know the terms non-binary or demisexual existed, let alone what they really meant. I didn’t have anything or anyone to tell me about them. There were no books back then that featured someone like me. I took care to avoid writing about characters who were me. I wasn’t gay. I wasn’t trans. I had never had body dysphoria. Clearly, I didn’t belong at the queer club. In the end, I did come out. I found myself, it just took another two years. And in the process I terminated a friendship. It’s a wound that still hurts. It doesn’t really stop hurting; you just meet other people and remind yourself that you matter. That your story matters. Queer characters are in everything I’ve written. My espionage series features a gay Russian spy and a bisexual American spy, working together to take down a secret organization that has managed to penetrate the KGB, set in 1965. It’s not a romance, because I wanted to give queer men the ability to see themselves in action adventure. I want them to kick butt just like the straight boys do, better than even. I have two projects out on sub, one a YA horror lead by a pansexual boy, and a NA low fantasy/post apoc lead by an asexual and aromantic girl. Today, I’m finally plucking up the courage to do the one thing I never thought I would: write an Own Voices novel. This new project is a YA low fantasy set in the Ozarks. It’s a blend of folk magic and horror in the working poor setting. It’s a story about first loves and family and the lengths we go to save them. Last summer, in watching Sagas of Sundry Dread, I realized it was something more: its the story of two genderqueer punks who fall in love. It’s Riley, who is non-binary (someone who identifies as neither male or female) but doesn’t know it yet, and Chase, who is demisexual and thinks gender concepts are bullshit altogether. As I began to outline it, I grew excited in a way I had not in a very long time. I’m drafting it now, and I think this might be the book. The landing an agent book. And its because I took the leap to make it queer that I think makes it so, makes it more than just a folk magic horror story. It has not been an easy story to write. Riley is not an exact copy of me; far from it. But there are lines which she is told about how she presents herself that are word for word what I was told growing up. The difference is, Riley will have Chase, who for all of his flaws and mental health issues, loves Riley wholly and completely. It’s Chase who pushes her to be herself, however that means she/they presents. Doing it under the guise of punk subculture gave me a lot of room to play with presentation. Chase wears makeup and nail polish. He dyes his hair a lot; helps Riley cut and dye hers. Chase has 99 problems but toxic masculinity ain’t one. Ace spectrum, of all areas of the LGBTQIA, needs rep that isn’t just characters who are asexual to the point of being cold, aloof, and uncaring. There needs to be diversity across the board. Like gender, asexuality is a spectrum. All gender and sexuality is a spectrum and we should stop pretending like this is some modern concept invented by millennials. It’s not. Gender binary is a modern principal; gender as a spectrum is the concept of old that we’ve tried to bury with the nuclear family–the need to simply make children which cropped up from world wars one and two. We especially need these stories to be told in YA, where so much of the literary landscape is whirlwind romances. Ace spectrum still happens, even in your teen years. But how can teens know what they’re feeling is real and not a mental health condition (it was part of the DSM as a mental illness as late as 2013) if they don’t see themselves represented? We need more stories about these gentle, slower romances, especially where one character is ace spec and another is not. This way, teens can learn how to navigate these waters from both sides. Riley’s story will take time to make it out into the world. This year I’ll have to get the draft done; if I’m very lucky it will be agent-ready by next summer. But I will keep at it and I won’t give up until I’ve sold it and given it every opportunity to get in the hands of as many readers as I can. Because asexuality is part of the queer community, as is being non-binary, and I want teenagers to know it. I want them to read this story about love and sacrifice and see that you are not broken, and you are loved. That being who you are does not make you somehow undateable. Riley and Chase’s story is epic, and yours is too. It is a commonly known fact that women are the curators of the man’s work, ingrained deeply into the United States from stereotypes crafted in the early 1900’s and onward. Though the nuclear home ideal is as dead as dead can be with the Millennial generation, in numerous publishing and literary careers women dominate the field. Women as librarians. Women as the editors. Women as literary agents. I’ve worked as both a librarian and an editor, and I can tell you, finding a man in either one is a rarity. In my three years as a tech services assistant in my college library, I knew two men who worked there, in a staff of thirty people. I was at an Editorial Freelancers Association meeting recently for the Diversity Initiative group; no men. Even among indie authors, I see far more women and NB folk who wear both hats to pay the bills. They offer competitive but doable rates, and are generally approachable folks. The men I know in writing? Rates so high that you’ll never be able to afford them, and that’s why they are that way. So they don’t have to be bothered. So why is that? Why is that the men folk rarely work in publishing beyond writing the book, or being a literary agent, or running the whole publishing house? I honestly don’t know for certain. I’m no expert. But if I had to take a stab at it, I would say that it probably has something to do with the fact that women have always been in the caretaker position. Editing, librarianship, even being a literary agent–all jobs which fall under that category. You are not the one creating the art, rather you are the one looking after it. You’re the one who’s making sure the contract is sound, the manuscript is error-free, and that the books are cataloged correctly to insure access. And there’s nothing wrong with that, if that’s the job you want. Except when I get paid a lot less than a man does, just like every other woman and non-binary person working in every industry. Then we have problems. Despite the rise in numbers of female and non-binary authors working today, these statistics are still largely skewed by genre. Men still dominate some of the biggest genres around, including horror, SFF, and action adventure. Women who write within these genres are often either pushed to write romance, or shoved into that category entirely due to marketing. During my short time managing an indie bookstore, I became frustrated with the female authors having their works shelved in Paranormal Romance, while the male authors got to go to SFF. In the end, I created an urban fantasy section. Sure enough, sales picked up, because the books were finally where they should be. I’ve worked throughout the many stages of publishing and the life-span of the written word, from library, to book store, to now freelance editing and indie author. I would love to say things are getting better, but only to a point. I’m a born-female, androgynous identifying person, writing and publishing LGBT Action Adventure. I don’t know anyone like me, not in my genre. Sarah Gailey probably comes closest, but she’s more SFF than my espionage leanings. That’s it. A single author. I knew well and good that I would be playing a man’s game the moment I decided that I wanted to get into writing espionage. Yet in the last three years, I’ve not seen any traction in the action adventure genre at all. It worries me, and it frustrates me. It forces me to title my books under initial, rather than my full name, because there is still major push-back for a non-male author to write a book with male leading characters. But it also drives me. I write in this genre because I love it, always have. I was reared on Ian Fleming and campy action movies. My feel good films are the Shadow, the Phantom, and From Russia With Love. I am not going to stop playing in action adventure just because I’m one of a handful of LGBT and non-male folk here. Women get to be caretakers, but they also get to be whatever the hell they want. Same goes for trans and non-binary folks. You have a choice. Break up the boys’ clubs. Kick the door down if you have to. You deserve it. You are worthy. Anyone who tells you otherwise, clearly doesn’t know what you’re capable of. photo by Christian Sterk By definition, LGBT representation involves having characters of the LGBTQIA spectrum play a leading role in a story—or all of the roles. LGBT folk tend to travel in packs (I can say this from experience) so it’s pretty easy to write them in. Proper LGBT representation means making your queer character overtly queer, even if your book doesn’t hinge on it. You can center the plot around their LGBT identity or not; that’s entirely up to you and the type of story you want to tell. Currently, we’re seeing a much greater push for characters whose LGBTQIA identity is evident, without being the basis for the plot. For example, you have a main character who’s a bisexual man, but the story centers around him solving crimes as a PI in a corrupt town where the cops can’t be relied on because they’re crooked as hell. The main character in this case is queer, but the book is not a coming-out story or an issues book (a story that revolves around confronting the numerous problems present in and around the LGBT community). An example of an issues book would be a story where the main overarching conflict centers around the lead character’s struggle with being LGBT. If you can’t tell a character is gay without the author saying so during an interview, that’s not representation, and they’re not writing a diverse book. Their queerness has to be present within the text, not just a footnote the author keeps in mind. An obvious example of a series with no LGBT representation is Harry Potter. Dumbledore doesn’t count as queer representation if none of us knew that he was gay until JK revealed in an interview that he was in love with Grindelwald. That would have been a huge addition to the series, but it’s never brought up within the context of the story, so it doesn’t count as queer representation. Leaving it ambiguous—e.g., the character does not have a history of queerness nor is the sexual identity explicitly stated—also does not count. This follows the same vein of leaving someone’s skin color entirely unsaid. The idea that the reader will assume the character looks like them is false: readers will almost always assume a character is straight, cis-gender, and white until proven otherwise, because this is the type of person they are used to reading about. The lack of diversity in publishing throughout history has created this trap, and to ignore it is to play into it. One of the biggest gaps we are trying to fill presently is the absence of LGBTQIA male characters in genre fiction. This is due to an age-old stereotype which persists today: queer women are more masculine, and therefore can take on roles in SFF and action-adventure, while queer men are more feminine and thus relegated to roles in rom-coms. This is a problem that exists across the market. As an LGBT writer, I often catch flack because my series—which is LGBT paranormal action-adventure—does not feature romance. My gay men are a little busy saving the world to fall in love. And yet I get asked how, without that romance, can my gay men really be gay? If Alan doesn’t show evidence of having relationships with men and women, is he really bisexual? If Yulian doesn’t make out with a guy, is he really gay? At what point can we say that gay men do not have to be falling in love with someone to be considered gay within the context of the story? At what point can we finally say, without question, that queer men don’t exist just to tell rom-com stories? This is why LGBT representation matters. In putting out book after book after book with cliché queer male characters, publishing makes it harder for those who are queer to be able to divorce sexuality from gender stereotypes. The two are not the same, nor do they necessarily influence one another. Gay men are not necessarily feminine. Gay women are not necessarily butch. Not to mention the fact that there are numerous gender identities between the two, because gender is not binary. And yet, publishing outside of young adult literature has yet to wrap its head around this fact. As I’m writing this, there is a professional publishing conference going on with a workshop centered around writing novels specifically for a cis-het audience, with exact beats, simply to sell more books. (Picture a skeleton for a book—you already have the structure and you’re just picking out the flooring and fixtures.) I wish I was making that up, but here we are. It’s 2019, and we still have to explain to industry professionals that a large number of readers will not be straight. That a book can feature LGBT characters without it being an issue, or becoming a book about issues. LGBT representation matters because queer characters have other stories to tell, and queer men in particular have lives and identities that exist outside of romance. They don’t need to look a certain way or talk a certain way or have a favorite member of the Fab Five. Having an LGBT lead will not subtract from your work of kick-butt genre fiction. It adds. Diversity shows us human beings, and that makes the story real. It lets it resonate and hit home. It makes the impossible, probable. If you want to write a great story, then fill it with whole, fully realized characters, across the spectrum of gender and sexuality. Routine. The most hated and feared word of people everywhere. Routine? Routine is the essence of boredom, the same thing being done repeatedly day-after-day, a life restricted to steps in a process. Who the heck wants a routine? One might argue that part of the reason writers write is because of a distaste for routine, they want to rise above the normal human condition, to share the depths of their imagination and revel in the unknown. Routine? Pshaw. That’s for mere mortals, not us author types. Well, I hate to break it to you, but routine isn’t a four letter word. It’s seven. I checked. As a writer, you’re likely a victim of routine without even realizing it. Pounding your fingers into the keyboard, generated word after word and page after page, handing things off to betas, passing them along to your editor, cover designer, revisions, it’s all baked into you so much that you don’t even realize that you, too, are part of a routine. Why should your health be any different? I would argue that getting (and staying) healthy are just as important as putting down those 1,000 words first thing in the morning. I mean, after all, the longer you live, the more words you can put down going forward, right? There was a point in my life when I tipped the scales at 325 pounds. I was a big guy and pretty much always had been a big guy. Breakfast was Egg McMuffins at McDonalds, lunch was a Whopper at Burger King (or a cheeseburger at Wendy’s if I really wanted to mix things up), all washed down with copious amounts of soda and french fries. My body was a temple – one of those old Aztec temples that’s crumbling into dust. So I decided to make a change. In 2002, I told myself that I was going to designate an hour in the morning to exercise and I was going to pretty much blow up my entire diet and start over. And I did. And have been. For sixteen years. I’ve lost nearly 150 pounds, but more importantly, in my mind, I’ve built a (scary word coming) routine. A routine where I carve out an hour a day in the morning to exercise. I know, I know – exercise in the morning? That’s unpossible! I’m a forty-four year old guy, married, two kids, a full time senior management job, and I’ve written 1.1 million words so far this year (publishing 15 books so far in 2018). Trust me when I say it can be done. It’s all about the routine. I wake up at five, get ready for work, get the kids lunches ready, type for a few minutes if I can. By seven I’m dropping the older kid off at school, then I come straight home and from 7 – 8 I do whatever exercise I can. Most of the time, I run, getting in around 5 miles if I time it just right. When I can’t (or don’t want to) run, I lift weights, ride a stationary bike, or other forms of cardio and high impact. It’s nothing special, but it’s a routine. And hey, for what it’s worth, nothing sparks my creative mind like running… I can almost always work through a challenging scene or sequence when I’m out on the trail, the wind in my face. Now, don’t get me wrong, I understand, not everyone can do this. Some people have trickier morning schedules. But the key is, you need to form a routine and set aside a time every single day to follow it. Some days you’ll miss it, and that’s okay, but focus on the next day, and promise yourself you won’t miss it two days in a row. Some days you can use that one hour to exercise. Some days you can use that one hour to meal prep. Some days you can use that one hour just to get an extra 1,500 words in. The important thing is to carve out that one hour and tell yourself that’s your hour to maintain your health. Then stick with it. Of course, as the old saying goes, you can’t outrun a bad diet, and I’m going to say it here, too. Health starts in the kitchen. You’ll notice I mentioned meal prep up there, and I did that for a reason. Focusing on real food is going to save you money and save your body, and I’d argue the single most important thing I did for my health was to actually start thinking about what I’m putting in my body. Even if I don’t always stick with it, I am ALWAYS thinking about it, fully aware when I’m making bad choices and ticking off in my head how I’m going to make up for it in the future. Oh, by the way… losing 150 pounds, changing my eating habits, basically reinventing my lifestyle is the single hardest thing I’ve ever done. But the key to it is routine. Get in the habit of avoiding fast food, you’ll be surprised how quickly the cravings go away. Get in the habit of not drinking so much soda, you’ll be surprised at how soon the bubbles hurt your throat on the way down. Get in the habit of burning a few calories at designated times during the day, you’ll be surprised at how damn good you feel afterwards. Habit. Routine. The words aren’t fun, but they might save your life. And if you miss a few hundred words a day because of it, well, you’ll make those up with the extra years at the end.

Welcome to the Friday Five! Every Friday we share our top five articles, stories, and quotes for you to read and share with your friends and church families. If you enjoy receiving these emails every week, would you consider making a $5 donation towards our ability to create them? 1. DEADLINE: Today is the deadline to register to vote for the upcoming election. Early voting begins October 17th. Early and one-stop voting for the upcoming midterm elections is nearly here, and today marks one of the first important election deadlines. Today is the last day to register to vote for this upcoming election (although some areas have an extension due to the hurricane). Early voting starts next week on October 17th. We've developed the website www.ncvalues.org/vote to help you check if you're registered to vote, register to vote, and even find your local early voting sites. if you're not registered to vote, visit our website, fill out the register to vote form, and mail it in to the North Carolina State Board of Elections today (instructions will be included upon form submission). 2. ENDORSEMENT: NC Values Endorses Mark Harris for Congress in the 9th District in North Carolina It is our pleasure to have announced earlier this week that the North Carolina Values Coalition is endorsing Mark Harris for Congress in the 9th District! Mark Harris has been a strong supporter of family values, and he has been bold to take action to support our values. We even took part in the Women for Mark Harris Bus Tour that occured this week. You can check out some of the photos from our stops here. 3. THE HILL: De Blasio signs bill allowing third non-binary gender on NYC birth certificates "New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) on Tuesday signed a bill that allows for a third gender category to be added to city-issued birth certificates. The nonbinary category, known as “X”, can be added for those who do not identify as either male or female, CBS New York reported." "A Belfast bakery run by evangelical Christians was not obliged to make a cake emblazoned with the message “support gay marriage”, the supreme court has ruled, overturning a £500 damages award imposed on it." WEEKLY PRAYER: LIBERTY LORD, you are the giver of life and liberty. You are the One in whom we find true freedom. We pray with the deepest of gratitude, because you've broken our chains of depravity, and have gifted us a freedom born in love and service. LORD, may we not take our liberties lightly. Even today, our brothers and sisters all across the globe experience physical, emotional, and social torture because they rightly cry out: "JESUS IS LORD!" Every day, our brethren across the globe experience persecution, and this has been a shared story of the church since its inception. LORD, we also bring these specific prayer requests to you, and pray that your Spirit may empower our petitions: Father, protect your champions of True Liberty. Protect the proclamation of the Word in the public square. Whether people are attempting to voice their convictions online, or live them out in their daily work, protect them from harm, abuse, and bigotry. Be with us as we advance and advocate for the chief liberty you give us LORD—the freedom from sin. Lord, we ask you to protect our freedoms as Americans—the freedoms of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petitioning the government for a redress of grievances. These freedoms were inspired by your Word and by the freedom we enjoy from paying the penalty for our sins as Christians. Help our countrymen to value and protect these freedoms and to acknowledge their source—You, not the government. Guide us as we live out our faith and bear witness to true freedom in the public square, and protect our right to do so. “For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.” (Romans 8:2) “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” (Luke 4:18-19) North Carolina Values Coalition

This statement was agreed by Department Committee on 29 November 2017. Departmental statement on transgender* students, staff and visitors The department is committed to supporting trans staff, students and visitors. The department follows the University transgender policy and guidance which have recently been revised and are available at www.admin.ox.ac.uk/eop/transgender . The University has established processes for staff and students to change central University records in relation to their name and recorded gender: Students: see www.ox.ac.uk/students/life/studentrecord Staff: contact the departmental HR Team. The department recognises that it is important that people’s preferences on name/title/pronoun are observed. Not all departmental sources of information are derived automatically from central University sources, and so data in the department may need to be updated separately. All individuals should feel able to ask for this to be updated and any expressed preference on language or pronouns should be respected. If you have any queries you are encouraged to contact: firstname.lastname@example.org / (2)83873 / room S0.19, Andrew Wiles Building. The following informal guidelines from the Equality Challenge Unit** on how to treat trans people may be helpful for colleagues or fellow students. - Think of the person as being the gender that they self-identify as. - Use the name and pronoun that the person asks you to. If you aren’t sure what the right pronoun is, politely ask them what name and pronoun they use. If you make a mistake with pronouns, correct yourself and move on. Don’t make a big deal out of it. People with a non-binary gender identity may feel uncomfortable when gendered language is used about them. Since our University includes people who have a non-binary gender identity, members of the University are encouraged to adopt less gendered language. For example: - Some phrasing can avoid highlighting gender e.g. ‘Your visitor [name] is waiting in Reception. Will you come and meet them?’ not ‘Will you come and meet him?’ - Those moderating public events might consider welcoming ‘Colleagues and guests’ or similar. All building users should be able to choose which facilities they use. For this reason the Andrew Wiles Building has a selection of gender-neutral, male and female toilets and washing facilities. These are located as described at: This information will be routinely communicated to those organising events and other conferences in the building. Any suggestions for additions to this policy are welcomed. These, and any queries about transgender issues, should be directed to: Room S0.19, Andrew Wiles Building email@example.com / (2)83873 * “Transgender” (Trans) here refers to the following groups: - People covered by the Equality Act definition: “A person has the protected characteristic of gender reassignment if the person is proposing to undergo, is undergoing or has undergone a process (or part of a process) for the purpose of reassigning the person's sex by changing physiological or other attributes of sex.” - People who do not wish to transition permanently to a new gender role, but who identify as genderqueer, gender variant or intersex or who choose to live permanently with a more fluid gender identity. ** Trans staff and students in HE and colleges: improving experiences (2016) Equality Challenge Unit

This forum is hosted by Amnesty International and referenced by the Council of Europe, below. I watched it to see how it supported the claims COE made about physical attacks. The link for note 51 goes to a long Youtube video which I watched to see the physical attacks referenced. The discussion is in two parts. The first part is a panel talking about freedom of speech, cancel culture, J.K. Rowling and the backlash against trans people. Women resisting Gender Identity ideology are referenced as ”so called feminists” or “Terfs”. It was quite interesting to see different views on cancel culture and no-platforming and one panellist even said something skeptical about accusations of transphobia. (#cancelled). There was quite an interesting discussion about algorithms on social media. The example they give of hate on social media is about a Drag Queen who got “hate” on their TikTok. Oh, and they were very upset that only fans was going to regulate on-line porn, which they were concerned would negatively impact sex workers. The second panel comprised of various trans organisations, representing trans adults and one representative from Finland’s equivalent of Mermaids. One of the panellists describes women opposing males in our spaces as privileged and white and says they need to educate the younger teens to keep TERFs in a minority. They also say that nobody can be educated about a trans persons life if they have not lived it, this by a a male denying women’s experiences by the way. A blue-haired, they/them says TERFs just want to retain our status as rulers. A questioner from the U.K asks how to defeat the tactics of Women’s Place U.K (WPUK) which they claim as a target victims of sexual assault, as part of a recruitment drive. A trans-id female criticises this tactic as suggesting women are weak and argues that this is an anti-feminist position. They also claim there is no evidence women are afraid as we are often really aggressive. They also say women, fighting for sex based rights, collaborate with the far right, or at least the right. As always there is scant evidence to back this up. WPUK is led by women out of the left and trade union tradition. This panellist tells the audience that Norway allows gender recognition for children as young as six and also talks about the historic position that required trans-identified people to be sterilised. Says they still have not won compensation for this, all while demanding access to medical solutuons for “trans kids” which will, in effect, sterilise those children. Next up a they/them female updates the panel on the position in Sweden and expresses concern that some feminists are raising concerns about the impact on women. Deidre finds it a bit disconcerting that some women still centre women in their feminism. Next up is a female who is a blue-haired non-binary type, pronouns ”them/theirs and comes under the trans umbrella. She also raises the issue of Finnish requirements for ”sterilisation” to access legal recognition. This is a common tactic which avoids saying they want legal recognition for penis-havers to be women and instead argues against it by calling it forced sterilisation. Final panel member is a She/Hers who echoes the concerns of the panelists but also wants to focus on the particular challenges faced by “trans people” of colour, asylum seekers and especially those engaged in what is referred to as ”sex work”. Paulie is also concerned about access to hormones for non-binary people. You can watch the whole thing below but I just want to leave you with these thoughts. The panel are disgusted with women standing up for sex based rights. They oppose sterilisation for adult males but defend medical interventions which will make children sterile. They consistently defend prostitution as ”sex work” despite the horrendous statistics coming out of the trans-murder monitoring project. 62% of deaths occur in prostition You can watch it here: You can support my work here: Researching the impact of Gender Identity Ideology on women & girls as well as the consequences for Lesbians, Gay males and autistic kids. I do this full time and have no income. All my content is open access and donations help keep me going. Only give IF you can afford. Thank you to my generous donors.

Professors Tamara Daly, Faculty of Health, and Janine Marchessault, School of Art, Media, Performance & Design, have been successful in their applications for Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Grants. Both projects are groundbreaking and highly collaborative with partners spanning across the globe. “York University is delighted to see Professors Daly and Marchessault receive Partnership Grants. Their projects will advance knowledge and understanding on critical issues of intellectual, social, economic and cultural significance,” said Vice-President Research & Innovation Robert Haché. “Winning these two grants signal York University’s strong research leadership in this area,” he added. Daly’s project will transform fears about an aging population Daly is an associate professor in the School of Health Policy and Management and director of the York University Centre for Aging Research and Education (YU-CARE), which promotes innovative research, education and advocacy on aging issues, and contributes to improving health outcomes for seniors in Canada and around the world. She is a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Research Chair in Gender, Care Work and Health. Daly’s winning project, “Imagining Age-Friendly ‘Communities within Communities:’ International Promising Practices,” was awarded $2.5 million dollars over seven years. It will unfold over this time in urban communities in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Norway and Taiwan. A very large and highly collaborative project, it draws together international scholars and partners from a variety of disciplinary and sectoral perspectives to address the complexities of aging practices and policies to support it. It has 28 co-applicants and collaborators, including four from York. It also has 16 partner organizations from across Canada and globally. Canadian academic partners include the York University Centre for Aging Research and Education, Carleton University; Trent University; the Trent Centre for Aging and Society; the University of Lethbridge, the University of Montreal International Centre for Comparative Criminology, and St. Paul’s University. This project is built around a central question: How can age-friendliness support conditions in which all senior citizens not only maintain healthy active lives, but can participate and create meaning in later life? It will transform fears about an aging population into conversations and practices that address both the complexities and possibilities inherent in a world that welcomes the meaning that old age brings to life. The team will pay special attention to gender as it looks at how inequalities and differences between and among women, men and non-binary people play out in seniors’ lives and policy assumptions. Furthermore, the researchers will investigate what makes age-friendly communities promising places with “promising practices” for women, men and non-binary people; those living in poverty; LGBTIQ2S, ethno-racial, indigenous, disability and Dementia communities; families who require specific supports and services; and those who support seniors, especially migrants and domestic careers, who are aging on the job. The partnership is committed to advancing the World Health Organization’s call for new research and understanding about age-friendly cities. This focus aligns with two of York’s compelling areas for strategic research development: Healthy Individuals, Healthy Communities and Global Health and Scholarship of Socially Engaged Research (Strategic Research Plan, 2013-2018). Marchessault’s project promises to redress the unevenness of Canadian preservation efforts Marchessault was the co-founder of the Future Cinema Lab and the inaugural director of Sensorium: Centre for Digital Arts and Technology Research at York. Marchessault’s winning project, “Archive/Counter-Archive: Activating Canada’s Moving Image Heritage,” was awarded $2.499 million over six years. It involved 43 co-applicants and collaborators from across Canada and globally, nine from York across a wide variety of Faculties. It also involved 24 partner organizations from across Canada. This partnership will focus on the new theoretical questions, and the methodological challenges, that attend the changing nature and political realities of visual media archives. It seeks to redress the unevenness of Canadian preservation efforts thus far by emphasizing Canada’s most vulnerable moving image heritage – women’s media; Indigenous media arts; films and media from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, two-spirited and queer (LGBT2Q) community; and archives from Canada’s immigrant communities. Working collaboratively, four universities (York, Ryerson, Queen’s, Concordia), numerous archival organizations and policy advocates will advance counter-archival approaches to achieve four objectives: - Create new, practice-based knowledge and methodologies through seven case studies of community and/or independent archives in Canada; - Train and mentor the next generation of curators, archivists, cultural activists, scholars, digital humanists, artists, highly qualified personnel, cultural policy and intellectual property (IP) specialists to advance Canadian moving image heritage preservation, accessibility, and presentation; - Build a sustainable multilingual digital archive, an open access, 3D digital platform, where visitors can encounter, interact with and travel through different archival case studies; and - Foster an audiovisual archive network in Canada, linking community archives to citizens, researchers and policy-makers. Importantly, this partnership project will be buoyed by its affiliation with Sensorium: the Centre for Digital Arts & Technology. It will also draw from the expertise of IP Osgoode, which is the law school’s IP and technology clinic, as well as the library, which has extensive experience in the areas of digital platform development, digital asset management and related IP policy issues. The partnership advances York’s historical strengths in Analyzing Cultures and Mobilizing Creativity and contributes to the expansion of Digital Cultures research (Strategic Research Plan, 2013-2018). To learn more, visit the SSHRC Partnership Grant website.

Selection procedures refer to any measure or method or a combination of measures or methods used as a basis for an employment decision. Selection procedures include a range of assessment techniques from traditional paper and pencil tests, work samples and other skills-based tests, psychometric tests such as personality or aptitude tests, probationary periods, educational and work experience requirements, and interviews. Selection methods vary concerning their propensity for bias to influence candidate assessment. Although the most common selection procedure, a vast body of research shows that informal unstructured interviewing is the least objective selection method(1). In the majority of cases, candidate interviews add zero credibility to the hiring decision(2). In the best cases, unstructured interviews add only 10% validity to the process. Bias in Selection Cognitive neuroscience research shows us that most decisions we make, particularly about people, are contaminated by biases that operate under the scope of human consciousness. Unconscious bias in selection has profound implications—when assessing a candidate’s suitability for a role, we add our own subliminal and emotional criteria to that decision. Criteria we might not even be aware of and which may have no basis in facts. Bias can also be institutionalised in the form of assessment practices that systematically favour some groups over others. The Case for Objective Selection Selecting the best candidates not only drives higher performance—but it also reduces costs. Harvard Business Review report that 80% of turnover is due to bad hiring decisions(3). Research from the Society for Human Resource Management concludes that a poor hire can cost a company up to five times the amount of the hire’s salary when one considers the original cost of hiring the employee, the cost of lost productivity, the cost of training the poor hire, and the cost of hiring and training a replacement, among other factors(4). If you have biases which are impacting recruitment decisions you are likely not choosing the best person for the job. Also, you are likely to end up with a relatively homogenous workplace, missing out on the competitive potential of a diverse workforce. Strategies for Objective Selection Although 81% of employers recognise the potential for unconscious bias to influence selection, 42% of employers do not use any strategies to reduce bias in selection(5). Eliminating bias from selection involves techniques and practices that: - Encourage the assessor to focus on matching demonstrable applicant capabilities to well-defined job criteria - Limit the potential for information about the candidate that is not relevant to job performance but that might influence how the assessor personally feels about or perceives the candidate to impact decision-making - Level the playing field for diverse candidates Matching capabilities to job criteria Many hiring decisions are made on instinct or assumptions about the type of person who will succeed in the role rather than demonstrable skills and abilities that are valid predictors of job performance. When thinking about the ideal candidate, recruiters and hiring managers often look to the sorts of people who have held the role in the past. Anchoring hiring decisions on past hires means that equally qualified candidates with diverse backgrounds that can make an additive contribution to the team are overlooked. A focus on past candidates also perpetuates bias and limits the recruitment of top talent—were past hires objectively the best candidate or did bias influence selection? Improving objectivity in hiring requires attention to the following steps: - Identify tasks critical for job performance: Define success in the role by asking what tasks are most critical for job performance? - Define required capabilities: What knowledge, skills and abilities are needed to perform critical job tasks? Consider hard and soft skills. Be careful to specify knowledge, skills, traits, qualifications, experience that map to the role requirements, not to the type of person who you think would be successful in that role. Consider also performance risks for the role—where do employees come ‘unstuck’ in the role? What causes underperformance? (e.g. poor time management, weak conflict resolution skills). Include compensating competencies as job criteria. - Rank and weight criteria: Mark selection criteria as ‘non-negotiable’, ‘desired’, or ‘can be developed’ to encourage consideration of a broader pool of candidates. Rank and weight your top five criteria. - Review selection criteria for bias: Are your selection criteria valid predictors of job performance or do they describe the type of person assumed to be successful in the role? Are you recruiting for performance or potential? What assumptions are you making about skill from qualifications? What proof do you have that a criterion predicts job performance? Does any criterion reference a trait commonly associated with gender, age, cultural or other stereotypes? - Hire to include: Include diversity as a selection criterion, where relevant, For example, recognise the value of cultural and linguistic skills for customer-facing roles. Consider capability gaps across a team rather than an individual-level approach when setting criteria. Taking an additive approach encourages recruiters and hiring managers to look beyond cultural fit for candidates with different experiences that complement existing team capabilities. Be careful not to focus on one-dimensional characteristics. Don’t determine you need a woman, for example, to balance out the team. Diversity for diversity’s sake leads others to make negative assumptions about your people decisions and those you hire or promote. Instead, look at how people can add to the total portfolio of mindsets, skills, and experiences on the team. - Skills-based testing: Give a work sample test that mimics the kinds of tasks the candidate will be performing on the job. Research shows that work samples are the best indicators of future job performance and outperform interviews, unstructured and structured. Whenever possible, ask for samples or examples of work and review them before you meet with the candidate to diffuse the impact of biased first impressions. - Behavioural-based interviewing: Behavioural-based interviewing allows candidates an opportunity to demonstrate their competencies by describing how they achieved examples of success in their current or past roles, how they managed challenges, or by explaining how they would approach a hypothetical situation Reduce the potential for bias - Structured application forms: Using structured application forms that tap specific skills and experience rather than inviting CV’s where gender, background, and education are often visible decreases the likelihood that identity information will influence selection decisions. - Remove identifying information: In a similar vein, employers can remove identity information from CVs, a technique known as the blind CV. De-identification is not appropriate, however, when under-represented groups make up a small proportion of applicants. In these circumstances, CV de-identification should be implemented along with other interventions like targeted recruitment strategies. Technology, such as Gap Jumpers can automate blind recruitment processes. - Phone screening: Candidate screening by phone helps to minimise bias by decreasing the visibility of some diversity dimensions that are not relevant for job performance but might influence the assessor’s evaluation of a candidate unconsciously. Phone screens are a way of making interviews ‘blind’ and encourage the assessor to focus in the first instance on skills, abilities, and knowledge relevant to the role rather than other characteristics of the candidate that can unconsciously influence assessment. While phone interviews minimise the influence of visual first impressions, however, they do not eliminate accent or linguistic bias. If you want to make the interview even more blind, you can go so far as to use a voice modulation app for technical interviews. - Automated shortlisting: Automated shortlisting that matches candidate skills reported on CV or application forms to job criteria can be useful so long as the criteria and the matching algorithm are not biased. In 2017, the Illinois attorney general opened an investigation into several hiring platforms after complaints that a résumé tool excluded older applicants because a drop-down menu prevented applicants from listing any qualification of experience before 1980. Similarly, a 2016 class-action lawsuit alleged that Facebook tools enabled discrimination. Facebook’s Lookalike Audiences feature allowed employers to choose only users demographically identical to their existing workers to see job ads, thus replicating racial or gender disparities at their companies. - Structured interviews: Standardising the interview process, interviewers focus on data rather than instincts when assessing candidates. Data-based hiring methods outperform our instincts by at least 25 percent(6). Structured interviews have a predictive validity of 62 percent (7). Structured interviews also ensure that no illegal criteria enter the hiring process, In a 2015 review, Jennifer Yugo, who holds a PhD in industrial and organisational psychology, reported half of the unstructured interviews challenged in court had been found to be discriminatory, whereas only 13 percent of structured interviews were found to be discriminatory. Structured interviews minimise bias in selection because they force the interviewer to focus on factors that directly impact role performance. To undertake a structured interview, the recruiter must develop a set of questions that are strictly focused on the role and requirements of the job and selection criteria, ask all candidates the same questions, in the same manner, in the same order, in the same time period. This ensures that each candidate receives the same interview experience. Without standardising interviews, employers do not have a common baseline for comparing and ranking candidates. - Use a rating scale: The predictive validity of interviews can be improved by employing a rating system for scoring candidate answers to the questions asked by the interviewer. To reduce inconsistency in ratings across different interviewers and candidates, the rating system should describe in as much detail as possible how to score a candidate’s answer. - Take notes during the interview: Studies show a recall bias for vivid examples such as stories and also for answers that are most recent. Waiting until the end of the interview to rate answers increases the risk of forgetting an early or less-vivid, but high-quality answer, or favouring candidates whose speaking style involves storytelling or whose latter responses are particularly strong. Taking notes also helps to counter our tendency for confirmation bias—paying greater attention to and recalling information congruent with our preferences. - Engage a panel but rate candidates independently: By involving others who ideally represent the diversity that the employer is striving to achieve, recruiters are exposed to different perceptions and opinions about the candidate. They are challenged to justify their assessment of a candidate with objective data. This helps to decrease the potential for emotion-driven or instinctive decision-making. Panel members should always score candidates individually first and save their discussion until the end of the interview process. Independent ratings guard against conformity bias. Conformity bias is a tendency to be influenced by the ideas and behaviours of others rather than exercising our independent judgment. Reference checks are another data point for the hiring process, but it is important to remember that referee assessments can be biased. Asking referees for examples of achievements on the job that demonstrate behaviours required in the role as well as probing for any red-flags can improve the objectivity of referee data. Ideally, the reference checks should be conducted by an individual who did not interview the candidate. This avoids the person conducting the reference check being influenced by confirmation bias. - Use validated assessment tools: Validated assessment tools such as tests of emotional intelligence, cultural intelligence (for performance in diverse cultural settings), general cognitive ability (IQ), personality assessments and other psychometric tools control for unconscious bias and improve objectivity in candidate assessment, which in turn drives greater diversity. A study of 150 companies found that those that used a personality assessment in their hiring had more racially diverse workforces(8). - Employ multiple assessment methods: Using various assessment methods offers multiple data points and decreases the risk of bias. Supplement structured interviews with work samples, validated psychometric tools, panels, and reference checks. - Challenge your own and others biases: Unconscious bias is universal—we all have bias in some shape or form. However, although bias is inevitable, acting on it isn’t. When we are motivated to be fair and unprejudiced because of either a strong internalised belief that it is morally correct to treat others fairly or because of strong social norms and legal restrictions against expressed prejudice and discrimination, we can engage controlled mental processes to override biased automatic responses. Contact us for our white paper on managing one’s own and others bias. - Develop hiring to include capability: Assist recruiters and hiring managers in understanding their implicit assumptions and prejudgments with formal training that transfers skills for objective assessment, including developing their ability to monitor and manage their own and other’s bias. Level the playing field - Video interviews: Video interviews make the selection process more flexible and accessible and address some of the barriers facing individuals with non-traditional work schedules, candidates that are geographically dispersed, candidates with mobility restrictions or other disabilities, and candidates who are unable to take time off from their existing employment to attend interviews. Candidates have the opportunity to record themselves at home, on their own time. If multiple interviewers are involved in the process, each interviewer can watch the candidate’s pre-recorded interview on their schedule. - Flexible scheduling and location: Similar to video interviews, offering flexibility in when and where the assessment process is conducted addresses some of the barriers facing non-traditional talent pools. - Accessible assessment practices: Offering and granting accommodations to candidates with a disability helps to level the playing field. Examples include providing materials in alternative formats or granting additional time and ensuring assessment centres are accessible. - Interpreter support: Providing translation services for candidates from a non-English speaking background can support assessment performance when high levels of English proficiency is not a job criterion. - Gender-neutral addressing: Addressing candidates by name (as recorded on their application form unless otherwise advised by them) and confirming pronoun use conveys respect for transgender, transitioning and gender non-binary candidates. - Seek to reduce candidate anxiety: Candidates from non-traditional backgrounds may experience higher levels of anxiety that could potentially impact assessment outcomes. Recruiters and hiring managers can support candidates by providing transparency about assessment methods, candidate guides/information, sufficient time to allow candidates to prepare, pre-interview office tours, and conducting interviews in a warm and friendly tone. - Offer a candidate grievance channel: Respond in a timely and transparent manner to any complaints raised. After the interview - Make introductions: Allow candidates to chat with current members of the workforce. This is particularly important for women and minorities who may be uncertain of how welcoming and supportive the wider organisation is to difference. Introduce diverse candidates to diversity champions, role models or representatives from Employee Affinity Groups. - Provide feedback: For unsuccessful candidates, always give objective interview feedback. This helps to minimise any concerns that the candidate might have regarding the role of bias in selection. - Seek to understand the candidate experience: Survey all shortlisted candidates and conduct employee focus groups and exit interviews to tap perceptions of fairness of the talent management process. Act on the information gathered to drive inclusive recruitment and improve the experience of diverse candidate and employees. - Track success: Diversity metrics for tracking bias risk areas include candidates shortlisted, performance at interview, selection, candidate retention. Equality monitoring forms must be kept separate from the assessment process. - Schmidt, F. L., & Hunter, J. E. (1998). The validity and utility of selection methods in personnel psychology: Practical and theoretical implications of 85 years of research findings. Psychological Bulletin, 124(2), 262-274. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.124.2.262 - RemarkAble HR. (nd). 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Click here to learn about Days of Learning. Louis Bernstein (he/him) is vice president of Case Paper Company. A Philadelphia native who has drummed since he was 11 years old, he played in bands all through junior high, high school, and college. Lou has taught drums and is also a jazz historian. Cara Schneider Bongiorno (she/her) spent her career at Philadelphia nonprofits, holding development positions at WHYY and JEVS Human Services before joining the communications team at VISIT PHILADELPHIA ®. There, she represented the city to travel media for 20+ years. Mid-pandemic, Cara chose to devote her time to volunteer teaching with Mighty Writers and hosting Philly History Pop Ups, fun gatherings where she presents intriguing but little-known stories about the city’s past. Jonathan Broder (he/him), a native New Yorker, stayed in Philadelphia after attending Temple Law School. Counsel for Conrail for 30 years, he was instrumental in creating New York City’s High Line. In Philadelphia’s Jewish community, he has served as president of a synagogue and of Jewish Learning Venture, trustee of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, and in other leadership roles. Jon has studied piano for over 50 years, including at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Melissa Broder (she/her) has been performing as an actress and singer in community, regional, and off-Broadway shows since she was nine years old and has been featured in countless musicals, plays and cabarets. During and after college, she also performed a solo act as a folk/rock singer-songwriter/guitarist throughout the tri-state area in clubs, cafes and college campuses. She is a proud Lifetime Member of the St. Bart’s Players, NYC’s longest-running community theater and has served on its Board for more than 25 years. She lives in Hoboken, NJ with her husband Michael and their cat Mabel. Adam Grode (he/him), a Philadelphia native, is a Silk Road ethnomusicologist and linguist. A two-time Fulbright Scholar and Smithsonian Baird Resident Fellow, he completed his Master’s with honors at the University of Pennsylvania in 2020. The following year he launched Rudaki Language Academy, a Zoom-based elearning platform offering affordable instruction in the Persian family of languages. In close coordination with groups like HIAS, Rudaki is proud to have trained scores of resettlement specialists and volunteers who work directly with the Afghan refugee communities now spread across the US and EU. For more information, please visit www.rudakiacademy.com Michael Hauptman (he/him), AIA, is a founding partner of Brawer Hauptman + Larkin, Architects. One of the firm’s specialties is synagogue design, and their work includes the renovation, expansion, and new construction of synagogues, Hillels, and JCC’s from New England to New Orleans. Michael received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Brandeis University and his Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. He has been a regular guest speaker at the Weitzman School of Design at Penn, the Dona Gracia Chapter of Hadassah, and the Kaiserman JCC. Michael is Immediate Past President of RS and served as chair of the master planning effort that resulted in the synagogue’s expansion project completed in 2015. Mon Kramer (they/them) is a queer and non-binary realtor who is committed to helping folks of all genders, sexualities, and family structures buy and sell homes with confidence. Mon is also co-chair of the EID (Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity) task force at Rodeph Shalom and serves on the Board of Directors. They are passionate about LGBTQ+ rights, animals, food, and Judaism. When not working, you can find them hiking, reading, or exploring all that Philly has to offer. Resa Levinson (she/her) is a proud graduate of the Philadelphia public schools (yay, Girls High!) and is a retired Philadelphia School District teacher who had the great fortune to teach gifted students at one of the best elementary schools (Go Loesche) in the city. Resa attended Hebrew school and Gratz College and taught supplementary Hebrew school as well. When the now Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History was being built in 2009, Resa applied to be in the pioneer class of docents, combining her love of history, Judaism, storytelling, and engaging people. Resa has traveled the world in person and on Zoom and is a lifelong learner. She especially enjoys learning about and fashioning her tours of the special exhibits that the Weitzman has curated. Ralph Pinkus has been an attorney for 50 years principally in real estate and land use planning matters and is active in West Mt. Airy Neighbors and chair of its Zoning Committee. Ralph is a Former Democratic Committee Person (30 years), father of two daughters, and has been married for 51 years. Mel Seligsohn (he/him) grew up in the city’s W. Oak Lane section, where he attended Central High and then the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a degree from Wharton in 1959. Wishing to broaden his education during his Penn years, he applied and was accepted to the Barnes Foundation two-year art appreciation program. His wife Valerie was an accomplished painter who helped found the art program at Philadelphia Community College. He has been a docent at the Barnes for 12 years. Jerry Silverman (he/him) has a master’s degree in Jewish education from Gratz College and a long career in math education. These prepared him to teach and administer in numerous Hebrew schools in our area, including both branches of RS in the late ’70s. His love for Philly led him to a new career as a tour guide for Mural Arts Philadelphia, American Jewish Committee, the Preservation Alliance, and RS. David Stiffman (he/him) and his wife Patty recently moved to Philadelphia and are relatively new members of RS. Both are New York City area natives and this is David’s third time living in Philadelphia. David has been a business executive in the retail and fashion industries for 40 years. During this time he has travelled extensively both for business and pleasure. David and Patty have a daughter Julia who lives in Philadelphia, a son Andrew, daughter-in-law Ivy, and a one-year old grandson Lev, all of whom live on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. Fred Strober (he/him) is a long-term member of Rodeph Shalom who served as president from 2008-2011 and is now a member of the Israel ConnectRS Connection Group. Over his lifetime, Fred has gathered first-hand stories about Jerusalem from family members (some born in the 19th century) and numerous primary source written accounts, and he weaves a tale of a journey from early 19th century Vilna to the modern Israel we know today. Fred has numerous cousins in Israel and his daughter, Rebecca Strober, made aliyah in 2008 and currently resides in Tel Aviv. Bios for our clergy presenters—Rabbi Jill Maderer, Rabbi Eli Freedman, and Cantor Brad Hyman—appear on the RS website under About Us, Leadership.

