January 2011
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“This rethinking of “normal” gender identities as cisgender life...”
– Saving Jane Laplain: Phase 1: How Cisgender Saved My Sanity.
More research for my Creating Change workshop. Jane LaPlain’s post on the word “cisgender” is a classic (yes, it can be a classic if it’s only six months old… because I said so, that’s why) and is...
Never mind all those other glasses, THESE were...
rosalarian:
They also come in purple!!!!
OMG WANT
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"But Trans Women Are Triggering!"
“But Trans Women Are Triggering!” When people use the old “trans women can’t be in women’s space because they are triggering” argument I just want to stab myself, or possibly someone else, in the eye with a rusty fork. You know the one: “we can’t have trans women in our domestic violence shelter because they look like men” or “trans...
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Raiders of the Lost Etiology (Questioning... →
“There is not likely to be any one coherent, purely biological/neurological explanation for our existence. The drive to research the matter is not inherently evil, mind, but the resources being dedicated to it come into question when studies of this sort appear to be to the exclusion of more directly beneficial research, like longitudinal studies on the long-term effects of hormone...
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Trans Woman of Color Erasure & Objectification →
genderbitch:
dancingonembers:
September 30, 2008
(so, this might seem weird, but in addition to its actual content, this post is laying the groundwork for an analysis of the silence surrounding the recent anti-muslim terror attack in Ohio (see also. h/t to Cheshire Bitten. More of the groundwork will be done in a post to follow.)
How often do you see trans women of color speaking in their own ...
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“I listen to the click of my heels on the sidewalk, feel the hem of the short...”
– - Susan Stryker, The Surgeon Haunts My Dreams (1994)
Yes, I know I just posted a Stryker quote the other day, and also I know that link goes to Anne Lawrence’s site (seriously, fuck Anne Lawrence).
But The Surgeon Haunts My Dreams is an amazing, gorgeous, sexy slab of prose poetry and an...
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“My father got sick when I was 22… and I was poor. And my father had an ulcer,...”
– CHRIS ROCK, responding to host Bill Maher asking if he ever went to the emergency room as his primary healthcare provider, on Real Time (via inothernews) (via magulartheimpalor) (via allyourlovearebelongtome) (via gertymac)
Reblog for all those dumbfucks who parade about announcing the US has the...
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Victory for NYC Gender Identity Protections →
Justice Sherman found that the TA did not enjoy any exemption from the non-discrimination provisions in the city ordinance, which he wrote, by their terms, clearly apply both to employers and employees who violate them. The judge rejected the argument that directing transphobic comments at a customer who requested help from a transit worker was not a denial of services.
I wanted to blog...
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Transgender Equal Rights Action Day at the... →
Transgender Equal Rights Action Day in Massachusetts is less than 36 hours away! Come tell your legislators why they need to co-sponsor the Transgender Equal Rights Bill this session!
If you’re nervous about talking to your legislators, we’ll have experienced lobbyists ready to train you and even accompany you if you need them there.
If you can’t make it, we’ll miss you,...
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“Filisa Vistima was a volunteer at the LRC. She kept an extensive journal,...”
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Preface to A Home Among the Stars by Filisa Vistima She died in 1993. I ran into her diary again today when a friend linked Susan Stryker’s 1994 essay “My Words To Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage,” which references Filisa’s struggles to live. As far...
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dappercat: Every trans voice I hear in music is a... →
dappercat:
Every trans voice I hear in music is a revolutionary act to me.
Every one of us I see with an instrument in hand, hear singing out and making something fucking beautiful lifts my heart and helps me realise this isnt’ an avenue that fucking closed to me when I realised who and how and what I was.
Every trans voice I find in print and in blog is a revolutionary act to me.
Everyone...
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“Phallogocentric language, not its particular speaker, is the scalpel that...”
– - Susan Stryker, My Words To Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage (1994)
I seriously never get tired of reading this crucial piece of transfeminist history. I’m getting ready to do a transfeminism workshop at Creating Change, and half the fun is that...
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Two churches located across the street from each...
amaevis:
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paranoidrobot:
I think the winner of this argument is clear.
IDK if this is real, but I agree with the Catholics for once. LOL.
Visibly Photoshopped, but reblogged because I laughed anyway.
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safe2pee.org - bathrooms for everyone →
Reblogged in case you haven’t seen safe2pee and need it. Back during the first year after I transitioned, when I was getting threatened and harassed everywhere I went and didn’t dare use a gendered bathroom, safe2pee pretty much saved my life.
pansexualpride:
We’re taking web innovations and applying them to a very real problem facing many in our society: harassment, violence and...
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While a hostile relative re-writes my life: 'Who... →
Leslie Feinberg (author of Stone Butch Blues) on a book worth not buying, and the dangers of being trans, queer, and biologically related to people who aren’t actually family.
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“The decade-long hysteria over a “hookup culture,” imperiling young women who...”
– The Atlantic Weeps For The Sad, Slutty Drunk Girls (via sexisnottheenemy)
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“[The artist] must be intoxicated by ritual as well as result”
– Patti Smith - 25th Floor/High On Rebellion
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Just here...listening to music...
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Hip Hop
Pop
Metal
Latin
Rock
Techno (On X)
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just died.
Omg…
Ahahaha yesss… I love “metal” kitty!
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