There’s two things you should know, which kind of make this story a tad less dramatic and awesome and fun to tell than it would otherwise be: 1) My family are scattered all over the place. We currently live in Vancouver, Alaska, Montreal, North Carolina, England, Scotland, Ethiopia, Thailand, Boston, Canterlot, New York and Toronto. …
Monthly Archive: February 2012
Feb 21 2012
Coming Out (Part Two Of Four): Spooking, Disclosure And The Revolving Closet Doors
One of the many problematic aspects of treating gay and lesbian (mostly just gay) experiences and narratives as the archetype against which all queer experience is measured is how it causes particular models and tropes of queer lives to be applied indiscriminately across the many varying identities that comprise our community All kinds of important …
Feb 20 2012
Thoughts From A Diversity Hire
Those of you who follow FTB as a whole, or were keeping up with the Target Audiences comment thread, are probably already aware of a rather nasty remark John Loftus made insinuating that I’m not really qualified to be writing for this network and was only brought in for the sake of diversity. This post …
Feb 20 2012
Coming Out (Part One Of Four): When Coming Out Is Shutting Yourself In
This piece was originally posted at Queereka. I am re-posting it here because it had originally been intended as part of a series, which I will now complete this week. Please visit Queereka for all kinds of awesome LGBTQ stuff, from a secular, skeptical angle! For me, being a skeptic, and the personal importance skepticism …
Feb 17 2012
“You Look Great! I Never Would Have Guessed!” And Other Acts Of Well-Intentioned Cissexism
Disclaimer: this post is not specifically inspired by or directed towards ANY of my friends, family, colleagues, readers or fans. I am very appreciative of all of your kindness and support. A couple weeks ago when I posted about how to ask trans people questions without doing so in an insensitive or invasive way, I …
Feb 16 2012
Harm Reduction And Evidence-Based Drug Policy
A few months ago a rather important decision was made in the Canadian supreme court. InSite, Vancouver’s safe injection site (North America’s only safe injection site, as it happens) was permitted to continue operating.
Feb 15 2012
Target Audiences And Playing Nice
There’s been some really interesting discussion in and around FTB lately about the issues of different approaches to blogging and different kinds of target audiences. A lot of this came up in response to our new blogger Libby-Anne (of Love, Joy, Feminism) making a post in which she requested that the FTB natives maintain an …
Feb 15 2012
Chicks-With-Dicks, Trap-Chans, Chasers and Trans-Fans: The Question Of Fetishization
One of the most common questions I get asked is about whether or not men having specific sexual interest in trans women is an inherently othering, dehumanizing or cissexist thing. I provided a fairly brief response in my FAQ post, but it’s something I feel is worth investigating a little bit more deeply.
Feb 14 2012
A Matter Of Survival
The other day I was archive-binging at the fantastic (and alternately hilarious and deeply depressing) tumblr Yo, Is This Racist? and came across this interesting exchange: Anonymous asked: Is it racist that my science teacher sucks balls? Yo, science education in the US is a fucking political mess of a tragedy, but it’s worth sticking …
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