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Earlier than presenting the nominees within the 2022 American Music Awards’ finest pop music class, Kim Petras took a second to talk from the center. Following the tragic mass taking pictures at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colo. on Saturday (Nov. 19), Petras paid tribute to victims and emphasised the position of pop music in homosexual golf equipment. “I can’t cease fascinated about Colorado right this moment,” the “Unholy” singer started, “Homosexual golf equipment raised me, mainly. And I can confidently say that nobody loves pop music greater than homosexual golf equipment. So, my coronary heart goes out to you.” On Saturday (Nov. 19), a 22-year-old gunman opened fireplace at Membership Q, killing 5 folks and injuring no less than 18 others earlier than he was subdued by patrons and arrested by police. The membership launched an announcement on Sunday, nothing that they have been “devastated by the mindless assault on our neighborhood.” Petras is a vocal advocate of the LGBTQ neighborhood and have become the primary overtly transgender solo artist to succeed in No. 1 on Billboard’s Scorching 100 music chart alongside Sam Smith for his or her viral single, “Unholy.” Smith additionally achieved a noteworthy milestone, as the primary overtly non-binary solo artist to assert the spot. Petras informed Billboard in 2018 that she is pleased with her identification and desires to convey extra visibility to the transgender neighborhood, however she has one thing else that she needs to show as properly. “I believe the last word aim for me is that if a transgender particular person could be identified for something however being transgender,” she stated. “There are nonetheless too many individuals who assume being transgender could be very freaky. They usually assume you may’t dwell a contented life and attempt to inform their youngsters to not transition as a result of they’re afraid their life shall be more durable.” All through tonight’s AMAs, many artists have spoken out on the taking pictures, together with host Wayne Brady and AMA new artist of the yr winner Dove Cameron. The previous Disney Channel star devoted the victory to the queer neighborhood, saying, “On the heels of the tragedy that occurred at Membership Q in Colorado Springs, I need to remind everybody how essential queer visibility is, and the way essential our neighborhood is,” Cameron continued. “And I need to direct your consideration to organizations like GLAAD and The Trevor Mission for what you are able to do proper now. I need to remind you that you’re made completely proper, and you’re so beloved and so held, and I need to thanks for supporting me. Thanks for holding the area – I’m holding it for you, too.”

Author: Claire Jenkins October, 2019. Ireland This Dicastery would also like to express its warmest gratitude to all Christians who teach in Catholic schools or other types of school, and, in the words of Pope Francis, encourages them “to stimulate in the pupils the openness to the other as a face, as a person, as a brother and sister to know and respect, with his or her history, merits and defects, riches and limits. The challenge is to cooperate to train young people to be open and interested in the reality that surrounds them, capable of care and tenderness. This statement is the most encouraging and positive in the whole document and it is of regret that it is not adopted throughout and not situated at its beginning – it is the final proclamation of the document. However, it is in the spirit of this statement that this critical review is directed towards the various themes and issues contained within the Congregation’s dialogue. In this paper I will begin by first introducing the sociological concept of institutional heterosexuality as a framework to aid critique. This is then followed by topics that on close reading and analysis are of importance to the Congregation. These are in order: The Family; education and schools; complementarity and gender theory; discrimination and violence; and intersex. This critique concludes with a discussion of the issues raised. My aim is to inspire and encourage the Church to reflect on its position concerning these matters in the light of scientific and sociological understandings – the critique responds to the invitation for dialogue. The document states that it is towards a path of dialogue but fails to say who this dialogue is intended to be with. However, David Albert Jones argues for a focus for dialogue and the clear need for listening to the life experiences of transgender people: There is an urgent need for careful and respectful dialogue about gender identity, but this dialogue must begin with those most affected. It must begin by listening to those with a divergent sense of gender identity and those closest to them. It is impossible to know how someone understands himself or herself without listening to that person. There may be some people who think one can “choose one’s gender” or who wish to “annihilate the concept of ‘nature’” or to “negate the male-female duality of human nature, from which the family is generated”. But none of the transgender Catholics I have met have believed or wished these things. What is most needed is not dialogue about an abstract “gender theory” but is dialogue with gender variant people to discover what they experience and believe. (Jones, 2019:14) To analyse the Congregation’s document, I rely on the theoretical framework of institutional heterosexuality because it is the epistemological framework used by many social scientists investigating sex, gender and sexuality. In this evaluation I identified various paragraphs in the document that resonated with this schema these show that the Church has a naturalistic understanding. As such it attempts to foreclose any possibility of interrogation. For the Church it is ‘a fully human and integral ecology,’ – an exclusive basis for understanding bodily sex and human male-female attraction. This is understandable since institutional heterosexuality is imbedded in Western culture. The identity categories of male, female, gay and straight, are created and institutionalised by behaviour patterns associated with marriage, family, politics, religion, work, education (Ingraham, 2005) medicine, the media (Gagne et al., 1997, Carstarphen and Zavoina, 1999) and the internet (Siebler, 2012). The Church also associates (without any evidence) that ‘increased poverty and a host of other social ills’ are due to a decline in the culture of marriage , however, it is recognised by the Church and many others that poverty disproportionately affects women, children and the elderly. In everyday Western understanding institutional heterosexuality is taken for granted to be naturally occurring; it is given social meaning through routine day-to-day practices; it forms a basis for the organisation of labour and the distribution of wealth (Gramsci, 1971); and it is assumed by early social scientists (Seidman, 1994). Within heterosexuality’s schema, socially constructed opposite erotic desire (heterosexuality) is set in contention with same sex desire (homosexuality). Moreover, biology is used to construct the embodied dichotomy between men and women which is understood as being different, in conflict and polarised. For instance, Judith Butler (2004) has stated that having a liveable life outside these hegemonic normative binaries is difficult and as Steven Epstein remarked; we live in: ‘a society which insists that each individual, just as he or she possesses a gender, also must necessarily occupy one or the other category of sexual orientation.’ (Epstein, 1996:155, Siebler, 2012). Furthermore, institutional heterosexuality further sets relations of the body, especially those associated with reproduction, to have social and political primacy above all other forms of human interactions and values (Woodward, 2008, Shapiro, 2010). Following this ideology values commonly associated with the mind, heart, and soul are diminished which is arguably where the Church’s attention might be focused. However, the reality of this organising principle is constantly in contention and slowly mutating across cultures and time and is reliant upon heterosexual identity performances. It depends on the exclusion of homosexual and non-normative gender identities but challenge precipitates identity slippage away from the hardened fixed identities of, for example, male, female, gay and straight. The Congregation justly argues by referring to Amoris Laetitia that formators should: … teach them [young people] sensitivity to different expressions of love, mutual concern and care, loving respect and deeply meaningful communication. All of these prepare them for an integral and generous gift of self that will be expressed, following a public commitment, in the gift of their bodies. Sexual union in marriage will thus appear as a sign of an all-inclusive commitment, enriched by everything that has preceded it . However, in the second part of this quote heterosexual marriage is seen as the only medium for expressing the desirable attributes for young people’s formation – unfortunately reinforcing the exclusions mentioned in the previous paragraph above. The document makes what it regards as the well-founded assertion that: The Family is “an anthropological fact, and consequently a social, cultural fact” . However, social science has shown that this statement is inadequate for the study and understanding of contemporary families. The Church’s naturalistic understanding has its origin in the nineteen century and is based on traditional anthropological work and biological relatedness together with perceived kin relationships in other cultures. As Deborah Chambers points out the aim of this work was to affirm and confirm that contemporary Western family structures were universal and that the natural human coupling of ‘monogamous marriage is the final, correct and highest stage of social evolution’ (Chambers, 2012:16) – this appears to be the view of the Congregation which might be considered as a Western construct and culturally elitist. Social scientific work documents how an ideological shift in conceptualising the family started to develop which involved a move away from a naturalistic, reproductive and biological understanding (these were argued to be sustained by women’s subordination). The reconceptualised family displaced the functional centrality of the heterosexual couple (see also ‘…a natural social unit which favours the maximum realisation of the reciprocity and complementarity between men and women.’ ) and the procreation of children. Furthermore, the developing social understanding lead to terms associated with the naturalistic family such as the ‘household’ or ‘private sphere’ being replaced with terminologies such as ‘openness’ and ‘inclusion’ and use of the locution ‘families’ (Smart, 2007:27). David Morgan (1996) also demonstrated how issues associated with domestic violence and economic inequalities in the nuclear family shifted the focus of empirical research. In the 1990s nearly half of marriages in the US, UK and other Western countries were ending (Allan, 1996). Understanding of the family slowly evolved but they are now seen as increasingly fuzzy at their boundaries. However, Peter Laslett commented on the tenacious social understanding of the family: The wish to believe in the large extended kin-enfolding, multigenerational, welfare-and support-providing household, in the world we have lost, seems to be exceedingly difficult to expose to critical evaluation (Laslett, 2004:92). Carol Smart explains why this might be; keeping myths about family life in times past seems to be invincible to empirical evidence and this may have been because we were ‘dealing with aspirations, yearnings, falsehoods and nostalgia and this is emotive territory’ (Smart, 2007:16). Jacquie Gabb describes how families and intimacies are now understood sociologically: families as affective spaces of intimacy within which meanings and experiences are constituted by family members in an historical socio-cultural context rather than in accordance with naturalistic understandings of reproductive and socialisation function (Gabb, 2008:64). The Congregation’s document eludes these understandings and seems probably (it fails to reference) to refer to three theories which challenge its conceptualisation. The theories are often described and conflated to the detraditionalisation and democratisation theses. The first of these is derived from Anthony Giddens’ book the Transformation of Intimacy which is summed up in his thesis that a relationship existed ‘solely for whatever rewards that relationship can deliver’ and when a partnership ceased to ‘deliver’ or meet perceived needs couples simply separated by mutual consent (Giddens, 1992:6) . The second is to be found in a book the Normal Chaos of Love, by Beck and Beck-Gernsheim (1995) who argued that the traditional rules of marriage had been replaced. Intimate relationships were considered to involve an endless series of choices which required negotiations. Traditional family matters such as love, sex, children, marriage and domestic duties were augmented by brokering over work, politics, economics, jobs and inequality and matters associated with sex/gender transgression of heterosexuality’s binary norms. The third is found in Liquid Love, by Zygmunt Bauman (2003) who spoke of the frailty of intimate bonds and the associated sense of insecurity felt by individuals. This affective fragility required the individual to proactively manage the parameters of their ever-shifting intimate landscape. Theoretically, risk, anxiety and uncertainty were positioned by Bauman as central to contemporary intimate relationships, see . However, Deborah Chambers cites several academics who have attested to the inadequacy of these three detraditionalisation and democratisation theories. However, the theories are inadequate for describing the small-scale empirical studies of ‘family, kinship and friendship from the late twentieth century onwards’ (Chambers, 2012:39-40). She refers to the problems of: unawareness of the reality of everyday lives; exaggerating individual choice which is constrained by gender and class; and a dismissal of the fear of homophobia experienced in lesbian and gay families. Nevertheless, despite critics the detraditionalisation and democratisation theories have not entirely been rejected. They have also encouraged further empirical research in the field of intimacy and families studies, in a way that was similar to the earlier feminist critical study of The Family (Smart, 2007). Nevertheless Neil Gross argues that the cultural imaginary of the ideal romantic sexual couple is powerfully retained and that marriage persists as a ‘guiding cultural ideal’ for much of the Western population drawing attention to the resilience of patriarchal beliefs and practices (Gross, 2005:297-301). The persistence of this illusion further ignores the fact that the nuclear family is neither universal nor statistically confirmed to be stable, for example, ‘In 1950, 93% of children lived in a nuclear family … By 1998, 73% lived in a nuclear family,’(Casper and Bianchi, 2002:99) It the light of these socio-scientific developments in understanding it is somewhat misguided that the Congregation asserts: … every educational institute should provide itself with organizational structures and didactic programmes that ensure these parental rights are fully and concretely respected. If this is the case, the Christian pedagogy on offer will be able to provide a solid response to anthropologies characterized by fragmentation and provisionality. The Congregation additionally turns its attention to parenting by families and is clearly of the view that parents within the context of The Family have a clear responsibility for the affective and sexual education of their children and: … on account of the uniqueness of the loving relationship between parents and children; and it is irreplaceable and inalienable, and therefore incapable of being entirely delegated to others or usurped by others. This is a fine ideal but ignores research showing that contemporary fatherhood is concerned with bonding over leisure activities (Hofferth and Owens, 2001) and that Jamieson and Gillies et al assert that motherhood is manifest by ‘…tensions over communication, disclosures, surveillance and privacy’ (Chambers, 2012:81). Furthermore, parenting in the West is now seen as a negotiation scrutinised by agencies of the state such as schools and social agencies all embedded in the milieu of the world-wide web. Chambers shows that the study of the parenting practices of ethnic groups are diverse, but further research into this is impeded by Western methodologies. Recent studies of families show the importance of: migration, ethnicity, identity belonging, politics, economics and disadvantage in the host countries – these are many of the issues affecting family life which concern Pope Francis (2016,) Finally, the Congregation draws a curious (sometimes confused with polygamy and mainly identified as an American construct) attention to polyamory which it argues (without any references) conflicts with male-female coupling. Haritaworn et al define polyamory in this way: ‘Polyamory describes a form of relationship where it is possible, valid and worthwhile to maintain (usually long-term) intimate and sexual relationships with multiple partners simultaneously.’ (Haritaworn et al., 2006:515) which clearly conflicts with the Congregation’s assertion of instability and insecurity. However, Angela Willey (ibid) traces the genealogy of how the ideal monogamous male-female loving relationship others the ‘racialization of discourses of non/monogamy.’ (Haritaworn et al., 2006:524), this might account for the Congregation’s interest. Furthermore, most studies of new family forms which are situated outside heterosexual marriage confirm that they are not less committed (Chambers, 2012). Education and schools The document makes an excellent statement about the teaching of sex, gender, and relationships which should be undertaken in full consultation with the young person’s family who should be actively engaged in the process [40, 45]. In this way, young people should experience an environment which encourages them “to overcome their individualism and discover, in the light of faith, their specific vocation to live responsibly in a community with others.” . It is suggested that as an aid to the human formation of young people an education alliance is established between ‘family, school and society’ . This begs the question of what is meant by society – the world is a complex place as is illustrated by the controversy concerning the teaching about gender and LGBT issues in a Birmingham UK primary school, an online search reveals a multitude of articles concerning this ongoing controversy, for example, (BBC, 2019b). Furthermore, the document highlights a significant problem facing young people; the exposure to excessive overload of stimulating information that works against their ability to discern critically what it means to be male and female and to love authentically . Unfortunately, there is no suggestion how this situation might be resolved in contemporary society, neither in real or virtual life. Concerning education (using psychology, the arts and science) about gender theory (sex and gender) it is suggested that Catholic educators are fully informed not only with balanced academic debate and local legislation in this field but are supported in this endeavour by university research. [49, 50]. In academia, the relationship between sex and gender is far from resolved and definitive, in short, the Congregation’s aim is not possible because of the complexity of the various arguments and the paucity of relevant research in these fields. One is inclined to ask, what is the ‘Christian vision of man and women’ ? Furthermore, the document in is clearly opposed to what it sees as the ideology of gender which separates biological sex from social gender – I would argue that this binary is also more complex that the Church seems to understand. The document continues to argue that respectful teaching concerning young people’s understanding of sex and relationships should be ‘achieved through a way of accompanying that is discrete and confidential, capable of reaching out to those who are experiencing complex and painful situations.’ this is a positive aim; however, the document fails to specify what it means by these situations – I speculate that this may possibly be transgender young people. Complementarity and Gender theory Mary Anne Case cites Cardinal Ratzinger in saying: complementarity entails that ‘man and woman’ have ‘equal dignity as persons’ but that this equal dignity is premised on and manifest in essential and complementary differences, ‘physical, psychological and ontological (2016:2). Indeed, the Congregation argues that human sex identity is a relationship with God which can only be realised through a relationship with the opposite sex in the [heterosexual] male-female binary [4,32,33]. The male-female differences [17,18] the Vatican has in mind as essential include most of what secular law would characterize as sex stereotypes, a term many activist proponents of complementarity embrace rather than repudiate (Kuby, 2008). Case continues to argue that complementarity is a relatively new mid-twentieth century innovation. Three popes: Paul VI, John-Paul II and Benedict XVI used complementarity to develop their attack on gender theory. The Congregation extensively refers to gender theory [document title] or the ideology of gender for example in [6, 8, 10, 19, 21, 22, 34]. Referring again to Mary Anne Case: the Vatican and those operating under its influence around the world came to view the English word ‘gender’ as anathema and to associate the word with what it terms an ‘ideology of gender’ it sees as linking feminism and gay rights in a worldwide effort to redefine, not only secular laws governing the sexes, sexuality, reproduction, and the family, but human nature itself. As a result, the Vatican, in venues ranging from the United Nations to legislative bodies and protest movements in every part of the world, has opposed not only these changes in secular law and the NGOs and activists it sees as conspiring to bring them about, but the very use of the word ‘gender’ itself, whether in scholarly work or in legal documents. (2016:2) This extract is worth quoting at length because it sets the historical context to the church’s concern with the issue of gender theory. On one hand, Pope Francis (2016 ) has drawn attention to the need for a pastoral response to diverse family forms, whereas on the other hand, the Church has condemned forms of “gender theory” that trivialise the distinction of male and female. For the Church, gender theory is an ideology arguably emanating from Judith Butler (1993) who radically separates “biological” sex and “socially constructed” gender. She reiterates her understandings in a subsequent text arguing that the identities of women and men are understood as socially constructed and are not biologically essentialist (Butler, 2004:8). However, Butler has become less certain about this after her retrospective study of, ‘David Reimer, whose situation is referred to as the Joan/John case’ (Butler, 2004:59). I will argue that biology and gender are in fact complexly interrelated. However, there are different feminist understandings of gender, different interpretations among transgender theorists and the Church. The Congregation supports its arguments by drawing attention to ‘the whole field of research on gender that the human sciences have undertaken’ but they fail to cite any sources for this assertion – they fail to cite at many places in the document only citing the Scriptures, the doctors of the Church and other Vatican documents (Jones, 2019), there is clearly a need to remedy this omission. The document makes the important point that: While the ideologies of gender claim to respond, as Pope Francis has indicated, “to what are at times understandable aspirations”, they also seek “to assert themselves as absolute and unquestionable, even dictating how children should be raised” . The antagonism towards gender ideology is further reinforced: These ideas are the expression of a widespread way of thinking and acting in today’s culture that confuses “genuine freedom with the idea that each individual can act arbitrarily as if there were no truths, values and principles to provide guidance, and everything were possible and permissible” . Following Pope Francis’s critique of gender ideology, it is important to mention that, in recent years a new challenge has emerged amongst young people in Western schools (sometimes in primary). There would appear to be unfolding two broad clusters of young people which reflect the transgender experience and are relevant to this discussion. Unfortunately, the document fails to mention this trend which is a matter of concern for many Catholic (and other) schools and should be relevant to this discussion. Firstly, parents and professionals working with young people have observed a drift towards gender non-binary/gender queer. I would argue that this phenomenon is largely influenced by a socio-political ideology driven through a patriarchal understanding of male dominance and by an excessive fixation with gender issues within the media and celebrity culture. Furthermore, Brubaker contends that gender non-binary is “a political position; for others it is primarily a personal stance” (2016:116). It should not be ruled out that gender non-binary/queer identities may also be driven by the neo-liberal (market) emphasis on enlightenment individualism addressed powerfully by Pope Francis: Only by losing the fear of being different, can we be freed of self-centredness and self-absorption. Sex education should help young people to accept their own bodies and to avoid the pretension to cancel out sexual difference because one no longer knows how to deal with it (Francis, 2016:159 ). My recent voluntary work, over two years, in Leicester with about 20 teenagers (the group size fluctuated reflecting their instability and uncertainty as they struggled to make sense of their lives) reinforces the trend suggesting that the experience is current amongst young people. I refer again to the Holy Father: “If we can overcome individualism, we will truly be able to develop a different lifestyle and bring about significant changes in society” (Francis, 2015:99 ). However, there is a paucity of serious academic research into why this socio-political phenomenon is occurring – Brubaker and my analysis may be open to future challenge. Secondly, this occurrence of gender variance should not be confused with the increasing emergence of people who wish to be a member of the opposite sex, yet probably still a very small minority of the population, (some estimate between 0.9 and 1.7% of boys and girls in a general North American population (Fausto-Stirling, 2012))– these people would traditionally be labelled as transsexual or gender dysphoric. They are colloquially associated with the wrong body narrative – where their inner sense of gender identity is disassociated from the ascribed sex of the body (often referred to as the natal sex). In some children this dissociation will emerge to be persistent as the child develops. Whereas, for other children and older people there might be a migration between these two focal clusters of gender variance as their sense of gender/sex identity evolves or they may follow statistically normative gender patters. The well-established medical protocol from the treatment of adult people suffering from gender dysphoria is a combination of hormone therapy and surgery. Cognitive behavioural and psychoanalytic therapies are unsuccessful. The Church has long condemned sterilisation for contraceptive reasons. However, it has always allowed surgery for genuine therapeutic reasons even when this leads to loss of fertility. It will need to reconsider these issues in its approach to gender affirming treatment and surgery or it will be complicit in perpetuating the distress of these people. Further social scientific research is clearly needed concerning gender theory which might enable the Church to arrive at a more informed position. In support of the Church it is worth mentioning that having a social sex and gender, and a psychological sense of self affects all of us since sex and gender are significant forms of social stratification in almost all societies (Giddens, 2006:467, Morgan, 2011). Kath Woodward (2008) develops this further and argues that: all societies and cultures have a series of gendered attributes and expectations and practices that are associated with women and men … but they are almost always linked to the properties of the body (2008:83). What is clear is that educators will need an informed scholastic response to these gender issues. My understanding of the current social-biological argument concerning the sex/gender of a body is illuminated by the feminist biologist and historian of science Anne Fausto-Sterling (2000) who studied sexual embodiment and sexual erotic attraction. Fausto-Sterling belongs to: ‘a diverse group of scholars psychologists, animal behaviourists, hormone biologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and philosophers’ who share the understanding that our sexual essence is acquired before birth and unfolds as we grew and develop (Fausto-Sterling, 2000:6). The group see themselves as interactionists, in the sense that the body and the environment react with each other to produce behaviour patterns. They, through protracted discussion, arrive at the belief that the body has primacy in this relationship. Following this there has been an increased recognition that the body is involved in social processes. To consider the body-environment as a simplistic dualism is inadequate (Hill, 2006, Doyle and Roen, 2008, Woodward, 2006, Haraway, 2006, Rose, 1999, Connell and Messerschmidt, 2005). It is important to note that this belief is neither predicated on the facile idea that sex (a biological classification), is privileged over gender (social attributes), nor gender over sex, (Woodward, 2008). They are more complexly and contextually related within different historical scientific and cultural experiences (Fausto-Sterling, 2000). Even more recently, geneticists (Polderman et al., 2018) have reviewed genetic research and argue that gender identity is influenced in part by innate factors including genes. Based on the data reviewed, they hypothesize that gender identity (one’s sense of their sex) is a multifactorial complex trait with a heritable wide-ranging genetic component. They argue that increasing the awareness of the biological diversity underlying gender identity development is relevant to social, medical, and neuroscience research and foundational for reducing health disparities and promoting human-rights protections for gender minorities. However, they continue to suggest that additional studies with many more individuals are needed to determine the heritability of gender identity more precisely. Discrimination and violence The Congregation adopts the very laudable aim of addressing discrimination: From the whole field of writing on gender theory, there have however emerged some positions that could provide points of agreement, with a potential to yield growth in mutual understanding. For instance, educational programmes on this area often share a laudable desire to combat all expressions of unjust discrimination, a requirement that can be shared by all sides. Unfortunately, this intension is diluted in the following paragraph with reference to: ‘specific characteristics (such as special needs, race, religion, sexual tendencies, etc.)’ . Sexual tendencies is a vague phrase situated amongst the other demographics all of which are unnecessarily mentioned, in the context of this discussion, whereas gender identity is significantly omitted. Furthermore, the media reporting of the Vatican document (Versaldi, 2019) and its condemnation of gender ideology is a powerful influence not only on Catholics but the wider population. As such, the danger is a rise in hate crime against transgender people and the LGBT community generally – the public/media unfortunately do not distinguish between LGB and T (and further differences within the transgender label). Violence and discrimination against and even murder of transgender people is well documented in many countries and by the Jesuits (Rowniak and Ong-Flaherty, 2015:72). Recently in the UK the BBC (BBC, 2019a) reported that transgender hate crimes had risen by 81% during the financial year 2017-18. Many others also argue against the extreme violence and discrimination faced almost daily by transgender people. Transphobic violence is motivated by transgender people’s transgression of how sex/gender should be according to the naturalistic understandings of institutional heterosexuality. The Congregation will need to consider its complicity in this. The Congregation has not consulted intersex people, those whose chromosomal patterns are other than XX and XY, for example, XXY, XO, … furthermore, it offers too simplistic and unhelpful advice. suggesting that medics should alter the body to make it appear to be either male or female. A cursory glance at the Intersex Society of North America’s website suggests a good listening process directed at individuals and families: - Intersexuality is primarily a problem of stigma and trauma, not gender. - Parents’ distress must not be treated by surgery on the child. - Professional mental health care is essential. - Honest, complete disclosure is good medicine. - All children should be assigned as boy or girl, without early surgery. To aid my analysis of the document I introduced the concept of institutional heterosexuality, which is biologically essentialist and based on the dichotomies of sex, gender, and sexuality. The Church essentially describes this bio-socio structural arrangement as natural law and in the document sees it as an essential basis of Christian theology and not open to questioning. Marriage is a component of this structure and seen by the Church as a heterosexual relationship. Retaining the solidity of natural law seems to be more important than fostering other forms of human interactions and values. In holding this position, the Church excludes and marginalises people of good faith who are in other committed intimate relationships, especially those of different gender identities – does the church what to continue this exclusionary heteronormative privileging by a structure which is sociologically inadequate? The Church has a naturalistic understanding of The Family which consists of a married mother and father with children. Empirical research shows that this is unsatisfactory for the study and understanding of contemporary families. The Family is historically of European and American origin and is unstable. Families are now seen as being increasingly fuzzy at their boundaries whose structure is less relevant than what families do. However, the cultural imaginary of the ideal romantic sexual couple is powerfully retained and that marriage persists as a ‘guiding cultural ideal’ for much of the Western population drawing attention to the resilience of patriarchal beliefs and practices. The Church seems to hold this imagined reality, naming it The Christian Family, arguing that educational institutions should teach this in line with a milieu that fully accepts parental rights concordant with this view. However, in contemporary Western societies parental rights and responsibilities are a negotiation scrutinised by agencies of the state which are embedded in the ecology of the world-wide web. It is further argued, without evidence, that the naturalistic Family is the arrangement which is the best suited to challenge to anthropologies characterized by fragmentation and provisionality. Most studies of new family forms situated outside heterosexual marriage confirm that they are not less committed than the traditional family. Another perspective, which is less Western, is characterised by the increasing importance of migration, ethnicity, identity belonging, politics, economics and disadvantage in the host countries. These are issues affecting family life which concern Pope Francis. Does the church wish to continue with its teaching of the imaginary exclusionary Western family structure? Turning now to consider the education of young people. The utility of the document is for Catholics concerned with the formation of young people. This laudable aim is frustrated by convoluted language, uniformed scientific ideas and a homogeneous understanding of society which is not encouraging of effective pedagogical partnerships. Furthermore, the reality of information overload impinging on young people fails to be redressed. The prime purpose of the document, to attend to gender theory, is not realised since scientific understanding of the relationship between sex and gender is not at present fully realised. It might be argued that lack of Church comprehension extends beyond educational concern to include legislators. Should the Church continue with its gender ideological dogmatism? The document states that human sex is either a male or female identity in a relationship with God presumably based on a theological argument emanating from Gen 1:27. In contemporary Church teaching to be fully human relies on this male-female binary – an expression of the doctrine of complementarity. However, Mary Anne Case convincingly argues that this dogma is a recent invention developed to attack gender theory. Pope Francis tries to mitigate the effect of this through a more pastoral response to the reality of diverse families. Contemporary forms of gender fluid identities are derived from Butler using a socio-political ideology driven by a patriarchal understanding of male dominance and an excessive fixation with gender issues within the media and celebrity culture. Biology and gender are in fact complexly interrelated. However, the Church reasonably argues that the ideology of gender variance is considered by many to be ontological basis of human understanding. Turning away from an identity-based discussion, I drew attention to the important work of Anne Fausto-Stirling who essentially argues that sex (male-female) is determined by a complex interaction between the body and its environment – more recent research suggests that there may be a poly-genetic influence. Whatever the truth of these identity and bio-social issues turns out to be in the future, it is important that the transgender people and children (gender non-conforming and gender dysphoric) who are affected by these arguments are respected and receive appropriate pastoral care by the Church. Additionally, intersex people are primarily not associated with lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender identities they are different, however, the document offers too simplistic and unhelpful advice about these people who also need a good informed pastoral response. The discrimination and violence directed towards transgender people means that they are often discarded and shut out from everyday life – they exist on the edges or peripheries of society. Firstly, The Church might therefore wish to allow these marginalised people to move towards its centre. Secondly it might hold together its teaching (which might be applied to transgender people) in tension with its pastoral approach to the individual situation of a transgender person and their close family members. This tension will create an opportunity to flexibly and dynamically explore what is going on – the lived experience in the messy realities of family life. This is exactly where the Holy Spirit may become manifest releasing a new vigour, life and interpretation to help us know what God is calling us to do in this concrete and yet complex situation of transgenderism. 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Male and female He created them: towards a path of dialogue on the question of gender theory in education. Vatican City: Roman Catholic Church. WOODWARD, K. 2006. Boxing, masculinity and identity, the I of the Tiger, London Routledge. WOODWARD, K. 2008. Gendered bodies: gendered lives. In: RICHARDSON, D. & ROBINSON, V. (eds.) Introducing gender and women’s studies. Houndsmills: Palgrave Macmillan. During 1990 I undertook unpublished empirical research commissioned by Nottinghamshire Health Authority and this was a clear finding. The government funded research involved all secondary schools within the city and county including Catholic schools. The Vatican contends that this ideology is strictly sociological, but Judith Butler works at the University of California, Berkeley where she is the Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature. Furthermore her research expertise and interests are in critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, comparative literature, 19th and 20th century continental philosophy, social and political thought, philosophy and literature. https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/faculty/judith-butler [accessed 13082019] Butler reported the details of this case. Essentially David was born with XY chromosomes but at the age of eight months his penis was accidentally removed during the course of surgery. His parents were advised to raise him as a girl so he underwent further surgery to create rudimentary female genitals. Between 9 and 11 she began to question her female gender identity and subsequently with new medical advice and intervention started living as a boy at age 14. As Butler’s book was going to press in June 2004, she learned that David took his own life at age 35. Butler in her postscript raised the question, posed by him and for him, ‘was life in his gender survivable?’ She said, ‘The norms governing what it is to be a worthy recognizable and sustainable human life clearly did not support his life in any continuous or solid way’ (Butler, 2004b:74) By the age of 2 to 3 years children learn to correctly identify the sex of others … but even before then – as early as 18 months – they begin to develop an awareness of gender appropriate roles … A. Fausto-Stirling, Sex/gender: Biology in a social world. (New York: Current terminology refers to transgender people who are gender binary – beware terminology is constantly morphing into new terms. Children may be referred for careful assessment and treatment to the Gender Identity Development Service GIDS at The Tavistock Centre in London. They are not given surgery or cross hormone treatment. http://gids.nhs.uk/ Sex and gender are significant forms of social stratification in almost all societies.

