A few days ago I read an article entitled “Is Cis A Dis? And other aircastles to the storm..” by the blogger over at Femmeessay. The article was a good analysis of whether or not “cis” is an offensive term or not (I think it is important to know that the writer is cis).
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A recent conversation in a quaint coffee shop has led me to write this entry. Appropriately titled, this entry will be a mini-discussion of things I did not know going into physical transition.
I feel like the most underestimated part of transition is the process of adjustment that I went through. Naturally, if your body is [...]
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So I have been bit behind on the news since taking a brief hiatus from this site. However, for those of you that don’t know this already, a gender identity & presentation inclusive ENDA was introduced into the Senate for the first time on August 5th. Yay! For more information, you can catch [...]
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Whooohoooo! Half a year! Yay! Actually it was 6 months as of the 13th, but now it’s 6 months and one day. Things have been great, and there have been some significant small changes since last month. In particular, my arm muscles have gotten HUGE (without working out). I’ve started an upper body work out [...]
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Hiatus over. Expect a few entries today.
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I apologize for the recent lull in my posting. Life has hit me pretty hard. I am working on several different drafts for posts, so be expecting to see something soon.
Thanks for bearing with me!
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TGEU & Liminalis Press Release:
Every 3rd day the murder of a trans person is reported:
Trans Murder Monitoring Project reveals more than 200 reported murders of trans persons in the last 1 1/2 years
In April 2009 the international NGO Transgender Europe (TGEU) in cooperation with the multilingual Online-Magazine “Liminalis — A Journal for Sex/Gender Emancipation and [...]
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So today marks my 5th Month on T. I went in for my blood work check up last week, and I haven’t gotten the results back, but I am sure they will come out fine. I’ll let you all know when I get the results back though.
Changes in the past month are really slight:
1. Voice [...]
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Not sure how I feel about the title of this endeavor, but at any rate I figured it was worth posting – even for simple discussion sake.
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Call for Submissions: How to F*ck a Trans Woman
by Jiz Lee ~ July 2, 2009
http://jizlee.com/wordpress/
A friend just passed this along to me, and it sounds like an EXCELLENT
project. Please [...]
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Ambivalent Academic left this comment on my blog a while back, and I have just now had the time to respond.
I was wondering if you could/would say more about masculinity/femininity and some of these other identifier adjectives as they relate to male/female gender presentation…
OK, I’m flying my cis privilege flag here I know. Please don’t [...]
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