Mercedes Allen
At a Glance:
Mercedes Allen has been a Project Contributor since January 2008, has written 139 entries and currently lives in Southern Alberta, Canada.
Bio
Mercedes Allen is a professional graphic designer, writer and bisexual transsexual in a lesbian relationship. She has done advocacy related to Trans, LGB, Aboriginal issues, HIV, BDSM and sex work. Located in Southern Alberta, Canada, she started AlbertaTrans.org as a network to help foster and support trans communities within Alberta, as well as to provide information and training where requested. She is also a founding member of the Trans Equality Society of Alberta and blogs at http://dentedbluemercedes.wordpress.com/
Mercedes Allen: Recently Filed
Canada's Trans* Rights Bill Now Endorses Bathroom Bans
Filed by Mercedes Allen | February 27, 2015 | 12:00 PM |A bill in Canada's parliament that is supposed to protect trans* people from discrimination was amended this week... in order to allow anti-trans discrimination in bathrooms and other gendered public spaces.Read More
Free Speech for Me; 'Shut-Up-and-Take-It' for You
Filed by Mercedes Allen | February 22, 2015 | 12:00 PM |Trans people and sex workers are often the stuff of lurid sensationalism, cheap stand-up comedy, and demonization. Defending it all by crying 'freedom of speech' abdicates any responsibility to be conscientious about the harm one does to entire minorities.Read More
Sodom: Review of a Russian Anti-Gay Documentary
Filed by Mercedes Allen | October 31, 2014 | 10:00 AM |"Sodom" presents itself as a sensational expose* of the sinister gay rights plot to forcibly transform society into one that accepts any and all evil, while eradicating truth, freedom, religion, and decency.Read More
'Tranny,' Paths of Pain, and the Ownership of Language
Filed by Mercedes Allen | June 23, 2014 | 4:00 PM |I am no longer interested in this argument about language. While I recognize that there is genuinely a path of pain that some people have regarding the word "tranny," sometimes it's really about disdain.Read More
Could Canada's Anti-Sex Work Bill Stifle LGBT Speech?
Filed by Mercedes Allen | June 16, 2014 | 11:30 AM |A proposed bill in Canada that targets sex workers also contains a poison pill that could be used to stifle LGBT and sex-positive speech.Read More
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