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Darrow’s never again story from Ghana In a dark dungeon I stood with a broken heart on centuries-old dry excrement. I was visiting the Cape Coast Castle in Ghana, a transshipping point for African captives in the British Atlantic slave trade. In each dungeon, hundreds of slaves were so tightly packed that these desperate humans could only stand day and night for weeks at a time. In the courtyard above the dungeons, our guide pointed to a quaint, whitewashed two-story building (at the extreme left of the picture): “This is where the Christians met on Sunday for worship.” My heart was pierced. The British who ran this fort professed to worship Christ while, a few feet below them, thousands of slaves—each one precious to Jesus—suffered horribly. Here is the incredible irony of racism and slavery being perpetuated by people who professed Christ. This is the sinful heart perpetuating one of the most unjust evil institutions of all time. One of the greatest causes of poverty in the world is the lie of racism – “my race is superior to your race!” This lie has brought misery, injustice and poverty to millions of our black brothers and sisters, and others around the world. Engraved on the outside wall of the chapel (see the red arrow on the image above) was this sobering “never again” testimony. In everlasting memory of the anguish of our ancestors. May those who died rest in peace. May those who return find their roots. May humanity never again perpetrate such injustice against humanity. We, the living, vow to uphold this. The words “never again” struck me, An appropriate sentiment, but nothing more. Several hundred years later, during WW2, Nazis killed six million Jews, people made in God’s image deemed unworthy as a race. We see this lie manifest in other forms such as tribalism–my tribe is better than your tribe, casteism–my caste is superior to your caste, sexism–male is superior to female. America’s lamentable slave history fits here. Communists in the Soviet Union and China killed 100 million mostly minority people to ensure conformity to their Marxist ideology. The history of the USSR also includes ethnic cleansing of the Ukrainians, the Tartars, the Chechens and the Ingush among others, while in China they persecuted largely non-Han people such as the Hakas, Uighur, Kazakhs and Tibetans in their countries. In the Rwandan genocide in the 1980, Hutu and the Tutsi tribe members killed one another. Even today, a slave trade is active in Africa and the Middle East, including sex slavery in Europe, Latin America, the USA, Asia, the buying and selling of brides. We can go on and on. Why do these “isms” proliferate? Because of ignorance about or rejection of the principle established at creation that human beings are made in the image of God. Godless atheistic and pagan cultures demean people of different backgrounds. But there were men and women who took the “never again” seriously and stood against the tide of moral evil. William Wilberforce, parliamentarian and statesmen, and John Newton, the repentant captain of a slave ship, inspired and led a moral renewal in England that made slavery unthinkable and ended the slave trade. In the USA, Abraham Lincoln and Harriett Beecher Stowe led the emancipation movement, along with Harriett Tubman, who braved life and limb to create the Underground Railroad that ushered slaves to freedom. These, and the thousands who joined them, understood that before humans are slaves, they are human beings, and being human meant they could not be anyone’s property. While much of the world went sleepwalking, accepting or ignoring race as a moral evil, thousands of brave souls, black and white, fought to bring an end to racism and slavery. They believed in a moral universe. The current racial tensions and riots are not unique moments in history. All the racial, tribal, and sexual aberrations over the generations are cut from the same cloth. We who cried “never again” too often ourselves find ourselves in the same place. However, the issues raised by Black Lives Matter have caused me to reflect anew on racism. This series of blog posts is intended to give a worldview analysis regarding racism in America and globally. The Antidote to Racism: The Human race As we begin our worldview analysis of racism, we will begin by looking at the worldview that provides the antidote to racism. Bank tellers are trained to spot counterfeit bills, not by studying examples of fake currency, but by becoming intimately familiar with real money. In the same way, to recognize racism as the counterfeit it is, we must study the real currency. There is only one race, the human race, and each member is made imago Dei, in the image of God. Racism is a result of mankind’s rebellion against the Creator. The effects of the sin and the fall included a distorted understanding of what it means to be a human being. Once we have examined what is real, the human race, we will look at two major counterfeits derived from atheism (that is, anti-theism) in its modern and postmodern manifestations. When we define people primarily by their skin color, or ethnicity, we violate the unity of the one human race God created. Again, every single person has been made in the image of God, a truth derived from the biblical worldview of Judeo-Christian theism. In short, all lives matter! To disembowel racism requires beginning with a biblical worldview: blacks, whites, Asians and browns are all made imago Dei. But what does this mean? It means something dynamic and profound. In its simplest form, when God made human beings, where did he look for the pattern? Not at dogs or monkeys; He looked at Himself! When God made you, no matter what your physical characteristics, he imagined you like Himself. The thing that marks you more than your age, color, sex, height, weight, etc. is that you are imago Dei at the core of your being. In the first chapter of Genesis, the veil is pulled back on eternity past to reveal a conversation between the persons of the Trinity: Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, - in the image of God he created him; - male and female he created them. Two key words describe humankind as separate from the rest of creation. - צֶלֶם (ṣě·lěm): image, likeness, i.e., that which is a pattern, model, or example of something - דְּמוּת (demûṯ): likeness, i.e., that which has a similarity or comparison At the beginning, God noted just one difference between the two humans, their binary sexuality as male and female. Otherwise, they share their most basic identity as humans. Later, the narrative will introduce other distinctives within the human race, including skin color. But the fundamental reality is that both male and female, and all skin colors, have the same intrinsic worth and moral value because they are imago Dei. Think personally and deeply about this for a moment. Let it sink in to the depth of your soul. You are the very image of God! While human beings, like the rest of creation, are creatures, we are differentiated from the rest of creation in that we are made in the very image and likeness of God. What does it mean that we are the image of God? The image of God in humans has three facets that refract like a three-sided prism: the essential view, the relational view, and the functional view. The refraction of light from these three facets reveals the glory of imago Dei. We see these three aspects of the image of God in Genesis 1:26-28. The Essential View — Nature of Humanity: Gen. 1:26a, “Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.’” The Relational View – Community: Gen. 1:27, “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them.” The Functional View – the Cultural Commission: Gen 1:26b, 28: “And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. … And God blessed them. And God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth [the social commission] and subdue it, and have dominion [the developmental commission] over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” What do each of these mean? The Essential View – All human beings are like God. In three critical areas we are like God and unlike the rest of the created order. All human beings are endowed with a mind, heart and will. The mind is the attribute of intellect and includes knowledge, understanding and wisdom. The heart is the attribute of morals and includes holiness, love, grace, goodness, mercy, righteousness and patience. The will, the attribute of purpose, means human beings are free moral agents who can make decisions that shape history. As found in human beings these may be described as internal capital. This internal capital combined with the human body allows each and every human to fulfill the cultural mandate (see below) as a steward of creation. The external stewardship of creation requires the internal self-government of the mind, heart and will. In short, humankind stands apart from the rest of creation in design and function. Human beings are imago Dei. This is what separates us from the rest of creation! The Relational View – We are made for relationship Before the creation, God existed as three distinct persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—in one Deity. This Trinitarian model, unique among all philosophies and religions, is profound in that it establishes the unity and diversity of the human family. It allows us to celebrate our distinctives. God said, “Let us make man in our image,” not, “Let me make man in my image.” Community, communication and communion existed before the creation. To be made in the image of God is to be made for relationship that includes community, communion and communication. We are not made to be alone. While each human is absolutely unique, we are made for community. “It is not good for man to be alone!” In His eternal existence God is unity without uniformity and diversity without superiority. “Adam” captures the unity of humankind; all humans carry the DNA of the first couple. The diversity of mankind is found in such things as our male and female sexuality, our physical characteristics like facial features, height, skin color, our tribe/ethnicity, our individual personalities, and many other dimensions of human life. It takes this wonderful diversity to begin to reflect all that it means to be the Imago Dei. This diversity is to be enjoyed and celebrated. It is not meant to divide. The Functional View – We are here for a purpose Michael Novak, the Roman Catholic economist, makes a remarkable observation: Creation is full of secrets waiting to be discovered, riddles which human intelligence is expected to unlock. The world did not spring from the hand of God as wealthy as humans might make it. Novak understands that when God finished his work of creation, it was perfect, but not complete. It was filled with purpose and potential. And God’s intention was to have the human race to be his vice regents. We are to take what he made and do something with it; we are to develop the creation which God made full of abundance. This implies that wealth is not limited by the volume of natural resources in the ground (zero sum economics as atheists assume) but wealth can be conserved, invested, and grown (positive sum economics). Novak writes: We might call this a theology of economic man. This stands in stark contrast to evolutionism which states that human beings are cosmic accidents; we are here by chance, not by purpose. We are here as consumers, not creators. No, the scriptures and our design indicate that we are here for a purpose. We are economic creatures. We are to steward creation for human flourishing. Wealth is not, as the Marxists say, limited and to be divided and distributed. No, wealth is to be created by human beings of all races. In summary, we are made like God (the essential view), to form families (the relational view) to govern creation (the functional view). The nature of every human being, no matter what race, is that we are imago Dei. There is no place for racism in the Bible or in the world. This profound biblical principle led the Founding Fathers of the United States to proclaim, in the Declaration of Independence, a political document, We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. This was the first political document in history to enshrine the biblical principal that all men are created equal. This statement was the high water mark in human history for political documents recognizing the intrinsic equality of all human beings with certain absolute rights. These are God-given rights, they are not granted by the state and cannot be removed by the state or any institution or individual. Has the United States or any other nation reached this standard in practice? No! In fact some of the founders who professed this standard, owned slaves themselves. While no nation has perfectly met this benchmark (and some don’t even try), it became gold standard for political aspirations. Where did this standard come from? The Judeo-Christian scriptures. The Bible does not divide people into aggrieved groups based on skin color. It does not build one’s identity on race or sexual orientation. Rather, the Bible sees our primary identity in our humanity; each of us is imago Dei. This reality—a common humanity—precedes even the large gap the Bible places between God’s covenant people and those outside that company. We are all first and foremost children of God. And yet, at the same time, the Bible recognizes the wonder of the unique individuality of each human being, like the Trinitarian Community. - UNITY WITHOUT UNIFORMITY - DIVERSITY WITHOUT SUPERIORITY Our primary identity is our humanity. In this we are all equal and are to be treated with respect and dignity. Our diversity is not to divide us but to be celebrated in all its wonder. This understanding is derived specifically from the nature of the Creator. As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. so eloquently stated, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” But the Judeo-Christian worldview has been rejected for a posttheist, “God is Dead!” worldview. Ideas have consequences. As we move from the theistic mindset to an atheistic mindset, everything changes. We move from the human race to the ideology of race-ism. As the Harvard Crimson student newspaper put it unapologetically: “Everything is about race.” The issue is skin pigmentation, not our nature as imago Dei nor the content of our character. It’s a move from a dynamic view of human nature and the unity of the human race to a flat-earth view that reduces man to the physical or ethereal and leaves us divided racially. Two Forms of Racism The twin forms of racism most manifest today are born out of silent universe, a universe imagined without the Creator. One view is cut from the cloth of evolutionism, known as Social Darwinism, and promoted by Margaret Sanger of Planned Parenthood and the science of eugenics. The other is cut from the Cultural Marxist cloth is the view of Ideological Social Justice, the “nonracist” racism of Black Lives Matter. Both of these begin with atheistic premises about the nature of the universe. God does not exist, no moral or rational foundation underlies humanity. Human beings are a cosmic accident and have no purpose in life or in death. We are ruled by our passions and emotions. Atheism is an affirmation of faith, the denial of God, despite clear evidence of the Creator’s existence. Atheism, (and its offspring, evolutionism/Darwinism) is a comprehensive world and life view. They are ideologies, held in faith, that (falsely) answer life’s persistent questions, such as: What is a human? Where did we come from? How did we get here? Why are we here? Racism, as a concept, falls into the discussion of the nature of human beings. But today, because of modernism and postmodernism, the West divides human beings into two separated, unrelated parts. Both postmoderns and moderns dichotomize human life into the physical and spiritual, but they do so in diametrically opposed ways. Each claims that its preferred half defines all human reality. Each discards the other half, impoverishing both the individual and the society. This is profoundly dehumanizing. Christian professor and apologist, Nancy Pearcey gets it right when she states, Materialism reduces humans to products of physical forces. Postmodernism reduces them to products of social forces. Whenever a [religious ideology] absolutizes something less than God—no matter what it is—the result is reductionism, and a lower view of the human person. (Finding Truth, page 122) Now let’s examine each of these racist ideologies, grounded in atheism, one from the modern, naturalistic perspective of Social Darwinism and the other from the postmodern Critical Race Theory perspective of Ideological Social Justice. Modern Racism: Social Darwinism In a spirit of license, to rid the universe of a moral element, leaders of the atheistic revolution revolted against God. They insisted the idea of deity was an exploitational fiction and declared God dead. Thus the universe is without moral law. Social Darwinism was the application of Darwin’s ideas to society as a whole. This led to Fascism, the Nazis, eugenics, Planned Parenthood, the neo-Nazi/skinheads movement. Darwin proposed humans as a cosmic accident; life developed from some primordial soup and evolved over millions of years to higher forms. The first “human beings” were little higher than a chimpanzee, but destined to evolve into higher and higher forms of human life and finally reach the pinnacle of evolution: the blond, blue-eyed Aryans. Darwin deemed dark-skinned people—aboriginals in Australia and Negroes in Africa—a lower form of human life, while white-skinned were the highest form of human life and the best races. (See the first minute and 48 seconds of this short video.) Here are two graphics used in Nazi Germany and the US in the 1920s to teach the development of the human species and the science of eugenics. Planned Parenthood was founded by Margaret Sanger, a white supremacist, leading eugenicist and social Darwinist who wanted to help evolution improve the human species by applying the lessons of eugenicist science to women, mothers, pregnancies and babies. Sanger saw people of color as weeds in the garden. Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives. In addition, Sanger wrote: Hordes of people [are] born, who live, yet who have done absolutely nothing to advance the race one iota. Their lives are hopeless repetitions … Such human weeds clog up the path, drain up the energies and the resources of this little earth. We must clear the way for a better world; we must cultivate our garden. Margaret Sanger was a racist and a leader of the eugenics movement in the USA at the same time the Third Reich in Germany was planning its eugenics strategy to rid Germany and Europe of those the Germans, particularly Jews, declared Lebensunwertes Leben – “life unworthy of life.” Because of her racist tendencies and eugenics goals, Sanger placed her clinics in poor urban neighborhoods in the United States where people of color lived. Her racist legacy is established by the number of black babies who were not allowed to live because their skin is the wrong color. We have written about that here. In today’s world a woman’s “right to choose” an abortion is of higher value than the lives of the most vulnerable—black babies and their mothers. If racism were so important to Black Lives Matter and their white, liberal supporters, they would bring down Planned Parenthood, one of the most racist organizations in the US. But Planned Parenthood receives not a peep of protest from BLM. Why? Because BLM is a racist antiracist organization. More on this below. In the Darwinian racist scheme, what is a human? An evolved animal. More highly evolved humans are better than less highly evolved. This is racism pure and simple. The lie: White is better than black! Light-skinned people are better than dark-skinned people. Merriam Webster’s Dictionary defines racism as: “The belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.” Race is biological! You are born inferior because of your skin pigmentation or ethnic background. Postmodern Racism: Ideological Social Justice The second form of racism to examine is Ideological Social Justice variety, from what is known as Critical Theory or Social Marxism. It is manifest most powerfully today through the organization known as Black Lives Matter. These are the racist anti-racists. They profess to oppose racism, yet their ideologies and methodologies often demonstrate a postmodern racist ideology. Working from Critical Theory, they deny the modern understanding of reason and science as “white race” ideology, and define everything in terms of social construction. As DNA president Scott Allen has written, They believe science, reason, and evidence are a ‘white’ way of knowing and that storytelling and lived experience is a ‘black’ alternative. I’ve found it very hard to reason with people who have absorbed critical race theory. They always come back to personal stories and anecdotes, for which they feel very strongly. Emotion is a huge part of this. These personal experiences cannot be challenged. Yet from these, they extrapolate to the whole (the system, the institution, etc.), but if you make the case using evidence and reason that that extrapolation can’t be supported, they just discount the effort. In the past, reason and evidence seemed to carry some weight in disputes. Not so much now. The underlying framework of Ideological Social Justice reveals it for what it is: Cultural Marxism. Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors she was asked in an interview if BLM needed a more clear ideological structure. She responded that “we actually do have an ideological frame … we are trained Marxists” and “super versed on ideological theories.” (You can hear her say that here.) Black Lives Matter exemplifies this “new” racism Let me explain. Intersectionality was popularized by civil rights advocate and lawyer, Kimberlé Crenshaw. Adia Harvey Wingfield writes that Crenshaw, “introduced the theory of intersectionality, the idea that when it comes to thinking about how inequalities persist, categories like gender, race, and class are best understood as overlapping and mutually constitutive rather than isolated and distinct.” In other words, society is encouraged to subdivide and frame one’s identity at the narrower point of the intersection. No longer is it simply black and white, straight and homosexual, men and women. Now, a black lesbian is differentiated from a white lesbian. An Hispanic, homosexual male is a different class of person from a transgender Asian. Instead of a framework that unites people, we are witnessing divisions of people into smaller and smaller aggrieved groups. This is the application of Cultural Marxism and, tragically, marks the rise of what can only be called a “new tribalism.” What unites people in the intersectionality framework is oppression. These people are victims of white privilege. They are all oppressed by the systems white European males have created. It is white European males who are the racists. What makes them racist? Their whiteness. In today’s climate, the way to become nonracist is to be woke, to admit that because you are white, you are racist, and you are expected to literally bow the knee to the ideology of BLM. Victimization accrues power. The more victim categories you can accrue, the higher your “intersectionality” score. There is no victimization in a biblical worldview where “All Lives Matter!” But the mantra “Black Lives Matter” does not mean all black lives matter or that black youth killed by other black youth lives matter. No. To Black Lives Matter, only the lives of young, unarmed, black men killed by white cops matter. And their lives matter, not because they are made imago Dei; that is a racist idea. No, they matter because of their high level of victimization, their intersectionality score. Herein is the new tribalism, an example of microtribalism comprised of very small intersectional victim group. To BLM, the organization and the movement, not all black lives matter. BLM does not care about all human life. It does not even care about all black lives. It does not care about the 1000+ black babies killed every day in the United States by the racists at Planned Parenthood, or the 7500 black youth killed every year by other black youth. Why do they not care? Because these deaths do not support their narrative, which is only concerned with the small victim class of young, unarmed, black youth killed by white cops. Do the lives of Trevon Martin, Freddie Gray, Michael Brown, George Floyd and others matter? A resounding yes! Why? Not merely because they were young unarmed black men killed by white cops. Their lives matter because they are human beings. But why do only their lives matter? Why don’t the 363,705 black babies killed every year by abortion matter? Again, it’s about the BLM narrative. The stories of these young black men killed by white cops accrue power for the BLM organization. They are very visible “symbols” of the police brutality that is the primary leverage point of the organization. BLM has learned how to weaponize this particular victim group to promote their narrative. Their goal is to destroy Western civilization (which, in their view, was created by racist white, European males). If you are white, by definition, you are racist. A white cop is a racist cop. Herein is the anti-racist racism. In this frame, what is a human? An expendable pawn in an ideological movement, a slave to groupthink. A human has no individual value, is not free to think or speak independently. The group must think and speak as one. The lie: Your individual life means nothing. The victim class to which you belong is used to promote a Marxist ideology rooted in Atheism and denies Judeo-Christian theism (a moral God and moral universe) and the Western Civilization founded on that theism. Scholar and prolific author Nancy Pearcey writes of this phenomenon in Finding Truth. [Cultural Marxism] reduces individuals to puppets of social forces … it implies that individuals are powerless to rise above the communities to which they belong. It … dissolves individual identity into group identity. Individuals are little more than mouthpieces for communities based on race, class, gender, ethnicity and sexual identity. The new definition of racism is prejudice plus power. It applies only to white people by virtue of their monopoly on cultural power. Only white people are racists. Victims are nonracist. Thus the new racists are “nonracist.” Human beings are without substance. To use Arthur Koestler’s term, they are the “ghost in the machine.” Our identity has no transcendent nor physical quality; it is simply a social construction. Race is institutional. It is the system constructed by white, European, Christian males to maintain power. In When Marxist Mobs Come for the Liberals Daniel Greenfield writes, The radicals tearing down statues see religion as enslaving, not liberating. That’s one possible reason so many churches and synagogues were vandalized during the Black Lives Matter riots across America. Emancipation once meant that slaves were freed from slavery and that the nation was freed from the sin of slavery. That 19th century political theology has long since been discarded to argue that emancipation, for the former slaves or for the nation, is impossible. The conjunction of critical race theory and black nationalism contend that the original sin wasn’t really slavery, but whiteness. America will be as racist and oppressive as it is white. The only way to advance is through destruction Modern racism is rooted in the physical: skin color and facial features. In postmodernism, race is rooted in ideology, i.e. “whiteness.” The Smithsonian National Museum of African History and Culture – NMAAHC – has established an online teaching tool based on Critical Race Theory, titled “Talking About Race.” NMAAHC defines whiteness as Whiteness and white racialized identity refer to the way that white people, their customs, culture, and beliefs operate as the standard by which all other groups of are compared. The document includes a graphic that summarizes “whiteness” and its vices. Among these are, - The significance of the individual and personal responsibility, - The natural or “nuclear” family composed of father, mother and their children, - Objective thinking, i.e. the pursuit of truth, through science and rationality, - Dignity of work and entrepreneurship, - Delayed gratification. So, if these are the vices of whiteness, are their opposites the virtues of non-whiteness? If hard work is a vice, is idleness a virtue? If delayed gratification is a vice, is instant gratification a virtue? If the natural or nuclear family is a vice, then broken families and non-binary families must be the virtue. If personal responsibility is a vice, is negligence the virtue? I do not think so! Is anything more racist than this perspective? To be black is to be a victim, incapable of using one’s God-given gifts? No! This idea is demeaning and robs the image bearer of dignity, worth, value, opportunity, etc… His life is only good if others DO for him. This again denies the mandate given by God to ALL His image bearers. People who have embraced this have done amazing things with their lives. Think of people like George Washington Carver, Harriett Tubman and Sojourner Truth. These virtues and vices have nothing to do with whiteness or blackness, but everything to do with a cultural mindset, or worldview. Your worldview determines not only how you see the world, but how the world works and the kinds of communities and nations you build. A worldview is a set of ideas, a mindset that may be held by any person and has nothing to do with skin pigmentation. The ideas and virtues that NMAAHC identify as “whiteness” were born in the Middle East, from an ancient Afro-Asiatic language family of Semites. The “patriarch” of this family was likely brown skinned male, from Ur of the Chaldees, now modem day Iraq, not far from the Persian Gulf. The man’s ancient name was Abram, now known as Abraham, the father of the ancient Jewish and Arab peoples. The Jews abandoned the tribal deities and family altars of their ancestors. They repented of the animism all around them and turned to the one true God. Their concept of reality was transformed. It changed them, and not only them. It changed the world forever. In his book The Gift of the Jews, Historian Thomas Cahill observes: The Jews gave us a whole new vocabulary, a whole new Temple of the Spirit, an inner landscape of ideas and feelings that had never been known before. Because of their unique belief—monotheism—the Jews were able to give us the Great Whole, a unified universe that makes sense and that, because of its evident superiority as a worldview, completely overwhelms the warring and contradictory phenomena of polytheism. They gave us the Conscience of the West. . . . The Jews gave us the Outside and the Inside—our outlook and our inner life. We can hardly get up in the morning or cross the street without being Jewish. We dream Jewish dreams and hope Jewish hopes. Most of our best words, in fact—new, adventure, surprise; unique, individual, person, vocation; time, history, future; freedom, progress, spirit; faith, hope, justice—are the gifts of the Jews. If people, communities, and nations are to flourish, this outlook is critically important. It is metaphysical capital, a mindset that reflects reality. Truth sets people and nations free to thrive. Metaphysical capital is more important than physical capital in the flourishing of nations. These ideas and virtues represent the transforming mindset of monotheism, originally witnessed by the ancient Jewish people in the Torah and later by followers of Jesus Christ. The list of what the NMAAHC has called whites has nothing to do with whiteness. These ideas have been embraced by people from all over the world of every skin pigmentation and people group. The postmodern view of racism is rooted in ideology – Critical Racial Analysis. It is rooted in a very different set of ideas than Judeo-Christian Theism. It is rooted in atheism and is marked by very different set of ideas and virtues. And these ideas are bringing a cosmic shift, at this point to what has been known as the western world. While it purports to be against the racism of the Nazi and neo-Nazi type, it is actually a new form of racism, a hatred of people who are “white.” But ultimately the new form of racism, is a hatred of a set of ideas born in the ancient Middle East that have done more to bring flourishing to people of all skin colors and ethnic groups who have embraced these ideas. As a result, “people of color” like brilliant economists Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and cultural commentators Larry Elder and Candice Owens who embrace these ideas are considered “Uncle Toms” and traitors to the black community. They are ignored or even “erased” by those in the press, academia and politics. Why? Because these men and women are free thinkers and are challenging the Critical Racial Theory narrative and BLM. Joe Biden, the presumptive nominee for the Democrat nomination for President, stated on a popular radio talk show, Biden: “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.” While Biden later apologized for this incredibly racist comment, it is a reflection of the narrative that to be black you must think a certain way and you must vote for a particular political party. Race has moved from biology to ideology. The “anti-fascists,” as exemplified by Black Lives Matter (the organization) are the new racists. They segregate people into smaller and smaller victim classes and declare that all white people, by being white, are racist. All People are Racist There is still racism in America. When it rears its ugly head it needs to be challenged and where people have been harmed by its presence, we need to walk beside them and they need to know our compassion. There are racist whites, Asians and blacks. Some whites, some Asians, are racist toward blacks. Some blacks are racists towards whites, and perhaps toward Asians. Some lighter-skinned Latins are racist toward Latins with indigenous blood lines. I was teaching a workshop in Latin America when a young woman of mixed race, black and Spanish blood, came up in tears, before 150 students, to confess the racism in her own family. She was one of several children and in the middle of the pigmentation line. She felt inferior to her lighter siblings and looked down on her siblings who were darker. The global phenomenon of anti-Semitism is another dimension of racism. Throughout history, wherever Jews have gone, they have been hated. Anti-Semitism is again raising its ugly head in Europe and North America. There is racism in America because there is racism in the human heart. In the past, America has practiced systemic racism. By and large, this is not true today. The work of the Civil Rights movement and the leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King helped bring a cultural and policy shift in American life. However the anti-racists are themselves racists. They see “whiteness” as racist. What could be more racist than that? By their thinking, a white person can only be accepted if he becomes woke, accepts the narrative of BLM and bows the knee to Critical Race Theory. In this framework, the United States is no longer unified around allegiance to the constitution, the vision of liberty and the American flag as a symbol of the freedom. No, whites must bow the knee before the ideology and agenda of the BLM organization. Antifa, the fascist antifascists, shows a similar irony. These are postmoderns using fascist tactics against those whom they consider fascists. From a biblical perspective, all human beings are sinners. Sin is rooted deeply in our hearts and lives. A clear teaching of the Bible is that, because of Adam’s original sin and our own moral choices, we are each sinners (Genesis 6:5-6; Matt. 15:19; Romans 3:23). This is personal moral evil. Yes, evil has three faces. Personal moral evil is the most fundamental. Then there is natural evil: floods, earthquakes, famines, etc, and there is institutional evil. Racism be it personal or institutional – systemic – (like slavery, Apartheid, or anti-Semitisms). All three forms of evil are to be fought, beginning with the sin in our own heart, as well as its manifestation in the institutional evil of racism. While this will mean a change in policies of organizations and institutions, a change in laws and policies is not enough. Why? Because behind the institutions are people and ideologies. Without changing people’s ideas, values and hearts, you may change the laws of a state or the policies of an institution, but you will not solve the problem of racism. The solution must change the human heart. Without change at the level of culture, the old culture will simply form new racist institutions. Without love replacing envy and hatred in the human heart, racism will continue to raise its ugly head. This is counter to the prevailing mood that institutions are evil but humans are basically good. Because we are all are sinners, we are all capable of racism. Personal moral racism leads to racist institutions. But one can tear down an institution without rooting out the racism in the heart. The thoughtless mood of the day is to tear down institutions and deconstruct history. Some believe racism will disappear as a result. So we have riots and looting, burning down buildings and business, dismantling or defunding police forces, destroying national monuments, and even deconstructing history, as with the New York Times 1619 project. Unchecked, these will result in anarchy which in turn will bring a new police state. Why? Because the root of the problem is the human heart. The American actor Denzel Washington stated in an interview: You can change the law, but if you go home and teach your son how to hate every day, doesn’t matter what law has been changed until you teach your son how to love, then then the law is not going to change the way your son feels. Two great Russian novelists understood this more than most Christians do today. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–1956), wrote in The Gulag Archipelago, If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? Leo Tolstoy wrote, “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” Yes, institutional evil needs to be addressed wherever and whenever it exists. However, evil institutions will arise without addressing the evil in man’s heart. Only the cross of Christ has the capacity to deal with that evil. Both the old and new forms of racism are derived from the same a-theistic (against Judeo-Christian theism) faith. And these views are radically distinct from the Judeo-Christian worldview. As Francis Schaeffer said in The Christian Manifesto, These two worldviews [Judeo-Christian theism and A-theism] stand as totals in complete antithesis to each other in content and also in their natural results —including sociological and governmental results, and specifically including law. …. It is not that these two worldviews are different only in how they understand the nature of reality and existence. They also inevitably produce totally different results. The operative word here is inevitably. It is not just that they happen to bring forth different results, but it is absolutely inevitable that they will bring forth different results. The atheistic worldview of secularism and the theistic worldview of the Bible articulate very different concepts of human life. On the atheistic side, the Darwinist posits that we are simply animals or complex machines, the product of a cosmic accident, while the Cultural Marxist holds that the world can be divided between evil oppressors and innocent victims, and that the oppressors can be identified by their skin color. Atheism grounds both the old and the new concepts of racism. Theism, on the other hand, affirms that we are the very image of God, that human life is sacred and was created for a divine purpose. There is absolutely no ground for racism. All lives matter! As our discussions move forward it is important to make several distinctions. The first is to distinguish between Black Lives Matter as an organization and that all black lives matter as a conviction. BLACK LIVES MATTERTM is an international advocacy organization focused primarily on the lives of young black men who have been murdered by white cops. “Black lives matter” is a conviction that all black lives matter and should be treated with dignity and justice. This is an eternal principle quite simply because all human beings are created imago Dei. The ideologues behind the BLM organization and movement are directly opposed to the first principle, established at creation,that all black lives matter because, as human beings, they are made Imago Dei. They are offended when you say “All lives matter!” This statement is branded a racist statement. A second needed distinction can be pictured by the difference between drug pushers and drug users. Users need our love, compassion and care; pushers need to be brought to justice because of the death, broken lives and families in their wake. Similarly, we need to distinguish between sincere people protesting abuse on black lives and destruction of black communities, and those who lead the organization and movement BLM. The former need to be identified with. The latter need to be brought to justice for the chaos, havoc and poverty they are intentionally bringing to the black and larger community. Third, we need to distinguish between a revolutionary movement and a reformation movement. The former is a revolt, a turning against the old order and the foundations – the first principles that established that order. For instance the first principles, among others, of Europe and the United States founding are that the Creator God exists. The universe is moral and intelligible. Man is made in the image of God. A revolution wants to sever the tree from its roots, to kill the tree, to destroy the institutions and culture born from those roots. The French Revolution and the Communist Revolution are examples of revolt. Their intentions are to overthrow the foundations of Western Civilization and replace them with counterfeit first principles such as there is no Creator, we are here by chance, the universe is amoral and purposeless. Human beings are at best merely highly evolved animals and at worst machines. BLM, like its Marxists parents, is a revolutionary movement seeking to destroy the old Judeo-Christian foundations and the unjust Western civilization. Contrast that with a reformation movement. Instead of revolting against, a reformation wants to return to the principles that gave birth to a civilization, to restore the foundations and reform the society based on the old truths. The reformer’s task is to nurture the roots so the tree will flourish again. The Protestant Reformation in Europe was a return to the Bible, to biblical principles and biblical worldview. This return to the foundations allowed the Reformers to reform the institution and structure in Europe, bring educational reform, and social, economic and political transformation to the continent. The founding of the United States was a reformation, the formation of a new nation based on sacred first principles. Finding Hope In the Midst of Despair Twenty-four-year-old mother Jessica Doty Whitaker was shot and killed after an argument with BLM. Someone in a group of BLM supporters shouted “black lives matter” to Whitaker and a group of her friends. Jessica responded by saying “all lives matter.” Jessica’s punishment for saying all lives matter was to be shot in the head. Either all lives matter, including young unarmed black men shot by white police officers, or no lives matter. If only the lives of unarmed black man shot by a white officer matter then it is no big deal to shoot a 24-year-old woman simply for proclaiming all lives matter. At a time when the world seems to be falling apart, is there any hope? In a time when a white cop would murder a black youth, and someone would murder a young mother for saying all lives matter, is there any place for hope? There is only despair in the old racist culture of Margaret Sanger and Adolph Hitler and the new racist culture of Critical Racial Theory of BLM. An empty, silent universe cannot satisfy humans. What is needed is a universe envisioned and created by God, a transcendent universe, one with the presence of the infinite-personal creator. We need a universe filled with life and birth, of seed and womb, a universe that is a place of life and unity, uniqueness and diversity, a universe where God exists and human beings are created in His image. God is not made in man’s image, as those with hollowed out lives would argue. No! When God conceived you, where did he look for the pattern? He looked at himself! He made you imago Dei. What is needed is the deep personal and cultural understanding of the Cross of Jesus Christ. The horror of racism can only be solved in the heart and minds of individuals. But not with a simplistic gospel that leads to a deep spiritual/physical divide or love/truth divide that lacks the foundation of a biblical worldview. What the United States and Europe need right now is a new Reformation based on the biblical worldview (BWV) and biblical first principles. Christians must become a counter-cultural movement, neither of the left or the right, presenting an alternative in the unique, hopeful worldview of the scripture. The dilemma today is that too many Christians do not function from a biblical worldview. Rather, they operate unconsciously from a postmodern, neo-Marxist paradigm. Dr. Van de Poll, a prominent African theologian, commented on this phenomena in the African context. Because the gospel was not brought to the people as a new, totally encompassing life view which would take the place of an equally comprehensive traditional life view, the deepest core of the African culture remains untouched … The convert in Africa did not see the gospel as sufficient for his whole life and especially for the deepest issues of life. For that reason, we find the phenomenon across Africa today that Christians in time of existential needs and crises (such as danger, illness and death) fall back on their traditional beliefs and life views … The sad fact is that many Western missionaries to Africa focused on a narrow gospel. Numbers of converts and new churches were regarded the exclusive measures of success. Lost in the process was a commitment to the discipleship of Christians in a biblical worldview. My friend and colleague Jeff Wright said it so well: “The Christian today is ill-equipped to answer the questions they want answered about race and justice and so they see a big, shiny Trojan horse of a movement, that, on the outside, says what they think a Christian should be saying and they respond, ‘Sign me up!’” Because too many Christians fail to think “worldviewishly,” we lack the capacity to understand the times. Too often we are moved by emotions rather than reason and the word of God, and simply want to join the latest movement, be it good or ill. As Christians we must think critically and worldviewishly. We must stand against the spirit of the age, be it the modern naturalistic world that enlivened the racism of the Nazi’s in the last century or the postmodern world of Critical Racial Theory enlivening the new racism of the 21st century, Writer and researcher Elizabeth C. Corey affirms this in her article at First Things, “The First Church of Intersectionality.” One of my African-American colleagues was recently asked to give an interview about what it felt like to be a black professor at a largely white university. He refused. As he said, “I don’t identify as black.” The student who had approached him was perplexed, because the professor is indisputably black. But he was making a point that should be underscored: He does not choose to allow his membership in a particular racial group to determine who he is. He is not in denial about being black; he’s well aware of his skin color and origins. But he sees himself through other characteristics: He is a prolific writer, a religious person, a father. This understanding is rooted deeply not in race consciousness, but in human consciousness. We are all one, a member of the human race. This concept is touted and grounded in scripture. Genesis 1:26-27 affirms that all human beings are made in the image of God. Whatever else that includes, it means that as human beings we have unity as God-image bearers, and we have glorious diversity in His image as well. We exhibit, at the same time, unity without uniformity, diversity without superiority. Human beings are of one race, the human race. We have one set of first parents, Adam and Eve, who in their bodies had the DNA components for all the great diversity of the human family. Before we are male or female, we are human beings, before we are Latins, Asians, African, American, Indian, we are human beings. Before we are black, white, or brown, we are one race, the human race all decedents from onset of first parents. Acts 17:26 affirms that we have one blood in our veins: “And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, ….” All human beings are of one blood. What an incredible message. When I look at my friends from Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe, I realize we are bound together by one blood. Revelation 7:9 celebrates this great diversity of peoples and nations united in one kingdom: “After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb.” It would be wise to let the coming kingdom of God be the pattern of unity for our nations. The Latin phrase e pluribus unum—out of many, one—captures the counterpoint of intersectionality, the radical action of living out the concept of unity in diversity of imago Dei It seems to me that this is the more helpful framework for our discussion. It reflects both the nature of God and the nature of His creation, including our own nature as human beings. The antithetical order of atheism leaves us with two racist alternatives Social Darwinism and Ideological Social Justice. We need to affirm that all human beings are made imago Dei and as such there is only one race, the human race. Racism needs to be fought and slain, be it in the Social Darwinian or the Social Justice form. All lives are to be enjoyed and celebrate, because all lives matter, each is made imago Dei!

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Women are wearing black to the 2018 Golden Globe Awards to protest sexual harassment and raise awareness for Time’s Up, a new initiative fighting sexual misconduct in Hollywood and beyond. As the stars take the red carpet for tonight’s ceremony, they explain the powerful reasons why they went all-noir for the awards show. Meryl Streep: “I think people are aware now of a power imbalance and it’s something that leads to abuse, it has led to abuse in our own industry. We want to fix that and we feel emboldened in a thick black line dividing then from now.” Related article: All The Red Carpet Looks From The Golden Globes 2018 Debra Messing: “I am wearing black to thank and honor all of the brave whistle blowers who came forward, shared their stories of harassment, assault, and discrimination. I’m wearing black to, to stand in solidarity with my sisters all over the globe and I’m here to celebrate the rollout of this incredible initiative Time’s Up. 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We get to be here to celebrate each other and support each other and stand in joy and solidarity and say we are looking out for anybody who feels marginalized in the workplace, whether you’re a woman or man, because of your sexual orientation, age, race, gender, we’re here to support you. Which is part of the reason why we’ve formed the legal defense fund, which has already raised $15 million, 60 countries, all 50 states and Puerto Rico, people have just been donating because the legal defense fund is to go to people who have faced assault or prejudice or abuse in the workplace and don’t have access to legal representation. So we’re committed to making a change not just in our industry, but every industry.” Katherine Langford: “What we’re doing is supporting work that’s already been done by so many people for such a long period of time, but tonight is special for the Time’s Up movement, which is supporting equality not just for women but also for men and all non-binary people across every industry. And the reason we’re wearing black is to show solidarity with everyone.” — Variety (@Variety) January 7, 2018 Sarah Jessica Parker: “It’s been thrilling, it’s been thrilling. I am incredibly excited, impressed by the work that is being done. I know you have spoken to a lot of my sisters tonight, who have been in the trenches, but I think it is an enormous show of support tonight. I think it speaks to the appetite, to the climate that exists. This is a conversation that as complicated as it is, it seems to be welcomed by everybody. I know it has affected your network. I know that there, there have been conversation that have been challenging for all of us. But I think it’s incredibly timely, exciting. Parity, equality, safe work environments shouldn’t be controversial. So I am delighted thrilled to be here and talk about this rollout for Time’s Up. It’s an honor and privilege to work amongst women that I’ve admired for so long and never even thought I’d get to meet. And to see them do this sort of work and commit themselves is really quite something. It’s more important to know that it is across industries. It is about women in all industries and men quality, parity, safe work environment, really simple, for everybody in the country. It is an exciting and daunting job and we are all dying to dive into the work ahead.” Viola Davis: “I think it’s a coming out. You know, it’s all of these women just embracing their authentic voices and standing in solidarity with each other. One of the things I want to express to the public: I think people feel like Hollywood could be out of touch at times. But for me I’m here because I hear the voices of women who said me too, which, one of them was me. I hear those people who are nameless, faceless every day who don’t have a platform to talk about their sexual assault and rape, and I hear those voices. It’s like someone says there’s no prerequisites to worthiness. You’re born worthy and I think that’s a message a lot of women need hear. The women who are still in silence because of trauma, shame due to the assault. They need to understand that it’s not their fault and they’re not dirty. That’s my message tonight.” Watch this space for updates. This article originally appeared on Harper’s BAZAAR US.

After 13 years, this November 2021 the tutelage that weighed on the Queen of Pop Britney Spears ended, and to celebrate it Head Bitch Music in association with the SoCal chapter of the ACLU have created an exceptional album of covers that includes some of the best musical pieces by the iconic pop artist, performed by the voices of 19 female and non-binary artists. This album is not only music, it is also a message of solidarity and an example of what can be achieved when alliances are created in favor of just causes such as this. This record consists of 17 songs -many of Spears’ most charted- and includes collaborations with artists such as Gay Hollywood, JPOLND, Dresage, Kids at Midnight, ZOLA, Illicit Ghost, Boh Doran, Talker, and Leah Levi, among many others who became the architects of the album. Each version presents authentic nuances that bear the signature of the artists, therefore we are not lying when say that you will listen to the songs that you loved in the past, with a new stamp and style that enhances the melodies with incredible arrangements. 25% of the proceeds from the album sale will go to the ACLU SoCal Chapter to help combat abuse and inequity. Dresage, who was in charge of covering Oops I did it again, said “I chose to get involved in the #freebritney project because I was sickened by the control exposed over her life via her abusive conservatorship. I hope this can shed light on arrangements like this for all people from pop stars to everyday people who are in abusive, controlling situations. Oops! … I did it again is such a jam, and one of my favorites growing up. I can’t even believe how iconic the song is, it was a no-brainer to take it in a slightly unhinged horror pop direction ”. Talker did the Lucky cover and about the case indicated that “(…) I kept thinking about how if someone like Britney Spears who seemingly has so much power and money can be in this situation, how many other people must be trapped in situations – without the entire world rallying behind them. I’m honored to be part of this project and had so much fun producing this track ”. For Leah Levi “Britney’s story is both heartbreaking and inspiring. A project supporting the voice and independence of a woman whose art has helped many find liberation themselves is one that I’m honored to stand behind. It’s an honor to be a part of this project with so many other gifted individuals. I hope this collaborative project helps bring awareness, aid, and peace to those struggling within their own conservatorships ”. Britney is the youngest artist to reach an impressive 12 platinum albums. Everything was the result of her work and perseverance. In 1999, she was nominated for two Grammys (including the coveted “Best New Artist”). At the “1999 MTV Europe Awards” she won the awards for: “best female singer”, “best pop artist”, “best staging” and “best song”. To support her, many artists were present through social networks, including her former romantic partner Justin Timberlake, the world-famous Madonna, and even the South African tycoon Elon Musk. This case had so much resonance in social media that two congressmen from the United States, one from the Republican Party and the other from the Democrat party, presented a bill that seeks to facilitate changes in the tutelage of Britney but also of others. people affected by the same measure. So as you listen to these incredible homages, do not forget that more than an album this is a declaration of principles against injustice that affects many people: the abuse of power by legal guardians and by the music industry itself. Story: LADYGUNN Photos: Courtesy of the artists CONNECT WITH #FREEBRITNEY

At 5:15 a.m. EDT this morning, Activision-Blizzard’s PR team dropped a lengthy letter from CEO Bobby Kotick, addressing everything from the ongoing pandemic to the ongoing sexual harassment and discrimination scandal plaguing Blizzard. Yeah, it’s been a year. Kotick essentially reiterates his previously communicated position that the company let down its workers but that he believes progress has been made – and he actually concedes slightly on some of the worker demands. “The guardrails weren’t in place everywhere to ensure that our values were being upheld. In some cases, people didn’t consistently feel comfortable reporting concerns, or their concerns weren’t always addressed promptly or properly. People were deeply let down and, for that, I am truly sorry,” he says. “We’ve made progress over the last few years fostering that diversity and creating a better work environment – a commitment that has improved in scope and speed in recent months. We’ve tripled our investment in anti-harassment and anti-discrimination training; we’ve made meaningful organizational changes; and we’ve substantially increased resources for reporting and carefully investigating improper behavior.” Kotick then lays out five changes the company will be implementing: - A zero-tolerance harassment policy, including termination for “many […] instances of workplace misconduct” and for anyone found to have retaliated against workers for compliance complaints. - A commitment to increase the percentage of women and non-binary workers by 50% and an investment of $250M to “accelerate opportunities for diverse talent.” This is a considerably larger sum than the much-criticized $18M originally allotted to victims and charities through the company’s settlement with the EEOC. - A waiving of required arbitration of sexual harassment and discrimination claims. Workers had demanded a complete removal of all mandatory arbitration agreements, not just for sexual harassment and discrimination claims. - More visibility on pay equity, delivered annually. This is not elaborated on, but Kotick insists that “U.S. analysis showed that women at the company on average earned slightly more than men for comparable work in 2020.” Organizers have asked for complete visibility. - Regular progress updates, including quarterly updates on this topic to shareholders. While some of these measures do touch on worker demands, none meets them fully. The company’s fledgling worker union, A Better ABK, specifically demanded an end to all mandatory arbitration; company-wide approval on new recruiting and promotion policies; a full release of compensation data; and a true third-party audit of report, HR, and the executive staff. Activision-Blizzard has not acknowledged the worker union; instead, it contracted a known union-busting firm, not addressed in this letter. The money quote, quite literally, comes at the very end of the missive, when Kotick announced he’s taking a massive pay cut, something that might have been more appropriate earlier this year before the lawsuits when Kotick came under fire for his exorbitant pay and bonuses and merely halved them. His pay will now be used as a “resource […] in the service of becoming the industry leader in workplace excellence.” “I have asked our Board of Directors to reduce my total compensation until the Board has determined that we have achieved the transformational gender-related goals and other commitments described above. Specifically, I have asked the Board to reduce my pay to the lowest amount California law will allow for people earning a salary, which this year is $62,500. To be clear, this is a reduction in my overall compensation, not just my salary. I am asking not to receive any bonuses or be granted any equity during this time.” That move reduces Kotick’s compensation from a 2021 potential of $155M to $62,500. We note again that the policies, apologies, and efforts here stand in sharp contrast to the initially dismissive tone coming from Activision-Blizzard this past summer, when the studio denied wrongdoing and attacked the accusers, leading to a walkout, boycott, protest, and thousands of its own employees condemning the response. We also note again that Bobby Kotick himself was subject to a workplace sexual harassment lawsuit of his own, making his apologies and promises a bit dubious. In addition to the investigation from the EEOC, which Kotick praises in this letter (a little bit of shade for the other agencies?), Activision-Blizzard is still facing a lawsuit from the California DFEH, a lawsuit from the National Labor Relations Board lawsuit, and the SEC investigation. Activision-Blizzard’s Q4 2021 investor financials and report are slated for next week on November 2nd, making this letter timely indeed. The whole saga: “While today was a huge win for us, we remain vigilant and continue to push for other industry practices that need to change. We still stand firm by our demand that the investigation must be done by an unbiased third party, of which WilmerHale is not one. We continue to push for light to be shed on other industry practices, like crunch, which can be especially harmful the health of game devs, and especially the health of disabled and chronically ill game devs. We continue to give our unwavering support for our colleagues across the industry who are also pushing for change. @ABetterUbisoft still has demands that are not being met. Together we will be the change.”

Sara Marie Barron Brought Bedroom Soul to Montreal’s Club Balattou The Evening Unfolded With Passion, Humour and a Pedal Loop Detroit singer-songwriter Sara Marie Barron concluded her first tour at the Club Balattou last Tuesday. She stepped onto the stage covered head-to-toe in glitter, yet her voice stole the focus. Barron performed songs from her first album, Sad But True, and teased with some that will be coming out in her next album. She described her sound as “bedroom soul,” for its sultry, lounge quality. She added that her band infuses some jazz influence. “Everything that I say or sing on stage is just an experience that I’ve gone through,” said Barron. “Every song that I’ve written came from experience, or an emotion. I feel like it kind of happened that way, where it ends up sounding almost like a diary.” A high point of the night was Barron’s rendition of “Wanna Know,” the first single she came out with in 2018. Barron seemed in control on stage—amidst the sounds of her band composed of keys, bass, drum, and a trumpet, her voice dominated, while still delivering a coherent performance. From Sad But True, Barron performed a stripped down version of “New York City,” a song about “the phenomenon of feeling haunted by memories, or a person, and being unable to separate a place from them.” That song showcased Barron’s affective voice and versatility, and her songwriting is cuttingly honest, a quality that transcends from album to the stage. While the formation was evidently well-rehearsed, the performance was still raw and real. Barron’s vocals are at times flirty and sexy, or sincere as she delivers a cutting line. The subtle dialogue between Barron and the trumpet player elevated the performance, as they both, at times, carried the melody. “Every song that I’ve written came from experience, or an emotion. I feel like it kind of happened that way, where it ends up sounding almost like a diary.” — Sara Marie Barron That’s one of the reason why people find it honest, because I write from a point of super vulnerability. Yeah it’s sad, but it happened and I’m good. And this is the result of it.” “So, those songs are super special to me. That whole album was just marking a time in my life, a coming of age album for me.” Barron wrote the songs from Sad But True between the ages of 20 and 22. She said the album reflects her life at the time. “My motto is that if one person can connect with a song,” said Barron, “then I’ve done my job. If a bunch of people can, I’m super happy.” “What I get out of those songs is healing,” she continued. “Best case scenario is that someone is sitting down listening to my record or watching a show, and that brings them a little bit of healing, too.” Barron shared the stage with Lea Keeley, who performed a striking set with her guitar and a pedal loop. Her acoustic version of Beyoncé’s “Love on Top” had the audience dancing and grooving. The new Montreal band Friends From Back Home opened the evening with an assortment of original songs. The gig was originally pitched to Lotus Collective, a Montreal-based collective of women and non-binary performers that aims to give them a platform and opportunities. Lotus co-founder Monica Paraghamian explained Lotus was unavailable, so she brought some friends together and created Friends From Back Home for the gig. “It’s a testament for the purpose of the collective,” she said. “When opportunities are offered to Lotus, and we can’t get a formation or a quartet […] we pass it on to other members of the collective.” Friends From Back Home broke the ice, inviting the audience to imagine their performance as a barbecue between friends where a few people force the others to listen to them play. The rest of their set followed with the same lightheartedness and unfolded in comedy. Visist Barron’s Facebook page for updates about her latest music.

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Robotics is a fast-growing field touching many different industries. Although there are several prominent women and nonbinary leaders in the space, more can be done to pave a smoother path for the next generation. Research shows that high-value mentoring happens between people 4-5 years apart in career stages. Project Advance aims to make those connections to facilitate the advancement of women and non-binary people in robotics. We launched this program in 2021, drawing inspiration from some of the best mentorship programs in the country to create a high-trust, intimate environment with structured accountability and a sense of community. We’re excited to start accepting applications for our second cohort! Over the course of 90 days, Project Advance will pair a small number of high-potential women and nonbinary people with mentors who are just a few steps ahead. Mentors and mentees will virtually meet every two weeks to discuss how to meaningfully increase their personal and professional impact. As this is the first beta of Project Advance, we will also be experimenting with other programming such as fire-side chats and skills-based workshops to help refine the experience for future cohorts. Submit an application to mentor or be a mentee (you can be both)!

Are your job description requirements turning off talent? Here are 5 ways changing them boosts applies and brings in more diverse hires: 1. Keep your requirements list simple If your job description requirements list is extra-long, candidates might get bored and move on. A best practice is to keep your list to 7 bullets or less. 1. If you have an endless list of “required skills,” you might turn off most of your potential hires. An Indeed survey found that 63% of candidates didn’t apply for a job because they felt like they didn’t meet the requirements listed in the job description. 2. An HP study shows women only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the requirements. Try only listing the key requirements for the role, especially if you want to hire more women. You can always list preferred skills in a separate section. Here’s a good example of a simple list of job description requirements: What we’re looking for: - Excellent deductive thinking and problem-solving skills. - Ability to motivate groups to complete a project on time. - Understanding of project management planning and IT procedures. - Experience with Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar project management tools. - Proficient with Microsoft Teams, Office Suite, and Project. It’s a plus if you have: - Experience managing a team of developers 2. Make your requirements readable Even if you keep your list of requirements to the “must-haves,” how you write them might make them hard to read. Ongig’s CEO, Rob Kelly, recommends writing your JDs at an 8th-grade level (or lower) and in plain English to improve their effectiveness by 40%. Writing in plain English makes it easier for everyone to read your “required skills” fast. But also makes it easier for neurodivergent talent to read (e.g., someone with dyslexia). Try writing sentences with 20 syllables or less. And use bulleted lists. They’re easier to read than long paragraphs of text. But remember to keep your lists to 7 requirements or less. The words you use also affect readability. Words with lots of syllables or “legalese” (e.g., “in accordance with” or “in order to”) make your JD requirements harder to read. If you need help trimming down your JDs, Ongig scans for readability and complex words to help make your JDs more effective: 3. Be specific (and literal) Being specific (and literal) with your job description requirements helps in 2 ways. If you’re specific, it’s easier for candidates to understand what your role requires. And, being literal is best if you want to reach neurodiverse candidates (e.g., someone on the autism spectrum). Helen, an activist from Autism All-Stars, says it’s important to remember: “that autistic people don’t automatically understand what’s implied, only what’s actually said.” People with autism take things literally, including job description requirements. So instead of saying something like: “We juggle a bazillion balls and wear a lot of hats (No, we don’t moonlight as clowns, but you’ll need to stay organized to play well on this team).” …try this instead: “You’re organized and able to work with a team on multiple projects.” Cutting out the clever clown references makes this requirement more realistic, and specific. 4. Focus on skills, not “years of experience” Asking for “X years of experience” is one of the most-used job description requirements. But removing it from your JDs increases your chances of getting more applicants. Many job seekers have lots of skills, but they might not have 5 years of experience as a “Software Engineer,” “Customer Service Rep,” or an “Executive Assistant.” Or they may have 9 years of experience as a “Marketing Manager,” but you’re asking for 10. Years of experience is limiting. A recent LinkedIn pilot program found that a change in focus boosted their talent pool. They: “hired 13 customer support consultants by removing the basic qualification — 2+ years of customer service experience on email, chat, and phone — from the job description and focused on skills rather than experience or education.”source: LinkedIn Talent Blog During the pilot, LinkedIn: - gave potential candidates access to free skills training courses - did skills-based assessments before interviews - re-wrote JDs to remove “years of experience” requirements Most of the consultants they hired didn’t have 2 years of experience, but they had the skills to excel in their roles. Note: Find more about why “years of experience” limits your talent pool: 7 Things that Will Go Extinct in Job Descriptions. 5. Replace potentially biased language Biased words can creep into your JDs and keep diverse talent from applying. For example, saying something like “He or she has a degree in accounting” might exclude (or offend) gender non-binary candidates. Replacing the “he or she” with “you” is more inclusive, and conversational. Here are some other common examples of biased language I find in JD requirements. Plus some more inclusive replacements to boost your chances of getting more diverse applicants: |Potentially Biased Language||More Inclusive Replacement| |Experience hosting brown bag sessions||Experience hosting lunch and learn sessions| |A degree from a top school||A college degree| |Must speak native English||Must be fluent in English| |Experience with master/slave architectures||Experience with primary/secondary architectures| |Must be a digital native||Must be passionate about technology| |Ability to walk the warehouse floor||Ability to move around the warehouse floor| There are loads of words that might contain bias based on race, age, sexual orientation, disability, etc. To make it easier for you to find them in your JDs, Ongig’s software flags them for you. Each flagged word has a pop-up explaining why it’s flagged, with a list of more inclusive options to choose from: Why I wrote this? Our mission is to help you attract top talent by creating effective and inclusive JDs. Ongig’s software flags extra-long lists or sentences and complex or biased words. And, offers tips on improving your job description requirements list. Please request a demo to learn more. - How Removing Some Requirements from Your Job Descriptions Can Lead to More Inclusive Hiring (by Bruce M. Anderson) — special shout-out to Hung Lee for including this in his newsletter, Recruiting Brainfood! - Why do Autistic People Take Things Literally? (by Helen of Autism All-Stars) - Why Women Don’t Apply for Jobs Unless They’re 100% Qualified (by Tara Sophia Mohr) - How to Write a Job Description: Data Driven Results (by Bailey Reiners) - What to Do About Job Seekers Who Aren’t Reading Job Descriptions (by Nancy Gray-Starkebaum) - How to Write a Job Description (by Indeed) - How to Write Effective Job Postings: Job Description and Skills (by Recruiting.com)

Projecting Anti-Racism: American Mountain Guides Association Affinity Programs Photo by Irene Yee This installation of Projecting Anti-Racism is a case study of the American Mountain Guides Association (AMGA) and its implementation of affinity programming. As more folks challenge the outdoor industry to be intentionally anti-oppressive, the work goes beyond inclusion to afford real power to historically excluded groups, have them self-actualize, and gain access to jobs and certifications. Affinity programming is any type of program offered to a group formed around a shared interest, identity, or goal. Organizations often form affinity groups for their customer and/or employee communities to promote justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. In a learning environment, such as a certification or training program, affinity groups offer a supportive setting for participants to more comfortably and effectively engage with the course material. I organize a group, BelayALL, as an anti-oppressive climbing collective and have taken countless folks climbing without being a certified guide. While climbing with about 20 participants at the crag on Lil’wat territories in the summer of 2019, I sat with a heavy internal conflict. I know that my understanding of outdoor safety and rescue is essential for me to help people learn. I also know that in order to pursue a certification, I must put myself through a series of white-run and male-dominated courses. The cost of those courses is high. Not just financially, but mentally and emotionally as well. For those reasons, and so many more, I was excited to connect with Monserrat Alvarez, Membership and Inclusion Coordinator at the AMGA, and the first person of color to be hired at the national office since its inception in 1965. In speaking with her, I gained insight into the conversations that preceded the implementation of what are now six affinity programs running in 2021. We also discussed the structure of these courses, designed to empower new leaders in the outdoor industry. If you’re paying attention to the DEI initiatives sparking in the outdoor industry, you’ve likely heard of groups like Brown Girls Climb LLC, Flash Foxy, and Climbers of Color. These organizations work at local and national levels on gatekeeping issues in activities like rock and ice climbing, hiking, mountain biking, and others. Alvarez describes how she has been working closely at a grassroots level, on top of her job at the AMGA, in order to bridge the gap between the white male-dominated industry and the communities that are often left out. Photo by Irene Yee Having been hired in May of 2018, she explains that the AMGA is big in terms of membership numbers but not in terms of funding and staffing. At the time she was hired, Alvarez told me that the DEI committee was a “very grassroots initiative” started by members and that she realized “there was a lot of work to be done.” “I advocated for myself to be in a more involved role doing inclusion work at the AMGA,” she explained. Alvarez is responsible for DEI training of providers, instructor team members, and all membership. Alvarez participated in the first Women’s Single Pitch Instructor Course, an initiative that she led through her work with Brown Girls Climb, which ran its inaugural session in 2019. “That was in partnership with Flash Foxy, Brown Girls Climb, and the American Alpine Club at that time,” Alvarez explained. “It was such an amazing course. That affinity course is what laid the foundation for us to collaborate with community organizations, to pay community organizations for their consulting, to build genuine and authentic relationships with them, and to listen to their feedback.” With strong connections to community organizations, the affinity courses were able to address further disparities in who has access to guiding certifications and jobs in the outdoor industry. “In 2019, we also incorporated the Women’s Rock Guide Course and the Ascent ASC, which is the Alpine Skills Course, for anyone who identifies outside of the dominant identity group.” From there, she told me that “2020 was a really hard year for [the AMGA]. A lot of stuff was up in the air, but we ended up kicking off our first LGBTQ+ SPI Course, Ascent ASC, and the Women’s Rock Guide Course. And then, this year we’re offering six affinity programs which is the most we’ve ever offered.” The momentum Alvarez gained in this work is thanks to her commitment to conversation with community groups. She went on to explain, “A lot of times larger organizations like the AMGA or corporate entities can have really good intentions to have these programs or these ideas, but they are not, most of the time, connected directly to community. Having that community partner creates accountability, transparency, and it also builds authentic relationships. They are the ones who are on the ground.” Photo by Irene Yee The success of affinity groups hinges on knowing the needs of the community. “I think trying to do something without them is really disrespectful of their time and investment and energy they’ve put into building communities. It’s been really important for us to identify community partners that we’re going to work with. And we’re also paying them to be involved in these conversations. Compensation can look like monetary compensation but also any other support that we can offer. That looks really different for every partner that we work with according to their needs.” As these programs continue to grow and provide more folks with opportunities, I asked Alvarez what she would like to see down the road. “What I dream of for the future is having consistency and a guarantee for our communities that this is something that is going to be available year after year. Additionally, I think a big part is adapting to the needs of the community. When folks are ready to be supported through their exams, or when folks are ready to be supported through rock guide courses, or when folks are ready to be supported through more advanced courses that we’re able to listen to the community and offer those as a response.” What Alvarez is doing is relationship-based and co-created. The assumption is not that everyone wants to be a Rock Guide ™ but that the way forward for the outdoor industry is to be in conversation with different groups and to be adaptive to each other's needs. That, to me, feels like an inviting dynamic, and I wouldn’t think twice about entering a space built around the practices and principles Alvarez is working through with the AMGA. Consider this article an invitation for other organizations to build the connections at a grassroots level in order to empower and uplift various communities. Finding the community groups in your area might be the first step. From there, taking their needs seriously and adapting curriculums and programming to their needs will change the landscape of the outdoor industry so that no one feels othered by these spaces in the future. About the Author Anaheed Saatchi is a queer and non-binary writer and community organizer. They cover themes of social justice, diaspora, the outdoor industry, and identity politics. In 2018, they co-founded the rock climbing initiative BelayALL, based on the unceded territories of the səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh), Skwxwú7mesh-ulh Temíx̱w (Squamish), and šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmaɁɬ təməxʷ (Musqueam) nations. Examples of their work can be found in Alpinist Magazine and online at Melanin Base Camp.

