Meredith Talusan
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Announcing the 2019 Lambda Literary Awards Nominations
Today's list is full of prestigious, envelope-pushing titles, and is especially notable for the weight of its transgender fiction category. → Read More
Mic | Meredith Talusan
Mic covers news, opinion, reviews and analysis around arts, entertainment, celebrity, LGBTQ, social justice, police brutality, dating, sex, feminism, body positivity, space, innovation, climate change. → Read More
I Don't Miss Being a Gay Man, but I Miss Having Sex Like One
Why can't sex as a woman be as effortless as it was before I transitioned? → Read More
Why Can't My Famous Gender Nonconforming Friends Get Laid?
Jacob Tobia and Alok Vaid-Menon are femme nonbinary icons. But that won't get them dates, and the reasons why speak volumes about our discomfort with those who exist between genders. → Read More
Why Can't My Famous Gender Nonconforming Friends Get Laid?
Jacob Tobia and Alok Vaid-Menon are femme nonbinary icons. But that won't get them dates, and the reasons why speak volumes about our discomfort with those who exist between genders. → Read More
Jennifer Boylan Wants Less Gender Theory, More Justice
After a trio of memoirs and appearing on Caitlyn Jenner's reality show, Boylan's return to fiction brings her career full circle. → Read More
Meredith Ramirez Talusan
Meredith Talusan is a transgender writer, artist, and advocate whose writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Nation, The American Prospect, VICE Magazine, and Matter among other publications. She can be found on Twitter @1demerith and at aselfmadewoman.com. → Read More
Queer Culture in the Age of Transgender Disruption
How the transgender community maintains the radical potential of queerness in an age of assimilation. → Read More
On Trans Day of Remembrance, we must do much more than remember
With the trans community finding its voice, the movement must prevent violence rather than simply memorialize victims. → Read More
You Need These Fabulous Glitter Chocolate Chip Cookies In Your Life
Lots of butter, lots of glitter. → Read More
Why Call Centers Might Be The Most Radical Workplaces In The Philippines
You may not realize it, but the person on the other side of your customer service phone call might be transgender. On calls, Filipino workers can safely adopt women's voices, names, and clothing, a... → Read More
What People Say To Gender Nonbinary People Vs. The Subtext We Often Hear
Meredith Talusan is an LGBT Staff Writer for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York. Contact Meredith Talusan at meredith.talusan@buzzfeed.com. → Read More
When Home Is Between Different Countries And Genders
The cherished aspects of my former country and gender continue to be part of my life. I live in the space of possibility between homes. → Read More
This Trans Singer Doesn't Take Hormones –– But He's Not Any Less Of A Man
"I know who I am, and I don't need other people to know who I am to feel valid." With a new album and a new perspective, Ryan Cassata — who came out as trans at 15 on live television — ha... → Read More
The Trans Woman Who Heckled President Obama Last Summer Refuses To Be Interrupted
How an undocumented transgender Latina woman named Jennicet Gutiérrez cut off the most powerful man in the world at a 2015 White House celebration of LGBT victories — and why, in 2016, she has no p... → Read More
What Cis People Say To Trans People Vs. What We Hear
"Oh, you're trans? But you look so good!".. → Read More
26 Times Trans People Ruled In 2015
Meredith Talusan is an LGBT Staff Writer for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York. Contact Meredith Talusan at meredith.talusan@buzzfeed.com. → Read More
Trans Artists Made These Stunning Posters For Trans Day Of Remembrance
Eight trans and gender-nonconforming artists partnered with trans advocacy organizations to create breathtaking posters that memorialize victims of anti-trans violence. → Read More
When a Father’s Son Becomes His Daughter –
My domineering dad stood by me during my gender transition, but I didn’t truly become a woman until I finally stood up to him. → Read More
A Woman on Death Row and the Neighbor Who Put Her There
Mary Jane Veloso lives about 300 feet away from Maria Cristina Sergio in the Philippines. Veloso is on death row for allegedly smuggling heroin into the country. Sergio is in jail and awaiting trial after being accused of trafficking her neighbor. → Read More