You know, I hate to admit it , but despite appearances my geek credentials aren’t nearly as solid as they look. (who am I kidding? I don’t actually mind admitting it at all) I’m just not really all that into it all. I’m a mac user, and not a particularly talented one, and generally find …
Monthly Archive: February 2012
Feb 28 2012
Oh, And About That Bechdel Test? (And Another Cool Link!)
… how many fictional films have EVER featured two trans women discussing something other than gender, presentation or men? …how many have even featured more than one named trans character at all?!
Feb 28 2012
Seven Things About Being Trans That Are Actually Kind of Awesome
You know what? This blog is a fucking downer a lot of the time. Now, I do what I do for some pretty specific reasons. We’re at the cusp of a very exciting shift in the trans rights movement. Over pretty much just the last year and a half, we have quite suddenly become visible. …
Feb 28 2012
Bio-Essentialism, Social-Constructivism, And What Hormones Do And Don’t Actually Do
One of the often jarring things about being a trans feminist, or even just being a trans person who enjoys participating in discussions of feminism and gender theory, is how you’ll sometimes come across cis people using the existence of trans people to prove some point or another. One way or the other, any theory …
Feb 27 2012
Human Beauty
One thing I’ve been having a bit of trouble with lately is trying to negotiate some kind of balance between what I’ve come to understand about how perceptions of beauty are mediated by social and cultural convention against the fact that ultimately, I really rather do appreciate the beauty of the human form, of people. …
Feb 27 2012
Catches Twenty-Two
We were chatting in our top secret and amazingly awesome backchannel, full of such incredible wit and delightful banter that you shall never ever know, about how some folks over at an intelligent design website called Uncommon Descent decided to do a bit of a breakdown of the whole Loftus thing, propping it up (in …
Feb 24 2012
Video From Tuesday Night
Okay… so… as it turns out the recording by my friend Julia Rose (thank you!!!) did turn out okay. It’s definitely not very professional or fancy, as it was recorded on a phone, and this is my first ever public speaking engagement on skepticism stuff so I was rather nervous, and I’m probably going to …
Feb 24 2012
Transition: The Board Game
So this idea kind of emerged out of a bit of chat involving Anders over at the Giant In The Playground Forums about the possibility of using role-playing or Choose Your Own Adventure as an educational tool for cis people about the kinds of things that trans people go through, and the difficult choices we …
Feb 23 2012
So Amy Pond Is Cool… But What About Irene Adler?
You know I can’t resist a good Doctor Who / Steven Moffat discussion. Especially when feminism is involved. Yesterday, the extraordinary Stephanie Zvan of Almost Diamonds posted a response to some less-than-great criticisms levied against Mr. Moffat and the storyline he had written for Amy Pond in the most recent series of Doctor Who. Stephanie …
Feb 23 2012
Coming Out (Fourth And Final Part): Why Coming Out Matters
A closet. A metaphor. Articulating a concept of identity. If coming out of the closet can sometimes be nothing more than an act of constructing a new false identity so as to further bury the truth of what you’re experiencing, if the closet metaphor only really adequately describes certain particular kinds of queer narratives but …
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