You may have heard feminists accuse people who make blanket statements about people based on their gender of "gender essentialism." But what is gender essentialism, and why is it harmful? The concept, which originated in feminist theory, is very applicable to many current events and everyday interactions. "Essentialism" as a philosophical concept started with Plato, who posited that everything has an "essence" that makes it what it is. A rock, for example, is a rock because there's an inherent "rockness" within it. Many philosophers have since come to believe that our understanding of the world is instead dependent on how our brains perceive things and how our cultures label them — and the same thing applies to gender. If someone subscribes to gender essentialism, they believe that there's a "maleness" or "femaleness" inherent in men and women, whether that's a spiritual or scientific property. (Gender essentialists often don't acknowledge non-binary people). People often use biology to justify essentialism by positing that our chromosomes or hormones or brains make us feminine or masculine (which isn't true). So, if someone's accused of being "gender essentialist," they've made claims about gender differences being biological, rather than a social construct. Here's why that's a problem, and how it hurst all of us.

On Our Radar: August 2020 On Our Radar: August 2020August 21, 2020 Atlanta-based Zaida is steady on the rise, and at two just and a half years into her DJ journey, she’s on her way to becoming a household name in the city. Taught the craft by close friends in the industry, she says her itch to DJ stems from a love of clubbing and nightlife. As a trans-femme, Zaida makes it a point to prioritize “the girls” during her sets, and wants to create an atmosphere that “femme queens can be comfortable in.” You can catch her playing everything from trap to R&B edits to Detroit techno. Before the pandemic, she got a taste of life on the road playing the infamous A Club Called Rhonda party in LA and San Francisco, putting her twist on club sounds. Her recent mix for Discwoman was featured as Resident Advisor’s “Mix of the Day” and also selected for their July 2020 roundup of best music. With close friends and collaborators like beloved Atlanta producer Leonce on her team, the possibilities are unlimited, and Zaida is actively making her mark as one to watch. The AM is a Detroit-based DJ that lives and breathes Detroit techno and electro. Gaining her first exposure to electronic music at Detroit raves during the ’90s, The AM’s approach to music is rooted in her early days on the dancefloor. After a short stint in Miami, she’s been back in her hometown for just under a year, and has been putting the majority of her focus on music. Since back in Detroit, she’s teamed up with the legendary live act Scan 7, DJing as a duo with group member Mr. Hooper on occasion. The AM’s unapologetic affection for harder sounds sees her steadily building a name for herself, performing at this year’s DEMF virtual festival, and garnering attention from fans stateside and abroad. Her DJ mixes for NTS Radio, Wokoundou, and Scan 7 have been well received and showcase her in-depth knowledge and understanding of the timeless music birthed in her hometown. If you’re looking for hard-hitting, high energy sounds do yourself a favor and get familiar with The AM. Hailey Dukes (AKA Father Dukes) is a Detroit music journalist turned DJ, who is part of an exciting new generation of DJs coming out of the city. As with many other Detroit DJs, Duke’s sound is genre-bending and pulls from many different inspirations including house, techno, hip-hop, funk, soul, and disco. As a member of the Seraphine Collective, a network for women, femme, and non-binary DJs, Duke represents Detroit’s inclusive artist community and enjoys uniting people through dance. Her often vinyl-focused DJ sets take place at popular local venues like Marble Bar and TV Lounge. Most recently, she played an excellent b2b set with local virtuoso Shigeto on The Lot Radio. NYC DJ and producer Devoye is hot, and has been doing his thing longer than some may think — his Soundcloud dates him uploading his productions as far back as 2014. His work includes house, techno, disco, ambient, and even some edits of beloved tracks like Cherelle’s “Saturday Love.” Brooklyn’s dance music scene has seen an influx of talent over the past decade, and while Devoye hasn’t received a lot of press like some of his counterparts, his contributions are equally relevant. As of 2020, he’s still actively pushing the boundaries with his project “Withered and Blooming,” which he said was inspired by reading the book The Secret Life of Plants. The tracks make for an ethereal experience in sound; a journey into a celestial realm that soothes the soul. A must listen to those more into the experimental side of music. He most recently dropped an acid influenced track called “Outcha Mind,” which instantly reminds one of the group Phuture back in their heyday. He’s also regularly DJing throughout NYC, including being a resident DJ of Brooklyn’s Half Moon Radio. London’s Niks Delancy may be a newcomer to the game but is quickly staking her claim. As one of the organizers of “Black Bandcamp,” a crowd-sourced list of Black artists on Bandcamp, Niks plays a crucial role in the sites day to day functions, including screening submissions, which she says are sometimes “though the roof.” Niks also recently partnered with Mixcloud for her series “Niks Presents,” where she hosts some of her favorite DJs for guest mixes accompanied by interviews held on Mixcloud’s Instagram Live. While her behind the scenes work is essential, her skills as a DJ prove to be equally commendable. She hosts a monthly show on Bristol-based Noods Radio called ‘The House of Delanancy’ where she showcases her love of dance music, playing everything from house classics to more electronic left-field sounds. She’s also no stranger to the guest mix realm, most recently dropping mixes for Machine Woman‘s Rinse FM show and SheSaidSo Radio on Dublab. Her fantastic mix for SheSaidSo pays homage to the black women whose voices play an integral role in modern dance music.

If every eligible voter cast their ballot, we would see the change we need My son turned 18 this past August, and so he is a first-time voter this year. He’s been raised by a cisgender, heterosexual, social worker mom who has stood on the frontlines of progressive social justice issues for many, many years. He’s attended Pride celebrations, rallied on street corners for an equal rights ordinance, visited the Capitol during the Stand with Texas Women movement and listened to me champion voter engagement. Despite all this, when early voting began, he gave me pushback: “It’s just not a priority, mom.” Cue the intense lecture on why he needs to make it a priority. I understand. The state of politics is in disarray. We don’t know what to believe; Is voting safe and transparent; is one candidate unduly linked to a particular platform; is another more accountable to big donors than the average Texan? The television commercials are brutal; sparring supporters are at each other’s throats, and the texts and phone calls never end. Why would anyone want to engage in this process? But did you know: • Although punitive-same sex sodomy laws were deemed unconstitutional by the 2003 Supreme Court case Lawrence v. Texas, Texas legislators have not repealed the law, allowing it to stay on the books even though it is unenforceable. • The “Romeo and Juliet” law states that anyone between the ages of 14-17 can legally give sexual consent with someone within three years of their age, except that these protections do not apply to same-sex relationships. • There are no statewide protections for the LGBTQ community in relation to employment. Priorities are determined by the leaders we elect to send to Austin for 140 days every two years. During this time, they crunch numbers, visit with both community advocates and special interest lobbying teams, hear hours of expert and general testimony, debate with their colleagues and ultimately craft policy that affects the lives of almost 30 million Texans. A lot of damage can be done in 140 days. LGBTQ Texans have become a lightning rod for poor policy over the past 10-plus years. Our transgender, gender non-conforming and non-binary siblings are being targeted in what have become very dangerous situations for multiple parties, but particularly the individual. Last session alone, there were bills that would have banned best-practice affirming health care for transgender youth. Had they passed, they would have not only cut off care for transitioning youth but also would have penalized their doctors, nurses, social workers and any other licensed individual who attempted to provide care. A bill was proposed that would have prevented minors from amending their birth certificate to match their gender identity, along with one that would allow the state to pre-empt local non-nondiscrimination ordinances that are currently enforced by federal executive orders. Heartbreakingly, one bill made it through the legislative process and was signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott. House Bill 25 requires that high school athletes participating in University Interscholastic League sports play on the teams that correspond to the sex listed on their birth certificate. Guidelines for implementing this bill at local school districts were not provided, exposing children to a range of traumatic experiences on top of being excluded from the sports they love. Bills that would have a positive impact on the lives of LGBTQ Texans see virtually no movement, and often don’t even receive a hearing. Eliminating “gay panic” and “trans Panic” as a legal defense, updating the James Byrd Hate Crimes Act to include gender identity, banning nonconsensual surgeries on intersex minors, and removing religious exemptions from Texas adoption and foster care agencies remain areas of contention and limit rights that should be afforded to all individuals. Back to the conversation with my son. After pulling the arrow from my heart and taking several deep breaths, I got real with him about the current state of both Texas and the U.S. As a person who navigates the halls of government and the intricacies of policy daily, it’s not business as usual. Laws that were set up to protect liberty and create checks and balances for political power have been compromised. This year, people with uteruses lost the right to determine when and if they want to start a family. I’ve watched some of my best friends who have transgender or non-binary children create “Safe Folders” full of letters of reference, legal documents, pictures — anything you can think of to make clear that they are good parents who love and want the best for their children. Is that the Texas we claim? I do not feel like I am being considered much less represented. What gives me hope are the advocates. They are strong and persistent. We have learned a lot over the years about organizing, communication and utilizing the tools available to affect change. The cornerstone of American democracy is our right to vote. I have one vote; you have one vote; Lizzo has one vote. As Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price says, “Voting is the great equalizer.” The time for sitting it out is over. Start with the vote. If we all completed that one action, you would see change. Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 8. Polls are open from 7 a.m.-7 p.m. Visit VoteTexas.gov to find the closest polling location. Visit the Prism Health North Texas Policy, Advocacy, and Community Engagement (phntx.org/pace) website to see our legislative priorities, and to find more voting resources. Connect with Equality Texas to follow LGBTQ policy and advocacy efforts. Januari Fox is director of policy, advocacy and community Engagement for Prism Health North Texas.

It has been two generations since the Education Amendments of 1972 were signed into law, which includes the landmark Title IX, designed to bring gender equity at educational institutions that receive federal funding. Van Rheenen is a critical studies scholar who examines sport as political struggle and how it both influences, and is influenced by, historical patterns of alienation, discrimination, and inequity in schools and our broader society. His research is also partly informed by personal experiences. Born in Nigeria and raised in California, Van Rheenen played professional soccer and was a student athlete at Berkeley. He earned his bachelor’s in Political Economy and German, master’s in education, and PhD in cultural studies from Berkeley. His critical perspective examines how sports, beyond the physical and mental health benefits for athletes, and aside from its entertainment and business value, are often grounded within the dominant interests of the wider community. In this context, sports are not immune to social divisions inherent to reigning race, class and gender relations. Cutting across all of his research projects is a passion for cultural critique and a corresponding commitment to social change. Van Rheenen calls himself hopeful, even utopian, as he envisions sport as a potential platform for social and environmental justice and activism. Van Rheenen’s paper chronicles the game preferences of American children during the twentieth century, documenting the results from four studies between 1898 and 1998. Findings revealed that the game preferences of boys and girls have become markedly more similar over the course of the 20th century. In fact, seven of the ten favorite activities self-reported by girls were shared by boys. These activities included basketball (#1 for boys, #3 for girls), computer games (B #2, G #7), soccer (B #5, G #5), swimming (B #6, G #1), tennis (B #8, G #9), bike riding (B #9, G #10), and cards (B #10, G #8). This similarity between the genders in their reported game preference was particularly striking as these activities were selected from a list of 190 games and activities. The dominance of sports and electronic (computer and video) games at the end of the 20th century not only reflected the technological advances of American society; it also indicated an increased desire for games that demand greater skill and promote role specialization. As Van Rheenen argues, “the shift in game preferences to skilled, organized, and adult-supervised activities and the erosion of gender-specific game activities are two of the most resonant themes from this comparative study. Taken together, they suggest that the gender divide among children has become less marked or institutionalized within American society” (411). Van Rheenen’s work challenges the idea that there exist “boy’s” and “girl’s” game. Hopscotch, for example, perceived within the mid- to late- twentieth century to be a “game for girls” was similarly regarded as a “game for boys” throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth, and most of the nineteenth centuries. As such, findings that report seemingly “natural differences” between the sexes based upon play preferences more likely reflect the cultural construction of gender at a particular historical moment. Despite the increased similarity between the sexes in game preferences over the course of the twentieth century, it would be misleading to assert that children’s games have become gender neutral. Chi-square analyses revealed significant statistical differences (p < 0.01) in the frequency of response among boys and girls on several activities. In particular, at the turn of the twenty-first century, boys preferred computer and video games, football, baseball, and wrestling, while girls preferred dolls, dance, jump rope, hopscotch, and drama. However, the most striking result of the twentieth century in terms of children’s play patterns has been the convergence, rather than the disparity, among the sexes in their game preferences. The cultural construction of gender in this moment Van Rheenen: I think more, now more than ever, in a post pandemic, postmodern world, traditional signifiers like gender have become conflicted and highly politicized terrain. It is not only scholars and artists who intentionally challenge or question the status quo by deconstructing primary binaries like male/female and the dominant ideologies and structures that inform these social and historical constructions; what may have seemed ... Read more. an intellectual abstraction or “radical” social movement decades ago has become a lived experience for many, a more open social reality, where young folks and old alike don’t want to be labeled or defined. They seek a more fluid world, where they can be anything they want to be, a shifting landscape of self expression. But this freedom of expression scares many people. As we are witnessing today, there is an intentional effort to reify, codify and return to more rigid understandings and boundaries connected to gender, often claimed to promote traditional values and “natural” readings of sex, gender and the body politic. It is a very intentional effort to close Pandora’s box. Gender (like other social and historical constructions) is a conflicted terrain. But the stakes are high, very different worlds envisioned before us. There is a fight for control of our minds and bodies inside and outside of schools, as evidenced by recent school board decisions, court rulings and political platforms promoting misogyny, homophobia and transphobia, not to mention an assault on our democracy and our freedom of expression more broadly, such as banning books on critical race theory and anything deemed different or “queer.” In my view, we are embarking on a dystopian future rather than a world that is inclusive and compassionate. Call me crazy, call me woke (I am a Berkeley professor after all!), but I envision one world for all and not just the few, a minority who seeks to maintain power and privilege at the expense of other people's lives and their dignity. The role of Title IX in the convergence of game preferences Van Rheenen: There is an interesting evolution in girls’ foray into modern games, and I would say one of the most profound shifts since the early 1970s is in games that kids prefer to play. Think about it: in 1971, just one out of every 27 varsity high school athletes was female; when I wrote the article ten years ago, it was one in three. Now, girls make up more than 4 out of every 10 American high school athletes. That’s phenomenal! Read more. My research examines Title IX and the societal shifts related, at least in part, to this landmark legislation. Since the passage of Title IX of the Education Amendment in 1972, the increased interest and ability of girls to participate in institutional games or sports has been striking. For example, the number of girls playing varsity high school sports increased from 295,000 in 1971 to about 3.06 million in 2008, more than a 1,000 percent increase.This dramatic shift in game preferences has coincided with the Women’s Movement and gender equity as a legally mandated and viable cultural expectation. The number of women in the workforce has markedly increased over the course of the twentieth and well into the twenty-first century. Women are leaders of industry and social changemakers, CEOs and cultural influencers. These societal shifts have challenged the common patriarchal notion of the nuclear family, having the father of a two-parent, heterosexual household as the solitary breadwinner in the family. American families are diverse. Love is not limited to a traditional recipe. There are many ways to raise our children and to live together, many ways to care for and love one another. What's important to note, however, is that as girls began to prefer more organized and active games, perhaps reflective of the greater social mobility of twentieth-century women, boys shifted their preference for games with ever heightened activity—games characterized by enhanced speed, aggression, and role specialization. This shift has coincided with a marked increase in the popularity of major sports, particularly aggressive, even violent, team sports, such as football, basketball, and soccer. Mariah Burton Nelson’s classic book in the beginning of the twenty-first century, The Stronger Women Become, the More Men Love Football (2001), captures this historical development well. The progress and stagnation in the era of Title IX Van Rheenen: There are a lot of anniversaries at this time and, together, they say a lot about American culture and our campus as a reflection of the historical trends relative to shifting gender relations, particularly as it relates to sport, culture and education. In 2018, Berkeley celebrated its 150th anniversary as the premier public university in the United States. The first class was composed of 40 young men and ten faculty members. Read more. The university began admitting women the following year. This year we celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Big Game, the iconic American football match pitting California against Stanford University. It is a celebration of our tradition as a campus, an institutional rivalry that promotes Golden Bear pride but also dominant forms of masculinity. It is worth noting that the inaugural Big Game was played in 1892 (a few years games were not played or not considered official over the past three centuries). Less known is that the first documented women’s intercollegiate athletic event in the United States (above image) was played in 1896, a basketball game also between Cal and Stanford. Spoiler alert: we lost 2 to 1. We also celebrate 100 national team championships at Berkeley this year. The disparity between men’s and women’s national championships tells the tale of historical gender inequity. Berkeley has earned 89 men’s national championships and only 11 women’s honors, the first in 1980, eight years after the passage of Title IX. The next women’s national championship was not until 2002. The premise of Title IX is that the interests and abilities of the minority sex should be protected within American educational institutions as a mechanism to combat historical exclusion from school and sport. But it’s a double-edged sword, because historical exclusion stymies the development of interests (we are socialized to acquire particular tastes and preferences) and corresponding abilities. You can’t get better at something you do not do (or have the opportunity to do). UC Berkeley’s story of the uneven development of women’s sports and American higher education is similar to the national narrative. Women’s college sports were originally organized and governed by women, for women. The passage of Title IX actually led to the elimination of, or reduction in, women’s distinct athletic departments and national governing bodies, female administrators and female head coaches. As women’s sports gained in cultural and institutional viability (promoted by legal mandate), men took over control of sport in American schools. The more popular, public narrative is that Title IX has led to the elimination of men’s athletic opportunities and men’s varsity sports programs (and that has happened); but it is a far more complicated story than pitting female athletes and women’s sports against non-revenue (e.g., Olympic) male athletes and sport programs against one another. I have written about this as well, “The Elimination of Varsity Sports at a Division I Institution.” The need for legal mandates to ensure gender equity Van Rheenen: We definitely need Title IX. Sadly, there is little cultural imperative for equity based on moral or ethical grounds. The legal system is cumbersome and fraught with challenges, but it is our best vehicle at this point. And, there are at least some sharp teeth to ensure progress or forestall the backlash to preserve existing structures of dominance (e.g., male hegemony). Read more. But, our legal system is also under assault, one aspect of democracy’s checks and balances, in favor of a particular ideology. Landmark legislation, such as Title IX, takes time to witness lasting social change. But we are beginning to see the benefits of this historical piece of legislation. In this year’s cohort of the Cultural Studies of Sport in Education (CSSE) MA concentration within the BSE, the majority of new graduate students are women, all of them elite, Division I scholar athletes. These strong women represent Berkeley’s varsity teams in basketball, track and field, softball, soccer and beach volleyball. They are a product of our time, recipients of cultural progress in terms of gender equity in youth, college and even professional sports. They are also changemakers in their own right, pushing boundaries and expanding definitions of gender as non-binary and fluid, a more open terrain of self-expression. Modern sport offers us a glimpse into cultural reproduction and resistance. In a relative blink of time, Title IX is a recent phenomenon, an exclamation point and moment of social progress. There is pressure these days to overturn women’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights and limit free speech. And we still have a ways to go relative to global gender equity. Five of the world's most populous countries, China, Nigeria, Russia, Mexico, and the United States, have never elected a woman leader. There has been a corresponding call to empower women and other historically marginalized groups, to save Mother Earth and remedy the current course of human civilization ("Nature Sports: Prospects for Sustainability"). That may seem hyperbolic, but the stakes are exceedingly high. The Berkeley School of Education is firmly in this fight for positive change. For me, I opt for a utopian vision of the world, one that intentionally includes rather than divides. As an educator and global citizen, I have faith in humanity, our youth and our future. We should all be celebrating the 50th anniversary of Title IX. Fiat Lux, and Go Bears! Oh, and we need a female president in this country! About Derek Van Rheenen, PhD Derek Van Rheenen’s research interests include the cultural studies of sport, nature sports, sport tourism, ecopedagogy, the connections between sports, learning and schooling, and the role of intercollegiate athletics in the American university system. A former Academic All-American and professional soccer player, Van Rheenen teaches courses on sport, culture, and education. In 1998 he received the Outstanding Dissertation Award in the School of Education. Van Rheenen has also been named a Chancellor's Public Scholar. In 2022, he was promoted to full adjuct professor. Read more. He is the Faculty Coordinator of the BSE-wide MA Program and the Faculty Director of the Cultural Studies of Sport in Education (CSSE) Master's degree specialization for students studying the intersections of school and sport. He has also been the Executive Director of the Athletic Study Center at UC Berkeley since 2001. Van Rheenen has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Lille and the International University of Monaco, is an invited speaker at national and international conferences, and is regularly interviewed about the role of sport in society and the intersections of sport and schooling, particularly American college sports.

Creating a New Ecosystem So Male Entrepreneurs of Color Can Thrive The Global Eye Entrepreneurs Fellowship Program brings together a cohort of BIPOC and GBTQ Men of color with new business ideas and provides a comprehensive array of programming that facilities both personal and professional growth and creates a network of support and mentorship from industry leaders that, combined with linkages to capital, result in successful, thriving business. Currently in the pilot phase with the first class of entrepreneurs, Global Eye is looking to solidify and expand the programming based on its results. In which areas of Los Angeles will you be directly working? County of Los Angeles What is the problem that you are seeking to address? Despite recent progress, BIPOC, women and LGBTQ founders are underrepresented in the entrepreneur community. More than half of companies that have black owners were turned down for loans, a rate twice as high as white business owners. While men of color are 80% more likely to be entrepreneurial than their white counterparts, only 5% ever make it past the start-up phase. There’s an entire community of BIPOC and GBTQ men with world changing ideas who feel called to a life of deep purpose, alignment, and success, yet they face discouragement at every turn. The COVID crisis has only served to exacerbate these inequities with inequities in distribution of PPP loans. Global Eye imagines a world where the business ventures, ideas, companies, and inventions of these men exist and thrive. At its core, Global Eye is a community of support, mentorship, and learning to help male and non-binary entrepreneurs of color realize their deepest, most audacious visions. Describe the project, program, or initiative that this grant will support to address the problem identified. Global Eye is creating a new type of ecosystem where male entrepreneurs of color have access to role models, mentors, and capital so they can thrive. It provides a platform where the next generation of entrepreneurs are more aware, conscious of corporate social responsibility, eager to give back to their communities, and accepting of differences and diverse backgrounds. The cornerstone of its offerings is the 10-month Fellowship Program. The applicants selected as fellows have already taken the first steps in their entrepreneurial journey. They have a start-up business that is less than three years old in the following industries: Arts & Entertainment, Technology, Online Retail, and Social Enterprises. Each has experienced barriers to starting or growing their business. The program provides insight and instruction in these and other areas: - Financial Literacy & Wellness - Product Development - Market Research & Business Model Design - Accounting - Human Resource Management and Organization Design - Branding & Marketing - Business Plan Writing - Funding, Pitching, and Investor Consults - Access to Venture Capital Opportunities Ideas are a dime a dozen--we invest in people, specifically male entrepreneurs of color that pursue their passions; implement and lead; create thriving teams; meet their measure; and fulfill their dreams. The world is full of ideas and businesses; we unleash the entrepreneurial spirit of BIPOC and GBTQ men of color. We invest in people, not just ideas. In what stage of innovation is this project, program, or initiative? Pilot or new project, program, or initiative Approximately how many people will be impacted by this project, program, or initiative? Direct Impact: 15 Indirect Impact: 1,100 Describe how Los Angeles County will be different if your work is successful. While the overall wealth of US families increased over the last 30 years, the wealth gap continues to grow for black families and other underrepresented groups. Institutionalized factors like family income, savings, and home ownership coupled with below average lending rates impact the ability of BIPOC business owners to succeed. This lack of access to investors and mentor networks costs the U.S. economy dollars and jobs—about $1.5 trillion per year. Average business development programs do not focus on—nor understand—the unique challenges faced by entrepreneurs of color. That’s why the work of Global Eye is so important. Investing in these emerging business leaders makes LA a better place because of: Closing of the wealth gap Increased employment opportunities Equitable distribution of investment capital Creation of pipelines for the next generation of entrepreneurs Increased tax base for our communities Expanding hope and success for BIPCO and GBTQ men of color What evidence do you have that this project, program, or initiative is or will be successful, and how will you define and measure success? Success for the fellows in the program is measured by: • Increase in the size of the professional networks developed. • Number of connections to capital per fellow • Percentage of fellows receiving investment capital • Increase in wellness scores across pre- and post-program social-emotional indicator assessments • Increase in business confidence and proficiency scores from pre- and post-program assessments and surveys • Ratings of the effectiveness of the instructors • Program completion rate Longitudinal measures include: • Fellows continue succeeding beyond the three-year average for closures • Fellows reach breakeven/profitability • Increase in number of people employed by fellows • Increase in fellowship class size • Thriving alumni network contributing to the program and becoming mentors • Long-term social-emotional indicators remain positive • Additional businesses or product/service ideas brought to market by program fellows • Reinvestment in new entrepreneurs and fellows Which of the CREATE metrics will you impact? 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Who are we? Marianne Oakes (Dip Couns) Marianne Oakes is a person-centred counsellor working as head of the psychological support team available via GenderGP, specialising in the care of gender questioning patients. In her role, Marianne works with transgender and gender-questioning clients providing both one to one therapy, family and couples counselling. Marianne came into this particular branch of therapy after struggling to find a counsellor with the right experience and qualifications to help her with her own journey as a transgender woman. Over the years she has made many friends who also identify as transgender and in many cases their partners. Marianne has also witnessed her own family’s struggles coming to terms with her gender identity, an experience which has given her the unique insight she brings to her own practice. Marianne has a particular affinity with trans identified adults, and works very closely with gender questioning children and their families, offering psychological support for the children themselves, and more ambitiously, setting up group therapy online for parents. Marianne aims to create a non-judgmental space in which parents can talk openly about their own issues in relation to their child’s transition. Jackie is a person-centred counsellor who specialises in working with Trans gender, non-binary or gender-questioning people, and spouses, partners, parents and family members of those who have identified as having gender identity issues. Jackie is in the somewhat unusual position of having significant personal experience of gender identity from various sources; her ex-spouse has transitioned, she has a dual gender child and her husband is bi-gender. This gives her a great deal of empathy and insight into the emotional turmoil and confusion gender variance can create for the individual and wider family from different perspectives. Jackie has a private practice in West Cornwall where she sees adults and young people one to one, and she also works via Skype thereby giving face to face access to those who cannot attend same room sessions for whatever reason. Amy Walters is a counsellor based in Chippenham Wiltshire. Counselling can help with many aspects of your life, whether you are feeling lost, confused and out of control, or maybe you are just searching for the meaning of life! We can all need a bit of extra support every now and then, Amy is an empathetic counsellor who could help you gain back some control in your life. Adam is a qualified person-centred counsellor who identifies as transgender. He offers you a warm and compassionate space in which to explore your relationship to gender. His belief that it really can help to talk, comes from his own positive experience of counselling during his transition. Adam combines his counselling work with his position as a full time fire fighter – giving him a rich source of experience of being trans in the wider world to draw upon. Claire is a person centered counsellor who strongly believes in the therapeutic relationship to enable individuals to become empowered to move forward with their lives. She has worked with a wide variety of issues, working in several charity settings as well as private practice. Claire works via Skype and telephone so the individual can access counselling from their choice of environment. Diana is a Person Centred counsellor and believes that this emphatic, non-judgemental approach enables clients to move forward to a happier place in their lives. She has worked in a number of charitable settings and has her own private practice in Greater Manchester, where she supports individuals with many different presenting issues. Additionally she uses the telephone and Skype, in order to support clients who are unable to travel or live further afield. Tilly started as a volunteer for Choices (working with survivors of childhood sexual abuse) and moved into private practice in 1986, combining counselling and supervision work with research. Her interests and energy have enabled her to develop professionally and personally as counsellor who stays abreast of current issues without losing her humanity and empathy for people, whoever they are. Whether you are experiencing relationship issues, feeling anxious or depressed, want to change patterns of thoughts/behaviour or just need to talk to someone who won’t judge – Jayne can help. She has a wide experience in Couples Counselling, Bereavement and Gender Identity, amongst others. Chris has the required experience and all-important passion needed to help all sorts of people from all walks of life along on their own journey. He works by Skype or telephone, allowing people from all over the country to contact him without having to travel for face to face sessions Contact Us – Confidential Advice Whatever your query, we’re here to help. Send us a message and we’ll get back to you. The GenderGP team.

Am I Asexual Or Ashamed Of Sex? Yes, it’s here. Another fantastic episode ahead by #QueerAF regular producer Jacob Edward. And this week, we’re talking about a spectrum of feelings when it comes to sex, the differences between asexuality and sex shame plus Jacob, who used their portfolio to get a job Radio One’s first non-binary presenter shares boldly and bravely. Producer Jacob Edward First nonbinary presenter on @BBCR1 (Xmas 19) | Either on a train or on the radio | Gaydio Presenter, Queer Culture Podcast and Twitch Streamer. LGBTQ #QueerAF track of the week: Eve Westwood @evewestwoodmusic National Student Pride 2020 This season is inspired by National Student Pride's themes:Carving out space for womxn in the communityQueer SexDisabilityResearching the Rainbow (STEM) We are #QueerAF. And so are you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A few semesters ago I had a student in my classroom who asked to be referred to with the pronouns “they,” “them” and “their.” Although I had had some experience with non-binary people in my personal life, I had never before had a student who openly identified in this way. As someone who strives for inclusivity in the classroom, I began to think more than ever about how to create a learning environment that makes all my students feel safe and supported. As a Spanish teacher, a language with grammatical gender, this can be a bit challenging when working with a non-binary student. How do I practice gender-neutral communication in order to respect my student’s gender identity? Also, the materials I use in the classroom do not always represent non-heterosexual relationships and are often written with only cisgender people in mind. How do I include other perspectives so that my LGBTQ students don’t feel excluded? In order to find out more, I interviewed my student, who is also very active at my university’s LGBT resource center and asked for advice. Ways to support LGBTQ+ and non-binary students Find Your School Resources Find out if your school has a support network (resource center, student organization, etc.) designed to help LGBTQ students. What are the resources on campus for these students? Is there any faculty training offered for learning more about supporting them? If not-- encourage your school to start one! For example, a video on “safe space”. Include Yourself in the Process Add YOUR gender pronouns to your email signature. This is a simple but straightforward gesture to establish allyship to LGBTQ students. Additionally, many trans and gender non-conforming students will email their professors in advance to let them know about pronouns and name changes – always respect these requests and never disregard them. Consider Your Language Use English does not have gendered nouns or adjectives but does have gendered third-person pronouns. Be conscious of this and again, always respect your students’ gender pronouns. If you are teaching in a language with grammatical gender, mention and acknowledge the challenge of gendered language for nonbinary people and do some research about how gender non-conforming people may be adapting the language for their needs. Use Examples that Represent Everyone Use LGBTQ people and families in practical, general examples and in neutral contexts. For example, when teaching family vocabulary in my Spanish class I will always include examples of same-sex relationships even if the textbook does not. When writing a test or preparing an in-class activity you can easily include examples of LGBT people when referring to general topics. Avoid Grouping Students by Gender I have often heard of teachers playing language learning games in the classroom and forming teams based on gender. When asking a student to choose either the “boys” or the “girls” team you could be making someone very uncomfortable. Never Make Assumptions My student told me that they have had points taken off in Spanish classes for using masculine adjectives despite being out as nonbinary because they present as more feminine. They said “this was frustrating, but there are other instances in which what could be seen as an error has a more personal explanation (black vs. Black, women vs. womyn) and so forth. Clarification is a good idea in these cases, as is open-mindedness if a student wants to explain their perspective.” Content and Context Matter Be conscious of the content and sources presented to students. No matter what the subject, it is important to offer various perspectives and to provide resources written by scholars of different genders, sexual orientations, and cultural backgrounds. Communicating is Key Lastly, don’t be unwilling to engage in difficult conversations for fear of saying the wrong thing. If you DO say the “wrong thing” it is best to recognize your misstatements and commit to educating yourself about these topics. About the AuthorMore Content by Kerry Steinberg

Student files lawsuit after he is suspended from a football game. An Exeter High School student in New Hampshire has filed a lawsuit against the school after he was suspended from the football team for allegedly indicating that there are only “two genders.” The freshman said in the suit that he was told he was suspended for a game in September after a conversation that took place off of school grounds (although it did occur on a bus). He is also claiming in his suit that the non-binary gender designation “infringes on his First Amendment First” tied to freedom of speech and having the ability to voice concerns. The school’s policy contends that students have the right to be addressed by the name and pronoun that they would like to be, according to how they identify, and it also indicates that those who don’t comply with the policy and misgender peers are in violation. Thus, the suspension occurred after the student disobeyed the policy. The student doesn’t deny he violated it, according to the lawsuit. He just doesn’t agree with it, and has strong convictions regarding how he believes that gender should be viewed. “He in fact denied, and will continue to deny, that any person can belong to a gender other than that of ‘male’ or ‘female’” the lawsuit states. “The student will never refer to any individual person using plural pronouns such as ‘they,’ using contrived pronouns such as ‘ze,’ or with any similar terminology that reflects values which (the student) does not share.” The basis of the conversation on the bus was centered around the difficulty of using plural pronouns in Spanish to accommodate those who are nonbinary. This, according to the student, is evidence that there should only be two pronouns based on an individual’s assigned gender at birth. “The suspension came after the student had been engaged in a conversation on the bus over gender with friends over the perceived difficulty in using plural pronouns for an individual in Spanish, which uses masculine and feminine plurals,” according to the suit. “A female student overheard the discussion and allegedly told the student there were more than two genders, to which the student replied that there are only two.” The lawsuit states further, “She pressed M.P. [the student is only referred to in the lawsuit by his initials] on the topic of gender, demanding, ‘Give me one valid reason why there’s only two genders. The two then had a contentious exchange of texts on the issue.” The entire texted conversation was captured and shared with the student in printed form to support his suspension. School Superintendent David Ryan responded to the litigation that the school “was reviewing the complaint and will be able to share a statement once we have completed that review.” However, the defendant’s attorneys have stated, “Regardless of what the defendants may think about these words, M.P. did not use profane or insulting language towards any person while in the school building, on a school bus, during school activities, or on school property in any of the events leading up to his athletic suspension and this case.”

