This guide is for LGBTQ American Muslims moving toward living fully in their sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and in the traditions of their faith. These pages offer general, overarching insights and suggestions and draw on a wide…
Nicholas Ghosh is a transman of Canadian of East Indian descent. He inspired Lou Sullivan to create and publish FTMI Newsletter. Sullivan admired Ghosh's model. Ghosh used the pen name of Rupert Raj.
Discusses the implementation and effect of the Dawes Act, which introduced compulsory individuation and a whitening of the Indians through mandatory boarding school. https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/dawes-act
Discusses how cultural borrowing can result in harming the lending culture whose members often do not consent to their spiritual practices being used out of…
"Written and edited by a group of transgender Buddhists from across the United States and a few of our committed allies, the guide offers a vision for sangha spaces that are fully welcoming to transgender practitioners. By breaking down common…
Eleven-year-old Ho'onani dreams of leading the hula troupe at her inner-city Honolulu school. The only trouble is this -- the group is just for boys. Nevertheless, she's mahu and fortunate that her teacher understands first-hand what it's like to be…
The short film to Michael Jackson’s “Earth Song,” his best-selling single in the United Kingdom, earned Michael the Doris Day Music Award from the Humane Society’s Genesis Awards. The urgent need to address the issues facing the planet and all that…
Francisco Pelsaert, during his visit to the Mughal court as a Dutch merchant in the seventeenth century, took notes on the prestige and power enjoyed by the third gender, or eunuchs, in the imperial household. “They can get whatever they desire- fine…