Trans*forming Mom did a similar post on her blog, so I asked if I could do a “Five Things” post too and she said “Sure!,” so here I am. Also, trigger warnings for transphobia and transphobic violence. (Karen, you probs…
So, DOMA and Prop 8 happened today. I feel like I won’t be a good little queer if I don’t say something about it. I wasn’t watching; I was sleeping because I’d stayed up half the night liveblogging the Texas…
It’s been a long time since I’ve made a post about, well, me. Sorry, guys, I’ll try not to make it boring. I’m (sort of, unsuccessfully) reading up on stuff for that post about ACT UP that I promised months…
Being trans* in the lesbian community. This is a really, really great article.
Minnesota passed marriage equality yesterday. Technically yesterday, but I haven’t gone to bed yet. That’s all very well and good for Minnesota. Everyone can go off into the rainbow-hued sunset and live happily ever after! Except the ones who can’t,…
Read Erdvig’s original article here. Read my original refutation here. Read Fowler’s critique here. Read Part 1 of this article here. Read Part 2 of this article here. Read Part 3 of this article here. On “Unfortunate Disconnects” Fowler may think that he does…
Read Erdvig’s original article here. Read my original refutation here. Read Fowler’s critique here. Read Part 1 of this article here. Read Part 2 of this article here. On “Bottom-up [sic] Subjectivity” Fowler’s main “argument” against the acceptance of LGBTQ+ people is this:…
So I’ve finally written the rest of this; I’m going to split it up and publish parts 2-4 in relatively rapid succession. I will put parts 3 and 4 in a queue. Read Erdvig’s original article here. Read my original…
Recently, I was searching the “trans*” tag on WordPress. Most of the posts there were positive. One in particular (read it here), by Roger Erdvig, was not. Entitled “Boys will be boys…or will they?”, this post was blatantly transphobic, ageist,…
Sometimes I feel like I have all the right reasons to closet myself from myself. In a way, it would be easier to try to be a straight cis woman. I’ve been socialized to be one. Pretty much every mannerism…
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