March 2011
11 posts
Just sent an email to my a capella group asking if...
Like, I know that it’s an all-female group so if you like totally aren’t paying attention you could think it was a women’s group, but I’m a little frustrated that I keep having to do this, especially given how many people in the group are either queer or close friends of mine. It’s not as though anyone in the group thinks I’m a lady per se… I don’t...
On The Argument That Trans Women Are Triggering
This is a really great post for a whole bunch of reasons. First, it tears down a major reason behind transmisogynistic and transphobic exclusion of trans woman. Second, it calls attention to mega-entitled butches, which I think needs to happen more often. Third, it’s a really good explanation of triggers and how responsibility around triggers can work. Fourth, it’s witty.
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Weird Internalized Sexism?
I was hanging out with my sister and her roommate, and the roommate was painting her nails so I asked if she would do mine as well. She did, and it was cute:
Thing is, I keep trying to paint my nails and like it, but mostly I think my hands look silly like that. As I was getting dressed for the party that we went to that night, I kept panicking and thinking that I looked like a woman. Now, maybe...
Call for interview subjects:
Are you trans*-identified? Have you been out and presenting (you get to decide what that means for you and your identity) for over six months? Have you noticed some changes to the way people treat you now that you’re read differently than you used to be? You should consider letting me interview you.
My name is Enoch Riese and I’m a student at Sarah Lawrence College. I’m doing a...
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Safety Pants
As a highly visibly queer person living in one of the most tolerant, and in some cases even queer-friendly, cities in the world and going to a very queer-friendly school (no queer space though), I don’t spend really any time at all worrying about my safety. I have never experienced physical violence of any kind, and very little emotional/psychological violence. Because of my feelings of...
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Response to: Where is the line and when did I...
intersexunicorn:
Oh I never really finished that discussion. I didn’t want it to blow up, but the jist of it was that if there were no gender binary, then there wouldn’t really be a way for you to be trans, there would just be you. So the message is kinda just to be you and be proud of that.
While I agree that if there were no gender binary there would be no way for me to be...
On Being a Non-traditional, Non-transitional...
First of all, the title is a little incorrect. I am a transitional transperson, I’m just non-medically transitional. My transition was certainly a long process which I am very grateful for. The non-traditional part is very true though. My transition has involved very little of what is expected of trans people, even from inside the community, and my identity… well, it’s unique.
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Help me find a gender-competent therapist
This post is mostly directed towards followers from New York.
I am looking for a therapist, preferably a psychiatrist so that we can talk about pharmacological options on the off chance that I need those. I need this therapist for therapist type stuff, not so much transition gate-keeper type stuff, but, regardless, I need this therapist to know at least the most basic stuff about trans people and...