Pollinator Garden Work Party — Come help Beyond Toxics mulch and clean up its pollinator garden this Saturday. There will also be a talk about native pollinators, ways to help build beneficial insect habitat and a bug-hunt activity at the end of the day. Beyond Toxics will provide tools, gloves, instructions and light refreshments. Wear comfortable, sturdy clothing and shoes and bring your own bottle for water or coffee. The work party goes from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in the Churchill community garden behind Churchill High School, 1850 Bailey Hill Rd. Free; 541-465-8860 or www.beyondtoxics.org/events. Memorial Day Community BBQ — Defending hard won liberty and freedom is the theme of this year's NAACP community gathering. This is an opportunity to honor the sacrifices of all people who love this country — black, brown and otherwise. Free community barbecue, live performances and open mic, community tabling, kids corner, free books and games; noon Monday at Washington Park, 2025 Washington St.; www.facebook.com. Community Market — A Junction City farmer's market this weekend. Available will be plants, vegetables, flowers, crafts and more. The market will run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays through September 28 at at the Church of the Nazarene, 1737 W. First Street, Junction City. Information and vendors: 541-250-9470. Veteran's Open Mic Poetry Reading Night — This event is open to community members 16 and older. However, only Military Veterans will be on the mic. A military veteran is any person who served for any length of time in any military service branch. Signups begin at 6:30 p.m., show begins at 7 p.m. Saturday at Tsunami Books, 2585 Willamette St. Free; www.tsunamibooks.org. Benefit for Buck Buck! — On Feb. 24, the Buck Buck food cart spontaneously exploded. Owners and staff need their support to rebuild and to reinstitute this food in Eugene. This event features hot and delicious entertainment by Bitz-n-Bitz, Steel Kitty, The Beepsters and Security In Numbers. The Buck Buck benefit will begin at 8 p.m. Saturday at Old Nick's Pub, 211 Washington St. Donations of $5 to $20 expected; 541-844-1280 or www.facebook.com/events. 22nd Crafts on the Coast Arts & Crafts Festival — Nearly 70 of the best artisans from the Pacific Northwest will offer their handmade crafts, fine art and gourmet food at the family-friendly Crafts on the Coast Arts & Crafts Festival, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday inside the Yachats Commons, 441 Highway 101 N., Yachats; www.yachats.org. BBQ, Blues & Brews — Returning for its eighth year on Memorial Day weekend, BBQ, Blues & Brews on the Bay offers barbecue, locally crafted beers and live blues performances. Hang out with pit masters and competitors in the Salmon Room and listen to live music by the Ben Rice Band from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Friday. BBQ fans can use BBQ Bucks to purchase 2-ounce samples from the 35-plus participating competitors or full meals from Hole in the Wall BBQ and The Mill Grill from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. $5 per day, free for children 5 years and under at the Mill Casino Hotel & RV Park at 3201 Tremont St., North Bend. Lane County Farmer's Market — The fresh flavors of the season will be for sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Lane County Farmer's Market, Eighth Avenue and Oak Street. This free event will be open rain or shine through November 9; 541-431-4923 or lanecountyfarmersmarket.org. Eugene Saturday Market — Eugene's Saturday Market is back for its 50th season. Come down to peruse two full city blocks of local, handmade products, an international food court and live music all day. Eugene Saturday Market runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., rain or shine, Saturday at Eighth Avenue and Oak Street. Free; eugenesaturdaymarket.org. Pie Social — The 18th Annual Memorial Weekend Pie and Ice Cream Social produced by The Yachats Ladies Club will offer a wide selection of pies all made by club members, including apple, berry, peach and cherry. There will also be other fruit pies and many cream pies, including lemon meringue, key lime and cherry cream cheese pie and specialty diet pies include sugar- and gluten-free. The pie social begins at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Yachats Ladies Clubhouse, 286 W. Third St., Yachats. Slices $4, brownies $3, etc; 541-547-5425. Blessing of the Fleet — The annual Blessing of the Fleet and Memorial Service will honor the local men and women involved in commercial fishing and the fishing industry who have died since 1941. 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Clery Act – a consumer protection law passed in 1990 that requires all colleges and universities who receive federal funding to share information about crime on campus and their efforts to improve campus safety as well as inform the public of crime in or around campus. cultural competence – (official NC State definition in progress) – the ability to interact effectively with people of different cultures domestically and internationally. discrimination – prejudiced or prejudicial outlook, action or treatment that can occur between individuals, within groups or systemically within groups or organizations diversity – the condition of having or being composed of differing elements; variety; the inclusion of people of different races, ethnicities, cultures, genders, sexual orientations, nations of origin, languages, ages or other lived experiences) in a group or organization. equal opportunity – providing access to education, employment, housing and other areas of society in a way that is not discriminating against people because of their age, color, disability, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation or veteran status. equity – The phrase “equity in higher education” refers to creating opportunities for equal access and success in higher education among historically underrepresented student populations, such as students of color, low-income students and first-generation college students. ethnicity – status of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural traditions. gender expression – the innumerable ways that people exhibit gender through their clothing, voice, hair styles, body language and behavior; gender expression may or may not be consistent with socially prescribed gender roles and may or may not reflect one’s gender orientation or identity. gender identity – one’s concept of self as male, female, a blend of both or neither that can be the same or different from their sex assigned at birth; the label people use to acknowledge and reflect their internal sense of gender orientation (or, in some cases, to hide that gender orientation from others). harassment – to create an unpleasant or hostile situation for especially by uninvited and unwelcome verbal or physical conduct. inclusion (with respect to diversity) – the proactive efforts to promote inclusiveness and respect for differences in the workplace and the educational environment. interim measures and accommodations – as described under Title IX, steps taken to ensure equal access to education programs and activities, and/or to stabilize a situation by providing remedies and accommodations to a reporting student and the campus community where appropriate due to either sexual violence or pregnancy or parenting student status. intersectionality – a term first used by K. Crenshaw in 1989 to denote the study of intersections between different disenfranchised and underrepresented groups; specifically, the study of the interactions of multiple systems of oppression or discrimination; for example, being African American and female. Latinx – a gender-inclusive term that originated on college campuses to replace the terms “Latino” and “Latina.” microaggression – types of discrimination manifested in verbal, nonverbal or environmental slights, snubs or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, which communicate hostile, derogatory or negative messages or target persons based solely upon their marginalized group membership; related terms: microassault, microinsult, microinvalidation nationality – status of being a member or citizen of a particular country. protected class – a group of people who share common characteristics and are protected from discrimination and harassment. Some protections have the backing of federal and/or state laws. NC State University protects students, faculty and staff from discrimination and harassment based on age (40 or older), color, disability, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation and veteran status. race – a social construct denoting differences and similarities in biological traits that take on social meanings in society. responsible employee – any employee: (a) who has the authority to take action to redress sexual harassment/misconduct; (b) who has been given the duty of reporting incidents of sexual harassment/misconduct or any other misconduct by students to the Title IX coordinator or other appropriate designee; or (c) who a student reasonably believes has this authority or duty. (See NC State’s list of responsible employees and their requirements). Title IX – a comprehensive federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity. Title VI – legislation passed as part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color and national origin in programs and activities receiving federal financial assistance. Title VII – legislation passed as part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin. transgender – an adjective referring to a person whose gender identity is different from that commonly associated with their sex assigned at birth (assigned male at birth, identifies as a woman; assigned female at birth, identifies as a man; assigned male or female at birth, identifies as non-binary). unconscious bias – also known as implicit social cognition, implicit bias refers to the attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions and decisions in an unconscious manner. DO'S AND DON'TS Use people-first language The use of people-first language is a movement to recognize the fundamental humanity of people, regardless of any disability they may have, and to help challenge the stereotype that people are limited by or limited to their disability. Thus, instead of saying “disabled person,” we say “person with disabilities,” putting the “person” first so the assumption isn’t that their disability is the most important or only thing we need to know about them. Other examples of people-first language: instead of saying someone is “learning disabled,” say they “have a learning disability,” or instead of saying someone is “handicapped” or “crippled,” say they “have a physical disability.” Having a disability is one characteristic of a person; their disability is not who they are. See also: “People First Language” (Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities, 2016). Avoid ableist language There are many ways that we unintentionally demean people with disabilities through the casual ways we use language associated with disabilities to create a negative connotation about things unrelated to disability. One of the most common ways this occurs is through the offhand use of words like “psycho,” “nuts,” “maniac,” “insane,” or “crazy,” which imply through their use as negative modifiers that there is something wrong or abnormal about having a mental health condition. Similarly, casually using terms associated with specific diagnoses (e.g., “OCD,” “schizophrenic,” or “bipolar”) as ways to characterize someone’s behavior as problematic is demeaning to people who have been diagnosed with mental health conditions. In much the same way, the use of words such as “retarded,” “stupid,” or “dumb” to describe individuals is demeaning to people with cognitive or learning disabilities, and using terms like “lame,” “blind,” or “deaf” as generalized negative descriptors for people, places or things is demeaning to people with physical disabilities. Additionally, using terms like “crippling” or “a handicap” to refer to things considered problematic is also demeaning to people with physical disabilities. See also: “Disabling Ableist Language” (Andy Hollandbeck, 2016) Consider your pronouns Traditional rules for writing once taught that “he / him / his” should be used as the default pronouns to refer to everyone. We have since shifted to using “he / she” as a combined subject pronoun as a way to be inclusive of women. However, as we continue to recognize the gender diversity that exists in our society and as we acknowledge that many people do not identify within the gender binary (i.e., they identify as genderfluid, genderqueer, gender non-binary, etc. rather than as men or women), we should consider changing our default pronoun use to better reflect that understanding and to signal to our readers that we are creating space for everyone, including readers who identify along the transgender spectrum. The use of “they / them / theirs” has gained acceptance both as a way to acknowledge and respect the gender-neutral pronouns an individual might use and to use pronouns to refer to people in general in a way that makes no assumption about or places any limits on their gender identity. Thus, instead of writing: “Applicants for the position should submit his / her resume and cover letter,” we can write, “Applicants for the position should submit their resume and cover letter.” See also: “Everyone Uses Singular ‘They,’ Whether They Realize It Or Not” (Geoff Nunberg, 2016) Be understanding and empathetic about concerns related to inclusion and climate Understand issues of diversity and be able to express empathy about concerns related to inclusion and climate. Campus staff and administrators are increasingly called on to make statements in response to specific bias incidents or broader climate concerns. It is crucial for the individuals drafting and issuing statements to work on developing their cultural competency on an ongoing basis and to consult with diversity experts before commenting on specific incidents or issues. It is quite common for university personnel to issue statements that unintentionally make marginalized communities on campus feel less understood and less supported. Before issuing any statement, make sure you fully understand the issue, what members of the campus community have experienced, how those experiences have impacted them emotionally and how those experiences have shaped their perception of the campus, its climate, and how welcome or included they feel there. Make sure to have a diverse panel of advisors vet any statement before issuing it. Having people with multiple perspectives review any statement will help decrease the possibility that something potentially problematic is included. See also: “Brené Brown on Empathy” (RSA, 2013) Avoid tone policing Tone policing is a phrase used to describe the decision by people in power to provide guidance or suggestions or criticism related to the tone of conversations about cultural climate, harassment, discrimination, oppression, or violence. Tone policing occurs when people in positions of power rebuke people who are attempting to speak out about their experiences for the manner in which they’re speaking out (often by implying that they are too “angry” or “confrontational” or that they “aren’t helping” by not being more “civil”). On college campuses, tone policing often occurs in advance of student-led protests when administrators encourage students to protest “respectfully.” The effect of tone policing is that people often feel even more marginalized as tone policing is interpreted as serving to ensure that people in power aren’t made to feel too uncomfortable when others speak out about their oppression or as an act whereby people in power exert their power to attempt to control the tone of conversations and thereby silence others. See also: Feminism 101: What is Tone-Policing? (Jacqueline Pei, 2016) Compiled by Renee Wells. LANGUAGE TO AVOID The term “minority” has come to be seen as a generalized term for “the other.” Also, the use of “minority” implies a “less than” attitude toward the community or communities being discussed. Instead, use either community-specific terms (e.g., “Native American,” “African American,” etc.) or the general term “people of color” when referring to racial or ethnic communities. When referring to other marginalized communities, clarify which specific community or communities are being discussed (e.g., “GLBT people,” “people with disabilities,” etc.). See also “On Race: The Relevance of Saying ‘Minority’” (Edward Schumacher-Matos, 2011) Illegal alien / illegal immigrant The use of the phrases “illegal alien” and “illegal immigrant” are considered divisive and derogatory as they characterize as criminals individuals who are in the United States without documentation. Instead, use the phrase “undocumented immigrant.” See also “Immigration Debate: The Problem with the Word Illegal” (Jose Antonio Vargas, 2012) Homosexual / transsexual Both the term “homosexual” and “transsexual” have their origins in medical diagnoses. Because of the pathologized history of these terms, members of the GLBT community avoid them. Instead, use some version of the “GLBT / LGBT / GLBTQ / LGBTQ / etc.” acronym; check with an institution’s diversity office about which version of the acronym is commonly used at that institution (at NC State, ‘GLBT’ is used). When referring to specific individuals, it is ideal to use the term that reflects the language they use to describe their identity (e.g., “gay,” “lesbian,” “bisexual,” “transgender,” etc.). Sexual preference / lifestyle The terms “sexual preference” and “lifestyle” are considered offensive because they imply that a person’s sexuality is a choice. Rather than using either term, use “sexual orientation” instead. While the use of the term “Eskimo” is not considered offensive by all Alaskan Natives, it is considered offensive by some. As an alternative, some linguists and Alaskan Natives argue that “Inuit” is a more inclusive term to use, though it does not accurately refer to all Alaskan Natives. To avoid referring to an individual or group by a term that is not appropriate for their tribal heritage, the use of their specific tribe name (e.g., Yupik, Aleut, Tlingit, etc.) is preferred, and if their tribe name is not known, the use of “Alaskan Native” is an inclusive alternative. See also “Inuit or Eskimo: Which name to use?” (Lawrence Kaplan, 2011) Gypsy / gyp / gip The word “gypsy” originated as a term used to refer to the Romani (or Roma), a nomadic ethnic group who were characterized as thieves and swindlers. Hence, the term “gyp / gip” is used to refer to the act of stealing. All versions of this term should be avoided as they are derogatory to the Romani people. Negro / Colored The use of the terms “Negro” and “Colored” to refer to black people or African Americans is historically rooted in the systemic racism (i.e., segregation and Jim Crow laws) that characterized when and how the terms were used, which was to remind black people of “their place” and to “keep them there.” Consequently, both terms should be avoided. There is no universally accepted alternative: some people prefer the use of the phrase “black people,” (see section above for notes on capitalization) others prefer the use of “African American,” and the use of “people of color” has emerged as a broader term that is inclusive of people across communities of color and of people with heritages inclusive of multiple communities of color (e.g., Afro-Latino). Like the terms “Negro” and “Colored” which have meanings deeply connected to their historical use, the term “Oriental” is historically associated with the attitudes about Asians that led to the exclusion acts created to keep Asians from immigrating to the United States. Consequently, the use of the term is considered “othering” and derogatory and should be avoided. Ideally, you would refer to a person by their specific cultural heritage (e.g., Korean, Chinese-American or Samoan), but if a person’s heritage is unknown, the broader terms “Asian,” “Asian American,” or “Pacific Islander” are appropriate. While originally the phrase “politically correct” (or “PC”) was intended as a way to denote language that has been vetted or corrected to avoid offending a marginalized group, the phrase has now evolved into a label used to criticize those same protective words and actions by those that seek to remove those protections or claim they are not needed. Compiled by Renee Wells.

Hitchcock Asks Tippi to Star in The Birds — Shari Caplan Maybe I model, but I do sweat when a movie mogul slides a black box across at Liz Taylor’s favorite restaurant. Order the chili, he commands, massive hands a temple mid-table. In the box a murder of solid gold crows, fused at the feet, can’t gossip, each biting a genuine pearl. His lower lip quivers Starlet. We eat chili. I cry for the first time. Yes. His wife needles the birds onto my shoulder. I’m your girl. Shari Caplan is the siren behind Advice from a Siren, published by Dancing Girl Press in 2016. Her poems have swum into Gulf Coast, Blue Lyra Review, Deluge, Drunk Monkeys, Non-binary Review, and elsewhere. Shari’s work has earned her a scholarship to The Home School in Hudson, a fellowship to The Vermont Studio Center, and nominations for a Rhylsing Award, a Bettering American Poetry Award, and a Pushcart Prize. A wearer of many tophats, she has produced and performed in “The Poetry Circus,” “The Fairy Tale Poetry Walking Tour,” and other cross-pollinations for the Massachusetts Poetry Festival. You may encounter Shari as “Betty BOOM, America’s Sweet-tart” giving intimate readings across the nation as part of The Poetry Society of New York’s “The Poetry Brothel.” She also acts passionately and works on the Development Team at AIDS Action Committee. Keep up with her at ShariCaplan.com

We strongly encourage people of color, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and non-binary people, veterans, parents, and individuals with disabilities to apply. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcomes everyone to our team. If you need reasonable accommodation at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know. In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example – she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc). We are looking for a Paid Acquisition Manager to lead our user acquisition on various media channels. You’ll be responsible for promoting us in ways that will strengthen our brand and increase active users. You will be our expert and lead expansion in digital marketing campaigns, budget optimisation and evaluating new opportunities for growth through cross-functional collaboration with marketing, product, content, communications & engineering. Duties & Responsibilities: - Plan, develop, and implement comprehensive paid media strategies to drive new user acquisition to our mobile apps via Google Ads and Apple search campaigns as well as increase brand visibility and recognition - Build strategic optimisation and testing frameworks to deliver outstanding results - Creating and monitoring performance campaigns (KPIs, bid strategies, creative strategy, targeting, budget) - Working with attribution partners such as Appfsflyer, Adjust, Kochava - Identify providers that can meet our KPIs - Evaluating new opportunities for media buying - Working closely with internal departments and technology partners - Creation of documents to showcase performance and provide in-depth analysis of results - Ensure media is booked and reconciled on time according to the financial process - Proactively contribute to team meetings, team initiatives, and knowledge sharing - Support and mentor team members with their training and development Experience and Qualifications: - You should know the ins and outs of Google Ads and have successfully held this, or a similar role, in the past. Apple search experience is a plus. - Comprehensive experience of campaign implementation, management, and optimisation towards retention and ROI - Previous experience trading and managing multi-million dollar budgets with Google - Ability to demonstrate an understanding of multiple digital media buying platforms, technical tracking expertise, e.g. setting up tracking, troubleshooting, Q&A - Willing to learn around wide ad platforms and how to trade and use platforms to deliver objectives. - Excellent communication skills over email, verbally and face to face - Confident with talking about performance and how it works within the wider media mix - Ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment - Ability to develop & learn new processes - Ability to work individually but also closely with direct team members With over 600 staff in 10+ countries all working remotely during the time of COVID-19, we’ve worked hard to adapt and support our teams during this challenging time, including: * Flexible working hours* Streaming free, live yoga & meditation sessions each week, as well as a full weekly timetable of free online exercise classes* ‘Random Coffee’ – connecting staff across the globe in pairs once a week to get to know each other over a video chat* ‘First Fridays’ – meal delivery for a remote lunch with your team once a month* Employee Support Fund for those whose households are experiencing financial hardship due to COVID-19* Written resources to guide employees through this challenging time* You will also be taken through a fully digital onboarding process! Applicants are expected to have current work authorization in the country that the role is located.

Firecracker Photographic Grant Open to international female and non-binary photographers, and and awarded based on the strength of visual portfolios and submitted artist statements. Deadline: Summer 2022 The Minor Foundation for Major Challenges The Foundation supports advocates of climate change mitigation. The calls for applications are open to international applicants. Deadline: 02 December 2022 There are 4 cycles of Art & Photogrpahy grants through out the year Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter. Applicants can be 18 years or older from around the world. Deadline: 15th September 2022 Amant Residency Program Following Amant’s aim of slowing-down the art-making process, we provide artists with space, resources, and guidance to support long-term research projects and archival work.. Deadline: 15th November 2022 Awarded annually to five photographers whose works were created on the African continent, or which engage with the African diaspora. Deadline: 7th February 2022 [image credit: Tyler Mitchell] Mitchell’s photographs and videos propose a utopian vision of Black beauty, desire, and belonging. For Chrysalis, he has produced photographs of youthful subjects in nature.. [image credit: Lee-Ann Olwage] In Kenya, over 80 percent of Maasai girls are taken out of school at 12 and forced to marry. Olwage seeks to communicate what’s possible when they have the opportunity to choose a different path.. The existence of this effect was known for hundreds of years, but in the early 19th century camera obscuras became the basis for devices used to create the first photographs, and led to the invention of cameras as we know them today..

The Way Things Are UK Shorts Programme The most exciting home-grown talent is showcased in this wide-ranging collection of short films, exploring the queer experience in its myriad forms. Programmed by Michael Blyth | Total running time 109min Contains scenes of suicide, viewer discretion is advised. Films in this programme Graham has fled from the UK in search of asylum, but will he be granted the chance to start a new life? Dir Ben Allen. UK 2019. 12min A second-generation teen searches for a way to express their non-binary identity. Dir Amrou Al-Kadhi. UK 2018. 18min A transcendental fusion of queer surrealism and baroque opera. Dir Adam Csoka Keller. UK 2018. 6min A young man develops a fixation on an ex-con and together they embark on a journey. Dir Ben Strebel. UK 2018. 20min None of the Above Cassie runs into trouble when she decides to document her dating life on her personal vlog. Dir Siri Rodnes. UK 2018. 16min Against the backdrop of a high-rise housing estate, two young men connect. Dir Emma Gilbertson. UK 2017. 4min Whilst at the hair salon, Amma wonders if it is time for her to finally speak up. Dir Abena Taylor-Smith. UK 2018. 8min A group of trans children discuss what it means for them to live an authentic life. Dir Jake Graf. UK 2018. 5min In a quiet seaside town, a British-Iranian teen looks for a means to escape. Dir Alice Trueman. UK 2018. 10min 16-25 year olds can book advance £3 tickets. Find out more!

(This post is part of a series. You can read the first post, in which I discuss passing privilege, here.) Many of you probably have at least a general idea of what Impostor Syndrome is but if you don’t I encourage you to go read Bridie Marie’s piece which describes the phenomenon and gives a healthy dose of kick-ass encouragement to help overcome it. What I’d like to talk about here is not necessarily the same but is functionally similar enough in the anxiety it inspires. Queer Impostor Syndrome In the great scheme of things I’m still pretty new to the world of intersectional feminism. At the same time, and largely because of it, I’m also still understanding, processing, and actively creating my own identity. Since I’ve been exploring my identity and confronting privilege at the same time I’ve had to remain constantly vigilant that I’m not using privilege to assume a socially marginalized or oppressed identity to which I don’t have a right*. This is basic respect and something we should all maintain awareness about but over time that constant vigilance and empathy has also resulted in what I think of as a kind of “queer impostor syndrome”. I’ve slowly begun to realize that a lot of the anxiety around my right to my identity has come from trying to reconcile it with my passing privilege and with my commitment to social justice and feminism. I identify as soft-masculine genderqueer but my entire life I have benefited from cis-privilege and will likely continue to for the large part. At the moment I don’t have a strong preference between masculine and neutral pronouns but that in itself is a privilege considering misgendering is a constant emotional and societal struggle for many trans and non-binary people. I like feeling included in queer spaces but at the same time I know that my privilege protects me from so much of the oppression that many in those spaces face. I worry about taking up too much space. A strong portion of my gender identity involves the feeling of wishing to relate to and interact with other women as a woman. Even when I describe this part of my identity to myself I intentionally use the phrase “other women” as if I were one myself. I don’t necessarily identify as transgender but this particular feeling is strong regardless. I also realize that I have always benefited from male privilege and, because of my presentation and the way my body is shaped, I will likely only be able to achieve this level of expression with a select few close friends. I understand and fully support the fact that there are very good reasons why someone who looks like me will be regarded with apprehension or mistrust in mostly or totally women-only spaces. I gladly and respectfully seek enthusiastic consent before entering but I also accept that this is a part of my identity I will never be able to fully express. I identify as hetero-queer but I have never officially had a fully aware non-platonic relationship with anyone who didn’t identify as female. I recognize my capacity for romantic emotional intimacy with men as well as aesthetic attraction though I don’t have a strong sexual attraction to them. I’m also in a committed partnership with a woman that is socially monogamous so I have the privilege of being seen as strictly hetero. While I’ve never experienced any type of exclusion or hostility I don’t feel like I belong in gay/bi male spaces because I don’t feel like I meet a high enough bar to qualify. Also, being sexually attracted to women on top of my male privilege makes me feel even more cautious and anxious entering straight woman, lesbian, or queer/trans femme spaces. I could go on but I think you get the point. The intersection of privilege, activism, and identity can create a cognitive dissonance resulting in the feeling of not having a right to your own identity. You can start to think “I don’t meet these arbitrary qualifications so I can’t really be queer” or “there are people with intense dysphoria or that have experienced so many different kinds of violence for this identity; what claim do I have?” Those feelings and thoughts can clash with what your mind and heart are telling you about who you legitimately are and, for me, that left me in a state of depression and anxiety (woo, first panic attacks ever!) The encouragement part Let me tell you one thing: You have a fundamental right to your identity. I’ll say it again: Your identity is an individual and inherent part of you and you have a right to it. Sometimes that needs to be said and repeated because it’s true and we all need to be reminded of it sometimes. Buuuuuuut it’s not really sufficient when it comes to overcoming queer impostor syndrome so let’s try a little harder. Being aware of privilege and being respectful of the oppression others face is really important for everyone and we can’t really sacrifice that in favor of our own comfort and expect a supportive community in return. If we’re committed social justice warriors then we need to continue to listen to and boost the voices of people who experience that oppression themselves. I identify as a feminist but I am careful not to take up too much space talking about masculinity (or just, you know, talking) because I recognize that most of the time it’s more important to lift up the voices of women. I’m getting better about not mentioning my lack of pronoun preference too much because I recognize that displaying that privilege is counterproductive to other people’s struggle for social recognition. But don’t worry, there’s still hope for defeating queer impostor syndrome! It just takes a little more thoughtful action and creativity. 1) Find ways to connect positively with your identity Especially for those of us who work in social justice activism, we read and share a LOT of stories about oppression and violence and basic human shittiness from around the globe. We do this because visibility is so incredibly important for generating change but it can also leave us with a wholly negative view of our own identities. Going out and finding safe spaces, on the internet or in person, where people express and relate to aspects of their identities in positive and affirming ways can do wonders in balancing out the stream of negative association. For me this was searching for and discovering a community of tumblr blogs of other genderqueer people that were all about support and acceptance and celebration. Seeing people happy, positive, and supported helped me believe it was OK for me to feel that way too! 2) Challenge yourself to positively express your own identity in whatever ways you feel comfortable or safe A lot of times when we get queer impostor syndrome it’s because we’ve started to externalize our identity instead of internalizing it – for example: being non-cis = experiencing violence; I haven’t experienced violence so my identity isn’t valid – and we need to bring it back into ourselves in some way. For me that involves curating a tumblr and pinterest blog where I challenge myself to freely explore what aesthetics most accurately embody and affirm my soft-masculine and/or feminine identities. I’ve also chosen to participate in Femmebruary which is a daily challenge to make positive expressions of feminine identity part of your routine for the month of February. This has helped me discover the joy and satisfaction of allowing myself to value and express myself authentically and kindly! 3) Find ethical ways to talk about your feelings with others and accept support This one can be particularly hard because, a lot of the time, a direct result of queer impostor syndrome is feeling like your feelings aren’t valid or worth talking about (“There are so many bigger problems and I’m worrying about not being entitled to space in marginalized or oppressed communities? With all the privilege I have?!”) But those feelings of anxiety are in you and they need some form of controlled release. Practicing self-care is important for everyone but it’s particularly important for us advocates and allies. As Lucy said on the subject of self-care: if you neglect your individual needs, you’re going to be pretty terrible at taking care of other people. Letting your anxiety build can not only result in social justice fatigue but also depression and anxiety that can affect how you relate to yourself and your perception of your own personal value. Do you have people in your trusted community with similar identities and privileges? Try to talk with them openly about your feelings and anxieties, I’m sure you’ll find that you’re not alone and that in itself is a comfort. If you don’t have people in your community with similar privileges to yours you can still talk with others but it’s important to be respectful of your friend’s boundaries. Before talking to someone about your feelings make sure to “ask to ask”** – you can say “I’m having some emotional trouble pertaining to my identity that I’d like to get some advice on or just talk with someone about but it also includes discussing my own privilege; is that something you have space to help me with at the moment?” If they don’t, respect them and try something else. If you don’t have anyone in your community you feel comfortable or safe talking to you can still release the tension of your anxieties by writing about them (journaling, blogging, etc.) Whether it’s private, controlled-access, or public the act of writing can be therapeutic in that it forces you to directly process your feelings and articulate them. Even if they’re random, seemingly incoherent thoughts, allowing yourself the right to talk about them, even if just to yourself, can be a valuable step in overcoming the anxiety. So try to be kind to yourself, friends. You’re valuable and deserve to be your most authentic self! * And even then Mia McKenzie at Black Girl Dangerous is completely right to ask: “Think about what it means to claim a marginalized identity when you don’t have a marginalized experience. Really. Think about it. Don’t just get offended and start crying about identity-policing. Really consider what that means.” ** You should “ask to ask” regardless of who you’re talking to as a show of respect for their emotional boundaries but it becomes especially important when the dynamic includes a difference in privilege, ie: a male feminist talking to a female feminist or a white person talking to a person of color, etc. PS: I know I usually have pictures in my posts and I don’t really this time so here’s a cute puppy in a hammock. You deserve it : )

Knowing your own body and knowing what is normal for you can help you be more confident and know when you need to seek help. It is important to remember that everyone is different, and so are our bodies. We come in all different shapes and sizes, and that is what makes us unique – wouldn’t it be boring if we were all the same?! Likewise, we are all attracted to different types of bodies, so why shouldn’t we be happy with our own? Check the sections below to find out more about the topics. Knowing your body We’re all different. Bodies change over time and there are lots of different body shapes. This variety is normal and we are all attracted to different things – if we were all exactly the same, life would be pretty boring right? Instead of comparing yourself to others, it’s more important to know what is normal for you - getting to know your body is really helpful and can make you feel more comfortable with what you have. Knowing your body can help you spot things such as lumps and bumps that aren’t normal, making it easier to get help quickly when something isn’t right. We suggest having a look, at different body parts regularly, sometimes with the help of a mirror for those areas that aren’t so easy to see. For those with testicles, have a warm bath or shower to soften the scrotum (balls). Hold your scrotum in the palm of your hands and gently use the fingers and thumbs of both hands to examine for lumps or bumps. If you do come across a lump, do not be alarmed as this could be lots of different things, but it would be best to visit your GP to get it checked out. For those with vulvas, take a look with a mirror and get to know it! Keep an eye out for any new lumps and bumps that might appear and keep an eye on changes to discharge and periods. If you are worried about anything unusual or strange, speak to a GP to get some support. Don't be embarrassed - whatever it is, they will have heard the same from other people, and will be able to help you with it. For those with breasts, examine them using a flat palm pressing again the breast in different directions. Be sure to check all of each breast including the top and bottom and not just the surface. Keep an eye out for changes in shape and size, skin texture and colour of the nipple and surrounding area. Puberty is a period of both physical and mental change for someone who is growing up and reaching sexual maturity. These changes vary depending on gender and everyone goes through puberty at different ages and speeds. The average age for puberty to start is around 11-13 but lots of us will see changes start earlier or later than this. During puberty, people with male sex organs may notice that their voice becomes deeper - sometimes referred to as your voice ’breaking’. Facial hair can also begin to grow as well as hair under the armpits, and on the legs, chest and private parts. The penis and testicles may grow or change shape and some may also develop 'man boobs' (technically known as Gaenocomastia). In people with female sex organs, puberty can bring their first period. Boobs or breasts will also grow during puberty, and come in all shapes and sizes, including different size and colour nipples. There are other body changes that can happen to anyone, including weight change, growth spurts and changes to the skin – which can become oily, greasy or spotty. Acne is also something that may happen during puberty and adolescence, and although it can make you feel self-conscious, it is extremely common and there are lots of different medications that a doctor can give you to help. For more info on acne, check out the NHS Choices website. During puberty, many young people start getting sexual thoughts and begin exploring their bodies, using masturbation to start experimenting with what they do and don’t like. For more info on puberty, visit these websites and search puberty for a variety of great articles: Your gender identity is the gender you identify yourself as. Gender identity doesn’t need to match your gender at birth, it can be something completely different. It also doesn’t come down to your clothes or style, it is about how you feel and who you are. For example, someone may be born with a vulva but identify themselves as a boy or man. Someone can be born with a penis but identify as being a girl or a woman. There are lots of different gender identities out there, so although the most common may be male or female, other people may identify as something else like polygender (you identify with multiple genders and may change from day to day) or non-binary (you don’t identify with being male or female). Someone’s gender identity doesn’t determine their sexuality. Gender is who you are. Sexuality is who you are attracted to. See Sexuality, below, for more information. Transgender is a term often used by people whose gender is different from their biological sex. Transphobia is a term used when someone is afraid of, or prejudiced against transgender people and doesn’t believe in equality and inclusion for all genders. When someone is transphobic, they can cause hurt, upset and exclusion for people who fit into minority gender groups. For more information, help and support around gender, contact LGBT Youth Scotland: Your sexuality is who you are attracted to and, like gender, there are lots of ways that people identify themselves. For example, if someone is attracted to the same sex they may identify as homosexual, gay or lesbian. People who are attracted to both males and females may identify as bisexual. Pansexual is also common and is when someone is attracted to a person because of who they are, rather than their sexuality or gender. When someone is attracted to the opposite sex they may identify as being heterosexual or ‘straight’. Sexuality shouldn’t determine or limit what a person can do, or the opportunities that they have, such as getting a job, going to university or getting married. Homophobia and biphobia are terms used for someone who has a fear of, or is prejudiced against those who identify as homosexual or bisexual. It is non-inclusive and makes people from minority sexuality groups feel excluded. For more info, help and support for any questions you may have around sexuality, contact LGBT Youth Scotland: Periods, otherwise known as menstruation, happen to those born with female reproductive organs. They start when someone reaches puberty and reaches sexual maturity, meaning their body is ready to make a baby. Egg cells are produced in ovaries and are released in a cycle that repeats monthly, although exact cycles differ from person to person. The egg travels from the ovaries, through the fallopian tubes and into the womb for fertilisation. If the egg cell is not fertilised by sperm, it needs to leave the body so a new egg cell can start its cycle. A period happens when the lining of the uterus (womb) sheds it’s lining to help carry the egg out of the body. Periods are made up of blood and tissue from the lining of the uterus, which leaves the body through the vagina. Different people experience different kinds of periods. Some periods are light and last a few days, some last for a couple of weeks. Some are heavy with lots of blood, and those people might also get period pain or cramps in the lower abdomen. Some people have their period at the same time every month and some people have irregular periods. Whatever kind of period you get, it’s important to know what is normal for you. Changes to your period can indicate health problems as well as other things. They can also be affected by stress, diet and major lifestyle changes. If you are worried about a sudden change to your period, go and speak to a health expert for support. Changes could be an indication of an STI if you have had unprotected sex. Likewise, if you have had unprotected sex and missed a period, it could a sign that you are pregnant. Tampons and sanitary towels are hygiene products used during your period. Sanitary towels are placed inside underwear to absorb any blood or tissue that leaves the vagina. Tampons are inserted into the vagina to absorb blood before it leaves the body. Many people can be anxious about using tampons, especially when they first start their period, and it is important to use the products you feel most comfortable using. Whichever product you use, it is important to change sanitary products regularly, and more often if you do get heavy periods. Body hair usually starts to appear during puberty and grows in lots of different places - around the legs, private parts, armpits, chest, arms, back, face and neck. Hair grows in different places for different reasons. Mainly, to act as a barrier to prevent infections getting into the body and to keep body parts at the right temperature. Some people choose to shape their body hair or to remove it, by shaving, waxing or trimming areas like armpits, chest and legs. Whatever you decide to do with your body hair is your choice and for nobody else to decide. When it comes to pubes, shaving or waxing can increase your chances of catching an STI. This is because shaving and waxing damages the surface of the skin, creating small cuts that allow infections to get into your body more easily. Vulvas and vaginas Vulva is the word to describe the external parts of the female sexual organs. Vulvas are made up of outer lips (labia majora), inner lips (labia minora) and the clitoris. Vulvas come in lots of different shapes and sizes. They are all completely normal and make you unique! Some people worry about what their vulva looks like and whether it is ‘normal’. Sexualised media like porn has given us a very narrow view of what a ‘normal’ vulva looks like. Lots of people think vulvas have to be small and compact, with labia minora being smaller than labia majora and neatly, or completely shaved. But, in fact, vulvas with bigger inner lips than outer lips are very common, and shape, texture and colour of labia minora varies from person to person. The important thing to know about your vulva is whether or not it is normal for you. Get to know it, take a look with a mirror regularly and keep an eye out for any unusual lumps and bumps. For more info about vulvas and labias, visit http://www.labialibrary.org.au The vagina is the passage linking the vulva to the cervix and uterus (womb). The vagina is where a finger, penis or sex toy is inserted during sex and, during birth, a baby exits the body through the vagina. Vaginas are amazing things! They produce natural lubrication when aroused to make sex easier and more comfortable. They also self-clean! If your vagina produces discharge (white fluid), this is completely normal and is your vagina cleaning itself. It is also completely normal for your discharge to vary at different times of the month. However, if you start experience unusual discharge when you don’t normally get any, or you get smelly, coloured discharge this could be a sign on an infection and you should seek medical advice. Even though vaginas are great at self-cleaning, it is important to wash regularly. The skin around your vulva may be sensitive to perfumes and other ingredients found in soaps and shampoos. We recommend washing with warm water and non-perfumed products to avoid irritation. There is no need to put any products inside the vagina, just wash the external parts of the vulva. Penises and testicles Penises can be lots of different shapes and sizes. They can be straight or curved, short or long, circumcised or uncircumcised, and all things in between. All of these differences are completely normal and may change through puberty. A penis has lots of different parts to it, but basically there is the top (or ‘the head’) and ‘the shaft’. Inside the penis, there are tubes that link it to the bladder (for peeing) and the testicles (for semen). The testicles or ‘balls’ are found inside the scrotum and are where sperm and semen are produced. Sperm are tiny cells which can impregnate an egg that is inside the womb – leading to pregnancy. Semen is a whitish liquid that carries sperm and help them travel to reach the egg. Testicles come in different shapes and sizes and it is common for one to hang lower than the other. Penis and testicle sizes can also change depending on temperature. When aroused, the penis becomes erect to prepare itself for sex. This is sometimes known as a hard on. It is normal to get erections at odd times, such as first thing in the morning, and they can be affected by pressures in your life, such as stress, tiredness and anxiety. Losing an erection at an awkward moment can happen to the best of us, but is completely normal. If you are worried about this, speak to your GP for further support. It’s important to regularly check for lumps and bumps around the genitals. The head of the penis can be sensitive to perfumes and other ingredients found in soaps and shampoos, particularly under the foreskin. We recommend washing with warm water and non-perfumed products to avoid irritation.

Ubisoft is committed to building a more welcoming workplace, and part of that commitment is ensuring that employees feel a sense of belonging. Employee resource groups (ERGs) play a key role in that commitment. These groups, led by employees and supported by Ubisoft, offer a variety of programming including professional development to community events. Senior Director of Sales Planning and Operations Hannah Wolf is one of three co-leads for Ubisoft’s Women and Non-binary ERG. While this global ERG took formal shape in recent years, it is composed of nine different chapters around the world, each with their own goals and leaders. We spoke with Wolf to learn more about the need for the ERG, how she got involved, and what others should know about starting their own ERG. Tell us about the Women and Non-binary ERG. Hannah Wolf: The Women and Non-binary ERG is a collective of employees across Ubisoft committed to gender equality. We number more than 600 people across nine local chapters - at least as of this writing - some of which were formed in the last six months. Some were established over the last couple of years, and one was founded way back in 2013, which is the Women's Leadership Forum (WLF) that was started in San Francisco. One of our first priorities is providing a safe space to connect and share experiences freely. This aspect has always been a very strong theme for our members. We are advocating for policy and process change. We are looking to empower individuals who identify as women or non-binary through professional development at Ubisoft and within the gaming industry, and to educate on intersectional issues and inform gender representation in our games. Those are the goals that are represented through all of these local chapters. Not every chapter focuses on the same set of objectives, but that’s the umbrella view of our goals at large. What sort of regular programming is there for members? HW: Local chapters define their own priorities, so we have quite a variety of things; everything from podcasts to networking. For example, there's a local chapter at the Pune studio called Women, Let's Talk About Games (Women, Let’s TAG!), and they do an internal podcast series, which is this amazing variety of knowledge-sharing sessions that provide a forum for people to learn about games and gaming. It's incredible. . It actually inspired another local internal podcast series from one of our SF chapter members, which is not so much instructional as it is women sharing their experiences around gaming and providing a way to say, hey, if you're interested, come listen to us talk about our experiences with gaming. There's something in there for people who are hardcore gamers and something in there for people who are curious about gaming, but intimidated to get going. We also have the Women x Data Group, which is a local chapter with members in Montreal and Paris. They did a data-driven speed-networking event where the group members defined an algorithm to help match the participants. They had 50 or 60 participants; I was actually in that event, and it was really, really fun. Within the San Francisco group, the Women's Leadership Forum, we have an internal mentoring program that matches people of different experience levels and skill levels for career-development advice and coaching, but it's very much peer-to-peer. It's not a formal program through HR. It's really up to the initiative of the mentor/mentee pairs to define their goals and drive the cadence of their meetings. I've been involved as a mentor for that and find it very satisfying. Plus, you meet people in a way that you might not otherwise. What role do you see ERGs having at a company like Ubisoft? What do you think makes them necessary? HW: The last couple of years have shown us that having an inclusiveworkplace is not necessarily a given in the gaming world. The value and the importance of an ERG is building community to drive a culture of inclusion, create mentors and advocates, and essentially to build a better foundation for those around us and those coming behind us. ERGs also offer a space where employees can feel safe as they have these important discussions and act for change. Ubisoft is a huge company, and we have the opportunity to set an example that we should act on, and certainly we have our own history to reckon with in doing so. One of the most important things to convey is that building community is so important. In the world we live in now, particularly where our workplaces are not operating the way that they used to, ERGs are a great way not only to affect the change we want, but also to connect us to each other in what can be a very profound way. I think that's enormously important and valuable for Ubisoft's culture as a whole. What made you want to start the Women’s Leadership Forum back in 2013? HW: For the record, the Women’s Leadership Forum was initiated by SF’s former VP of HR back in 2013; I was an early member and gradually took on a leadership role. For me, building community with other women, learning from them, and helping them develop are deeply personal and important. I've had some amazing, intensely satisfying experiences throughout my Ubisoft career doing this work, watching people find their voices, find their strength. It really underscores for me how powerful we are together. This is something that’s important for me in my personal life, this interest and this desire to build community. Ubisoft has given me a great opportunity to pursue that interest and join forces with like-minded people. The Women and Non-binary ERG was formed to represent underrepresented genders at Ubisoft. Was there any sort of conversation about whether women and non-binary people should be grouped together? HW: It's a really good question, and it was quite a long discussion when the global ERG took shape. We are trying, very explicitly, to serve non-binary people alongside women, and there was some discussion about whether non-binary folks would feel more comfortable within the network of LGBTQ+ ERGs, or where they would feel the most belonging. We tried to choose a name that would make the welcome obvious, but not impose anything. A non-binary person might feel more comfortable in an LGBTQ+ group; great. Another may feel more comfortable aligning with an ERG focused on gender equality; great. Whoever you are, we want to meet you where you are. How has Ubisoft supported the ERG? HW: What I would say right off the bat is that the Diversity & Inclusion team has been instrumental in moving us forward. We now have access to expertise in this area, training for members and leaders, and most importantly, resources for events, and that is no small thing. I’m also happy to say that the Women's Leadership Forum has always had a strong partnership with SF HR over the years, and when we needed a budget for something, they were very generous with that. Even beyond the more tangible support, the fact that the D&I team is helping our company culture evolve to normalize ERG participation and its contribution to Ubisoft life has been great. On the one hand, it's very concrete: here are tools, here are people to support. And on the other hand, it's creating this idea that this is normal and desirable, and Ubisoft needs this and will benefit from it. What would you say to someone who wants to start their own women and non-binary ERG? HW: Be prepared to spend a lot of time just getting the basics in order. Trying not to do everything at once is important. What worked for us was a very organic growth. We networked, and that is something that sounds like a cliche, but it is something that, in my opinion, women do well, so that worked for us. I would say, defend your time, go in small, small steps, and don't forget to celebrate your accomplishments along the way to communicate what you're doing. But the first thing is the people, and having a clear idea of who's in your group, what you want to accomplish, and what the ERG means for you. What would you like the ERG to accomplish in the future that you haven't already? HW: One of our big dreams is to have a global Ubisoft Women and Non-binary Conference, where we can network in real time and do our joint planning together between local chapters. That's a thing that we would love to do more of: more intersectional activity, more collaboration between chapters, to have the luxury of face time. We could accomplish so much in just a couple of days. We do as much as we can virtually, and I'm so impressed and delighted to be connected to this whole new community of women and non-binary folks that I might not have met otherwise. We are doing the best we can with the tools that we have, but we have so much potential that we could realize when we are able to meet in person and explore intersectionality. There’s lots of room there, and things that I’m sure haven’t even occurred to me, but are popping up with Black Employees at Ubisoft, the Asian & Pacific Islander ERG, and other ERGs that are that are growing at Ubisoft.

Fashion icon Porter, who has worn gowns on several red carpets, including at the 2019 and 2020 Academy Awards, thinks the praise Harry received for wearing a lace-trimmed frock on the cover of the December, 2020 issue was misplaced. "I changed the whole game I. Personally. Changed. The. Whole. Game. And that is not ego, that is just fact. I was the first one doing it and now everybody is doing it," Billy told The Sunday Times. "I created the conversation (about non-binary fashion) and yet Vogue still put Harry Styles, a straight white man, in a dress on their cover for the first time," he says, referring to the fact the former One Direction star is the first man to be granted his own solo cover in the magazine's history. "He doesn't care, he's just doing it because it's the thing to do. This is politics for me. This is my life. I had to fight my entire life to get to the place where I could wear a dress to the Oscars and not be gunned (down). All he has to do is be white and straight." Although Harry's photoshoot made headlines, he was not the first musician or actor to rock a dress on a magazine cover. Kurt Cobain, Brad Pitt, and non-binary "Queer Eye" star Jonathan Van Ness have all done so previously. In 2019, Porter told U.S. TV host Stephen Colbert he was all for more men wearing women's clothing. "We've moved beyond the idea that women wearing pants is a problem. Women wearing pants is powerful, it's strong, everybody accepts it, and it's associated with the patriarchy, it's associated with being male," he said. "The minute a man puts on a dress, it's disgusting, so what are you saying?" Billy continued. "Men are strong, women are disgusting? I'm not doing that anymore... I'm a man in a dress, and if I feel like wearing a dress, I'm gonna wear one."

