If there’s one thing I absolutely, completely, unabashedly, openly do NOT miss about the heterosexual, cisgender world, and trying to live in it, it’s the approach to dating and, perhaps especially, sex. The silence.
Monthly Archive: May 2012
May 29 2012
Trans women…
To be honest, I kind of like trans women a lot more than I like most people. Sorry, everyone else.
May 18 2012
Ace Ventura: Het Perspective
This post is part of a collaborative Crossover Event with the famed and deadly Dolphin Assassin, Monica Maldonado. We’ve both written on the same general subject today. Please head over to her blog, TransActivisty, and check out her thoughts. In the absence of positive representation in one’s culture, when one feels invisible under its appraisal …
May 16 2012
Is He Checking Me Out, Or Just Staring At The Freak? Self-Consciousness And Self-Oppression
Is my shadow showing? Am I wearing too much concealer? It’s not caking, is it? Does this top make my shoulders look broad? Oh fuck, I need to pluck the little hairs on my collarbone. Fuck fuck I shouldn’t have left the house without checking that. I’m such an idiot. My voice just dropped, didn’t …
May 15 2012
This Is Awesome
Check out Cathy Brennan’s latest attempt to insult me via her new, hilariously incompetent tumblr, radicalfeministmemes: In the words of Michael Halila: Watch out for the new radfem transphobe tactic of making their opponents seem both awesome and attractive. It, um. My only quibble is I’ve technically only been kicking Y chromosome ass since 2010.
May 15 2012
Mandated Femininity
Apologies for lateness again. I made a super last minute decision to ditch the half-finished post I was working on and write on this topic instead. Also apologies for any typos or sloppiness. This was written in one-sitting one-draft. I’ll come back in and clean it up later, but right now I just want to …
May 14 2012
Contrast And Compare
On Thursday night I got to sit at a table at The Elysian on Capitol Hill with four of the coolest, smartest, most badass trans people I know. Collectively, the five of us made for a pretty impressive little crew to roll deep into the unnerving Seattle late-night land of roving packs of drunken grues. …
May 13 2012
Lazy Sunday: How Low
Hi, everyone! I’m back from my little trip south of the border, and feeling much, much better. It’s funny how little it can take sometimes to make so much of a difference. Just a little of the right care in just the right places is often all it takes. Well, the lead singer of …
May 08 2012
Protect Traditional Marriage!
By now, you’ve probably seen a certain political cartoon. It comes in several variants, but the basic premise is always the same. Basically, it juxtaposes a straight person’s adamance in “protecting” his or her marriage from same-sex marriage with obliviousness or willful laziness in regard to those more realistic and immediate threats of their own …
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