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Author Archives: Mercedes Allen

Mercedes Allen is a graphic designer and advocate for transsexual and transgender communities in Alberta. She writes on equality, human rights, LGBT and sexual minority issues in Canada, and the cross-border pollination of far-right spin. She blogs at Dented Blue Mercedes and operates a trans information website at http://www.albertatrans.org/

trans rights
Posted inCanadian PoliticsFeminismLGBTIQ

The bad faith ‘debate’ about trans human rights

Mercedes Allen by Mercedes Allen December 19, 2019October 5, 2021
Image: Adobe Stock
Posted inCanadian PoliticsFeminismLGBTIQ

Alberta’s conscience chronicles

Mercedes Allen by Mercedes Allen November 22, 2019October 5, 2021
Image: Screenshots/Mercedes Allen, waxing tools/Adobe Stock, with composition by Mercedes Allen
Posted inCanadian PoliticsHuman RightsLGBTIQ
BC

Human rights sky not falling in B.C. genital waxing case

Mercedes Allen by Mercedes Allen July 31, 2019October 5, 2021
Screen capture, launch of the Commission on Unalienable Rights
Posted inFeminismLGBTIQUS Politics

On ‘unalienable’ human rights

Mercedes Allen by Mercedes Allen July 15, 2019October 5, 2021
Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Posted inFeminismUS Politics

U.S. religious conservatives want to make abortion ‘unthinkable.’ What do they mean?

Mercedes Allen by Mercedes Allen May 10, 2019October 5, 2021
Premier Rachel Notley announces a Made-in-Alberta energy strategy in February 2019. Photo: Chris Schwarz/Government of Alberta/Flickr
Posted inCanadian PoliticsEconomy
AB

The ‘Alberta Advantage’ was dependence

Mercedes Allen by Mercedes Allen March 24, 2019October 5, 2021
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Posted inLGBTIQ

Support trans youth, say pediatricians

Mercedes Allen by Mercedes Allen September 18, 2018October 5, 2021
Photo: wiredforlego​/Flickr
Posted inCanadian PoliticsHuman RightsLGBTIQ
CA

Free speech is not a neutral proposition with equal enfranchisement

Mercedes Allen by Mercedes Allen December 5, 2017October 5, 2021
Photo: Adobe Stock, with modification by author
Posted inCanadian PoliticsHuman RightsLGBTIQ
CA

Navigating free speech when the ‘debate’ is you, and you’re not invited

Mercedes Allen by Mercedes Allen December 4, 2017October 5, 2021
transemergence
Posted inLGBTIQ

What the ‘Walk on the Wild Side’ controversy says about trans* awareness and a changing social movement

Mercedes Allen by Mercedes Allen May 29, 2017October 5, 2021
Flickr/Patrick Stahl
Posted inHuman RightsLGBTIQ
CA

Free speech and the cruel shackles of empathy and mutual respect

Mercedes Allen by Mercedes Allen October 23, 2016October 5, 2021
mercedes
Posted inHuman RightsLGBTIQPolitical Action
CA

A trans woman’s perspective on the disconnect between law enforcement and marginalized communities

Mercedes Allen by Mercedes Allen July 15, 2016October 5, 2021

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