Angry pupils have hit back and staged a mass walk-out over their school's strict new uniform policy that has been labelled discriminatory and racist. Hundreds of pupils left the school at Pimlico Academy in Westminster, central London, on Wednesday, to call for the uniform policy to change. At the school, hairstyles that "block the view of others" and colourful hijabs have been banned from the academy's grounds. Videos posted online show headteacher Daniel Smith being confronted in a corridor with a male student asking: "What do you have to say about the protests, Mr Smith? Mr Smith, stop walking away. Where are you going?" Over the weekend, graffiti was spray-painted on to the school's walls, which read: "Headmaster Smith should get the sack." Pupils have since staged a sit-in at the school, claiming that there has been no recognition of Black Lives Matter or Black History Month. There are also concerns about the placement of the union jack flag on the school's site that has allegedly been ignored. More graffiti stated: "Ain’t no black in the Union Jack," and "White schools for brown kids are u mad." Get latest news headlines delivered free Want all the latest shocking news and views from all over the world straight into your inbox? We've got the best royal scoops, crime dramas and breaking stories – all delivered in that Daily Star style you love. Our great newsletters will give you all you need to know, from hard news to that bit of glamour you need every day. They'll drop straight into your inbox and you can unsubscribe whenever you like. You can sign up here – you won't regret it… A member of the academy's senior leadership team on Tuesday asked pupils to cancel Wednesday's protest and sit-in, but students said it made them even more determined to press ahead, it was reported. Students of the school attempted to outline their issues in a statement posted online, claiming the institution has "unfairly targeted groups" and the academy should "protect marginalised races, religions and other groups instead of target them." Beach bar owner gets slap on the wrist after thirsty Brits queued for pints in heatwave The statement adds: "We believe the idea of gendered uniform for all students is a ridiculous, backwards ideal. This ostracises non-binary and gender non-conforming students, or those who are struggling with their gender identity. "We believe that the school has been inconsiderate of students and families living in poverty. All students should have fair treatment, especially in basic rights such as food and clothing." A spokesman for the central London school said: "The rationale for this is self-explanatory and doesn’t relate to any specific hairstyle." Source: Read Full Article

Jon Drawdoer (photo courtesy of Drawdoer) As we prepare to leave Pride and CAKE month (aka June) behind, let us take a look at some fabulously talented LGBT comic creators who were represented at the recent Chicago Alternative Comics Expo, which took place at Center on Halsted on June 11 and 12. First in our weekly New Comics Wednesday series is Jon Drawdoer, "a queer cartoonist living in Chicago," according to his Tumblr. Drawdoer has written, drawn, and self published many comics since 2012, including Jesse Jackson, Be the Comics,,Mindfulness Comics 1 & 2, and the full-color psychedelic "hello." In addition, Drawdoer has been a CAKE event coordinator focused on sponsorship, mailings, administrative tasks, "staffing, proofing, and putting out fires," as he says. "As the show opened Saturday morning," he continues, "I was racing around the gym with my friend Amy Peltz distributing mylar balloons to exhibitors who had all-ages material." I presented Drawdoer and other CAKE tablers with seven questions relevant to the expo and to comics culture at large. Why seven questions? Originally, I had planned to include the small groups' answers into one piece, and the weakest two questions would have been eliminated for a nice, even five questions to see the ceaseless flow of the internet. Instead, the responses I got were so thoughtful they stood on their own. That is how this series began, and after this gathering of CAKE-represented creators have taken a round of questions, I will find another group of LGBT creators and put forth a new set of seven questions. These creators include a number I met through my coverage of Token 3 and Chicago Zine Fest back in April. Without further ado, the first in a series of responses to my queries: 1: How does your gender and sexual identity inform your work? I like to tell stories about queer characters, and non-binary characters, but I guess it hasn't been a main feature of my work in the last year or so. It's always there, whether it's front and center or not. I'm out about my queer or bisexual self as a creator so that readers have an idea where I'm coming from, the traditions I'm working in, and what side I'm on in the war — especially in areas of the Midwest outside the bubble of CAKE. ‘hello’ (image courtesy of Drawdoer) 2: What else inspires your work? My comics about mindfulness are informed by Thich Nhat Hahn, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Pema Chodron, Ram Dass, and I meditate every day. If I'm quiet I can hear what I want to write about. I listen to Prince a lot while I draw. I'm a constant, opinionated listener of Prince's music. 3: What was some exciting work you found at CAKE 2016? Jonathan Bell Wolfe brought some books to CAKE that are just the most arty, emotionally honest, cool-looking comics. I admire his visual vocabulary and ideas about the page so much. I also read one by Matt Trower about his top surgery, Sit and Think About What You’ve Done, that I think is really memorable and well written. Humans probably know all about the rest of the stuff I got that I like: Andy Burkholder, John Pham, Patrick Kyle, Gina Wynbrandt, that Koyama Press book about the artist who's been jailed twice in Japan for making art of her pussy. I like that one. (Gavin here: Drawdoer is referring to What Is Obscenity? The Story of a Good for Nothing Artist and her Pussy by Rokudenashiko.) 4: Once word of the tragedy at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando became known, did you observe a change in CAKE on Sunday? I think it's safe to say that attendance was down on Sunday at least partially as a result of the tragedy. Certainly, Pulse was a frequent topic of conversation. And there were dudes in flak jackets patrolling the Center on Halsted with automatic weapons, which I do not remember happening last year. Drawdoer at his CAKE table (photo courtesy of Corinne Halbert) 5: What development coming out of your experience at CAKE are you looking forward to? I'll be on board as a coordinator for the 2017 show much, much earlier in the year this year, so there are administrative and behind-the-scenes functions I'm looking forward to participating in for the first time. I'm also looking forward to building on all the stuff I learned as a show coordinator this year and working with the rest of the team on making a good CAKE in 2017. Creatively: I asked my idols big, dumb, top-down questions this year, instead of acting like I know everything already, and the advice I got was incredibly useful. 6: Do you consider yourself an out geek, and if so, what makes you enjoy being a geek? The last couple of years I've been a huge geek about pro wrestling, which as a young kid in Michigan was the primary expression of my gayness, so to reconsider that as an adult and make the subtext and sexual coyness overt is exciting. Also, I just like it, and I like that it's super unpopular and deeply uncool right now. I really enjoy my community of fans who are as obsessive as I am, and looking at it from a queer POV. 7: What's next in your body of work? I'm building a real website for my comics, instead of just having a crappy Tumblr (LOL). Once I finish that, I can see myself diving into comics ideas that are really, really sexually explicit... Ones I've been like, “Oh, I'd feel weird throwing that up on somebody's Tumblr feed… I think they should be in the mood to go looking for this specifically." But who knows? I'm always looking to see what people tell me or write to me about to get an idea what to make more of. Mindfulness Comics 2 (image courtesy of Drawdoer) Next week: Tony Breed

- Main article: Player character category The default name for the player character is Marco if male or Linda if female. There are no non-binary gender options, but in voice acted dialogue, the player is often referred to as "Builder," and sometimes a reference to their name or gender is omitted altogether. The player's selected gender does not restrict them from wearing any clothing or determine who they are allowed to romance, though some clothing will automatically change appearance based on the player's selected gender (such as the Elegant Dress Bottom being pants for male characters and a skirt for female characters and the Swimsuit Top being completely different items based on gender). Customization[edit | edit source] - Main article: Character customization The player can fully customize their character to fit their liking. The player can choose between a male or a female base character, choose hairstyles and adjust their color and length, and adjust facial features. Throughout the game, the player can customize their character's attire by purchasing clothes from shops and crafting or acquiring accessories. Many clothing items can be purchased with the primary in-game currency, gols, but some items can be traded for with items such as Flexible Fiber. Some accessories show up on the player while worn, such as sunglasses and pendants, while others do not. Later on a feature is unlocked whereby you can take the stats of superior outfits, and sew them onto the clothing you like. This enables to look and dress how you want without sacrificing better stats. Personal life[edit | edit source] The player character was born and grew up in Barnarock. Their birthday is chosen by the player at the start of the game with no restrictions, even if the chosen birthday overlaps with festivals or other characters' birthdays. Their mother ("Ma"), Clara, is deceased, and much of their childhood was spent living with their Aunt Kendra. During the game, the player is permanently a young adult and is often referred to as "The Builder". The Builder arrives in Portia via boat from Barnarock to settle in the workshop they inherited from their absent father, Maurice, often simply referred to as "Pa". The player is met by the commissioner of the Commerce Guild, Presley, who helps the player join the Guild and register their workshop with the mayor of Portia to become a Builder. The player soon finds a rival in Higgins, another workshop owner and the top Builder in Portia at the time of their arrival. The personal life of the Builder is somewhat determined by the player. Whether the player chooses to romance, marry, and have children or not is up to them. The Builder will, however, live up to their title and spend most of their time improving the town of Portia, socializing with its inhabitants, joining in on festivals and most importantly, completing commissions. The Builder gathers resources from all over the surrounding area of Portia via quarrying, logging, farming, foraging, spelunking, and monster-slaying to craft the items requested by the residents. Through many trials and unexpected happenings, the Builder makes their honest attempt to make a name for themself as the top workshop owner of the town. Trivia[edit | edit source] - The features of the player character's biological relatives, like any biological children they may have, are determined by the features that the player character currently has, such as their skin and hair color. Gallery[edit | edit source] |Player character||Character • Customization • Experience • Inventory • Skills| |Attributes||Health • Stamina • Endurance • Other attributes • Buffs|

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By SHRUB Coop, posted 06/02/20 Could you be our new treasurer? Apply here! SHRUB Cooperative has registered as a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO). Our Constitution provides for the Board of Trustees to oversee the activities of SHRUB Cooperative and ensure we act in accordance with our purposes and the wishes of members of the Cooperative. We invite applications from individuals interested in contributing to the Coop’s development to join the board of trustees as a treasurer. At this time we are particularly looking for professionals in the fields of Accountancy and Financial Management. We particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups, including but not limited to: people of colour, trans people, non-binary people and women. SHRUB is a cooperative of Members who contribute to decision-making processes. Trustees have special legal responsibilities and, in some circumstances may have to make sensitive or critical decisions on behalf of the Coop. Trustees learn about how our social enterprise runs and gain skills in leadership, problem-solving and innovation, strategic judgement and effective communication, to name a few. Serving as a Trustee is an opportunity to learn about the governance of a not-for-profit organisation in a supportive environment, learning from more experienced Trustees and staff and the fresh perspective of newer Members alike. Trustees’ key responsibilities fall into the following areas: Please have a read of the Treasurer information pack for more details. Trustees have a wide-ranging remit with some people leading on particular aspects, some playing a more general role. We are looking to recruit trustees with specialist skills in Accountancy or Financial Management but Trustees have a wide-ranging remit and there will be opportunities to be involved across the breadth of work that SHRUB undertakes. To flourish as a Trustee, you must be committed, passionate, flexible! What is the time commitment? 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Political funding: DR Stella resorts to Gay people for Money Opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) flag bearer for Kampala City woman MP Dr Stella Nyanzi appeals to guy people for to fund her parliamentary campaigns. Former Makerere medical anthropologist lecturer popularly known as Nnalongo Owenene wrote a letter to renown guy activists Ellen DeGeneres and Elton John asking for campaign funds. The letter titled “Application for funding” Dr Stellar Nyanzi pleaded how he was tortured and jailed for her political views. Dr Stella Nyanzi writes; Dear Ellen DeGeneres and Elton John My names are Stella Nyanzi. I am an academic researcher, a human rights defender, a dissident protester, and an activist from Uganda. I am running for political election as the Kampala Woman Member of Parliament for 2021-2026. In February of this year, I was released upon acquittal from Luzira Women Prison where I had served (sixteen months) most of my sentence for offensive communication against President Yoweri Museveni. I joined the race for Kampala Woman Member of Parliament during the COVID-19 Lockdown in Uganda. During my public media engagements, my opponents and their supporters are masterminding a political smear-campaign in which they call me “a promoter of homosexuality,” “a violator of Kiganda, Ugandan and African traditional values,” and “a dangerous example to youths.” They denigrate my academic research about, defiant activism for and diplomatic advocacy for the human rights of LGBTIQA+ people. My opponents and their fans assert that my campaigns for political office are heavily funded by white gay men and white lesbian women. In a deeply conservative national context where patriarchy, misogyny, heterosexism, homophobia and transphobia thrive, this homophobic propaganda is detracting potential supporters from my campaign. I have never denied that I am a strong ally of the LGBTIQA+ communities in Uganda specifically, but Africa more broadly. I acknowledge my academic research and scientific knowledge production through scholarly journal articles, book chapters, poetry and conference presentations on same-sex relationships and non-binary genders. I embrace my queer activism, and pro-LGBTIQA+ rights advocacy. Indeed, I participated in several local pride marches, variously supported individuals and organisations, and attended diverse processes that challenged the Anti-Homosxuality Bill and Anti-Homosexuality Act in Uganda. However, I have never received any funding support for either my activism or my political campaign from any white gay man or white lesbian person. This letter is therefore to formally and publicly invite both of you to fund my campaign for political office. My total budget is UGX 1,300,000,000 Uganda Shillings, which is equivalent to USD 340,000$ United States Dollars. If the funds requested for are too much to afford, can you please find praise for me among other LGBTIQA+ people of means? Please generously support my journey! I look forward to your swift and kind consideration in this matter, the letter read. Stella Nyanzi is a feminist, queer rights activist, and scholar of sexuality, family planning, and public health. She is contesting for Kampala Woman MP, and facing tough competition from National Unity Platform (NUP) party flag bearer Counsel Shamim Malende.

Earlier this month, a parent on Twitter with a sizable following shared something she’d done that struck many on the app as a bit of a parental overreach. “Got my son’s second grade teacher assignment and immediately found all of her socials,” the mom tweeted, before revealing what her investigation had wrought: It’s her first year teaching She has a video where she and her friend call themselves “Trader Joe’s hoes” Spells makes “maxe” Some moms and dads came to the woman’s defense: “I check my kids teachers socials too. Looking for closet pervs and racists. Not gonna apologize for prioritizing my children’s safety above some stranger’s privacy,” one mom tweeted. Others came to the defense of poor first-year teachers: “First year teachers are some of the most eager teachers your kid will ever have,” one person said. Comically, one teacher admitted she does the same thing at the beginning of the school year, only with parents: “Not gonna lie, I love looking through parent social media. Gives me a huge head’s up for the year. Small town bonus, somebody on faculty/staff already knows em from years back.” But largely, the mom who tweeted the tale got mocked. (She later deleted the tweet and played it off as a joke, no doubt tired of being Twitter’s main character of the day.) As one person joked, “I too like to cyberstalk underpaid public employees with insurmountable student loan debt for existing outside of the place they work.” In the past, teachers have said they’ve worried about being spotted out a local bar on the weekends, lest a parent see them. Some would even go to the market the town over in order to buy a bottle of alcohol without any witnesses. In 2022, they have to worry about parents Instagram-stalking them, too. As if they needed another thing to worry about this year. Given the heightened stress of the last few years, there’s currently a dire teacher shortage. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, 44% of public schools will report teaching vacancies at the start of this school year, with more than half of those losses due to resignations. Outside of the perennial issue of low pay, there’s a host of reasons teachers are opting out: Many educators are exhausted from remote learning, changing COVID protocol and combating pandemic learning losses. Some are tired over elongated political battles over masks and what teachers can and cannot teach (sex education, critical race theory, “Don’t Say Gay”). Many have renewed concern over violence on campus after the shooting massacre in Uvalde, Texas, in May. (There were 249 shooting incidents at schools last year and at least 152 so far in 2022, according to a database at the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security.) And then there’s the parents. “Parental entitlement is just a massive needle on top of an incredibly already huge pile of needles,” said Cameron Day, a seventh grade English teacher in central Vermont. “I am a teacher between 7:45 AM to 4:00 PM, and then I am me. Teaching is my profession, not my life. We have lives beyond our jobs.” – Cameron Day, a seventh grade English teacher in central Vermont Part of the problem is, unlike those in other fields, people just don’t respect the very busy, very adult lives teachers lead when the workday is done. Your kid’s teacher doesn’t just cease to exist or shrink and crawl into a cubby hole once little Jaxon jumps into the car at the school pickup line. “Teaching is my profession, not my life. We have lives beyond our jobs,” Day told HuffPost. “The way I see it, I am a teacher between 7:45 a.m. to 4 p.m., and then I am me.” “If I want to go get a drink, I can go get a drink,” he said. “If I want to strut my stuff on the beach and take a cute photo, I can do that, too.” The mom’s viral tweet may seem innocent enough, but Day thinks it fits into a larger cultural shift toward viewing teachers as the “enemy” or a corrupting force looking to “indoctrinate” young children. (First educators were under fire for supposedly teaching “critical race theory.” Most recently, those who teach sex ed have been labeled “groomers” by some on the far right.) “Language like that is honestly what I think ― and many other teachers think ― is the driving factor of educators leaving schools,” Day said. “When you have no allies, and the people you expect most to help you do stuff that the mom in that tweet did, I would wash my hands of it all, too.” Luckily, Day has never been called into the office for what he posts on social media ― most of what he posts is stuff about role playing video games (RPGS), education, his cat and a meme now and then. But he knows it happens to other teachers, and that by and large, it’s teachers who are women who bear the brunt of criticism about their personal lives. AJ Smith, an English and creative writing teacher at a central New Jersey high school, understands why parents might be interested to learn more about the people their kids are spending eight hours a day with. And by all means, if a parent were to stumble upon something truly odious on a profile, he thinks they should take it up with school administrators. But Smith thinks Instagram and Twitter-stalking crosses a line “when posts become fodder to mock us, denigrate us, or impugn us professionally.” The viral tweet came across as “kind of bullying someone over their lifestyle,” he added. All this said, he, like all the other teachers we interviewed, gets that unless you change your settings, nothing is private on the internet. Smith has a public Twitter mostly to promote his writing work but his Instagram is private. He’s careful to avoid posting in a way that makes it seem like his opinions or thoughts have anything to do with that of his school district. (Though he feels relatively protected because he has tenure.) Smith doesn’t let students add him on social media. “If an account I suspect is a student follows me, or ‘likes’ a tweet, or anything like that, I do block them,” he said. “I’m sure some have slipped through by following under a pseudonym, but oh well, good for them, enjoy the pictures of my dog.” Private or public? It’s a big dilemma for teachers. Reflecting on the viral tweet, Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), told HuffPost that educators should feel free to find community and connection on social media. That said, “What we post online is often public and it’s important to be mindful of that, even when off the clock,” she said. “Teachers are under enormous stress and strain, and in the current political environment, seemingly innocuous posts can be warped and weaponized,” Weingarten said. Under the law, protections can be limited, so Weingarten said AFT recommends that people in the public sphere, including educators, should “adjust their social media settings and consult their union with any concerns.” Justin Aion, a math teacher in the Pittsburgh area who teaches grades seven through 12, has gotten into some hot water for social media posts. One time, a parent even printed out his tweets and anonymously mailed them to his district office. “My Twitter handle has always been my full name and public, which partially kept this issue in the front of my mind, making me aware of what I was posting, but parents still spent time digging through to find things that they didn’t like and sending it to my administration,” he said. “Mostly, it was about my political beliefs and never about what I was actually teaching in class.” Aion doesn’t begrudge any teacher who is private, or uses a pseudonym because it’s safer. For him, making those concessions feels like admitting that there’s something he has to hide, and that “private” settings should be the expectation. For an added layer or protection, some teachers who are public write something along the lines of “Tweets are my own. JHS alum can follow (current students will be blocked)” in their bio section. Some, like Zacariah, a 21-year-old middle school fine arts teacher in Texas, use a pseudonym to protect their privacy. “Do you know how many parents would pull their kids out of my class if they even knew my pronouns?” – Zacariah, a 21-year-old non-binary educator who teaches in Texas This is Zacariah’s first year as a teacher. They said a good portion of their orientation trainings were focused on how to have a safe, sanitized social media presence to protect the district’s image. (They got the impression the school district was worried about losing more kids to homeschooling and private schools.) Zacariah, who asked to use his first name only to protect his privacy, probably doesn’t need the training. As a non-binary Black person, they’re used to code-switching at work. (Broadly speaking, code-switching involves tailoring your style of speech, appearance, behavior and expression to fit into the dominant culture. Code-switching is especially common among members of an underrepresented group.) “I care a lot about political issues and post about them online, which is one of the reasons I’m private,” they said. “Do you know how many parents would pull their kids out of my class if they even knew my pronouns?” Most of us code-switch to some degree or another at work, but it’s especially common among teachers. (And particularly important for Zacariah working in Texas.) “I am closeted,” they said. “I do have a shaved head and most people can tell that I am queer, but I can’t tell them, because that’s political and schools are supposed to be apolitical in appearance.” In most cases, Zacariah would advise teachers to hide their social media, because “they deserve to tweet and talk about anything they want like anyone else.” As for the viral tweet, it may have been a joke, but the first-year teacher thinks it came across as a mom judging a teacher as unfit to instruct because of some harmless goofing on Instagram. “If you find your child’s teacher spewing hate or supporting unsafe action, then by all means, act up, try to get your child out of that class,” he said. “But unless something about being a ‘Trader Joe hoe’ in a person’s spare time somehow endangers your children, your kids are probably going to be fine.”

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A worrying new report has revealed transgender people face endemic levels of discrimination and abuse in modern Britain. Research by LGBT charity Stonewall found that hate crime and discrimination against trans people is “widespread”. Stonewall is now calling for a full review into hate crime legislation. The i newsletter latest news and analysis According to the research, which surveyed 871 trans and non-binary people in the UK, 41 per cent of trans people were victims of hate crime due to their gender identity in the last 12 months. That figure rises to 53 per cent among trans people aged 18 to 24. Shockingly, one in eight had been physically attacked in the workplace, either by a colleague or a customer. As well as discrimination at work, 25 per cent of trans people reported that they had faced discrimination when house hunting, while 34 per cent had been discriminated against in public spaces such as cafes, restaurants or bars. Nearly half (48 per cent) admitted they avoid using public toilets because they fear being harassed or discriminated against. Fear and ignorance Trans people are twice as likely to be discriminated against compared to gay, lesbian or bisexual people who are not trans, with Stonewall reporting that one in five LGBT people overall have experienced a hate crime in the past year. The YouGov report also found that 79 per cent of trans people did not report their hate crime due to fear of further discrimination or lack of support. The National Police Chief’s Council (NPCC) told The Independent it was working to develop a new national hate crime training programme for frontline officers and call handlers, which would include transgender issues. “Traditionally, transphobic hate crimes have been significantly under-reported but we are working closely with trans groups to build confidence and trust in the police,” Assistant Chief Constable Julie Cooke, the NPCC’s lead for LGBT issues, said. “However, there’s always more that can be done. Better knowledge is key as we continue to challenge hate and reduce the harm it causes.” Two in five also said that when accessing health care they found that professionals often lacked understanding of trans health requirements. Willow, 40, explained that although they were happy to see the incredible progression in the fight for trans equality, the transphobia becoming more prominent in the media was having a detrimental effect on their mental health. “Even just five years ago it was not safe for me to come out as trans, the pace of change has been amazing. “Unfortunately, there now appears to be a backlash against that progress in the last year with hate from the media against trans increasing disturbingly in the last six months. “This increasing transphobia is accelerating and is causing acute anxiety in my daily life,” they said. Esme, a 32-year-old trans person from Scotland, explained how the abuse impacts on their day-to-day life. “We are constantly questioned on our existence, treated hostilely and ridiculed in the name of debate,” Esme said. “We are constantly exposed to hate and criticism in the media and daily life as the public respond to the media’s attitudes. I’m sick of being described as a mentally ill freak.”

Students often dread the end of the summer break, but Angelica Cooper doesn’t feel that way. “I find Peterborough falls asleep in the summer, as students leave and people think the pulse of the city is gone,” she explained. Cooper is in the final year of her undergraduate degree in History and Indigenous Studies. She also works as Sadleir House’s Community Engagement Liaison and will be running a one-day music festival called Sad Fest for its second year. “Before I became the Community Engagement Liaison, I was the Summer Events student [staff],” she said of the festival’s debut last year. “I was told if I wanted to host an event I could – but I didn’t have to – just to show that the house was still alive and very much present in the community in the summer. So I decided, in a similar vein to [New Brunswick’s] SappyFest, to have a fest called Sad Fest for Sadleir.” Sad Fest is being put on “to highlight the multi-functional uses of the [Sadleir House] building and to embrace all the sad, mopey feelings music can bring.” Sadleir House is a historic building. Built in 1892 and purchased by the university in 1963, Sadleir House was a key component of Peter Robinson College, sibling college of Catharine Parr Traill College. Sadleir House was repurchased through a student levy referendum in 2003 after Peter Robinson College’s controversial closure in 2001. The building now houses office spaces for various university and community groups, as well as accepting bookings in its communal spaces. This year’s festival is happening on Friday September 14 to engage more students and invite them into the Sadleir House facility. “I lived up the street from Sadleir House, so I always came to Sadleir House and didn’t realize what this magical place was initially. I just thought it was a building that wasn’t for me,” Cooper recalled about her earlier years at Trent. “I think a lot of people, and especially Trent students, approach Sadleir House that way.” The festival will transform the historic building’s dining hall and turret into performances spaces for seven musical acts over seven hours. “The turret is such a common student study space that a lot of people don’t realize; it’s a hidden gem,” she said, noting that the dining hall has traditionally been a space for performances due to its stage. “To have a music set in that space gives it more energy and more life.” Cooper cites other nearby festivals and their organizers as inspiration. Like Karol Orzechowski’s Quality of Life festival, Sad Fest insists on having “a safe, no nonsense space” free of harassment, intimidation and assault. “This year – in a similar vein to Borderless Fest run by the lovely Sara O [Shahsavari], and Venus Fest that happens in Toronto – we’re strictly highlighting only women [and women-identified] and non-binary musicians this year,” she continued. “It was really empowering for me as a queer woman myself. I was given this venue and this stage and this platform to be able to do something with it, so I thought, “Why not highlight marginalized voices and women of colour?”” Accessibility and amplification of these voices is important to Cooper. She notes that venue closures in the downtown area, such as The Pig’s Ear, The Spill, and Catalina’s, have affected the Peterborough arts and culture landscape. “My favourite thing about Sadleir House is that it allows us to hold space for the absurd and amazing. We lost a lot of downtown venues, especially for queer and marginalized people and people of colour in Peterborough,” Cooper explained. “The downtown is really missing a lot of its heartbeat. And although we’re not technically a part of the downtown community, we’re trying to get people to walk a little further and take that extra step to come and be a part of a community that is so welcoming. It’s a place to totally take risks and have fun.” Sad Fest is open to all ages, with a bar on site for those 19 years old or older. Festival passes are available at Sadleir House’s main office or at Clubs and Groups day (September 12) for $13. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. “Absolutely anyone can come to Sad Fest. The only thing that I would say is that unfortunately the venue isn’t fully physically accessible, but is absolutely accessible to everyone else on all other levels,” she stated. 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On Sunday, MTV hosted its Movie and TV Awards at the Shrine Auditorium on the University of Southern California campus—a fitting location, considering the network had completely overhauled the annual awards show to better accommodate the kind of hoodie-clad, socially conscious, smartphone-clutching students crowding Jefferson Boulevard that rainy afternoon. MTV’s youth-oriented makeover was so dramatic that the network even updated the ceremony’s golden popcorn statues with red Solo cups, the emblematic chalice of the twenty-something experience. MTV also shifted major gears by expanding what was formerly known as the MTV Movie Awards to include television—crowning the Netflix hit Stranger Things and its star Millie Bobby Brown, respectively, as show of the year and best actor on a show. The new hybrid format also meant that movie and TV actors faced off in certain categories, such as best comedic performance—in which Get Out’s Lil Rel Howery bested Broad City’s Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson. Another major change: MTV eliminated gender-based distinctions in its acting categories, meaning that men and women competed against one another. Leaning in to the historic shift, the network tapped Billions actor Asia Kate Dillon, who identifies as gender non-binary, to present the evening’s first award for best actor in a movie. Emma Watson won for her role in Beauty and the Beast, beating out Taraji P. Henson (Hidden Figures), Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out), Hugh Jackman (Logan), James McAvoy (Split), and Hailee Steinfeld (The Edge of Seventeen). Was Watson’s winning the first non-binary acting award purely coincidental, considering that she has spent the last three years speaking publicly about gender equality as a U.N. Women Goodwill Ambassador? Possibly. MTV executives and producers traditionally choose the year’s nominees, leaving fans to decide the winner with an online vote. And given the options, it makes sense that the nominee with the largest social-media footprint and furthest-reaching movie would win. But since the award was presented immediately after host Adam Devine’s elaborate Beauty and the Beast-themed opening number, there was whiff of socially-conscious staging. But that’s the thing about the MTV Movie and TV Awards—there aren’t any crazy surprises or dramatic upsets. When a big star arrives on the red carpet, like Watson, Vin Diesel or Hugh Jackman, it is a pretty safe bet that they are going to win an award that evening. (Upon realizing that Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone were not in attendance, we were not surprised to find that the La La Land co-stars did not win best kiss.) But the MTV Movie and TV Awards ceremony is fun, and not really about the awards anyway—a reality confirmed by the show’s own producer Casey Patterson who told The Wrap last year, “There are an awful lot of award shows, and the truth is, we don’t need another one.” MTV general manager Amy Doyle added this year, “It’s almost like we don’t want to call it an awards show, because it really is going to feel like we’re throwing the biggest party for young Hollywood.” And inside the Shrine Auditorium, it really did feel that way. Women wore pink fur coats, every variation of animal print, and vibrantly patterned pantsuits. Men wore man buns, fedoras, and, on some occasions, sparkly high heels. Full bars and concession stands in the mezzanine and first-floor lounge served draft beer, popcorn, and candy that guests could take inside the theater to watch the show. Instead of strict cell-phone rules, MTV encouraged Snapchatting—with a huge banner asking audience members to submit their footage to the MTV Movie and TV Award story. Selfies were abundant and cell phones were drawn at all times. When This Is Us won for best tearjerker—“That’s actually a category?” a guy in a pink suit wondered behind us—each present cast member captured Milo Ventimiglia’s trip to the stage on his or her (or their) smartphone. It would be easy to dismiss the MTV Movie and TV Awards as a fun airtime filler. Thanks to its dramatic makeover, though, this year’s show managed to do something important that its more respected award peers haven’t yet done: celebrate diversity and encourage equality. While the Oscars have a notorious diversity problem (and all of Hollywood has a major diversity plus female problem), the MTV ceremony proved all-inclusive and woke, awarding Ashton Sanders and Jharrel Jerome of Moonlight best kiss over straight couplings like Stone and Gosling. Congresswoman Maxine Waters joined Tracee Ellis Ross onstage to present Taraji P. Henson with the best hero award for her work in Hidden Figures. RuPaul’s Drag Race bested more mainstream fare like The Bachelor for best reality competition. Daniel Kaluuya of the $4.5 million horror movie Get Out topped Rogue One: A Star Wars Story star Riz Ahmed. Considering the current presidential administration’s emphasis on exclusiveness, it seemed especially pointed that MTV introduced the best american story category this year, choosing Blackish, Fresh Off the Boat, Jane the Virgin, Moonlight, and Transparent as the nominees—all series about the African-American, Chinese-American, Venezuelan-American, and transgender experiences. The evening’s host, Adam Devine, kept the tone lively and upbeat, veering far away from political drama. Though President Donald Trump is at the forefront of many people’s minds, he only made one overt cameo during the show. As The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah took the stage after winning best host, MTV displayed a screen grab from Noah’s Comedy Central series featuring a photo of Trump above the chyron “Scumbag Billionaire.” When Noah made it to the stage, he thanked “Donald J. Trump for the comedy.” All in all, it was a night of inclusiveness and positive messaging. Ashton Sanders and Jharrel Jerome dedicated their awards “to those who feel like the others, the misfits.” Millie Bobby Brown, at 13, thanked Stranger Things writers for giving her such a “bad-ass female iconic character” to play. Taraji P. Henson used her time onstage to to warn the young audience about “separatism,” saying, “I hate that it’s man versus woman, black versus white, gay versus straight. Whatever. We’re all human.” Watson alluded to gender equality while accepting her best Actor award, saying, “Acting is about the ability to put yourself in someone else’s shoes and that doesn’t need to be separated into two different categories.” Vin Diesel, while accepting the generation award on behalf of the Fast and the Furious franchise cast, thanked “a generation that was willing to accept this multicultural franchise where it didn’t matter what color your skin was or what country you’re from—when you’re family, you’re family.” The MTV Movie and TV Awards may be the younger, sillier sibling of venerable awards shows like the Oscars—but Sunday’s ceremony proved that MTV certainly has something important to teach its award elders and its audience.

When I post my reaction to representations of Caitlyn Jenner or Laverne Cox in the media, most of the comments I receive fall into two camps, often hateful, both reductive of them, the issue, and me: I’m either a TERF and should stay in my lane or Caitlyn and Laverne are not women but part of a dangerous conspiracy to invade women’s spaces. I believe Caitlyn, Laverne, and I have the same goal: to celebrate and honor diversity. I also believe that it’s not my right or my place to tell Caitlyn or Laverne what to do and how to do it. They are on their own paths, making their own choices. That said, I’m allowed to have a reaction to the images and stories that they put out into the world. I started my blog, Reel Girl, because I have three daughters and since I becoming a mother, I’ve been shocked by how gender segregated kidworld has become. Reel Girl critiques images and narratives around gender in the the hope of showing people, and ultimately transforming, the limited representations of gender that surround us, especially in the area of children’s media and toys. I often critique magazine covers on gender representation. I’ve posted multiple times about Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated etc. Just a couple weeks ago, I posted a congratulations to Taylor Swift for appearing on a cover of Maxim that showed only her head, a picture that wasn’t all legs and breasts, a rare feat for that publication. (Not to mention In the article, Swift spoke about feminism.) Here’s a post from Reel Girl that I wrote in November about Angelina Jolie’s Vanity Fair cover: Wow, I could even see a man in this shirt and pose. If you don’t know how rare that gender flip is for a female celebrity on a magazine cover, check out Reel Girl’s post Why do men feel entitled to women? A gallery of reasons. Can’t wait to buy this issue! So why when I post about Caitlyn Jenner am I told to shut up? All over the internet I read posts like this one: This is a form of femmephobia and transmisogyny and it needs to stop. It’s time for the gender police to retire. Jenner is being herself and this binary expression is just as legitimate as any other non-binary gender presentation. The attacks on Jenner’s femininity represent transmisogyny and femmephobia because there is a glaring double standard here. You won’t hear a famous cisgender female movie actress accused of being too feminine or a stereotype for wearing a dress. But that’s not true. Images of women in the media, especially famous women, are deconstructed, and when they’re not, I often wish they would be. I’ve been known to do it myself. I’m used to people disagreeing with me and not liking what i have to say, but the vitriol that has been directed at me and on my page recently, mostly from people who call themselves feminists, is some of the worst I’ve ever received. We all need education. An honest, respectful dialogue on the complex issue of gender will be better for everyone. I hope that’s possible in social media.

Women’s bookshops were a vital part of the British feminist movement in the Seventies and Eighties. Now, they’re making a comeback. Stylist’s Moya Crockett reports In a stamp-sized square down a narrow alleyway in one of the busiest parts of Soho, London, you’ll find a tiny bookshop. Its façade is painted a rich pink that looks fuchsia in some lights, dark rose in others. Propped in the window are rare editions of books by women including Zadie Smith, English cookery writer Elizabeth David and African-American poet Gwendolyn Brooks. Inside, vintage portraits of women hang on the walls, which are covered in a marbled print inspired by the swirling endpapers of antiquarian hardbacks. Mostly, though, the walls are lined with books. Some are cloth-bound, gilt-edged tomes, hundreds of years old and worth tens of thousands of pounds. Poke around and you’ll find a second edition of Sense and Sensibility – once owned by Jane Austen’s best friend Martha Lloyd – and a book by the 17th century French writer Jacquette Guillame, in which she argues for the moral superiority of women over men. Elsewhere, there are shelves dedicated to vintage Penguin paperbacks, with their satisfyingly neat orange and white covers (yours for around £6 a pop); first editions of modern fiction by writers including Olivia Laing, Helen Oyeyemi and Rachel Cusk; and rare versions of books on art, fashion and photography. This is The Second Shelf, the UK’s first rare and antiquarian bookshop dedicated to titles by female authors. Opened by arts journalist AN Devers in November 2018, it’s already one of the most high-profile women’s bookshops in London. Admittedly, that isn’t a difficult category to dominate. As far as I can tell, there is currently only one other permanent shop devoted to books by women in the whole of the UK, and it’s less than two miles away: Persephone Books in Bloomsbury, a small independent publisher and bookshop that reprints neglected fiction and non-fiction by 20th century women authors. But all the signs suggest that, before too long, both The Second Shelf and Persephone Books will have plenty of friendly competition. That’s because feminist bookshops – a vital part of the Women’s Liberation Movement of the Seventies and Eighties – are about to enjoy a major renaissance. The simply-named Feminist Bookshop is due to open in Brighton later in 2019 (with an accompanying vegan café, naturally). Preparations are also being made for a black feminist bookshop to launch in London next year, following a series of pop-ups throughout 2019. And after months of closure and a major relocation, London’s famous Feminist Library – and its adjoining Feminist Library Bookshop – is set to reopen in Peckham later this spring. In May, independent bookshops from Edinburgh to the Isle of Man will also be taking part in the second annual Feminist Book Fortnight, highlighting feminist literature through special displays and events. And the last 12 months have seen both Penguin and gal-dem magazine host wildly successful pop-up shops selling books by female and non-binary authors. Clearly, there is a growing appetite in the UK for spaces that celebrate women’s writing. The relationship between feminism and bookselling stretches back for over a century. The suffragettes were famously savvy marketers, and would set up early versions of pop-up bookshops to spread the word about their campaign. “They would take premises during an election or another significant period and promote suffrage through those bookshops,” says Dr Lucy Delap, a lecturer in modern British and gender history at the University of Cambridge. Records show that the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) took over a shop in Tunbridge Wells in 1912, where they sold books and pamphlets about the struggle for the vote, as well as Votes for Women merchandise. But it was at the height of second-wave feminism in the Seventies and Eighties that women’s bookshops really came into their own. In a foreshadowing of how mainstream bookshops would evolve in the early 21st century, many of these feminist stores also served as cafés and events spaces. Sisterwrite opened in Islington in 1978, and soon expanded to include a women-only café called Sisterbite. The Women’s Bookshop and Café Collective launched in Manchester a couple of years later. WomanZone in Edinburgh opened in 1983, a year before Silver Moon on London’s Charing Cross Road. As well as a bookshop, Silver Moon also served as an important resource centre for vulnerable women: the staff would hand out information on domestic violence shelters and recommend texts for victims of childhood sexual abuse. Tellingly, the shop was refused an alcohol license for its café because it didn’t have men’s toilets. The success of these bookshops was intimately related to the rise of radical feminist publishing houses and magazines like Virago, The Women’s Press and Spare Rib. (Women campaigning for the vote in the 19th and early 20th centuries deployed the power of print in a similar way, publishing successful newspapers like The Suffragette, edited by Christabel Pankhurst.) And for many women in the Seventies and Eighties, feminist bookshops served as an entry point to learning about the campaign for gender equality. Even women who were daunted by the era’s notoriously fierce feminism could feel comfortable browsing for books. “There were hordes of women out there who wanted to know what feminism was about, but maybe felt too intimidated to go along to a women’s group,” says Delap. Such groups “could feel exclusionary and cliquey, particularly for working-class women, immigrant women or black or Asian women,” she explains. As a result, bookshops became a kind of secondary feminist space, accessible to women who weren’t sure where (or whether) they fit within the movement. Delap recalls walking through the doors of a feminist bookshop as a teenager. “It was intensely exciting to see all those books. Even if you didn’t have the courage to talk to a single person, you felt as though the shelves were talking to you.” But from the mid-Eighties onwards, the UK’s feminist bookshops began to struggle. The Women’s Bookshop in Manchester and WomanZone in Edinburgh both closed for good in 1986. Sisterwrite lasted until 1993. Silver Moon hung on until 2001. Bucking the trend, Libertas – which focused specifically on lesbian feminist writing – opened in York in 1998, but finally shuttered in 2004. It would be easy to chalk these closures up to a waning public interest in feminism. The Nineties, after all, were widely touted as a ‘post-feminist’ age: the prevailing female culture of the decade was defined by ladettes and Girl Power, not serious discussions about gender inequality. But Delap attributes the bookshops’ failure to more straightforward economic forces. “The pressures on retail spaces became much more intense in the Nineties,” she says. “Britain was booming, and landlords were putting the prices up.” State support that had been available to radical booksellers in the Eighties, such as Arts Council loans, dried up. Next, big bookshop chains began opening branches on the doorstep of independent stores, squeezing them out of business. The rise of internet shopping – including the launch of Amazon, which began life as an online bookstore in 1994 – was “the final straw”, says Delap. It wasn’t just feminist bookshops that suffered in the Nineties and Noughties: between 1995 and 2000, almost 200 small bookshops folded across the UK. But now, the tide is turning. After over 20 years of decline, the number of independent bookshops in the UK and Ireland is rising slowly but steadily, with the Booksellers Association reporting that 12 new shops opened in 2018 alone. This, combined with the re-entry of feminism into mainstream discourse, suggests that the stage is set for the return of women’s bookshops. The current and incoming crop of feminist bookshops aren’t exactly the same as those that existed in the Seventies and Eighties. Whereas Silver Moon, Sisterwrite et al were explicitly radical spaces, The Second Shelf and Persephone Books stock a broad range of work by female writers – not all of which is specifically concerned with women’s rights. But these modern bookshops still have a strikingly feminist ethos and mission. “In some ways, the definition of a feminist book store brings to mind something different from my shop,” says AN Devers, the founder of The Second Shelf. “But I am a feminist, and the act of having my books is feminist.” She was inspired to launch her bookshop after noticing the discrepancy in the prices of rare books by male and female authors. Works by female writers have not, generally and historically, been treated with much reverence in the male-dominated rare books trade, and research has shown that new books by men also tend to be priced higher than those by women. Devers sees herself as a bookseller, not a campaigner, but feels that championing literature that has been overlooked is its own form of activism. “The canon is a patriarchal one, and that is where my passion lies – in pointing this out and redirecting readers to places they might be missing,” she says. She is determined to make The Second Shelf’s stock as expansive as possible, including work by LGBTQ+ women, women from outside Europe and North America, and women of colour. “If I can guide people towards experiences of reading some great women writers, then I consider that balancing the bookshelf.” Zainab Juma, creative manager at Penguin Random House, agrees that a bookshop shouldn’t have to only sell feminist texts to be considered a feminist space. Last March, she organised a pop-up bookshop with Penguin called Like A Woman, which only sold titles by female writers – including novels, children’s literature, biographies and books on food and business. Juma was more interested in capturing “that Woolfian idea of having a room of one’s own” than restricting the pop-up’s focus to feminist writing. “A woman choosing creativity and demanding recompense for it,” she says, “is to an extent a feminist act.” Perhaps unexpectedly, the internet – which played such a significant role in the demise of independent bookshops in the Nineties and Noughties – is now helping new feminist bookshops get off the ground. The Second Shelf was able to launch thanks largely to a successful Kickstarter campaign started by Devers in early 2018, which has raised over £32,000 to date. When The Feminist Library and Bookshop was threatened with closure last year, supporters donated over £35,000 on Crowdfunder – allowing it to move to bigger, better premises and hire a team of female and non-binary architects, designers and engineers to kit out the interior. Similarly, a Crowdfunder campaign for London’s first black feminist bookshop has raised almost £5,400 since it went public in January. The money will allow Dee Creative, the community organiser behind the initiative, to start preparing a series of pop-up bookshops to run throughout 2019. Creative had the idea for a black feminist bookshop after she set up a reading group for black women at Housmans, a radical not-for-profit bookshop in King’s Cross. “It was such a powerful and nurturing space,” she says. She and the other women in the group “were all experiencing different things, but we were all experiencing some sort of discrimination or oppression or marginalisation as black women.” As a working class black woman, Creative says that “having access to black feminist literature has helped me to understand myself and my experiences in the world”. The feedback Creative got from the reading group was so positive that she realised there was a hunger for something more permanent. “Being able to read literature that centres and reflects my lived experience has helped me to understand myself socially, culturally and politically, and I want other black women and girls to have that experience as well,” she says. While she is aiming the bookshop mainly at black women, she believes that “everybody would benefit from engaging with black feminist texts, because they offer an opportunity to become better informed about race, gender and inclusion”. The first black feminist bookshop pop-up event will take place on 27 March at the South London Gallery. Creative hopes to raise enough money to open a physical space next year, stocking books by queer people of colour, women of colour and other historically marginalised identities as well as new and second-hand black feminist literature. This year, in addition to raising funds and looking for a permanent space for the bookshop, she wants to connect with publishers and distributors that are interested in supplying the pop-up – and eventually the bookshop – with black feminist books. Journalist Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff, the head of editorial at online and print magazine gal-dem, says there is immense value in bricks-and-mortar bookshops. Last autumn, gal-dem ran a week-long pop-up bookshop in Bloomsbury to celebrate the launch of Michelle Obama’s memoir Becoming, while exclusively stocked work by women and non-binary people of colour. The benefits of having a “tangible space” was striking, she says. “We brought in people who are always looking for voices like their own to be given a platform. People came from far and wide to see us.” And like gal-dem itself, the pop-up made an impact in both the physical and digital realms. The space looked beautiful, decked out with plants and Michelle Obama bunting, and Brinkhurst-Cuff says she was asked to take countless Instagram photos of people with their books – creating a social media buzz that subsequently enticed more people to visit. The internet wasn’t harming the bookshop; it was helping it. Likewise, Devers has noticed social media drawing customers to The Second Shelf. “People shop the Instagram, even though it’s not officially a marketplace,” she says. The UK’s feminist bookshops are still thin on the ground, and work needs to be done to bring such spaces to regions beyond the south-east of England. But if these early signs are to be trusted, we could be entering an exciting new era for women’s bookselling. “My customers find it so moving to come in and see a wall of books by women,” Devers says. “It’s poignant. And people just really like to hold books. I go into a bookshop and I might have an idea of wanting to see something by a certain writer, but then all of a sudden I look at the adjacent authors and it triggers memories and ideas. You can’t replace that with an algorithm.” Ultimately, Devers hopes that women’s bookshops will no longer be seen as unusual. As she puts it: “We’re half the world. We’re not a niche.” Images: Sarah K Marr / Getty Images Moya is Contributing Women’s Editor at stylist.co.uk and Deputy Editor of Stylist Loves, Stylist's daily email newsletter. Carrying a bottle of hot sauce on her person at all times is one of the many traits she shares with both Beyoncé and Hillary Clinton. Recommended by Moya Crockett The feminist cafés doing amazing things for women around the country What politicians should be doing for women in 2019 (instead of arguing about Brexit) Everything you need to know about London’s new feminist bookshop 10 brilliant books you never realised were written by women

Heyyy! It’s Kuya P back again with another NOC EXCLUSIVE! I recently sat down for a conversation with Actor/Comedians’ Ana Tuazon Parsons & Nicky Endres to discuss Asian American Eyz’d (An Immigrant Comedy Special)! Set in a pre-pandemic Los Angeles 2020, three Asian-American immigrant comics come together for a one-night comedy special. They share their stories and struggles with identity, sexuality, and survival in modern-day America. It’s “Baby Cobra” meets “Nanette”. Ana Tuazon Parsons BIO: Born in Ologapo, Philippines, Ana Tuazon Parsons graduated from the acclaimed Circle In The Square Musical Theatre Conservatory Program. She’s worked with (former Artistic Director Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s) Labyrinth Theatre Company at The Public, produced Off Off Broadway Genet’s The Maids at Center Stage, and numerous theatres around the country performing both contemporary and classical work. Ana was most recently seen in the international tour of Sherlock Holmes with David Arquette. As a stand up comedian and writer, Ana has been a Main Stage regular and performer on stages including The Comedy Store Los Angeles and Gotham Comedy New York. She co-wrote and performed in Jeremy Lin, The Musical: The Unauthorized Journey To Linsanity in 2012, which ran in Los Angeles and San Francisco to sold out houses with overwhelming response. The proceeds from the shows were donated to Love Never Fails World Charity, benefitting woman who have been affected by human trafficking. As an activist, Ana is a passionate advocate of women, children, and immigrant rights. When not writing or acting, she devotes her time to volunteering and ran the non – profit sect of BGB Studios Outreach Program in 2019. In 2020 wrote, produced, and starred in a three comic immigrant special, Asian American – Eyz’d: telling their lives as immigrants in modern America. Her semi – autobiographical pilot, The Asian That Didn’t, has been a finalist for Sundance Episodic Lab and Showtimes Tony Cox Award. Married her Tinder date from 2017 – it works! BIO: Mx. Nicky Endres has long defied convention. A non-binary transfeminine, genderqueer martial artist and comic, they* have always challenged cultural categories to forge their own way. As evidenced by their German surname, Nicky is a convergence of contraries: East and West, masculine and feminine, laughter and lethality. With a specialty for gender transformation, they are cast as much for their androgynous look as for their versatility; they are adept in both comedy and drama as well as in characters across the Trans and gender-fluid spectrum. They may even play masculine-identified characters — provided they don’t have to cut their hair. Nicky has enjoyed a wide variety of roles in theatre, film, and television, including NCIS: Los Angeles, Pushing Daisies, Don’t Trust the B in Apt. 23, Sullivan & Son; they are recurring on One Day at a Time (Season 3 on Netflix/ Season 4 on PopTV). Nicky grew up in a small town in Wisconsin and majored in English and Theatre at Lawrence University. They enjoy martial arts, stand-up comedy, and graphic design. They are passionate about building bridges with LGBTQ Allies, advocating for sex-positivity & consent, and are deeply devoted to Xena: Warrior Princess. Nicky is represented by Aperture Talent Agency and Pink Hammer Entertainment Talent Management. Want more NOC? Get trailer reactions, cosplay, comics picks, gaming news, reviews and interviews, head over and SUBSCRIBE to NOC on YouTube! LIKE! SHARE! FOLLOW! SUBSCRIBE!

