Twenty years ago today, Madonna’s seventh studio album, Ray of Light, debuted and was instantly praised as her best work to date. Spiritual, reflective, and nurturing, three words the world had never really associated with the Queen of Pop prior to the album, were the most common points made by media critics and fans alike. It […]
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To Our Beloved Community: For those who have yet to hear the news: on February 5th, the Fresno Police Department announced that they had a suspect in custody for the murder of Casey Haggard. She was a newly out and becoming a part of the community,slowly beginning to open up. She had waited all her life
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Trans-E-Motion supports the national Women’s March, which encourages uplifting and supporting all feminine people’s and the family and friends that love them. Unfortunately, the Fresno Women’s March falls short of that ideal. We encourage those who participate in today’s event to be safe and enjoy themselves, but consider who is not there. Consider that no
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Did we really just come through a whole year? Is it really time to shout from the rooftops, Happy New Year? If your 2017 was anything like mine, you’re shouting louder than an Unbalanced Religious Freak on a street corner! This past year we’ve seen it all, at least I hope so. We have experienced
The public reaction to allegations against Harvey Weinstein, Louis C.K. and so many others is welcome and long overdue. The public revulsion to the disclosures, the almost daily revelations about other prominent figures, and especially the #metoo movement that encouraged women to add their own experiences of harassment to the public discourse have caused a
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Behold! Congratulations to all of you that not only survived Thanksgiving, but also the legendary Black Friday! Here, at home, Lil B (my husband) and I spent it with my sister and her family. Mom was here as well, but reeling from a cold, so she was a little quiet. Never the less, the house
One of the things that keeps me sane during the Trump Regime is imagining America’s political landscape in the 2020s. Think about it. Millennials, defined by most demographers as those born between the early 1980s and the mid to late-’90s, are now the single-largest generation in the United States, a generation whose influence is overshadowing
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The revelations about Harvey Weinstein-not to mention Bill Cosby, Donald Trump and a growing cast of other characters-have seemingly opened floodgates of pent-up female anger. The #metoo hashtag on social media, and the daily reports of confessions and accusations have been accompanied by a veritable tsunami of rage and recrimination.The revelations about Harvey Weinstein-not to
Women usually clean up the big messes Read More »
Superintendent Bob Nelson has failed to add our community’s agenda item, again. We’re asking that all who see the discrimination by the current school board president, the lack of progress on LGBT protections for our students and the silence by the board president and district to the attack suffered by an LGBT student just days
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As the Supreme Court prepares to take up one of the persistent “I won’t bake a cake for ‘those people’” cases, a friend asked me to explain the difference between a merchant who refused to do business with a Neo-Nazi group and one who refused to serve gays or Jews. It’s an important distinction, but
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