Bullying Awareness: April 2020
In honor of Day of Silence(April 24th 2020), we’ve dedicated this month’s newsletter to Bullying Awareness. Check out the newsletter to learn more about Day of Silence, bullying, and what we can do about it!
Transgender Day of Visibility is every year on March 31st. This day is to celebrate all the Trans people in our lives and community! March is also Women’s History Month so we will highlight women in our community who have contributed through activism for our Rainbow View. For our trans family members, whether you’re super…
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It’s that time again, for a Queer In Review! We hope that you’ve been able to thrive, flourish, and help make the world a little more gay this 2019.
The range topics that shape our LGBTQ+ community is wide, this month we’ll explore some of them. September was “Sexual Health Month”, we re-examine how to embrace and enjoy our sexuality throughout our lives, along with respecting the sexual rights we all share. We celebrate “Coming Out Day” on October 11th as a reminder that…
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Last year, “pansexual” briefly became the online dictionary Merriam-Webster’s most searched word of the day after the singer Janelle Monáe defined herself as pansexual. Pansexuality as a concept goes back to the time of Dr. Sigmund Freud, but has achieved new currency with celebrities like Monáe. At Stonewall Japan, we continue with our commitment to…
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Nature presents us with sex anatomy spectrums. Breasts, penises, clitorises, scrotums, labia, gonads—all of these vary in size and shape and morphology. Even the so-called “sex chromosomes” vary quite a bit. So, nature doesn’t decide where the category of “male” or “female” ends and where “intersex” begins. In this edition of our monthly newsletter, we…
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It is June! Once again, we celebrate Pride Month to remember the events of June 1969, when the trailblazers of Stonewall Inn, NYC, rioted and turned their identities from shame to pride. In this month, LGBTQ+ folks around the globe come together to celebrate our community – our sacrifices, our differences and our diversity. This…
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Trans Identities is the topic for May’s Newsletter. Inside you’ll find pieces of information pertaining to trans-ness, trans individuals, and trans rights around the world. We also highlight some days of awareness to observe this month. Enjoy !
March is Self-Harm Awareness month. As members of a marginalized communit(y/ies), many of us have experienced trauma and healthy or unhealthy coping behaviors in response to it. Self-harm is one such unhealthy coping behavior
We dedicated this month’s newsletter to kindness. To make 2019 a nicer, kinder and friendlier year for everyone, we thought about what each of us could do.