By now, we’re all familiar with how many lesbian and bisexual characters get killed off on TV, but did you ever stop and wonder what any of these iconic deaths might say about you as a person? Now you can finally find out! Even if your tropey lesbian and bisexual TV death match doesn’t resonate with you, hopefully you’ll get some good health and safety tips! SPOILER WARNING: if you’re currently watching a TV show with a lesbian in it, they will probably be dead by the time you finish this quiz. Sally does something with computers for a living. Beyond this, she enjoys making gifs, dreaming up stories, and overthinking. She lives over a river in the South of England, but her heart belongs forever to the North. A new study has found that nearly one quarter (22.8 percent) of cisgender lesbian, bisexual, and queer women ages 18 to 59 have children. Compared with non-parent LBQ women, the parents were more likely to be bisexual, in a relationship with a man, and non-urban. What does that mean for the LGBTQ parenting community and its representation? This latest study, from researchers affiliated with the Williams Institute at UCLA, is the first to use a U.S. population-based sample to compare the mental health of lesbian, bisexual, and other-identified female parents and non-parents. Its findings about the rate of parenthood among LBQ individuals corresponds to previous work showing that an estimated 24 percent of female same-sex couples have children. Among lesbian women, the oldest non-parents reported more happiness and less psychological distress than the youngest non-parents. (Perhaps there is wisdom that comes with age.) There was no difference, however, in happiness and psychological distress among the parents in different age groups. Non-parents, however, indicated more internalized homophobia than parents. The authors don’t hypothesize why this might be; I’d venture a guess that it’s because children often force us to be out in ways we never imagined. Bisexual parents in the study, however, reported more psychological distress and lower life satisfaction and happiness than lesbian parents, something the researchers found surprising, “because the overwhelming majority of bisexual parents are in relationships with male partners and thus would likely be viewed as heterosexual by the general public.” Parenthood for bisexual mothers involved with male partners thus comes at a cost from both the general public and the LGBT community. Although one might assume there are benefits to being viewed as heterosexual, however, the researchers say their results are consistent with findings of other studies that show sexual minority women with male partners “reported less connection to the LGBT community and greater anxiety” and that many bisexual mothers experience binegativity and exclusion by lesbian communities. “Parenthood for bisexual mothers involved with male partners thus comes at a cost from both the general public and the LGBT community,” the current study concludes. The youngest group of bisexual women reported more community connectedness than bisexual women of other age groups, though. Even parents with “emerging identities,” such as “queer, pansexual, asexual, and others,” reported “more social support from friends, and were lower on internalized homophobia than bisexual parents. Although the number of parents with other sexual identities was small, our results indicate that these parents are finding support and experiencing pride in their identities, contrary to bisexual parents.” Co-author Esther D. Rothblum, visiting distinguished scholar at the Williams Institute, said in a statement, “There is a unique form of bias against people who have both same-sex and different-sex attractions and sexual relationships, and this may be why we see poorer mental health outcomes for bisexual parents.” Another recent study confirms that the majority of LGBT adults (54.6 percent) identify as bisexual. And we’ve long known there are millions of bisexual parents, most in different-sex relationships. Yes, that may sometimes give them the advantage of “passing” as straight, but as this study shows, there are significant disadvantages as well. And parents who feel excluded and distressed may convey that stress to their children. It’s not good for anyone. The takeaway, for me, is that the LGBTQ community needs to do more to include, support, and represent bisexual parents. Yetide Badaki plays the goddess Bilquis in American Gods (Paul Butterfield/FilmMagic/Getty) American Gods actor Yetide Badaki has revealed how her role on the show helped her feel comfortable enough to come out as bisexual. The Nigerian-born American stars in the Neil Gaiman fantasy series as Bilquis, the legendary Queen of Sheba and ancient goddess of love. Interviewed by Digital Spy ahead of the third series, Badaki spoke of how the “empowering” role helped her find the freedom to be open about her own sexuality. “I feel like this show is always willing to have these conversations, and always willing to open it up,” she said. “I’ve experienced personally how that kind of open discourse allows for personal freedom. “I came out as bisexual last year. I would say it’s very much thanks to this show, and the discussions they’re having.” As she approached the role Badaki found a sense of symbiosis with her character and often found herself asking: “What would Bilquis do?” The discussions she had as she explored this question helped her to “own” her sexuality. “I was so happy to be having conversations about sexual empowerment and sex positivity, because I think there is so much that goes on in the silence, in the darkness. That’s where things go in the cracks,” she mused. “But when we are able to own our own sexuality, and actually have conversations around it, that becomes something that’s healthier for everybody involved. I always say that regression comes from repression. “When you’re actually able to face whatever it is, that’s when growth and evolution can occur. So that’s been something that I’m very proud to be a part of.” She hinted at what’s to come from season three of American Gods, promising viewers will see “more than one side” to Bilquis – and even a major fight scene. “I love that we are cementing this idea that love is not passive. It’s not just something that rolls over,” she said. “There is a lot of fire behind love, and there’s a lot of passion behind love. And that love does work to move things forward.” Even though we’ve been living in NYC for many years now, Stacy and I still get a hankering for suburb restaurant chain food — and, well, we just found out we can order Panera to be delivered! Soup in a bread bowl is on its way to my house right now! And this Pop Culture Fix is on its way to you! Heather Hogan is an Autostraddle senior writer who lives in New York City with her partner, Stacy, and their cackle of rescued pets. She’s a member of the Television Critics Association, the Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association, and a Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer critic. You can also find her on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. What are the best lesbian movies are on Netflix? What lesbian Netflix movies are good? This is probably a question you have typed into a search box before. Perhaps you typed that into a search box really recently, like ten seconds ago, and that’s why you’re here, now, with all of us, wondering about the best streaming lesbian movies online, or the best lesbian bisexual queer movies on Netflix. One of our Autostraddle Plus members requested a post about all the streaming lesbian-related films on Netflix and so here I am, delivering my deliverable to one of our many VIPs. In this case we are using “lesbian” as an adjective referring to romance and other activities between two women. The Best Lesbian, Bisexual, Queer & Trans Movies On Netflix Alice Wu’s lesbian take on Cyrano de Bergerac follows Ellie Chu (Leah Lewis), a shy, Chinese-American 17-year-old who splits her days taking care of her grieving father and writing essays for her peers for extra money. She forms an unexpected bond with the crush of a sweet football player who hires her to write her love letters. “It may not be a “love story” in the traditional sense, but it is about love,” wrote Malinda Lo in her review. “It’s about young people discovering what it is, what it isn’t, and what it could be. It’s about searching for your other half and finding that the other half might be within you. And yes, it’s about a queer Asian American girl — still a revolutionary subject for a mainstream film.” This Netflix adaptation of the hit Broadway musical, produced by Ryan Murphy, follows a handful of out-of-work Broadway actors as they insert themselves into a small Indiana town to advocate for a teen to attend the prom with her girlfriend. It left Valerie with “a happy, joy-filled, unruly heart.” Tender and droll and delightful all over, this documentary follows lesbian comedian Tig Notaro from her profile-exploding “I Have Cancer” comedy routine through you know, having cancer, meeting a nice lady, and managing her rapidly increasing fame. “I watched the first 75 minutes of Gil Baroni’s new film Alice Júnior filled with giddy delight. I’ve seen a lot of movies with trans characters — a lot — and we simply do not get movies this joyful. This felt like trans Lady Bird by way of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World as it aesthetically mimics model/YouTuber Alice’s social media adolescence. There’s an energy from beginning to end — a playfulness — that felt fresh, and thoughtful, and so fucking fun.” – Drew Gregory Truly one of Netflix’s most impressive productions to date, this documentary offers a necessary overview of trans representation, mixing archival and contemporary footage with interviews with stars including Laverne Cox, Alexandra Billings, Angelica Ross, MJ Rodriguez, Zackary Drucker, Joey Solloway, Jen Richards, Chaz Bono, Leo Sheng and so much more. “Disclosure is vital whether it’s the beginning of your education or a supplement along the way,” writes Drew Greogry of this groundbreaking documentary. “It’s a reminder of what representation can do and what representation can be.” Drew called this “poignant coming-of-age movie masquerading as a grand period love story” as “one of the most instantly iconic films of the last ten years.” Heather Hogan has called it “maybe the best lesbian movie ever made,” writing “Carol isn’t only a sweeping film about the incandescent connection between two women. It’s also an exploration of the way those two women struggle to carve out a life of dignity and autonomy during the oppression of the 1950s.” And of course who can forget 30 Days of Carol. “I’m excited about this film, because it’s the rare feature written by, directed by, and starring a trans woman. But I’m also excited about it, because it’s an undeniably accomplished work of cinema. Not only is this film more than its labels because Sandoval sees her character’s humanity — it’s more than its labels because Sandoval is so good in all her roles. This is a patient and artful film, nuanced in its writing and direction, and filled with stellar performances.” – Drew Gregory The early days of the groundbreaking 1970s band The Runaways — the first all-female hard-rock band signed to a major label — is dramatized in this gritty and energetic film that focuses on the relationship between (bisexual) Joan Jett (Kristen Stewart) and lead vocalist Cherie Currie (Dakota Fanning). This is not a cinematic masterpiece, but it is a solidly medium Christmas rom-com, of which we have very few with queer characters! Jennifer, feeling iffy about her upcoming marriage to a very rich young man, collides with a Guardian Angel who enables her to see what her life may have been like in an alternate universe — in which she married her best friend, Gabrielle. “I really wanted A New York Christmas Wedding to be better than what it is,” wrote Carmen in her review. “But ultimately, Christmas movies like this aren’t about being good — this is a genre that’s defined by cheese. It’s about that gooey warm feeling, deep in the pit of your stomach.” “With a cheesy score and endless adolescent feelings, this popular Thai film about a “normal” girl and her “tomboy” college roommate will make you feel 18 again. This movie may send a terrible message to baby butches in love with their lowkey homophobic seemingly straight girl roommates, but it’s simply too adorable to resist.” -Drew Gregory “This recent Netflix horror movie would be offensive for a multitude of reasons if it wasn’t so incoherent. Instead it’s just an absolutely wild, incredibly shallow thrill ride with a queer woman romance(??) at its center.” – Drew Gregory Paula Pell plays “a lesbian antique shop owner from Portland with a new set of knees and thirst for love” in this film Heather described as ” improv funny and physical comedy funny and sight gag funny and punny funny — and a story about how sometimes our little personality quirks can only be distilled into their truest form and made manifest as our lurking anxieties and insecurities and maladaptive coping mechanisms when we’re in the company of the women who love us best and most.” Also, Cherry Jones is in it! The 20 minutes of Indya Moore and MJ Rodriguez make the whole film totally worth it. The film follows a 14-year-old boy who’s bullied at school and threatened at home for being feminine but then he finds the ball community and, in turn, a place to truly call home. “The inclusion of a queer romance in a film like this is exciting enough on its own. But what makes it all the more exciting is both Hewson and Akana are queer in real life! Hewson is non-binary and gay and Akana is bisexual. They’re both so good in their roles, bringing their charm and authenticity. ” – Drew Gregory “Not the art film its showy Black & White cinematography and more creative flourishes seem to be aspiring for, but nevertheless an enjoyable period romance. Based on the true story of Spain’s first same-sex marriage, Isabel Coixet replaces an average looking queer woman and her androgynous love with two beautiful high femmes. It’s a bit silly and a bit long, but hey the sex scenes are great.” – Drew Gregory It’s a very critically acclaimed movie, but casting a cisgender man to play the transgender woman at the center of the story — and re-writing the outcome of their relationship — gives us all a degree of pause that enables us to consequently back out of the room to go watch a different movie. We originally had this under the “very mediocre” category because it got very bad reivews, but then Sally informed us that she in fact has seen it and furthermore; liked it. I trust Sally so here we are. The plot is described as “Just as Simone works up the courage to tell her conservative Jewish family she’s a lesbian, she finds herself attracted to a man.” What Keeps You Alive “Simple but effective, this lesbian horror movie about a murderous wife makes up for its outlandish premise with a tight style and a great performance from Brittany Allen. The whole charade would’ve been even scarier with a more logical script, but it’s still a fun ride.” – Drew Gregory “Wendy Jo Carlton’s Good Kisser is a threesome farce that could have been the perfect movie for that mood. Unfortunately, it undercuts its strengths with manufactured conflict.” – Drew Gregory Very Mediocre Lesbian Movies, Bisexual Movies and Queer Movies on Netflix Perhaps one of the most biphobic works of art ever created, this 1992 film stars Sharon Stones as a bisexual crime novelist suspected of murdering her rock star boyfriend. “The thing about Basic Instinct is that it’s very bad,” wrote Rachel in her essay Sharon Stone Crossing and Uncrossing Her Legs. “It’s not just bad representation, it’s a stupid movie, as erotic thrillers from 1992 are wont to be.” “This movie has everything: ambiguously-ethnic call girl, bored WASP-y housewife straight out of a Lifetime movie, a madame with a Barbie fixation, and every possible film transition known to cinema. But lesbihonest, folks: you’re not here for the narrative. It’s a cheeseball fest that you and your girl can quote for years to come.” – Kate Severance Bisexual Disney characters are a lot more common than you realized when you were watching these animated films as a young queer kid. In the past, we’ve ranked Disney Princesses by lesbianism and Disney Channel Original Movies by lesbianism — and now, in 2020, we’ve decided to open up the entire animated Disney canon to a new interpretation and discover the bisexual Disney characters we’ve overlooked all these years. Below are the 32 most bisexual Disney characters, ranked by our full Autostraddle team. 32. Sgt. Tibbs, 101 Dalmatians Stef: ACAB — all cats are bi, I don’t make the rules. 32. Tiana, The Princess and the Frog Natalie: Tiana is painfully straight… though, in fairness, the only other women in the movie are her mama, her boy-obsessed best friend and a voodoo priestess. Carmen: She is voiced by Anika Noni Rose, who has played gay twice in the years since this movie premiered (first, Jukebox on Power and then Rose on Little Fires Everywhere), so I’m giving her a bonus point. 31. Belle, Beauty and the Beast Stef: Personally I am tired of Belle asking me If I’ve ever read Sex at Dawn. Adrian: I do not think Belle as presented seems bi — but I believe in her potential. Carmen: I do feel like all nerdy book girls are at least 20% bisexual, but sadly for Belle I believe that’s where the journey ends. Carolyn: I read Belle as slightlyyyy bi but I think that’s less canonical Belle and more the version of her in Emma Donoghue’s retelling of beauty and the beast in Kissing the Witch. 30. Maximus, Tangled Carmen: Sorry I am absolutely in it for the pout!! 29. Sally Carrera, Cars Natalie: If we’re picking a bisexual from the Cars universe, it’s Cruz Ramirez. Rachel: I feel like I dated her in college and we had zero chemistry but were too young to figure out that was a good enough reason to break it off. 28. Jiminy Cricket, Pinocchio Malic: I’m not convinced that Jiminy Cricket is bi, but they’re definitely non-binary. Adrian: I am thinking maybe our ol pal JC (omg is Jiminy Cricket a Jesus allegory??? sorry I’ll stop) is more of a “no labels” type of queer. 27. Merida, Brave Drew: Merida genuinely seems to have zero interest in men. So I’d lean more lesbian than bisexual. But maybe she’s bisexual in the way I’m bisexual — into lots of genders but not men and the internet is telling her that also counts as bisexual if that’s a label she wants for herself and she’s not sure yet? Valerie: I’m with Merida, I wish there was a good word for “into lots of genders but not men” (though I appreciate you putting that so succinctly, Drew). Stef: I have definitely swiped past Merida on Tinder. Carmen: The thing is, I’m actually convinced Merida is a lesbian. Heather: A bow is a very bisexual weapon! Not as bisexual as like a staff but way more bisexual than a mace! (Everything I learned about bisexual Disney characters I learned from D&D.) 26. Rapunzel, Tangled Drew Gregory: Mommy issues. Riese: Not a bisexual bob. Natalie: Rapunzel was sheltered for so long, I’m convinced she’d try anything. Probably gay til graduation, though. Valerie: TECHNICALLY she had a bisexual bob towards the end of the movie, once she left the oppressive confines of her Tower of Heterosexuality. Malic: Okay, but hanging from your hair is technically a circus art, and every circus performer is bi. 25. Anna, Frozen Drew: Uh yeah pretty sure she’s the “straight” sister who spends a bunch of time with her lesbian sister’s queer friends and one day one of them says something about queerness and she’s like “but I feel that way and I’m not queer” and there’s a pause and then she’s like “oh shit am I??” Kristoff is super supportive of her exploring that, of course. Carmen: Wow. that’s the best use of “In this essay I will —” that I’ve ever seen, Drew. 24. Te Fiti, Moana Carmen: I would also like to suggest Te Fiti from Moana because I don’t know, I think she’s gay. This is a lot of flowers. Flowers are gay. 23. Maid Marian, Robin Hood Stef: To me Marian reads like she’ll make out with you at parties but still dates only guys, which is frustrating. Adrian: Oh dang, Stef, I was gonna say Marian reads like a femme bi who is always like “well as a bisexual!!!!” because everyone assumes she’s straight. Not that our two reads are mutually exclusive oops. Stef: I’ve made out with a lot of Marians unfortunately. Meg: Oh god as a femme bi who is always like “well as a bisexual!!!!” I feel both deeply seen and fully horrified. 22. Jasmine, Aladdin Valerie: Jasmine had a lot of barriers to break through but you KNOW if she hadn’t had to spend so much time busting through the “I’d like to choose who I marry” wall she’d have been on the “I should be able to marry a man OR a woman, FATHER” train. Sarah: Bi girls love having cats as pets Malic: Jasmine seems a little bi, but Raja the tiger is the big ol’ bisexual here. Himani: I feel like the live action Jasmine has way more queer vibes to me than the animated one. Carmen: We can think of her as Representative Jasmine of the All Jasmines Delegation of Bisexual Disney Characters. Himani: Haha that’s fair — I just wanted to note that bc they feel like two very different characters to me. Carmen: They definitely were! Sarah: Oh yeah live action Jasmine is so queer. 21. White Rabbit, Alice in Wonderland Valerie: Maybe this is me projecting but I feel like being perpetually late is inherently queer. Rachel: Yeah I also came here to say I couldn’t figure out why he felt bi to me and then realized it’s because he’s stressed out. Stef: You oughta see this guy sit in a chair. Adrian: He’s never gonna be able to keep a brunch reservation with this crowd. 20. Tramp, Lady and the Tramp Sarah: This bi girl I dated briefly had a huge crush on Tramp so I’m pretty sure that also means Tramp has bi energy? Stef: Dirtbag with a heart of gold, I relate. Carmen: I relate because I always date this person and rarely does it ever work out for me. Carolyn: +1 Carmen Kayla: EXTREME bi dirtbag energy. 18 and 19. Pumba and Timon, The Lion King Natalie: The Bert and Ernie of the Disney world. 17. Robin Hood, Robin Hood Rachel: Feel strongly that Robin Hood is not bi but does exclusively date bi girls. Stef: Oh I think Robin is a guy who is very comfortable talking about men he finds attractive and I don’t think he’s opposed to hooking up with dudes, he’s just constantly being hit on by women. Archie: He is def being merry with his band of men in those woods. 16. Remy, Ratatouille Drew: Pretty sure the plot of Ratatouille is Remy falls in love with Linguini, Linguini thinks they’re just friends and colleagues and falls in love with Colette instead, Remy is sad and jealous and leaves, Linguini starts to miss Remy, Linguini, Remy, and Colette end up in a throuple. No? 15. Hei Hei, Moana Meg: This may be controversial but I feel like Hei Hei has very chaotic bisexual energy. Carmen: Profoundly relate to Hei Hei’s anxiety. As queer people, anxiety is our time honored way of being. Stef: I relate to Hei Hei’s admirable ability to do the same dumb thing over and over and over again, truly makes me feel like he’s one of my people. 13. Jessie, Toy Story Natalie: I think Jessie is one of those girls who says she’s bisexual in college and then comes out as a lesbian later in life. Rachel: Museum-quality example of the bisexual horse girl. Meg: “When She Loved Me” has to be in the top three most queer Disney songs. 13. Megara, Hercules Valerie: This is a very Bisexual Lean™️ in my humble opinion. Robin Hood does it too. Rachel: Absolutely The Blueprint for bitchy bisexual women. Carolyn: The first character I thought of when I saw we were doing this list. 12. Moana, Moana Drew: Moana is trans and lots of trans people are bi therefore Moana is probably bi. We call that the transitive property. Drew: I know this is technically a different version of the character. But anyone who is portrayed by bicon Angelina Jolie automatically gets major bi points IMO. Valerie: Was about to make my case by way of Angelina Jolie but Drew already did it. Also, having a raven familiar is extremely bisexual. Stef: Maleficent thinks the stereotype of the evil bisexual is harmful but she’s also still maleficent, an evil bisexual. Carmen: Maleficent is bisexual in every iteration of her character, and in the following order: 1. Animated Original Maleficent, super bisexual. 2. Kristin Bauer Van Straten as Maleficent in Once Upon a Time, supremely bisexual 3. Angelina Jolie in both live action movies of Maleficent, astronomically bisexual. 10. Elastigirl, The Incredibles Carolyn: Elastigirl’s hair: a take on the bisexual bob?? Valerie: I genuinely can’t remember if she had a canon ex-girlfriend or if I decided it so hard it became true in my mind. Heather: She had a husband and a girlfriend in Incredibles 2. Kayla: Elastidaddy (I’m sorry). 9. Mulan, Mulan Heather: Name a more bisexual activity than cutting off your own hair with a sword. 8. Professor Ratigan, The Great Mouse Detective Stef: WHERE is Professor Ratigan???? Heather: I was worried I was adding too many villainous bisexuals and people would get mad! Stef: The amount of time he spends denying his identity as a rat plus his sinister power grabs? BISEXUAL. Heather: You’re right, you’re right. Stef: Listen, as a villainous bisexual. Heather: You’re not— Stef: I demand representation! 7. Jessica Rabbit, Roger Rabbit Rachel: “I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way” is commentary on biphobia. Sarah: This is every bi Scorpio I know. Stef, a bi Scorpio: I don’t want to talk about it. 5 and 6. Lumiere and Cogsworth, Beauty and the Beast Archie: These two have literal wives in the movie. But also 👀 💅 imo. Archie, who can only vote as high as a seven: NINE! Stef: None more bi. 4. John Darling, Peter Pan Adrian: It’s the top hat/nightgown combo for me. Stef: Oh the oversized glasses that don’t even have lenses in them. Adrian: DING DING DING! 3. Evil Queen, Snow White Stef: Is that like a … gaiter? What is that? I’ve always been obsessed with it. Heather: It’s like a full balaclava. Stef: For when you have to be at the palace at 2:00, but you’re meeting with the other foot soldiers at 3:30. I bet her Corona fashion would have been insane. Malic: The Evil Queen was an early crush of mine, so I assumed that she’s an unavailable straight woman. But now I’m convinced — she is, indeed, bi. Carmen: Ahem, the Evil Queen, in all of her iterations, is the purest form that hot bisexual who is both smarter than you and also knows how to apply the perfect lipstick and winged eyeliner and definitely also will murder you with a knife and you will somehow like it. This was never more true than when Regina Mills was the Evil Queen on Once Upon a Time, who was so supremely bisexual that it makes one quiver at the knees. HOWEVER, since I was SO RUDELY AND UNFAIRLY forbidden from once again inexplicably squeezing Regina Mills into an Autostraddle television conversation, I will gladly accept the animated original in her place. Heather: “Once again.” Stef: If anyone wants to buy me that cloak w the widow’s peak situation I promise to look really good in it. 2. Li Shang, Mulan Drew: Always identified as bi, but lately he’s been hearing the word pan and is thinking maybe that suits him better. Rachel: Definitely bisexual, almost bi himbo representation, but I think at the end of the day is a little too smart to qualify. 1. Ursula, The Little Mermaid Drew: Is she jealous of Ariel or Prince Eric? Does she want to fuck Ariel or Prince Eric? I say, why choose! Stef: And don’t underestimate the importance of BODY LANGUAGE. Carmen: My favorite thing about Ursula is that no matter the gay list, no matter the time — she will always top it. Carolyn: In more ways than one. Did we miss any of your favorite bisexual Disney characters? Let us know in the comments! California has elected it’s first ever openly bisexual state lawmaker – 25-year-old Asian-American Alex Lee, who’s the youngest state legislator in eight decades. Rising star Alex Lee made history in in Santa Clara County where he won the 25th District Assembly race by a landslide, receiving more than 72 per cent of the vote. His competitor, Republican Bob Brunton, took home just under 28 per cent. He celebrated his hard-earned victory after a campaign where he had to take a part-time gig economy delivery job to make ends meet as he refused to accept corporate campaign money. “I have the distinction and responsibility to be a lot of firsts in California,” Lee said after the result was announced. “I’m the first openly bisexual state legislator in California, the youngest Asian-American state legislator and first Gen-Z state legislator. That is an immense responsibility to make sure that more young people and more progressives are elected after me to break and shatter those records.” Alex Lee, who was endorsed by senator Bernie Sanders, already has years of experience with the state assembly having worked for five different lawmakers, either as an intern or a paid aide. He was just 23 when he decided to run for office, and by his calculation has since knocked on 30,000 doors seeking voters’ support. “I think voters were very encouraged that a young person like me has so much experience in policy making and governing,” he told CBS Local. “I would run into folks when we were door-knocking who are 80 years old, who would say, ‘Our generation screwed it up so it’s time for you all to fix all these problems for us.’ And they said it in a very encouraging way.” After years of working behind the scenes of politics while experiencing housing and financial insecurity, he now hopes he can be a force for change. He was heavily involved in the Black Lives Matter protests back in June and was actually arrested after San Jose enforced a city-wide curfew. “We were trying to explain what we were doing, we weren’t doing anything wrong,” he told ABC7 at the time, describing the “abrupt and aggressive” behaviour of the police as they zip-tied his wrists and threw him into the back of a wagon. “I’m very frustrated that this curfew is being used as an excuse to suppress protestors and repress freedom of expression.” Friends, today we gather to examine the illustrious career of noted bisexual and notorious grower of eyebrows Cara Jocelyn Delevingne. Who is Cara Delevingne’s 2020 girlfriend? Who are all of her previous girlfriends? Let’s talk about it. Throughout the years we’ve been covering celebrity gossip, Ms Delevingne has been at the center of a lot of our programming. While our previous timeline of Demi Lovato was scattered with the occasional quiet period, no such silence exists for Delevigne, possibly the world’s most prolific bisexual with a long list of ex girlfriends. If there is Vapid Fluff drama to be found, it almost certainly concerns Cara, someone she’s dated, someone she’s about to date, or someone who doesn’t know that a year from now they’ll be dating Cara Delevingne. If you’re reading this right now and you haven’t dated Cara Delevingne, trust me: you will. While assembling this detailed but by no means complete collection, it was striking how often journalists bulldozed over or otherwise completely dismissed Ms Delevingne’s bisexuality. You know who’s bisexual? Cara Delevingne. Even if she dates every woman in the whole world (and she seems like she’s trying), Cara’s bisexuality will still be a real and valid thing that exists! These posts are intended to be living documents, so if there are important developments I’ve missed, please let me know in the comments and we will continue to add. If this exhaustive list is only the publicly recorded incidents, imagine all the stuff we don’t know. Jesus. Dec 27, 2013 – Miley Cyrus and Cara are photographed licking each others’ tongues, because contractually every queer person in Hollywood has to make out with Cara at least once. Miley was reportedly on a break from Liam Hemsworth at the time of this photograph. January 8, 2014 – Cara Delevingne and Michelle Rodriguez teach the world at large about the beauty of their budding relationship bygetting waaaaasted and making out sloppily at a Knicks game. Riese and I have compared notes and determined that this magical moment constitutes the birth of the modern Vapid Fluff movement. A sobering moment as Cara realizes she just personally created an entirely new genre of queer journalism. Feb 18, 2014 – The relationship between Cara and Michelle Rodriguez is officially confirmed to the press. Feb 23, 2014 – Michelle and Cara are named by Autostraddle as the “Gayest Couple Ever;” it is confirmed that the pair held hands while receiving an intravenous vitamin drip, which interestingly enough is not a euphemism for anything. March 3, 2014 – Years before the world will end and Tiger King will become all we have left, Michelle and Cara visit a (notably unethical!!!) big cat reserve and photograph themselves bottle-feeding a tiger. This is apparently something Cara loves doing. August 7, 2014 – Cara and Selena Gomez vacation together in Saint-Tropez. Rumors abound that the two are dating, which Selena later squashes though she does admit she loved every minute of it. “Honestly, though, she’s incredible and very open and she just makes me open… She’s so fun and she’s just extremely adventurous, and sometimes I just want that in my life, so I didn’t mind it. I loved it.” She sure is, kid. November 6, 2014 – Did Cara give her costar Jack O’Connell this hickey? Sure seems like it. March 2, 2015 – We began to suspect that Cara Delevingne and Annie Clark (aka St Vincent)might be dating. This post marked the debut of a paper doll I made of Cara to avoid having to post copyrighted tabloid shots from the Daily Mail. That thing is still kicking around my apartment somewhere; I found her when I was moving in August. April 22, 2015 – A month and a half into this glorious relationship, we feared they might have broken up, but oh no: June 19, 2015 – Cara and her eyebrows grace the cover of Vogue, and for the first time I learn that her name is pronounced KAH-rah. She publicly comments on her relationship for the first time – “I think that being in love with my girlfriend is a big part of why I’m feeling so happy with who I am these days. And for those words to come out of my mouth is actually a miracle.” Then the reporter is dismissive about her bisexuality, which is a fun treat for everyone: She conveys a Millennial’s ennui at the expectation that she ought to settle upon a sexual orientation, and her interests—video games, yes; manicures, no—might register as gender-defiant in the realm of dresses and heels. (“I’m a bro-ey chick,” says Cara.) And then this gem: It took me a long time to accept the idea, until I first fell in love with a girl at 20 and recognized that I had to accept it,” she explains. “But I have erotic dreams only about men. I had one two nights ago where I went up to a guy in the back of a VW minivan, with a bunch of his friends around him, and pretty much jumped him.” Her parents seem to think girls are just a phase for Cara, and they may be correct. “Women are what completely inspire me, and they have also been my downfall. I have only been hurt by women, my mother first of all. “The thing is,” she continues, “if I ever found a guy I could fall in love with, I’d want to marry him and have his children. And that scares me to death because I think I’m a whole bunch of crazy, and I always worry that a guy will walk away once he really, truly knows me.” When I suggest to Cara that to trust a man, she might have to revise an old and stubborn idea of hers—that women are perennially troubled and therefore only women will accept her—her smile says she concedes the point. At this point, my eyeballs explode from rage. It will take me five years for them to grow back, at which point I will write this article, reread this quote about her smile conceding the point, and then they will explode again. July 16, 2015 – Cara is profiled in the New York Times, and literally says, “My sexuality is not a phase.” The best part of bisexuality is having to repeat this over and over until you die!!!! July 22, 2015 – Cara buys Annie this guitar, which is autographed by David Bowie. She wins every girlfriend award literally forever and none of us can even vaguely hope to top this extremely suave move. December 16, 2015 – Cara brings Annie home to the Delevingne family Christmas, and Annie looks right at home among all the cheekbones. Things are pretty serious! February 10, 2016 – Did Cara and Annie get engaged atop the Eiffel Tower? That’s what the tabloids think, even though this seems like too basic a move for these two weirdos. October 4, 2016 – Hangs out with Dakota Johnson on her birthday, FaceTimes Taylor Swift. Not necessarily a bisexual move, but not not a bisexual move. October 10, 2016 – Annie Clark is spotted roaming Astor Place in matchy outfits with Kristen Stewart, as one does. Tongues wag! Rumors fly! They seem to date for a while and it’s a real moment for everyone. October 13, 2016 – What are Dakota Johnson and Cara up to? Just normal gal pal things: November 24, 2016 – The internet says Cara ISN’T dating Amber Heard, despite a “flirty” friendship and rumored “lip locking” at Kendall Jenner’s 21st birthday party. December 14, 2016 – Annie Clark is seen having dinner in Los Angeles with Cara, which sparks reconciliation rumors. Later, Annie releases mournful ballad “New York,” and we all try to guess which ex it’s about. December 21, 2016 – Who among us has not cuddled up in the back of a car with their very good friend Amber Heard after leaving a wild party thrown by Rihanna? March 20, 2017 – Cara is seen taking in a Broadway show with ex Annie Clark. If this isn’t gay enough for you, they were going to watch Cate Blanchett (she was starring in The Present at the time). June 30, 2017 – In the upcoming August edition of Glamour, Cara has the unique pleasure of telling yet another journalist that she remains bisexual: “Once I spoke about my sexual fluidity, people were like, ‘So you’re gay,’” she explains. “And I’m like, ‘No, I’m not gay…’ A lot of the friends I have who are straight have such an old way of thinking. It’s, ‘so you’re just gay, right?’ [They] don’t understand it. [If] I’m like, ‘Oh, I really like this guy,’ [they’re like], ‘But you’re gay.’ I’m like, ‘No, you’re so annoying!’ …Someone is in a relationship with a girl one minute, or a boy is in a relationship with a boy, I don’t want them to be pigeonholed. Imagine if I got married to a man. Would people be like — ‘she lied to us!’ It’s like, no.” August 10, 2017 – Does Cara have a “creepy crush” on Rihanna? An anonymous source in a tabloid thinks so: “They used to be really close but when Cara said she had feelings for Ri, things went south.. Cara can be really intense and obsessive. She’ll just stare and stare at Rihanna and it makes Ri uncomfortable.” Sounds like they got me and Cara confused. Anyway, Gossip Cop says this story isn’t true. August 12, 2017 – Is Cara bailing on her model friends to make room for all her new high-profile actress friends? OK’s source says, “Now she’s pestering [A-list actresses] with calls and emails, asking them out for lunch or coffee. She’s even willing to put aside her rivalry with Kristen Stewart.” Must be pretty serious! As Gossip Cop points out, this story is published while Cara is on vacation with a bunch of her model friends. Debunked! September 27, 2017 – Annie Clark is profiled by Vogue UK and has this to say about Cara: “We’ll always be really close. I’ll love her forever… I fell in love with this very famous person. It’s not anything I was in any way ashamed of, so I wouldn’t have hidden it.” December 6, 2017 – Cara is seen leaving a nightclub with 19-year-old Paris Jackson, allegedly bound for 25-year-old Delevigne’s hotel. February 20, 2018 – Paris and Cara galavant around Europe, “doing little to quash romance rumors” and allegedly “hanging out and having fun.” February 21, 2018 – Gossip Cop says Paris and Cara aren’t dating, because they never want me to have any fun. They also quote Jackson as saying, “Hand holding is a very common thing,” which I guess it is, but whatever. March 21, 2018 – Anyway, a month later, Paris and Cara watch Carol in bed together and if THAT’S not gay I don’t know what to tell you. March 27, 2018 – Paris Jackson and Cara are seen kissing and cavorting outside a restaurant while waiting for a table with Paris’ godfather Macaulay Culkin and his girlfriend. This is all the scientific evidence we need. May 9, 2018 – We learn that Cara will be in the Elisabeth Moss film Her Smell, as a member of the band. Her costars will include rumored sometimes-paramour Amber Heard and her new pal Pretty Little Liars star Ashley Benson. June 20, 2018 – While tabloids claim that Paris Jackson is now dating three women (Cara Delevingne, Ashley Benson and DJ Caroline D’Amore), Gossip Cop debunks the rumor. Paris also jumps in to offer her own salty rebuttal; seems like her situation with Cara may have soured. No word on Guy with the Man Bun. i’ve never met miss benzo. caroline is one of my bestest friends who is **straight** and **married**, and also the mother of my godchild. cara and i were never officially exclusive, you guys made that up. https://t.co/mhXzZvdvLG August 18, 2018 – Ashley attends Cara’s star-studded birthday party: August 24, 2018 – Ashley Benson refuses to confirm her relationship with Cara to People and instead says she chooses to keep her relationships very private. “I think it’s the best way in any relationship… I’ve always been very private about them, and I think it’s just better.” December 22, 2018 – I’m not sure what your tabloid-speculated maybe-girlfriend is doing for your birthday, but Cara rents out the Natural History Museum of London for Ashley. Like, not just to take in the exhibits, but with a bed surrounded by Christmas decorations. What a pal! She also makes two whale puns in one Instagram caption, which is illegal: June 18, 2019 – You’d think the sex bench would have done it, but Cara finally goes ahead and confirms her big gay relationship with Ashley Benson via Instagram. When asked about the post by E! News during the TrevorLIVE Gala, Delevingne comments, “I don’t know because it is Pride, it’s been 50 years since Stonewall happened and I don’t know. It’s been just about our one year anniversary so, why not?” Later, she tells the world that her nickname for Ashley is Sprinkles, and everyone dies. Everyone is dead now. October 10, 2019 – One thing Cara is doing on the Carnival Row press circuit is gushing about Ashley Benson. “It’s so nice to have someone in my life that supports me so much and loves me. I’m the luckiest girl in the world.” December 10, 2019 – Cara tweets and then deletes about a breakup with Ashley. The post is only up for 20 minutes. Was she hacked or is this just dyke drama? May 6, 2020 – Cara Delevingne and Ashley Benson announce that their romance is no more, that love remains a lie an all hope is dead. They like, extra did not get married in Mexico, as it turns out. May 14, 2020 – Ashley Benson is seen kissing G-Eazy and fans of her relationship with Cara are appalled! Cara takes to her Instagram stories to ask her fans to lay off. July 23, 2020 – Rumors start flying that Cara Delevingne, 28, is now dating model Kaia Gerber, 19. Personally I do not like the Cara Delevingne/Kaia Gerber age difference at all! It may surprise you to learn that Gossip Cop says this rumor is false. August 13, 2020 – You know what Cara loves doing? Getting really ill-advised matching tattoos with women! To celebrate her birthday, she and Kaia got “solemates” tattooed on their feet so they can hold toes and it’s uncomfortable for me. Vogue calls it a “modern iteration of the friendship bracelet.” “I did have a couple of ladies sliding into my DMs which I thought was funny, but also flattering,” she admitted. “Yeah. It was interesting to see the difference in my DMs after I came out, which was a nice little surprise…And also just like, I hate to say it, more quality human beings.” I just want to say that @BillieJeanKing is the first person I’ve ever interviewed who—midway through our conversation—asked me if I had negotiated for my salary and whether I felt I was being paid fairly for my work https://t.co/G8eQbBgQ7L Heather Hogan is an Autostraddle senior writer who lives in New York City with her partner, Stacy, and their cackle of rescued pets. She’s a member of the Television Critics Association, the Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association, and a Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer critic. You can also find her on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Canadian actor Francois Arnaud revealed his bisexuality in Instagram postings yesterday. The actor, 35, took to social media during Bisexual Visibility Week. He shared the messages in postings to his Instagram stories on Sunday. “Last week, I was chatting with work friends, and as I brought up a trip I’d taken with an ex-girlfriend, I asked myself —for the ten-thousandth time— how to tell such a story without making it seem like that was the whole story of me,” Arnaud posted. Related: Pro rugby player and boy bander Levi Davis comes out as bi “I’m sure many bisexual guys feel the same and end up doing as I did: letting other people’s assumptions of straightness stand uncorrected,” he continued. “Perhaps out of fear of oversharing. Under the guise of privacy, maybe. Probably because ‘masculinity’ is a most fragile currency, ready to nose-dive at the first sign of vulnerability or difference. And because it’s really f**king scary to give up your privilege. Without a doubt because stigmas of indecisiveness, infidelity, deception and trendiness are still clinging to bisexuality. “But here’s the thing. Silence has the perverse effect of perpetuating those stereotypes, making bi guys invisible, and leading people to doubt that we even exist. No wonder it’s still a chore to acknowledge bisexuality without getting into lengthy explanations. “So yes, labels are frustrating and words imperfect. But I’ve always considered myself bisexual. Not confused or trying to look edgy. Not disloyal. Not ashamed. Not invisible.” He ended by wishing everyone ‘Happy #bivisibilityday this Wednesday’. Arnaud was born in Quebec. He’s best known for his performances in The Borgias, Blindspot, and Midnight, Texas. Many might also remember a notable cameo he made in Schitt’s Creek, playing an ex-boyfriend of David Rose called Sebastien who arrives in town to do a photoshoot with Moira.

