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Article: Dan Irving poses four crucial questions to three of Canada's most politically engaged trans activists: Jamie Lee Hamilton, Rupert Raj, and Trish Salah.(TRAnSGRESSInG TRAnS)(Interview)
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- Canadian Dimension
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
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Jamie Lee Hamilton is a Male-To-Female transsexual, sex worker, and sex work and community activist located within Vancouver's East Side where she had been fighting for justice since the 1970s. Rupert Raj is a female-to-male transsexual activist, university instructor and published researcher working on trans politics since the 1970s. Trish Salah is a male-to-female transsexual poet, writer, academic, union, feminist, and social justice activist.
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Dan Irving: How do you understand the relationship between your trans identity and your political work?
Jamie Lee Hamilton: My activism revolves around fairness, equality, and ...