DJ and producer Ariel Zetina has become a major player in Chicago nightlife in no small part because she works in more than one medium. Zetina moved to Illinois in 2008 to study theater and creative writing at Northwestern University, and she’s flourished as a playwright. Her reimagining of the tragic life of computer scientist […]
Tag: transphobia
Posted inNews & Politics
Paul Vallas rubs shoulders with the far right
The mayoral candidate spoke at a fundraiser for a group that has promoted transphobic rhetoric.
Posted inNews & Politics
Let them play
A bill to prevent trans children from sports teams that align with their gender identities stalled in the state assembly last year, but advocates warn the threat still looms large.
Posted inBlogs
The Chilean drama A Fantastic Woman is a person-first success
The latest feature by Sebastián Lelio shows a character battling transphobic prejudice.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
When the nice lady has a penis . . .
Dan Savage advises a straight guy encountering a “mental block” after learning the woman he’s been seeing is transgender, and more.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Don’t blame ‘identity politics’ for what went wrong in 2016
We marginalized folks didn’t start this garbage fire.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Activists won’t let Chicago forget that black trans lives matter
A community in pain rallies for TT Saffore, a black trans woman killed in Chicago last month.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Performance artist to Chicago: Get off our areolas
Bea Cordelia thinks the city’s liquor-license law has a gender-bias problem.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Disclosing trans status
Dan on handling the discovery that your boyfriend is a trans man, and avoiding awkwardness in a threesome with a couple.
Posted inArts & Culture
Queer art now, for better and worse
“Strange Bedfellows,” a traveling collection of collaborative work, surveys a subversive genre: queer art.