I hear on a semi-regular basis — again, just the other day in fact — about what foils for the patriarchy transpeople are. How our undertaking of gender transition helps to support rather than to undermine the gender caste system.
And so now i’m frustrated with this to the point of being snarky about it. [...]
Being transgender is an enigma cloaked in mystery and dipped in murkiness. How and why does gender dysphoria develop at all? Why is it so powerful that many transpeople find it easier to undergo expensive and painful changes to their body than to “just live with it”?
Of course, if i can say, “I [...]
I don’t normally read anything by Heart unless someone i read links to something over there. Let’s just say i have disagreements with some of her points of view.
But what is happening to her now is not acceptable.
Misogynists have shut down her website by pinging it to death, using up her bandwidth allotment, and [...]
Last week i wrote about an issue close to my heart - the crisis facing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth.
But i only told half the story, and left out perhaps the most important part; the part which is more difficult to talk about because it is shrouded in secrecy. That half of the [...]
This morning i had a jarring, chilling exposure to what the word “impressionable” really means.
My wife and i had to go to her son’s school this morning to deal with, well, the kinds of things kids do. All we knew was that the principal wanted to talk to her. I went along as [...]
A few days ago i described the amazing energy i feel whenever i’m around young queer people. There’s a vibrancy there that brightens the day and gives me hope.
But i’m also very worried because queer youth are in deep trouble. If you’re young, and gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender, you’re in crisis. [...]
At Boston Pride i tabled for the Network La Red for a couple of hours. A Latino fellow came by at one point and said he’s against domestic violence too — and hinted (i don’t remember his exact words) that he was obliquely referring to INS raids and similar anti-Latino actions of the US [...]
So i’ve been making plans for weeks to go to the Boston Dyke March tonight. And in my inbox this morning i see that there is a last-minute letter-writing campaign to ask the Dyke March committee to disinvite the artist Bitch, who is scheduled to perform for us tonight, on account of her performances [...]
I’ve often felt that, with regards to what we can bring to feminism in terms of our experience and our awareness, that transfolk have a unique contribution to make and are in a way the best of both worlds.
Oh, i don’t mean that in the creepy sense that we’re so used to hearing it from [...]