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Carolina Infant’s Mistaken Sex Assignment Surgery More Than a Case of Malpractice

Erica K. Landau — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:08:01 +0000

This op-ed originally appeared on the Huffington Post. When the child identified in court papers only as “M.C.” was 16 months old and a ward of the state, doctors and health officials in South Carolina decided that he would become a girl. Born intersex (a term that encompasses individuals with some variation of both male [...]

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Social Justice Group Focusing on Women and Trans Issues Brings Political Action to the Everglades; Camp Fundraising Deadline Tuesday

Terra Sullivan — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:50:03 +0000

For most involved in modern social justice movements, it is easy to pinpoint and identify the major, dominant oppressors under a capitalist patriarchal model that work to uphold all that that model stands for while denying relevance to everything that it does not (i.e. nature, women’s bodies, people of color, the trans community). But what’s [...]

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Danation: Repeal the Second Amendment

Dan Sweeney — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:59:25 +0000

This is a weird headline coming from me, I know — long-time readers of my screeds (Hi, Mom!) will know that one major sticking point I have with liberal acquaintances is my defense of the Bill of Rights; the whole thing, not just the ones I like. And above and beyond that, I enjoy shooting [...]

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Donate to Give Miami Day and Help Expose Children to More Books

Shannon Sharpe — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:19:28 +0000

As Mortimer J. Adler wrote in the preface of the 1972 version of his classic How to Read a Book, “the educators of the country have acknowledged that teaching the young to read, in the most elementary sense of that word, is our paramount educational problem.” It’s been 40 years since that revised guide was published, [...]

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Authors Like Maurice Sendak Important for Instilling Early Love of Books

Shannon Sharpe — Fri, 11 May 2012 15:55:10 +0000

The world is currently mourning the death of Maurice Sendak, the award-winning author and illustrator of the children’s classic Where the Wild Things Are, and a host of other books that have populated many a child’s bedroom for decades. With Sendak’s death has come a reflection about what it was that attracted children to his [...]

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