Review: Almost Instinct Almost True, Old Red Lion Theatre - Everything Theatre A touching and thought-provoking exploration of the relationship of Monica Jones and Philip Larkin via a fictitious student of Monica’s. The excellent acting and script leaves the audience with much…

#Review: Almost Instinct Almost True, Old Red Lion Theatre ★★★★

"Even if you know nothing about Philip Larkin and his romantic relationships, the visceral reaction he created in the women he apparently loved is palpable in this play."

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"I believe I was profiled as a sex worker because I am a transgender woman of color, and an activist." - #MonicaJones #trans #transpoc

Arrested for Walking While Trans: An Interview with Monica Jones | ACLU In Phoenix, Arizona, you can be arrested for repeatedly stopping and engaging a passerby in conversation. This may, under Phoenix law, be evidence that you are "manifesting" an intent to engage in prostitution. Of course, this could also be evidence that you are lost or canvassing for a political group or simply talking about the weather. The difference between "innocent" and "criminal" behavior often comes down to how a person looks. Transgender women of color are often profiled by police as engaging in sex work for simply being outside and going about their daily routines. Amnesty International documented this disproportionate targeting by police of transgender women as sex workers in a 2005 report. "[S]ubjective and prejudiced perceptions of transgender women as sex workers often play a significant role in officers' decisions to stop and arrest transgender women," the report concluded. One woman told Amnesty, "'No tenemos el derecho a vivir.' (We don't have the right to live.)."

This is absolutely insane...

Arrested for #WalkingWhileTrans: An Interview with #MonicaJones -#transwoc

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Monica Jones and the Fight Against Racial and Gender Police Profiling in the U.S. The rights violations that police commit in the course of enforcing anti-prostitution and other "quality of life" laws are so pervasive and those targeted so stigmatized that the system is rarely challenged. Which is why Monica's stance is so important.

#MonicaJones and the Fight Against Racial and Gender Police Profiling in the U.S.:#WalkingWhileTrans #transwoc

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