If you haven’t read Kainaz Amaria’s Photojournalism needs to face its #MeToo moment, yet, you might want to do that right now. There appears to be some sort of reckoning in the world of photojournalism happening even though as Amaria makes clear, the extent of that reckoning is not clear. A well-known photojournalist quietly resigned from an agency he had co-founded after a report was published “in which several women accused him of groping and intimidating a number of female colleagues.” The agency itself — VII — let it be known that inquiries concerning the various alleged cases of sexual harassment be directed at the photographer — as if it had absolutely nothing to do with any of what is alleged to have happened in its midst. Hmm, OK. My feeling is that the bad-apple approach used here is unable to address if and how a problem might have been related to a larger context, that larger context here being VII itself and the world of photojournalism. But what do I know? Maybe that’s the plan? Like most people, I’m not part of that world. I mostly know about it through stories that are being told and through talking to photojournalists themselves. “When an industry is so dominated by men at every level and at nearly every major institution,” Amaria writes, “a toxic culture toward women is the inevitable result.” The numbers presented in the article certainly are damning: it’s an industry dominated by men, “responsible for visually representing the world and its most vulnerable people.” (my emphasis) Much to Amaria’s credit, the article outlines why exactly this dominance is so problematic. It’s not “merely” the fact that female photographers are systematically being disadvantaged. There also is the outcome in the form of the pictures. The following quote by Nina Berman aptly summarizes this outcome that we’re all visually so familiar with: “It’s basically an othering that comes from the belief that the man behind the camera has a privileged artistic sense, an inherent superiority despite rarely knowing the local language, or living in the region or neighborhood he’s covering, or having any sustained connection to what he’s seeing.” It is, in other words, what makes photojournalism photojournalism: usually highly stylized pictures that more often than not are highly manipulative on an immediate emotional level, while at the same time shutting down any further, deeper insight into what is being depicted. It works (just look at the front pages of news sites or newspapers), and it doesn’t (ditto). The conversation could easily stop right there, and that would be very convenient for all those who — like me — are not part of the world of photojournalism. But it’s really not that simple. What you see in the world of photojournalism is merely an expression (and variant) of something you can see everywhere else, something that can be summarized quite simply as a macho cult, which rewards very male aspects of photography and disadvantages the rest. I realize this is a huge topic, and it’s very unlikely that I will be able to do it justice. Still, I want to give it a shot. From what I hear, female and non-binary photographers are very much aware of the systemic disadvantages they have to deal with in an industry they are just as committed to as their male counterparts. These disadvantages are too numerous to list here. But you could start with, for example, this (or any previous) year’s Rencontres d’Arles Photography Festival, supposedly one of the most important photography festivals. A large number of artists have just published an open letter in one of France’s major newspapers, urging the festival’s director to take meaningful steps to fix the problem of a severe underrepresentation of female and non-binary photographers. The overall problem goes further and deeper than this. I’m obviously writing this piece from the perspective of a white middle-aged male who simply does not have to deal with the challenges and obstacles faced by the people who are not part of my privileged group. I know what I know from trying to talk to as many people outside of my group as possible. That knowledge is incomplete. But I also believe that even within my privileged group there are opportunities to witness the scales being tipped in our group’s favour. After all, the world of photography is built not just on institutions, it’s also built on a shared set of values, ideas, and assumptions, many of which have become part of what we call the history of photography. I believe that it’s not very hard to see how these values, ideas, and assumptions themselves betray a clear male bias. And that is what I want to get at in the following. Here’s an example. Hear a group of photographers talk about Garry Winogrand, and you might imagine they’re describing a heroic firefighter who ran into a burning building to save a little child plus, magically, the child’s cat and its litter of newborn kittens. But no, it’s really just about a guy with what sounds like a bundle of issues who took pictures of people in the street in ways that most ordinary people, especially these days, would consider to be rude if not outright sketchy. Somehow that’s supposed to be cool, that you shove your camera into people’s faces and laugh off their discontent (it’s not). And the cult created around this particular photographer is mirrored by the cult created around many other of photography’s greats, the large majority of them men. Or take the idea of the American road trip. There’s this romanticism about the lone-wolf photographer driving around in the United States with their van and 4×5, “for whom,” to quote from the the press text of a recent book about the subject, “the American road is muse” — today’s photo-world equivalent of the lone cowboy riding into the sunset. The book comes with an exhibition, with 17 artists in it (I’m counting the artistic duo as one artist here). Two of these 17 artists are women. I’d like to make clear, though, that I don’t want to imply that there isn’t any artistic merit to either Winogrand or the road-trip book/exhibition. That’s not my point. My point is, and I could go on and on with examples: vast parts of the world of photography center on very male-centric topics, whether they’re male artists (who dominate the history of photography to a large extent because of the choices of a very small number of people — think John Szarkowski) or male ideas or approaches. And some of the most prominent examples veer into the territory that’s not merely male, it’s outright macho. It might come as a surprise to some people that not all examples of a male-dominated world of photography are, for a lack of a better word, historical. Even relatively new developments such as, for example, Instagram are openly and explicitly biased against women. In the case of Instagram, this means its censorship concerning the depiction of the female body, whether it’s nipples or breastfeeding. Of course, these kinds of more recent examples can be directly traced back to Silicon Valley’s own huge problems with gender discrimination. The “macho” above doesn’t mean a literal machismo — some guy swaggering in and talking as if this were a saloon (needless to say, examples of this behaviour certainly exist). Instead, I also and especially mean a widely accepted dismissal of many other and equally valid approaches to the point that we aren’t even aware of them. “One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water,” wrote Marshall McLuhan in War & Peace in the Global Village, “since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.” We all are the fish, and this very male-centric, often outright macho environment of photoland is the water. It’s pervasive. It’s everywhere. This situation is problematic for a large variety of reasons. The most extreme examples are described by Kainaz Amaria in her article. But these examples aren’t disconnected from all the rest — it’s maybe just those patches where the water is murkiest. We have to come to a much better understanding of how much we have accepted and internalized so many ideas in photography that derive from a very male mindset. This is especially important since the rest of the world is moving ahead, and it will continue to move ahead with or without us. The world of Winogrand — street photography — is already trying to come to terms with it: people on the street don’t want some guy stick their camera into their faces without their permission. It’s simply not acceptable any longer. In many countries in Europe it’s now outright illegal to do so. Europe’s new privacy laws treat photographs as data, and it gives its citizens the right to decide what can and cannot be done with their data. If you take a photo of someone, it’s not your data — it’s theirs. You will need their consent. Some countries have enacted legislation to make sure photographers’ rights are protected within reason. There are two possible responses to this situation. One would be to do street photography anyway, the public be damned — what do they know about art anyway? That’s the macho approach, right in line with street photography’s inherent machismo. The other response would be to acknowledge the changed times and to come to terms with it. At the very least, that might entail a changed approach. After all, what good is photographing in the street as if it still were 1960 or 1970 anyway? For many photographers the fall back is to basically revert to what an outsider might see as self-indulgent posturing. This solution revolves around dismissing larger concerns and insisting on one’s role as an artist, an artist who in the name of art can do anything. For me, that doesn’t cut it. I get where that’s coming from (the history of art). And I understand the idea of the freedom of art. But if your art comes at the expense of someone else — isn’t there then that other person’s (or group’s) freedom that needs to be considered, too? In general, what good is your freedom if the same freedom is explicitly or implicitly denied to others? At the core of discussions around the many problems around photography, this encroachment of another person’s or group’s freedoms is the main topic to be considered, whether it’s photojournalists helicoptering in to make dramatic pictures for their newspaper’s front pages, female and non-binary photographers being denied the opportunities that males take for granted, the public rejecting the idea that it’s simply OK to photograph them without explicit consent, or whatever else. Ultimately, acknowledging and solving these problems can only enrich the world of photography. It can only lead to a situation that is more and more and finally fully inclusive in all senses of the world, where, for example, 50% of photographers are female, whether it’s at Arles or in the scrums around a Supreme Court nominee. It can only lead to a world where the voices of all are being heard, and they’re not only heard but also depicted using the sensibilities of all — not just, to take the example of photojournalism — the aggressive male. We fish have to become aware of the water we swim in. And when I say “we fish” I am mostly speaking to my Western male colleagues. I don’t mean to exclude the other fish — having talked to them I know very well about the problem. The world of photography has served us male fish well. But it must not serve us well any longer at the expense of everybody else. That has got to stop: the sooner the better. And for that to happen, we have to start looking at how some of the most basic ways we deal with and talk about photography find their origins in male thinking.

Self-publishing Children's Books - A Look at the Numbers Last year, I ran an anonymous survey for traditionally published children's authors. Hundreds of authors participated and the results for young adult, middle grade, and picture books categories painted a detailed picture of the life and livelihoods of children's authors. After I published these results, a few people contacted me saying it's easier/better/more profitable to self-publish. I had guesses but not enough information to respond or verify. I wanted to know more, so from January to May (2018) I opened a survey for "Non-traditional Children's Book Publishing." This anonymous survey was for authors publishing children's book(s): 1) under their own publishing brand (or under the label of a close friend/family member) 2) through a company that provides minimal to no editing/marketing assistance (including print on demand) 3) through a company where the author pays for or crowdfunds at least part of the publishing project. Authors identifying as "self-published" or "indie" were welcome to participate as long as they met these requirements. In the end, seventy-eight authors submitted answers. THANK YOU authors! A note about the term "indie author" Some people thought I should call this survey an "indie author survey" instead of "non-traditional" or "self-published." However, while advertising for the survey, "indie" created some confusion. Some people seemed to think indie means published under a small, traditional, and advance-paying press. Not so. Indie means the author manages their own publishing brand and becomes their own house. Because of this confusion, I chose to identify all authors participating in the survey under the umbrella term "self-publishing." Feel free to discuss this more in the comments. The authors taking the survey were: - Gender: 84.6% female, 14.1% male, 1.3% husband/wife team, 0% non-binary - Ethnicity: 8.2% Hispanic or Latino, 1% Filipino-American, 1% Ukrainian, and the remainder simply identified as "not Hispanic or Latino" - Race: 87% White, 3% Black or African American, 3% Mixed, 1% Middle Eastern, 1% Filipino, 1% American Indian or Alaskan Native, and 4% didn't answer - Age: The ages ranged from 19 to 85 years old. The average age was 46. - Country of residence: 85% USA, 4% Canada, 4% UK, 3% Australia, 1% Denmark, 1% Brazil, 1% New Zealand, 1% Singapore - Types of creators: 69% authors, 28% author/illustrator, and 3% illustrator - Writing: 88% fiction, 12% nonfiction - Intended audiences: 52% picture book, 2% chapter book, 33% middle grade, and 13% YA I didn't have a large enough sample to feel confident breaking the data into sub-groups. However, if there's interest, I can look up specific information, like "30 year old female Hispanic picture book writers from the United States." Levels of experience: Authors rated their levels of experience in writing, editing, and marketing on a scale from 1 (hobbyist) to 5 (expert). Most authors in the survey were confident in their writing and editing abilities. However, only about 20% of self-published authors considered their marketing skills above average. Authors rating their marketing skills at a four or five sold about twice as many books as those rating themselves at three or lower. That said, the two bestselling authors rated their marketing skills as average. Both these authors paid for marketing and other services prior to releasing their books. The third bestselling author, rated her skills as excellent (5) in writing, marketing, and editing. This author did not pay for marketing services, only for illustration/design services, prior to publication. All authors selling in the top 30% invested money in their books prior to launch, except one. Most (70%) published under their own brand label, and most (74%) have multiple self-published books. I created a word cloud of the most common expenses these bestselling authors experienced. Larger words means more of the authors experienced these expenses, not necessarily that one type of expense was larger than another. Now, let's take a look at authors in the bottom third of the sales numbers. On average, these authors rated themselves slightly lower in writing and marketing compared to the top third. However in editing, they rated themselves slightly higher. Specifically, writing: 3.6 vs 4.0, editing: 3.8 vs 3.7, marketing: 2.3 vs 3.1. I looked through the data and tried to find more of what set them apart from the top third. A few things stood out among the bottom third. - Most only had one self-published book (67%) - They were the least likely to invest financially in their publishing project (30% spent $0 upfront on their book) - On average, those publishing in the bottom third spent less time on their project - No one in the top third spent less than six months on their project vs. 18% of the bottom third Still, with every rule there's an exception: - Some people in the bottom third invested in their projects and still had poor sales numbers, and one of the top earners didn't invest any money upfront in his/her project - Some spent years on their project and still only sold a few copies We'll return to financials later, but for now let's talk about... Why do authors self-publish? Authors chose self-publishing for a variety of reasons, most of them personal. In fact, only about 5% of self-published authors indicated "making money" was their primary goal. Suprisingly, none of the top 10 income earners listed "earning money" as their primary goal. According to the survey results, publishing with the goal of making money doesn't necessarily bring home the bacon. About half (48.7%) of all surveyed queried traditional publishers before deciding to self-publish. Here's the breakdown of why authors switched from querying traditional publishers: The most common reason people left traditional publishing is because they were unsuccessful finding a publisher. "Other" reasons people switched from traditional publishing included many varied responses like, "I was getting a lot of interest from fans in pre-marketing" and "Self-publishing just happened for me." Do traditional publishers sign contracts from self-published works? Rarely. One author in the survey had his/her self-published book picked up by a traditional publisher. This authors sold 10,000 copies of his/her book prior to being contacted by a traditional publisher. If you're hoping to take this route, be prepared to sell a lot of books on your own first. Is self-publishing a good way to attract a traditional publisher's attention? No. Self and traditional publishing are mostly orthogonal career paths. The vast majority (99%) of self-published titles are not picked up by a traditional publisher, and most literary agents won't represent self-published titles. However, it's possible to pursue self and traditional publishing concurrently. Many self-published authors also have experience with traditional publishers. - 8% of the authors had traditionally published at least one book before self-publishing - Most (60%) of the 10 highest income earners were traditionally published before self-publishing - Most (80%) of the 10 highest income earners had writing income outside self-publishing It's possible to switch back and forth between self and traditional publishing. However, self-publishing is not usually considered a "resume builder" in traditional publishing. Did most authors accomplish their primary goal with self-publishing? The average rate of satisfaction was favorable: 6.8. No author felt like they completely failed at their primary goal, and a few authors (5%) were totally satisfied with the product. Half of the authors completely satisfied with their project had the goal to "create something memorable for friends and family." Reaching child readers and establishing themselves as an author were the most common reasons people gave for self-publishing. Beyond these leading reasons, the authors most likely to be disappointed were those hoping to make money. Satisfied authors published for a variety of reasons ranging from creating social change to catering to a niche. Notably, one author wrote with the goal to "change the world" and was more than half-satisfied with the outcome. Overall, most people self-publishing were happy with their end product. Now for a less subjective question... Can you earn a living self-publishing books for children? One person in the survey earned $40,000 self-publishing last year. Here are a few helpful facts about this successfull self-published author. - was traditionally published multiple times before making the leap to self-publishing - has self-published around 30 books - publishes nonfiction - created his/her own brand and publishing house - paid up-front for professional illustration - treats his/her writing like a business Two other people in the survey earned over $10,000 last year self-publishing. Based on this data: - only around 1% of people self-publishing for children earn a living off it. - about 3.7% earn $10,000 or more a year It is possible to earn a living self-publishing for children, but it's rare. Is self-publishing profitable? At least 62% earned some money self-publishing. Many people answered this question with vague answers like, "I made enough to pay for my next book," or "I didn't make much." Of those that answered with a numeric value, the average (mean) amount earned on their most successful self-publishing project was about $2,900. Here is a visual of that data spread. (Each blue line in the graph below represents one survey response.) Since the top earners skew the mean, I also highlighted the middle-most (median) profit amount above. The median amount an author made was $600. However, it should be noted that many authors did not answer this question. If authors didn't give me a number, I didn't include them in the graph above. Many people indicated they lost money with comments like, "Still selling to make the money I spent." So the true median profit is likely lower. Do authors selling the most copies make the most money? It's unclear. Authors selling the most copies were the most likely to invest in their projects. Not all of them made enough money to break even. Very few of the highest sellers disclosed finances. Fortunately, the author selling the highest number of copies did. This author made about $30,000 on his/her most successful project. After expenses, he/she earned $0.87 per book (roughly the same amount earned by a traditionally published author depending on the royalty rate). Authors selling in the top 30% made less per book than authors selling in the bottom 30%, but their annual incomes were higher on average. However, given that many authors did not answer financial questions, it's possible that up to 30% of self-publishing projects for children lose money. From the data I do have, self-published authors made on average $2.70 per book sold. Self-publishing vs. Traditional Publishing: How do copies sold compare? The following charts compare average copies sold by publishing path selected, using mean and median values as benchmarks. An author selling a book to a no-advance paying traditional publishing house can expect to sell about as many copies as if they had self-published: 477 books. On average, advance paying houses sell significantly more copies than non-advance paying publishing pathways. As always, there are exceptions. The bestselling self-published author in my survey sold 35,000 copies. Here's the spread of copies sold for self-published children's authors. Here's the same graph with a call out box that better shows the spread for most authors: According to the data, self-publishing sales follow a roughly exponential curve. A few do very well. However, 25% of self-published children's books authors sell fewer than 100 books. Self-publishing vs. Traditional Publishing: How do annual writing incomes compare? The average incomes of traditionally published authors were higher than those of self-published authors. - 75% of traditionally published picture book authors made more than $1,000 last year, 80% for middle grade, and 66% of young adult authors - 20% of self-published picture book authors made more than $1,000 last year, 27% for middle grade, and 40% of young adult authors However, when you look at annual writing incomes for authors publishing at no-advance houses, the averages are very comparable to self-publishing. Other important considerations for self-published children's authors - Self-published authors should retain the rights to their work. - 99% of the authors in the survey retained all their publishing rights no matter what services they used to publish, including 2% who shared rights with an illustrator. - 1% gave up rights to a company - Most of the authors (65%) published under their own brand - Most of the authors (95%) had their book available in print - 77% of the authors used Print-on-Demand (POD) to publish their book and most seemed happy with this printing option - None of the authors had wide physical distribution in bookstores - While many had their books available for purchase online through bookstores (often as POD), very few are stocked in a brick-and-mortar store - One author commented that physical distribution isn't desirable anyway because selling in bookstores makes the profit margins too tight - Library distribution was a little better for self-published authors - 59% of authors had their book in at least one library and 13% had books in many libraries - 20% used pay-to-publish or vanity houses - none of these authors were in the top 50% of annual earners - half of these authors felt the publisher failed to deliver what was promised Self-publishing isn't inherently better or worse than traditional publishing. It's a just different experience, easier in some ways and harder in others. Whether or not you decide to self-publish depends on your goals, needs, and skills as an author. Here are a few key takeaways from the Non-traditional Children's Publishing Survey. - Self-published children's authors (SPCA) can (and usually do) bring books to market more quickly than traditional publishers - SPCA have more control over the finished product - SPCA can cater to niche markets - With careful planning, hard work, and business savvy, SPCA can earn as much or more than some traditionally published authors - Most SPCA were satisfied with their publishing experience - Most met their primary goal in publishing, and often these goals were very personal - Most made a profit - Self-publishing carries more risk than traditional publishing - up to 30% of SPCA lost money - Most SPCA sell fewer than 1,000 books per project - The SPCAs with the highest incomes were mostly authors with experience publishing books traditionally - Most SPCA struggle with marketing - Distribution to stores and libraries was an obstacle for many SPCA - online sales were the predominate method of moving books for SPCA (which is neither good nor bad, just an observation.) Do you have experience with self-publishing not reflected in these numbers? I've reopened the survey. Feel free to continue contributing your experiences: Non-traditional Children's Author Survey I hope this information was helpful. Do you have a question not answered in this post? Comment below. If there's an answer in the survey data, I'll dig it up for you. Happy writing trails and best wishes on your publishing journey! Hannah Holt is a children’s author with an engineering degree. Her books, The Diamond & The Boy (2018, HarperCollins/Balzer+Bray) and A Father’s Love (2019, Penguin/Philomel) weave together her love of language and science. She lives in Oregon with her husband, four children, and a very patient cat named Zephyr.

Hi! I'm Tamara and for the last few months, I've been putting together a simple framework to help developers/engineers with their career growth based on my experiences managing devs in a few different companies. The below info and framework is free for you to use and amend although please make sure to link back to this page so that appropriate people I've credited in here can also get credit (as well as me!). What is the framework? The 'Developer Growth Framework' is a simple spreadsheet/matrix to help identify and clarify appropriate behaviours and expectations for developers at different stages of their careers. It has a summary sheet which has some high level information about expectations for developers across 4 categories '#build' '#deliver' '#lead' and '#connect' and then it deep dives into those 4 categories in more detail with relevant examples. This is simple compared to some other frameworks out there which suited the needs of the teams I worked with but you can also see it as a first step in a journey, making it more detailed and sophisticated over time. Check out the Medium one to see how awesome it could be. I made this framework with the following values in mind for its implementation: - Inclusion: the framework should feel relevant for both junior and senior developers in your company, it should feel like it values the work your developers who identify as women or non-binary perform, it should feel like it belongs to your developers just as much as it belongs to your management team. - Human: I was really inspired by Buffer's framework in that it seemed much more about recognising that everyone's path is different and unique and human. I tried to reflect this in the language and examples I've used when creating this. Someone doesn't have to move 'up' in this framework, they could move to another discipline or adopt a new title to reflect their speciality and not lose the progress they've made on this framework. I hope that makes sense. - Open: The intention behind this framework is that it's flexible and open and should be changed over time to reflect your company's values and growth. I believe it's important to listen to people who are using this framework and be open to change it based off feedback so if you hear something negative about how this has been implemented, I would encourage you to really hear what's being said and make sure it's reflecting the above values of 'Inclusion' and 'Human'. The framework is based off and borrows wording and concepts from other frameworks that are also open source, published by Kickstarter, Medium and Buffer as well as based on my own experience working closely alongside developers, engineers and designers. A huge shout-out to everyone doing amazing work in this space and I think it's fantastic that we have so many options to choose from when we're setting up something like this in our organisations. Finally, without further ado, here is the framework available for you to view, make a copy of and implement in your company! Please do read the rest of this post to give you some more context and ideas for implementation. Why did I put this together? My personal motivation for setting this up was mainly to do with helping create a more inclusive environment for under-represented groups in tech, specifically for people who identify as women. After hearing many stories from women and non-binary folk, one of their concerns about the tech industry was the lack of clarity about what was expected of them in their workplace as well as a lack of transparency around how promotions were determined. There were a lot of stories about feeling like they were doing a lot of emotional labour for their team, helping them become high performing and yet that wasn't recognised or rewarded. This framework is just one small way in which we can make sure that the really important work outside of technical mastery is also recognised as part of developing as a developer/engineer/designer. Here are the top reasons for creating this and the benefits for implementing it: - Clear expectations resulting in better performance of your team and a clearer way of setting goals with individuals. - More transparency and accountability which helps to create a more inclusive space for women and non-binary folk as well as just making things all around a lot easier for people to have positive conversations about their growth without it being a bit secretive. - Helping to create more consistent and effective feedback loops. By using this framework to help guide more regular feedback loops for your team, you'll be able to help them grow and feel more comfortable both receiving and giving feedback, a hugely important skill for them to learn. How could I implement it? Here are some ideas on how to implement this framework in your organisation. - Make it relevant. Change up the titles in the framework to suit your context, put your company values in there, change the examples to fit your team's work. Make sure you are clear at this point on how you'd like it to work in your context - will it be purely a guide for managers to help set goals? Will it be used to structure your review process? You'll need to be super clear about your intentions for it before you follow the next steps. - Collaborate! Involve your junior team members as well as your seniors when putting this together and make sure you have some diverse reviewers helping you put this together. The more representative you can make your review team, the better this will embed in your teams. So put together a quick draft, collaborate with your team and change it up as they give you feedback. It's important to get the buy in from your leaders and managers at this point too so that they can support you to launch this later. - Test it. Take a couple of developers who haven't seen it before through the framework you've created and ask them some questions to determine what they think and how they think it could work. This is a great opportunity to get any of their fears out there about putting something like this into the organisation so you can either address those things by changing the framework or through your communication when you implement it. - Arm your leaders. Take your leaders/managers through this framework now that it's tested and reviewed and hear any concerns they have, make sure they understand the scope of the framework and how your company intends to use it. These are the people who will be championing your framework and helping to make it a success so it's important that they are right there with you when it gets rolled out wider. - Clear communication. Once you've tested this and armed your leaders/managers with the right info and you're ready to put it out there, please make sure that your supplementary material or communication is super clear. If this framework is just to be used as a handy guide but not used to drive promotions, make that very clear or you'll end up with some very worried and confused people. Publish it somewhere where everyone can see it and provide a really clear method of providing feedback or changes to the framework. - Act on feedback. If you receive feedback on the framework once it has been implemented, make sure you follow it up and act on it. There has to be some trust between management and your developers that they'll be able to suggest changes and that it will be heard and taken on board if possible. A big thanks to the people behind the Medium, Kickstarter and Buffer frameworks for making their frameworks open source as well and allowing me to adopt wording and concepts. A huge thank you to my wonderful developer friends who reviewed and edited alongside me. Big thanks to Thomas Kear, Elise Wei, Libby Schumacher-Knight and David Leach. I was fortunate to be able to put together a version of this for the last company I worked with, SilverStripe, and while that was a different version to hopefully be implemented in the near future, the work that the developers there did on that version absolutely inspired me when writing this post. A big thanks to Kate Muggeridge, Ingo Schommer, Tim Kung and Ben Manu for their awesome ideas and support. I would like to publish a couple more posts related to this framework. One on how to use it for conducting regular reviews for your team and one on helping people set some goals using this framework. So please keep an eye out for that and let me know if there is anything else you'd like me to write about. Thanks again and looking forward to hearing your feedback.

Agender 👗 Non-Binary Pride 5 Most Recent Posts - Enough Is Enough August 7, 2019 - The AIDS Crisis – Time to Share History & Lessons Learned July 23, 2019 - Happy Pride Month 2019 June 2, 2019 - Kevin & I – Two LGBTQ Youth – One Lost To Suicide – One Confused, Depressed and Closeted For A Decade November 18, 2018 - We #WontBeErased October 23, 2018 Jeri’s Past Posts December 2019 S M T W T F S « Aug 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 - 152,726 hits Tag Archives: gender non-conforming The amazing Conchita Wurst in concert at The Sydney Opera House “From Vienna with Love” Conchita’s concert in Sydney Opera House “From Vienna with Love” (ORF eins, 10.05.2016) with EN/DE/RU/FR Subtitles | Кончита Вурст, концерт в сиднейской опере, русские субтитры … Continue reading An effective infographic used in Miami to clarify what protections, in ordinances and laws that include gender identity and expression, are all about. You really should check out this look at MTV’s look at the 11 times gender norms got the finger. Here’s an excerpt from the opening paragraphs of the article by Rae Paoletta… Gender is a construct, and should be treated … Continue reading This is the first time a boy has been featured in a Barbie advertisement and he steals the show. I guess the barriers to boys loving toys formerly labeled “girls toys” is slowly being broken down. A step forward in … Continue reading A follow-up video in response to the previous video of a dad supporting his son in selecting a doll at a toy store. A refreshingly positive reaction from a dad who’s son chooses a doll as a replacement gift. A short film about a boy who’s favorite toy is a classic Barbie doll and how the reactions and comments by his parents affect him. An inspirational and moving documentary that follows the story of a native Hawaiian trans woman who coaches a boys Hulu troupe and helps a girl who joins the boy’s troupe. It also follows the coach’s search for love and happiness. I am a big fan of the Korean group SHINee in general and the often androgynous Taemin in particular. In this song he addresses his “pretty boy” image and confronts toxic masculinity – for example in this line: “Why is … Continue reading This is sure to get people talking which is, I suppose, the purpose of fashion campaigns. This campaign is part of the agender fashion movement. One of the fashion brands that is part of this movement is Acne Studios. Acne … Continue reading Great poem about a homophobic parent; yes really! Two cis gay men, Calum McSwiggin and Dion Yorkie, talk about how restrictive gender role expectations impact their lives. A very refreshing discussion and one more gay men should have. Julie, the proud mom of a non-binary gender identified offspring, shares her tale of a night out at the theater, in her blog My Son Wears Heels. Here are the opening paragraphs and photos. Continue reading and viewing by following … Continue reading A thoughtful look at gender and what it means to be male, female and non-binary. This video is more about a few people’s specific thoughts and experiences about gender and is not an attempt to throughly examine gender academically. I … Continue reading Kat, in another excellent video, explains the difference between gender expression and gender identity. This amazing music video, from Hollysiz, for the beautiful song “The Light,” tells the story of one father’s journey from confusion and hostility to finally embracing his gender creative child. In just under four minutes an entire dramatic arc is … Continue reading Recommended Reading: Celebs Who Fight Gender Norms, From Miley Cyrus & Her New Foundation To Laverne Cox’s Amazing Advocacy | Bustle Bustle looks a 6 celebrities challenging gender norms and conventions… What is gender? Gender is the way one categorizes themself as male, female, or otherwise (agender, genderqueer, etc), and it is a part of one’s identity that may stand apart … Continue reading It seems that agender is not just a gender identity, or more correctly a genderless identity, but is also a fashion trend. I like to borrow a term used to describe gender non-conforming kids and apply it to this fashion … Continue reading In this interview filmed in, of all places Dubai, Jaden and Willow talk, among other things, about gender rules when it comes to fashion and how they are not using those rules in designing clothes.

Lace Mill artist-resident Zelda (aka Judith Z. Miller) received an Individual Artist Commission from Arts Mid-Hudson last month. The $2,500 grant supports the development of her one-person show, “Que Será, Será (Whatever Will Be, Will Be).” This humorous, sobering, hopeful multimedia one-person revelatory performance chronicles Zelda’s story of the joys and challenges navigating non-binary Queerness from childhood during the 1950s to adulthood. “I worked my ass off on that grant and I got it! ” notes Zelda. “Of course, now reality is setting in. In addition to creating the show, I also promote it and get advertisers for the programs. In order to manifest this piece of theater, I’m raising additional funds through a crowdfunding campaign, which I hope my friends, fans, and people interested in supporting a Queer project, will support. If everyone I know gives a small amount of money and a few give something substantial, this can happen.” Zelda (aka Judith Z. Miller) is a multifaceted artist who lives in an erotic, musical, spiritual universe. As a feminist Jew who studies shamanism, she is inspired by the beauty of nature and the guiding force of her intuition as she explores the themes of connection to the Earth, spirituality, sexuality, and gender. She sculpts, draws, writes, performs, photographs, and is an ecstatic dancer/percussionist/healer. Zelda co-founded The Fine Line Actors Theatre in Washington DC and performed at such venues as Source, GALA Hispanic Theatre and the Kennedy Center in DC, in NYC at WOW Café Theatre and Dixon Place, at The Lace Mill and with the TMI Project in Kingston. Zelda also produces ZELDA’S Happenings, a series of black-light, body-painting, percussion dance parties that will produce original wearable art for a new UpState Artists Clothing Collection. She published in Inside Arts magazine, The Washington Post, and American Theatre magazine. Zelda currently resides at The Lace Mill in Kingston, NY with her Great Dane “Z.” Arts Mid-Hudson extended a record number of Individual Artist Commissions grants, thanks to the 2019 Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson. This grant program supports the creation of new work by an individual artist, which involves the community in their process or includes a public showing of their work. Zelda is one of 10 artists from Ulster, Dutchess and Orange Counties from a competitive field of 40 applicants. Find out more about Zelda and her performance schedule, follow her on social media: Que Será, Será on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TalkaboutQueerness/ Zelda’s Happenings on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/zeldashappenings/ Artist Page on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ArtistSoulSpeaks/

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Music contributor Gabriel Barnett gives his thoughts on the recent controversy surrounding the line-up announcement of Reading & Leed’s festival. Covering who he thinks should be featured and why there is no excuse for the current gender imbalance. Festivals today are rightfully pushing towards gender-balance in order to provide more equality within the music industry. Early pioneers, Glastonbury and Primavera indicated that 2020 would be completely gender-balanced. Artists like The 1975 helped prompt this by agreeing to perform at festivals on the condition that they had an equal split of artists. In light of progressive moves, the 2020 line up for Reading and Leeds provoked huge controversy. Namely because amongst the 90 artists, only 20 were women and worst of all? Not one was headliner. Radio 1 DJ Annie Mac voiced her frustration on Twitter: ‘disheartened’ by “the blatant lack of want to represent women.” Then came the news of the current pandemic which triggered the cancellation of the 2020 festival – in turn, giving the organisers ample time and opportunity to reflect, study their competitors’ actions, and perhaps mend their ways. However, despite an increase to six from three headline slots, (a perfect opportunity to achieve a 50/50 gender split,) There was no such realisation or understanding. At a glance, a male dominance is obvious to comprised five out of six headliners. This blatant misogyny, really enforces a certain two fingers salute to the foundations of progress laid by other festivals and female creatives of our time. The organisers cannot even claim that unavailability of quality acts forced their hand. The line-up is lukewarm at best, with Stormzy being the most progressive and exciting. Disclosure, an easy choice, Queens of the Stone Age who have headlined before in 2014. Has-been Liam Gallagher, followed by Post Malone, whose last album ‘Hollywood Bleeding’ was a calamitous flop, and, worst of all, Catfish and the Bottlemen, a band as bland as a brick wall. This list would have felt dated in 2015, let alone in an era driven by #MeToo and BLM. Apart from these cultural omissions, the festival has apparently failed to recognise new music released since then. A line-up, devoid of moral or cultural interest and musically outdated. Festival organisers such as Geoff Ellis of TRNSMT have rebutted this claim, arguing that there aren’t enough female artists to fill up the headline spaces. Ellis called for females to pick up guitars and get in bands – A patronising, wholly redundant argument, for there are a handful of female and non-binary artists that would trump most of the headliners, in both musicianship and performance. Billie Eilish and Phoebe Bridgers, whose recent albums ‘When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go’ and ‘punisher’, have not only brought huge commercial success but also showcased their exceptional song-writing abilities. They are genuine inspirations to younger generations, especially girls, who want to enter the music industry. The bands Florence + the Machine would bring more to the festival than Catfish, as well as artists such as Lana Del Ray, FKA Twigs, Dua Lipa, Cardi B, M.I.A and Lily Allen. Luckily for Reading and Leeds, Doja Cat, Mabel,Beabadoobee,Charli XCX, Lyra, and Girl in Red, all exciting, up-and-coming artists, are an included minority. Achieving a 50/50 split would partially make up for the lineup catastrophe and go some way towards displaying the diverse showcase of talent that all festivals should be aiming to achieve. Gender-balanced festivals can genuinely highlight the music industry’s mission for gender equality in general. Furthermore, festivals are the perfect platform to reinforce equality in the industry as they attract (especially younger) people from around the world. (Reading and Leeds is a yearly tradition for Post-GCSE kids). Not to mention the festivals are transmitted globally. It is bad enough that Reading and Leeds are failing to follow the example set by Glastonbury and Primavera. Worse still is their outright refusal to allow women to take up any headline slots. Those few festivals that are starting to implement gender-balanced festivals show ‘it’s been a long time coming,’ but for Reading and Leeds is ‘a change gonna come?’

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February 26, 2021 - Priority Campaign Update — MDC DSA February ballot results - Green New Deal campaign meeting — Saturday at 5pm - DSA for Karishma — candidate for VA House of Delegates Results of Metro DC February Ballot In accordance with Metro DC DSA bylaws, the chapter voted to approve the FY 2021 budget and chapter priority campaigns, both of which will be in effect through the December 2021 local convention. The proposed chapter budget provides a framework for spending and setting money aside for recurring expenses and priorities for the year. Priority campaigns (see Section 6.3 of the chapter bylaws) are eligible to receive access to additional funding, communications and mobilization. Receiving 331 votes in favor, 4 against and 46 abstentions, the FY 2021 Chapter Budget passed. For priority campaigns, Stomp Out Slumlords received 298 votes, Labor received 290, Green New Deal received 275, Defund MPD received 269. Having met the two-thirds threshold, these campaigns passed. Medicare for All, having received 250, did not meet the threshold and was not approved as a priority campaign. Thank you to everyone who voted and participated, and to all the comrades who worked on proposals. Green New Deal campaign meeting — Saturday at 1pm With the priority process concluded, this meeting will lay out ongoing planned organizing around advancement of a green new deal. Join us to plug into: - We Power DC, following up on the launch of the Energy Justice campaign this past Tuesday (which hosted almost 100 attendees!) - Advancement of the PRO Act, in collaboration with the Labor working group - Political education and internal organizing, building our shared understanding of how to win a GND and organizing the DSA to achieve it. New members, as always, welcome. RSVP for link! And keep on the look-out for We Power DC’s next event on Thursday, March 11: Power Grid 101: Electricity and the Green New Deal. Virginia electoral updates Last week, members joined Karishma Mehta, locally endorsed candidate for VA-49’s House of Delegates, as part of a nationwide rally in support of Bessemer, Al who are fighting to form a union in the face of endless underhanded tactics. Support for Karishma continues this weekend Here’s how you can get involved: - canvassing resumes this Saturday, February 27th with shifts from 11 AM to 2PM (please note that the 2 PM canvass is a bilingual, Spanish-speaking canvass) - canvassing will continue on Sunday, February 28th starting at 11 AM - a phonebanking on Sunday at 2 PM. Join us to fight for the working class in Virginia’s 49th! MARCH 2021 WASHINGTON SOCIALIST The Washington Socialist is our monthly publication, corralling articles, content and opinions that might help local lefties navigate the ever shifting political configurations at both the national and local level. Here’s what we’ve got this month: - “Breaking Bad: Obsession with an independent workers’ party hurts the socialist electoral project” reprints a strong argument against ballot-line socialism that made its round in national DSA circles just last month - “The Liberal-to-Ultraleft Pipepline: breaking the cycle” argues against the sort of aesthetic partisanship exuded by some national lefty media figures that prevents the working class from organizing itself into a disciplined political regime. - “A Left That Matters?” critically responds to a Jacobin article that made its round last month (see GOOD READS), reminding that the advancement of many issues imperative to socialists in recent years occured outside the Democratic Party. - “Carry me back to New Virginny” looks to the strong performance of Democrats in Virginia and finds hope in the capacity for conservative morasses to evolve into something better. - “Having a ‘cabal’ with oppositional politics” emphasizes the need for the left to stop falling into the trap of opposition-based political alliances. - “As fascism intensifies, socialists must consider security” outlines some of the information-security protocols used by the local DSA while stressing the need to think seriously about security. - “What Is Socialism? A (very) brief answer” reminds us what, exactly, that alternative to the capitalism everyone keeps talking about is. - “Capitalist Decay and Digital Worlds” provides an annotated discussion with two filmmakers whose new series showcased the virtual worlds that have provided an escape from the banality and alienation of capitalism. - “500,000: COVID by the Numbers” attempts to put our run-in pandemic induced mass death into context. - “Democracy and Microgrids” emphasizes the need for the progressive left to consider the management and ownership structure of our energy systems. Spring 2021 “Capital in the Capitol Reading Group” Are you interested in reading Marx’s Capital Vol. 1 with a group of comrades in the DMV? If so, sign up here before March 8th! The reading group will meet weekly or every other week from ~late March through ~mid-July, reading through Capital as a group using sources available for free on the internet. People of all experience and knowledge levels are welcome and encouraged to join! For more information, view the sign up form here. Louis DeJoy told a House hearing Wednesday he planned to be around awhile as Postmaster General, swinging the wrecking ball at the nation’s oldest civil agency. “Get used to me,” he told a House oversight panel. But Politico Playbook reported later that afternoon that Biden has proposed three new — and diverse — members of the Postal Service Board of Governors to vacant spots on the nine-member board, giving that body — which hires and fires Postmasters General — a non-DeJoy majority. Here’s the NYT account provided Thursday. DC Councilmember Janeese Lewis George releases assessment of DC FY 2022 Budget As DC gears up to debate budget priorities for FY2022, local activists are beginning to draw up their battle plans and corralling their allies in anticipation of fighting corporate interests in the city. Councilmember and DSA member Janeese Lewis George released her statement on the budget — a good primer for those interesting in noting the leylines that will surely engulf much of the local left in the budget battles to come. Helping push MoCo DSA’s tax bill through the MD Assembly: Marylanders! MoCo DSA’s bill ending tax breaks for country clubs (Maryland has WHAT?) is sponsored by Del. Gabe Acevero and in committee in the Assembly session now. Dels. Anne Kaiser (MoCo Dist. 14) and Alonzo Washington (PG County Dist. 22) can move it out of the committee that they chair; tell them about this wonderful opportunity with this petition (link here for Del. Washington and here for Del. Kaiser) created by our own MoCo comrades, particularly if you live in either of these districts. DC Vaccine Distribution outreach sign-up Our Medicare 4 All Working Group is launching a phone campaign and door-to-door knocking and literature distribution drive in order to boost vaccine awareness. We will be focusing outreach to seniors who may want the vaccine but do not have reliable access to the internet or information to access it. If you’d like to volunteer, please follow this sign-up if you’re interested in getting involved. Training will be provided. MDC DSA CALENDAR OF EVENTS Saturday, February 27 4 – 5pm | MoCo DSA Member Orientation MoCo DSA’s outreach event which provides information on what projects are being worked on, and some general information about Montgomery County. Open to all DSA members! 2 – 3:30pm | Socialist Feminist Reading Group Wednesday, March 1 7 – 8:30pm | Labor WG Speaker Series Organizing at nonprofits, with reps from Nonprofit Professional Employees Union. Register at link. 7 – 8pm | NoVA Branch Office Hours Open chat and Q&A for NoVA Branch members new and long-serving! Register at link. Wednesday, March 3 7 – 9pm | PG Co. DSA Steering Committee Meeting Thursday, March 4 7 – 9pm | Medicare for All Discussion Group We will review video of the March 13, 2019 introduction of the Medicare for All Act in the House of Representatives and subsequent hearings in the Rules Committee and Ways & Means Committee. This discussion will help us prepare for the reintroduction of the bill as the Medicare for All Act of 2021 later this month. 7 – 9pm | Grrrls* Night/Happy Hour Sunday, March 7 2 – 4:30pm | MoCo branch DSA March general meeting Wednesday, March 17 7 – 9pm | Prince George’s branch DSA monthly general body meeting Political education: guest is Bill Fletcher Jr. Saturday, March 20 7 – 8:30pm | NoVA Book Club Reading Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. More info and access suggestions at link. Regularly recurring MDC DSA events Thursdays, 7 – 9pm — MONTHLY | Grrlz Night/Happy Hour A happy hour space for those who identify as womxn, non-binary people or those of marginalized genders. We ask that men do not participate at this time. Nonmembers welcome; access at link. Wednesdays, 5 – 6pm (new time!!) | NoVA Tenant Organizing Planning Meeting Next meeting (March 3rd) will have the usual round of updates on our tenant organizing efforts and then switch to a corporate research training to start digging dirt on the slumlords of NoVA! Wednesdays, 8 – 9pm | New Member Orientation New to DSA? New-ish? Joined a while back and want to get involved again? Find out how we can build a brighter socialist future together! We’ll talk about our working groups and how you can get involved in building real power with your fellow comrades. Saturdays, 1pm | NoVA Anti-Eviction Canvass Join the NoVA Tenant Organizing Group on their next anti-eviction canvass in Alexandria on Saturday, March 6th! Sundays, 5 – 6pm | Medicare 4 ALL (#M4A) Workgroup The Medicare for All Working Group is organizing a vaccine distribution outreach campaign and also working to pass a resolution endorsing M4A in the DC Council. Come join us to find out more! NATIONAL DSA HIGHLIGHTS Monday, March 1 8pm EST | Workers & the Green New Deal Are you organizing for green jobs? Have you talked with your coworkers about climate change? Are you a union member, or are you looking for a community with which to strategize about organizing for climate justice? Join us for strategy and inspiration. More at link. Tuesday, March 9 8:30pm EST | Socialist School of Economics w/ Hadas Thier Since the Great Recession, more and more working people have realized that the capitalist economy doesn’t work for them, but mainstream economics makes it hard for most of us to understand exactly why. Join author Hadas Thier, author of A People’s Guide to Capitalism, and the National Political Education Committee … More at link. EVENTS FROM OUR ALLIES IN THE DMV TODAY, Friday, February 26 Notimex workers have been on strike for one year: they are defending their jobs, working conditions and quality journalism in the face of management interference and union-busting. Webinar with worker panel. US sponsorship-support from National Writers Union. Register Here. Sunday, February 28 2 – 4pm | The Art of Activism: Poster Making and Art Builds — Online Class Good art is the key to a successful protest. In this free class, we will review how different kinds of visual art have contributed towards activism throughout history and discuss foundational knowledge for practical art building skills. This includes how to do wheatpasting, banner drops, puppet building, etc. followed by creating our own posters together for the cause of your choosing. At the end of the class, we will discuss how to organize an art build in your community for causes that you care about. 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Camden Fringe shows to see this week! Camden Fringe Festival 2018, the 13th edition, takes place from 30 July - 26 August, with themes of #MeToo, LGBTQ, and mental health taking the forefront, reflecting what has been a groundbreaking year of social and political change for the UK. We've decided to take a look at some of the most exciting picks of this week (08/09 - 15/09) at the fringe. 1. Neon at The Lion and Unicorn Theatre Jude, a therapist in England, meets a man named John Doe who claims to be God. He seems to be just a deluded recluse, living with a normal flatmate and enjoying Capri Suns. That is until Thomas arrives from America with visions of a strange man in his flat. The laurel-wreath necklace around the stranger’s neck seems all too familiar, and Jude finds herself caught up in the birth of a new religion. NEON discusses the subject of death and what lies beyond. In a world of unsettling headlines, how can one man tackle the prospect of being alone? The grand and absurd story of NEON is told with a timely urgency, and a grounded importance that touches upon the value of faith and our need to carry on through the darkest of moments. Tickets Here 2. Hatch at Etcetera Theatre Hatch is an award winning solo gig-theatre piece written and performed by Sarah Carton, which takes a look at women in the prison system. The piece digs under the skin of anti-heroine Jess, imprisoned for selling drugs on her lover’s behalf. Blurring the boundaries of acted scene, poetry and live music, HATCH flows through Jess’s feelings of abandonment from her partner on the outside. With explosive spoken word poetry and sensual moments of magical realism, her story intertwines with a collection of original songs and fierce, live electronic music. Tickets here. They say a problem shared is a problem halved, and our group leaders are here to help. From sexuality to sex, bestiality to breaking up, everything is welcome. Mixing theatre, movement and improvisation, ‘Lovers Anonymous’ asks what it is to be in (and out of) love in 2018. Join the circle, listen to our stories, and even share your own in this unique immersive experience. Are you #readyforlove? Tickets here. 4. Mood Kill at The Lion and Unicorn At a time when public debate surrounding male mental health has never been stronger, Mood Kill asks What next? After the debate has been had, what is life like for those living with this on a daily basis. In their latest verbatim play, real stories from across Britain are given the stage. Through intimate and personal accounts, Mood Kill questions how fractured and neglected mental health is in modern British society. This emotionally driven play raises the voices of these men at a time in our social conscience when talking is crucial. Tickets Here Peeking in the Portrait is inspired by the life and works of Lady Clementina Hawarden, one of Britain’s first female photographers. By fusing live photography with dynamic physical theatre, GOLKK discover that the camera is never simply an object but a playful and present character in our daily lives. With playful and subtle ensemble encounters, GOLKK will draw you into the present, offering you an experience which is not only live, but ALIVE. Tickets here. 6. Breathe at the Tristan Bates Theatre Breathe pans across the struggles of four housemates living in London trying to successfully accomplish their dreams. Personal secrets and fears emerge as their lives intertwine, revealing the importance of friendship in the face of anxiety and depression. Will they choose security or transform their fears into fuel to conquer their dreams? Tickets here. Expect a lot of laughs from this improvised Shakespeare show! Using his language, your audience suggestions and our overactive imaginations, they create a brand new Shakespeare play live on stage! Join ShakeItUp Theatre for an evening of improvised Bard-based Bedlam. Every show is a classic Shakespeare would have been proud to write…. (probably). Tickets here. A special mention for our Camden Close Ups: Matt Green - Punch Up at Camden Comedy Club Matt Green is performing at 'Punch Up' in this year's Camden Fringe Festival from 7-11 Aug 8-9pm at Camden Comedy Club. Matt’s been doing stand up for 15 years and he’s got pretty good at it, delighting audiences at clubs and festivals across the world. Come and hear his latest thoughts about the state of things. Spoiler alert: he’s not keen. Featuring stories about FitBits, tennis elbow, going viral with JK Rowling and being punched in the face. Check out our Close - Up with him here! Miranda Porter - S/he/it Happens Miranda Porter recently finished their run at Ecterera Theatre of S/he/it happens. The piece is a physical comedy exploring transgender dysphoria of the chest and non-binary gender identity. It has been performed across the UK and in Finland and Spain, with a recent sell-out run at Brighton Fringe. Check out our Camden Close - Up with Miranda! If you would like to list your show on Love Camden, we offer local cultural businesses/artists the option to advertise their programmes that take place within the borough of Camden on Love Camden for free. Email LoveCamden@camden.gov.uk for more information!