Transgender woman arrested for wearing sheer top, jailed with men.
advocate.comAshley Del Valle is a transgender woman from New York who was arrested in Georgia for indecent exposure after she allegedly showed her breasts, but then was housed in an all-male jail.
I just.
You arrest her because her top is too sheer and shows her nipples, something that is only a crime for women.
And then you jail her as a man.
Fucking fuck.
REPEAT AFTER ME
TRANSPHOBIC PEOPLE DO NOT DESERVE A POSITION OF INFLUENCE OR POWER IN THE LGBT COMMUNITY OR LGBT MEDIA
TRANSPHOBIC PEOPLE DO NOT DESERVE A POSITION OF INFLUENCE OR POWER IN THE LGBT COMMUNITY OR LGBT MEDIA
TRANSPHOBIC PEOPLE DO NOT DESERVE A POSITION OF INFLUENCE OR POWER IN THE LGBT COMMUNITY OR LGBT MEDIA
Trans woman stabbed, dumped in pond tied to concrete in Ohio
gaystarnews.comA transgender woman was stabbed repeatedly and dumped into a pond tied to a block of concrete in Cleveland, Ohio.
Only known by her birth given name, Carl Acoff, police announced yesterday they had identified her body after she went missing a month earlier on 27 March.
The 20-year-old was found three weeks later naked from the waist down with multiple wounds.
The man who found her initially believed the body was a mannequin, and contacted police who checked their missing persons list.
In the past, Acoff had clashed with police and the courts over her wish to be treated as a woman.
In January 2012, a judge found her guilty of possessing dangerous drugs after Acoff pleaded no contest.
These drugs included hormones used to boost estrogen in women. She was fined $1000 and sentenced to 100 days in jail.
My (Hopefully Final) Words on Azealia
Azealia Banks hit the scene fucking HARD. Toting around these labyrinthine lyrics, harsh harlem accents, and slut witch fashions. Technically, her first album hasn’t even dropped yet and she’s got Alexander Wang taking her to events and using her to promote his clothes, Karle Lagerfeld asking her to perform for private shows and giving her gift iPads and sweaters and shit, and what seems to be the whole of Tumblr up in arms on either side of the fence. She’s called people like Iggy Azalea out on racist ass lyrics like “I’m a runaway slave master” and Kreayshawn for acting like she knows anything about being hood. And then she’s got songs that do all my favorite fucking things—being blatantly fucking forward and nasty (asserting her sexual autonomy as a black womyn is Amerikkka), even making songs about being a darker skinned girl in this environment (see: Liquorice.) For me, what’s not to love?
Of course, bitch aint perfect. Like all the fucking things I decide to like in this world, there’s something problematic to come along with it. This I realized by the time I downloaded her whole Fantasea mixtape, to much confusion on my part.
Azealia originally seems too good to be true. Here we have a weird black girl with her off the wall producers, who is openly bisexual (and not for publicity), who is into queer life enough to have seen Paris is Burning and quote it frequently. Who makes songs like Fierce, which will barely make sense to you if you’re not into black gay male/Ball Scene culture, thus excluding straight/white/cis crowds without remorse. She seems like a beacon of hope sent from the QPoC gods in the heavens.
But AB is more half-baked in the queer department than she originally appears. I mean she really obviously doesn’t identify as bisexual for publicity (having alluded to other people pissing her off by doing just that, and being quite verbally expressive in interviews about hating the “do you like girls?” question,) but somehow on the same mixtape Fierce appears on, Azealia says some shit that made me double-take.
Like in “Runnin’” she says: “bitch you better fuck you a white dude/if not, then bitch he better come with the right dick/if not, then bitch you prob’ly know that he like dick.” Which I guess doesn’t read as harshly as it comes across over a sudden beat drop and tone which reads as though a man who likes dick is weaker or less than. I suppose that’s debate-able, and that’s what I thought after I first heard it, I wrote it off as debate-able.
But then I caught her line in the pounding “Fuck Up the Fun”: “I mean I hate to have to see you with your wig off, bitch/I see you tryna come and tryna get on, bitch/You wanna trip, slip, fall, land and lick on dick/and be the same nigga bout to come and lick on this?/Hold up!” These lyrics really made me pause for a minute, that’s pretty much the moment I realized if I wanted to listen to her shit, I’d have to admit something was really problematic here. Azealia does a loooot of praising when it comes to gay men. Tweets about how they are the reason she’s fabulous, making songs like Fierce, reveling in Paris is Burning. But apparently that’s all they’re good for. Because any man who has ever slept with a man or perhaps identifies as bisexual is automatically beneath her sexually and disgusting, as implied. Not to mention apparently inherently into drag or identifies as trans* as she mentions their “wig” being off and repeatedly using “bitch” to call people womyn as insults. That’s problematic as FUCK.
And then I can’t even listen to “Us” because it opens up ridiculing a girl who “got that Adam’s apple” which basically means “I suspect that you’re not cis and that is laughable to me.”
On top of all of that, AB has said some misogynist things, equating pussy with weak, shit, as much as I liked the Fantasea mixtape it is littered with problems.
So when Banks goes off on people like Angel Haze and Perez Hilton on twitter and says something trans*phobic or use the f-word it doesn’t surprise me at all. Azealia has a lot of problematic and self-contradictory issues that I’ve BEEN wanting her to take care of. As of right now, I still listen to her music because I enjoy the times when she’s just being her little sex-bomb self and not fucking offensive, and when her producers are putting in work. But with her being offensive as fuck and deciding to culturally appropriate things like bindis on the regular, I can’t say I stand behind her as a person or belong to the Kunt Brigade. I’m just not about that life. I’m not making excuses for her.
Baby AB has some damn work to do.
