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14 Weird Questions With Louise Weard, Part 6 of 7
Interview   -   Oct 29, 2025 14 Weird Questions With Louise Weard, Part 6 of 7

The filmmaker speaks to The Needle about trans culture and trans cinema in a long-form interview. This is The Needle's latest culture coverage.

by Jane Migliara Brigham
News   -   Oct 28, 2025 Fact Check: No, The Netherlands Did Not Remove its Safe Country of Origin List
Fact Check: No, The Netherlands Did Not Remove its Safe Country of Origin List

Asylum seeking is set up to function as the most invasive and dehumanizing type of immigration - If you have a US passport your only option is to immigrate legally.

by Artemis T. Douglas & Jane Migliara Brigham
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Interview   -   Oct 29, 2025 14 Weird Questions With Louise Weard, Part 6 of 7
14 Weird Questions With Louise Weard, Part 6 of 7

The filmmaker speaks to The Needle about trans culture and trans cinema in a long-form interview. This is The Needle's latest culture coverage.

by Jane Migliara Brigham
News   -   Oct 28, 2025 Fact Check: No, The Netherlands Did Not Remove its Safe Country of Origin List
Fact Check: No, The Netherlands Did Not Remove its Safe Country of Origin List

Asylum seeking is set up to function as the most invasive and dehumanizing type of immigration - If you have a US passport your only option is to immigrate legally.

by Artemis T. Douglas & Jane Migliara Brigham
News   -   Oct 27, 2025 UK government Further Erases Women in its New Menopause Overhaul
UK government Further Erases Women in its New Menopause Overhaul

Even when the UK government is dealing with (cis) women’s health, it can’t seem to help itself from erasing entire swaths of women.

by Artemis T. Douglas
Interview   -   Oct 27, 2025 14 Weird Questions With Louise Weard, Part 5 of 7
Louise Weard in character, captioned with "part 5 of 7"

The filmmaker speaks to The Needle about trans culture and trans cinema in a long-form interview. This is The Needle's latest culture coverage.

by Jane Migliara Brigham
Opinion   -   Oct 26, 2025 The Trans Woman as Grotesque in Transgender Art
The Trans Woman as Grotesque in Transgender Art

Validity is a plague, visibility is a threat, and “woke” caricatures won’t lead to liberation. If you want to fight for the dignity of trans women, you have to actually portray us as women.

by Artemis T. Douglas
Opinion   -   Oct 26, 2025 Why Some Trans People are Reclaiming the Term 'Transsexual', and Why I Am One of Them
A photographic rendering of an estradiol pill.

There is a distinction in needs and experiences for those of us who do take steps to materially change our sex compared to those of us who do not. This distinction should be recognized rather than erased.

by Jane Migliara Brigham
Academia Slaying   -   Oct 26, 2025 Academia Slaying: Trans Youth Given HRT Will Almost Always Stay on HRT
a black t-shirt that reads protect trans kids. the lettering is in the colors of the trans flag- white, pink, blue

The study brief, published Oct. 7, has powerful data but unfortunately the way it is written aligns with gender conservative animus.

by Artemis T. Douglas
Interview   -   Oct 25, 2025 Indiana- Interview: Lilliana Talks Running for Office in Deep-Red Indiana
a group of protestors holding signs about love, U.S. ICE agents being like SS nazis, and anti-fascism

We talk about trans solidarity in hard times. This is The Needle's latest culture and politics coverage.

by Jane Migliara Brigham
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