... legal and health rights, the revision of the trans health care model, and the claim of an acknowledgment of gender/body diversity. An example of an activist initiative focused on trans depathologization is STP, International Campaign Stop Trans Pathologization: an international platform...

... movements, explicitly framing trans politics as the struggle against heteropatriarchy. What became Stop Trans Pathologization (STP) in 2012 originated in 2008 as the informal Network for Trans Depathologization. The network undertook limited efforts regarding depathologization and depsychiatrization...

... to be defended from various racialized as well as sexualized others. Intersectionality is this . It is about ups and downs, stopping and starting; how we pass through at one moment while being stopped at another, depending on who is receiving us, depending on what is being received through us. An affinity...

... picking out the plazas where they'll still kill you for a Sodom and Gomorrah kiss) kissing each other in front of the photo of the boy I've also been (and feeling myself wink at myself: keep going, don't stop, don't let it end, because that boy likes that kiss . . .) kissing each other knowing that our...

.... It is borrowing your brother's clothes. Transition is a misnomer because you were here, like this, all along. Transition is calling 911 before you cut off your dick so they can get you to the hospital before you bleed out. It is never having to reassure an embarrassed checkout clerk again. It is when you stop...

... they can, and keeping the myth meaningful as motivation and reward in their own difficult lives. One T-girl trucker, “Leslie,” used to make her sexual contacts online and then meet them when she was out driving. She put a stop to this practice when “my girlfriend got access to my messages. She is my one...

... without a clear beginning or an end point. Most of the characters in the series do not describe a bodily transformation from one form into another or a progression toward a particular goal; instead, they describe a continuous movement in different directions stopping at a certain point, then shifting...

... have been affected, who have been harmed . . . it has to be such a large number of people to physically demand that it stops because it won't happen before then. Pediatric urologists have literally gone on record saying that they won't stop performing surgeries on intersex children unless...

... Platformu 2013 ). 2. In 2010, independent and organized feminists in Istanbul founded a platform, “We Will Stop Women's Killings,” to politicize and struggle against the killings. Their records demonstrate that men killed 210 women in 2012, 237 in 2013, and 294 in 2014. For further information see...

... or the ongoing work to stop because of the presence of this one person. I don't want to give them so much power at the same time as well. Jo : Imagine making mistakes and leaving a place, backing off because you made a mistake. In this way, people will keep leaving but not do any work beyond removing...

... some time, they suddenly stop and listen to the void. You're somewhere around here, aren't you? Well . . . I don't know. It's always hard to tell of course if a trickster is present. You're always hard to spot and harder to catch. A movement in the corner of the eye. A noise in the background...

... the medical and psychiatric control of trans lives, and resistance to the totalizing and compulsory system of two exclusive binary genders. Regarding the first struggle, against transpathologization, Outrans aligns itself with Stop Trans Pathologization (STP), an emancipationist group that seeks to abolish...

... and that it was Xenia Grigoryevna who had ceased to exist—that she had died. And so, she stopped responding to her previous name and would even become angry when called Xenia. She would say “Leave the deceased in peace! What did she ever do to you? God forgive you.” But whenever addressed as Andrey Fyodorovich, she...

... in. SJC : Your other piece , Bedikah Quilt Topper ( fig. 2 ), appropriates a ritual object more commonly used by traditionally observant Jews to check if a person who is menstruating has stopped. The cloth can be inserted into the vagina to check for remnants of bleeding. Traditionally, (straight...

... not be pathologized ( GATE 2012a ; Winters 2008 , 2012a , 2012b ; STP, International Campaign Stop Trans Pathologization 2012 ). At the same time, some trans* people want and need access to trans*-specific healthcare. This is one issue that comes up again and again in research on problems faced by trans* people...

... not expect, she instead anticipates hostility, and emphasizes the limitations others' words have put on her own claim to life:                                      The time has come for me to be alive and for you to stop speaking. Please stop speaking. Please, oh please stop speaking. (Espinoza 2016...

... and others.      My fingers inch lower, zoom in.      Slower. Let them wait. Make them want it.      Make them yours. Stop.      Breathe.      Tell them where to go.      Look at that camera and sell it.      They don't care what you do, they just want to watch.      They just want you...

.... Turning off the one-way street of intolerance onto the bustling, bursting highway of love helps to develop the emotional and intellectual motility needed to resist systems of oppression, McDonald believes. “Those who oppose us couldn't stop the love which has, and was defined, to bring us all together...

... itself and the sheer joy of discovery. But that implies an entire world that doesn't really exist in the United States. Nevertheless, I think it is the most natural state for humans. If learning were in fact treated as play, as joy, we wouldn't rank people. If we stopped ranking people, how do we know...

... Female Mimics and Female Impersonator, over the blank pages. She scrapbooked about fifty pages this way, then she stopped using the blank sheets and started pasting the clippings directly over the book's text, so fragments of the original book are visible between Denise's clippings, like a palimpsest...