March 2012
140 posts
Y'know what?
If education was just FREE then none of the shit that I went through with Dal and Ryerson would have happened.
Also, I don’t why Concordia did what they decided to do with my name and gender… but, my Gender and Women’s Studies degree tells me that it was oppressive. Somehow. Everything is oppressive. All of the time.
February 2012
131 posts
End the blood ban on men who have sex with men. →
Also, if haven’t already done so, please fill out this survey!
Canadian Blood Services (CBS) has launched a survey to get people’s opinion on their ban on blood from men who have sex with men (MSM), which is up until Friday. Please take the time to fill out the survey and circulate it to your contacts. The CBS Board recently recommended that the deferral period for MSM be changed...
fuckfuckfuck
Pretty much everything that I could ever imagine going wrong with my school applications is happening right now.
OK, so. Everything started when I got back to Halifax on Monday.
There was a letter from the Dal School of Social Work telling me that they hadn’t received my application fee and couldn’t process my application. Which is ridiculous because I gave them my credit card # when...
Also, sometimes I think Im not...
And then I watch gay porn. Seriously, I love it. Especially that “gay for pay” shit. I dont really know why… probably because of the awkward dialogue at the beginning.
Gender is such a beast.
I have so many intense and conflicting emotions about transition.
The lines start to get blurry.
I’ve become so obsessed with passing that it’s stressing me out. And I hate that. I think that passing is this fucked-up, cissexist, concept that’s rooted in a racist history. Why should that be something I’m concerned about? Like, why should I try to fit into someone...
Anonymous asked: Thanks again for your answer, I appreciate your openness to talk about this. That would be my personal preference, yes. But I know that some people hold more say on what becomes more radical language, in particular if they can write and publish books, so I doubt my opinion will matter once this vocabulary gets spread. I know language change is necessary in a lot of insances to reflect advancements...
Ugh.
Applying to school is so stressfulllllllllll.
fortunateson:
Shunning Medical Hoops, Transgender Patients Turn to ‘Informed Consent’ Model
My latest for Campus Progress — it’s drawn some larger attention. As one commenter notes, the list I link to is incomplete.
With the pathologizing of transgender identities came a very strict protocol for healthcare providers serving transgender patients, one that centered a...
Contextualizing De-transition
transversegirl:
Caveat: Transition and de-transition are important choices with which each transgender person must wrestle. For many, transition is a critical part of a strategy for greater health and happiness. This article should not be construed as a missive against transition or as an attempt to undermine its importance.
To put it in the simplest terms, de-transition is to stop the process...
inkstainedqueer asked: <3
Anonymous asked: Thank you for your definition. I guess I will just say that the addition of temporarily makes me cringe in this context. As someone "currently" living with a disability, it makes me think that abled-bodied people want to suggest "it can happen to anyone", therefore making the oppression shared by everyone. I don't know, it makes me uncomfortable.
Anonymous asked: What do you mean by : "(temporarily) able-bodied person"?
“When the newspapers were full of alarms about Iran possibly developing a nuclear...”
– Howard Zinn on Kurt Vonnegut (via unicronkid)
my hero
(via ftmark)
Also, one of my highlights from Toronto was...
Majorly nerdy.
They had an exhibition of zines, buttons, pamphlets, and t-shirts from the old 2nd wave lesbian-feminist days and riot grrrl. An in-house library organized by topic, not dates, so books about AIDS from the 80s and now on the same shelf. Early 70s medical records of homosexuality and transvestism. And countless vertical files. I found records from the AIDS Coalition of Nova Scotia,...
I just finished reading "Exile & Pride:...
(…with the afterword by Dean Spade!).
And it was so good. I devoured the book in just about two days. Eli Clare weaves together his experiences growing up as a white, genderqueer activist/writer with cerebral palsy, in a rural working-class logging town. He doesn’t shy away from the complexities of his identities, and offers an amazing insightful intersectional approach for...
Yep.
Woman: Can I have birth control?
Government: No.
Woman: I got pregnant because I didn't have birth control and I don't want the fetus. Can I have an abortion?
Government: No.
Woman: I gave birth to my child but since I wasn't expecting it, I can't afford daycare. Can I have help paying for it?
Government: No.
The only thing that I will wear after top surgery:
inkstainedqueer:
rightocaito:
transmitequality:
tank tops and v-necks and nothing.
for real
I am so glad to know that I am not the only one with this line of thinking.
Although I would never be able to give up my bow ties.
Hahaha, I think half the reason Im even vaguely seriously considering surgery is because I keep thinking abut all the gay little shirts I could wear.
If unborn babies are people:
phenthouse:
Soon to be parents can claim an additional dependent on their taxes.
Pregnant women working full time would break child labor laws.
3 words: Children Eat Free!
Pregnant women can drive in HOV lanes.
Sex with a pregnant chick is pedophilia and breaking & entering. (“Get outa ma house!”)
“No entry to this NC-17 movie for you, lady.”
While cis gays are fighting for the right to...
inflateablefilth:
Please stop saying that the LGBT community is achieving victories when you talk about marriage and DADT. It’s the LGB community.
SRSLY.
Gay marriages actually pisses me off so much. I mean, why don’t we all just get married, join the military, and adopt kids, right?
ftmark: Xtra Exposed →
ftmark:
This afternoon I happened to be sitting on a train on the way home from a conference when I overheard a conversation. My friends and I tried to ignore the people who were talking loudly, until we heard one of them nearly shout, “We’re not transphobic!” A silence fell over me and my pals as we…
on binarist fuckery
pussytooth:
Forever and bitterly LOLing at the notion of my being just like a really really butch lesbian who is pushing it even farther yeah sure me & Liberace over here.
I thought I was butch for a week once.
Coming Out as Femme: How My Transition Helped Me... →
artoftransliness:
An article written by Jonah M. Lefholtz over at In Our Words
<3
10 Ways to Love Others →
embodyglamour:
terramantra:
Some guidelines for loving:
1. Tell them about their brilliance. They likely can’t see it and they don’t know its immensity, but you can see it, and you can illuminate it for them.
2. Be authentic, and give others the gift of the real you and a real relationship. Ask your real questions. Share your real beliefs. Go for your real dreams. Tell your truth.
3. Don’t...
