{"id":2472,"date":"2012-07-27T18:58:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T22:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=2472"},"modified":"2015-07-15T11:44:49","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T15:44:49","slug":"update-on-the-nyts-anti-trans-anti-woc-poo-flinging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2012\/07\/27\/update-on-the-nyts-anti-trans-anti-woc-poo-flinging\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on the NYT’s anti-trans, anti-WOC poo-flinging"},"content":{"rendered":"

I couldn't use the NYT's form to send a message directly to the reporter who wrote that horrible article about trans women of color on Christopher Street,<\/a> so I E-mailed the public editor, the executive editor and the president with the following:<\/p>\n

I’m writing to express my disgust with Sarah Nir’s July 24th<\/sup> article about trans women of color on Christopher Street: “For Money or Just to Strut, Living Out Loud on a Transgender Stage.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

This article is just as revolting as the NYT's coverage of Lorena Escalera's death.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Do you seriously think it's acceptable to refer to the trans women of color in the article as "exotic…parakeets?" The term "exotic" is just a racist dogwhistle for "different and, therefore, unacceptable." Meanwhile, comparing women to birds dehumanizes them in a dismissive, sexist way. Thanks a lot for perpetuating the oppression and bigotry aimed at trans people and\/or people of color, especially women!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

I urge you to write about trans women and\/or women of color with respect, treating them as equal human beings. Given the NYT's track record, though, I doubt this will occur.<\/p>\n

EDIT: I just alerted GLAAD's Aaron McQuade, Director of News and Field Media,<\/a> about the NYT's poo-flinging. I did this because he was the one who wrote on GLAAD's site<\/a> about the NYT's poo-flinging at Lorena Escalera. Also going to submit an incident report<\/a> on GLAAD's site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I couldn't use the NYT's form to send a message directly to the reporter who wrote that horrible article about trans women of color on Christopher Street, so I E-mailed the public editor, the executive editor and the president with the following: I’m writing to express my disgust with Sarah Nir’s July 24th article about… Continue reading Update on the NYT’s anti-trans, anti-WOC poo-flinging<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[657,656,677],"class_list":["post-2472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-people-of-color","tag-racism","tag-transmisogyny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5288,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions\/5288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}