{"id":584,"date":"2014-02-11T15:59:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T21:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=584"},"modified":"2014-02-11T16:14:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T22:14:27","slug":"media-of-note-february-11-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/584","title":{"rendered":"Media of Note: February 11, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/politics\/transgender\/2014\/02\/07\/trans-woman-releases-bathroom-finder-app-refuge-restrooms\">Trans Woman Releases Bathroom Finder App<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Via\u00a0<em>Advocate.com:\u00a0<\/em>&#8220;One woman has taken matters into her own hands, developing an app designed to help trans individuals locate restrooms where they are least likely to experience harassment or physical assault. Using the database of now-defunct website Safe2Pee, San Francisco-area coder\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tkwidmer.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\">Teagan Widmer<\/a>\u00a0launched\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/refugerestrooms.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Refuge Restrooms<\/a>, an open-source collection of trans-safe restrooms.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/magpielibrarian.wordpress.com\/2014\/01\/28\/rainbow-list-ing-and-it-feels-so-good-my-first-go-round-on-an-ala-book-committee\/\"><strong>Rainbow List-ing and it Feels so Good: My first go-round on an ALA book committee<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ingrid from\u00a0<em>The Magpie Librarian\u00a0<\/em>talks about her experience this \u00a0year with the GLBTRT and the Rainbow List.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yalsa.ala.org\/thehub\/2014\/01\/31\/lgbtq-parents-in-ya-novels\/\"><strong>LGBTQ Parents in YA Literature<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Via <i>The Hub (YALSA):\u00a0<\/i>&#8220;A much-needed discussion about the representation of the LGBTQ community is growing in the YA world. Author Malindo Lo does an amazing job of putting a spotlight on the issue by creating a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.malindalo.com\/2013\/10\/2013-lgbt-ya-by-the-numbers\/\">yearly list\u00a0<\/a>of published LGBT YA titles and The Hub\u2019s own Molly Wetta put together an impressive\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yalsa.ala.org\/thehub\/2013\/08\/06\/a-guide-to-ya-novels-with-lgbtq-characters\/\">guide<\/a>\u00a0last year of YA novels with LGBTQ characters.\u00a0This building conversation and one Stephanie Perkins book later left me wondering where the LGBTQ parents were hiding in the YA world.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Image of the week:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/david.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-586\" alt=\"david\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/david-168x300.jpg\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/david-168x300.jpg 168w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/david-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/david-665x1182.jpg 665w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/david-315x560.jpg 315w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/david-900x1600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/david.jpg 1836w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Videos of the week:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Le Zbor, the first lesbian and feminist choir in southeastern Europe, releases chorale video in support of LGBT Russians:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Le Zbor - To Russia with love\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kkca0K6Zxrc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This speech by Irish drag queen Panti Bliss has been blowing up social media as Panti talks about her experience with homophobia and her own take on oppression (a must watch).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Panti&#039;s Noble Call at the Abbey Theatre - WITH SUBTITLES\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WXayhUzWnl0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trans Woman Releases Bathroom Finder App Via\u00a0Advocate.com:\u00a0&#8220;One woman has taken matters into her own hands, developing an app designed to help trans individuals locate restrooms where they are least likely to experience harassment or physical assault. Using the database of now-defunct website Safe2Pee, San Francisco-area coder\u00a0Teagan Widmer\u00a0launched\u00a0Refuge Restrooms, an open-source collection of trans-safe restrooms.&#8221; Rainbow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-media-of-note"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}