Greetings, Avocadoans! Welcome to the weekly discussion of LGBTQQIA+ issues!

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Today’s person of the day is Anita Sarkeesian (she/her)

In the news:

Netflix Fired Employee for Organizing Trans Walkout — But Allowed Anti-LGBTQ+ Exec to Stay

Nonbinary Actor Files Discrimination Complaint Against Hamilton

Texas Is Extremely Close to Banning Trans Kids From Sports

The project of the day is Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon, a horror novel about a young pregnant girl who escapes a religious cult and the years following as she is hunted and her body changes.