January 2010
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got this in my facebook inbox from a guy i really...
we only met once, which is crazy, but we like to say that it was love at first sight. i, of course, fell in and out of contact with him, because i’m like that. and when i created a new facebook i didn’t friend anyone and let them come me. he found me and sent me this.
I know this is probably a personal question and I’m sorry if I’m probing, but are you transgender? If you are I think it’s great...
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learning to create comfortable space in...
Part of navigating the cis-normative world as a pre-T transguy inevitable involves discomfort. People can’t figure our my gender and don’t know how to treat me, because they are so accustomed to treating people certain ways, largely based on gender. sometimes they avoid me, but usually they just take a guess and stick with it. which can be super uncomfortable if they guess “girl.”
today at...
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part of me wants to deconstruct gender roles and...
i am conflicted!
so much of my life has been about deconstructing gender boundaries, socially and even scientifically. i have preached that the “natural” differences between men and women are so slim and non-important that we should be living in a gender neutral world altogether. i get frustrated when things are grouped into categories of male and female or “for a man/boy” and “for a...
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Kate Bornstein’s Notes for Keynote Address to...
I lived in Philly from 1982 through 1988. I moved here newly sober, with my third wife. I moved here less than a year after having left 12 years of 24/7 service to the Church of Scientology. I was diagnosed with PTSD and Anorexia. I was starving myself so I could pass as a girl, and there was no one to tell any of this to. There was no language, no theory, no way to analyze the intersecting...
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“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“I am so tired of rearranging my life around what the stupidest people MIGHT do.”
– Bill Mahrer AMEN. 