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Letter About Palin Goes Viral
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:05:00 -0400
This week in Wasilla, Alaska, a woman named Anne Kilkenny sent a letter to some college friends about her former mayor, Sarah Palin. By week's end, the letter was pinging around the country and Kilkenny's phone was ringing off the hook.
Teen Sex, Sex Education And Sarah Palin
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:39:00 -0400
Gov. Sarah Palin has been a strong supporter of programs that advocate abstinence until marriage, and she also opposes explicit sex education. Alaska's law is silent on these issues, however, and it provides no specific funding for sex education in the schools.
Examining Palin's Pentecostal Background
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:14:00 -0400
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has electrified religious conservatives who see her as one of their own. The Republican vice presidential candidate brings evangelical credentials to the ticket and has a Pentecostal background.

The Talk of the Town

Dorothy Wickenden: An old-style, Los Angeles feminist on Obama.
Dorothy Wickenden Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
Rosalind Wyman--seventy-seven years old; doughty feminist; political fund-raiser and philanthropist; hostess to J.F.K., Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton, and Hollywood types too numerous to count; youngest elected member of the Los Angeles City Council (at the age of twenty-two); first woman to run a national political . . .
Lauren Collins: The Brooklyn painter Kehinde Wiley.
Lauren Collins Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
The painter Kehinde Wiley first travelled to Nigeria in 1997. He was trying to find his father, whom he had never met, or, more crucially for a portraitist, seen. (His mother didn’t have any photographs.) After several weeks in Lagos, he found his dad, who welcomed him. But--like any . . .
James Surowiecki: What drives market volatility?
James Surowiecki Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
American investors are frazzled. True, oil prices have fallen from their most vertiginous highs, the dollar is a bit stronger, and the stock market has actually risen over the past month. But none of those things have happened in a smooth and steady fashion. The stock market’s “ascent,” in particular . . .

 

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404 A Many Gendered Thing - Uses a case example of a transgendered couple to help explore the feelings each has and deal with the needs and rights of the partners of these gender-gifted persons.

Christian Significant Others of Crossdressers - A safe haven for the partners of Christian crossdressers to find support and fellowship.
Meta Description: [ A place for Christian partners of crossdressers to support one another ]

Dana Bourne, webDOTgal - Resources for transgendered people and their significant others.
Meta Description: [ This site is very friendly to the wives and SO's of transgendered people. Includes the , The SO Forum: A Site for Transgendered People and Their Wives and Significant Others ]

Even Genetic Girls Get the Blues - Personal essay about one woman's first meeting for significant others of cross-dressers.

If You're Going to Be a Female, Please Don't Be an Airhead - A 39 year old wife with a transgendered husband writes about her frustrations and problems in the relationship.

Minnie Bruce Pratt - A poet-activist with samples of her works, upcoming speaking engagements, biography, and writing projects.

PFT/TGS Online Helpline - Helps answer questions to an appropriate helpline volunteer or serve as an intermediary to the list.

Star's T* SO Support Page - Extensive collection of support links, by leader of an Illinois support group for significant others of crossdressers.

404 The Couples' Network - Advice on transgenderism from one is has navigated through it. With biography, articles and resources that are helpful and encouraging.

Trans Forming Families Book - Excerpts - Little tastes of what's in the whole book, with captions like Tell Grandma I'm a Boy and More Than 'Standing By My Trans'.

Trans-Partners - Partnering issues in the transgendered community.

TransFamily - A support group for transgendered and transsexual people, their parents, partners, children, other family members, friends, and supportive others.
Meta Description: [ TransFamily Cleveland, a support group for transgendered people, their parents, partners, family members, friends, and supportive others providing referrals, literature, and information on transgender issues. ]

TransParent - Sample issue of the newsletter of tgs-PFLAG. Newer editions not available on line.

Transsexualism and Gender Transition FAQ - Information for friends, family, and co-workers of the transgendered person. Question and answer format. Supportive, simple, clear content.
Meta Description: [ Information on transsexualism and gender transition for friends, family, co-workers of the transgendered person. Q & A format. Supportive, simple, clear content. ]

TS and Marriage - Asserts that the transition of a transgendered should not be the reason to dissolve a marriage, and uses his own marriage as an example. Explores discrimination and fear encountered from others and problems in insurance.

404 Vanessa Kaye's Gender-Gifted Pages - A web source for couples in TG relationships.

What If? - Essay by a Quaker P-FLAG member, exploring a plethora of questions asked and a lot of self-doubt involved about helping a transgendered person.