The HuffPo Gay Voices page posted a May 16 article about the upcoming TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, a groundbreaking interdisciplinary academic journal which will debut in 2014.It will be co-authored by Dr. Susan Stryker (University of Arizona) and Dr. Paisley Currah (CUNY-Brooklyn) and will be published through a collaboration with Duke University Press.
The article briefly touched on the Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for the TSQ project which is more than halfway to achieving its fundraising goal.of $20,000 by June 13.
But all that positive news in the article was ruined by the bathroom sign picture that was used to illustrate it.
Seriously? All the directions that you could have gone to illustrate this post up to and including adding photos of Dr Stryker and Dr. Currah or the Transgender Studies Quarterly logo as I have done here, and you inject the bathroom meme? We're working hard in the trans community to permanently destroy the bathroom meme, not perpetuate it.
We expect and get this kind of shady crap from misguided people in the mainstream media, but as fellow travelers in the TBLG rights movement and the rainbow community media you should know better.
Granted, this may have been an oversight in terms of you not realizing the unintended message you sent by using that picture with this article, but this is still unacceptable.
What next HuffPo Gay Voices? Are you going to use a picture of a plate of fried chicken to illustrate a story about a Black transperson?
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