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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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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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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Being gendered correctly in male spaces is not something I have been granted consistently. And when I am granted that, I tend to be timid, disbelieving, and shy – which seems to perpetuate people’s hesitancy to label my gender. It’s an interesting phenomena, really.
Anyways, the other day I realized that I was reading as male [...]
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Note: I do not necessarily agree with everything this letter says. I honor diversity of views on this bog, even ones that I do not fully understand. This letter does however, make some good points which is one of the reasons why I chose to include it. Hence, this letter has been posted for a [...]
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Like I mentioned in an earlier post, there was a wonderful panel discussion entitled “Transgender Human Rights” that was put on as part of the Stonewall 40 Week celebration in Atlanta.
The panel was moderated by BT, and included Cole Thaler the Transgender Rights Attorney of Lambda Legal, Cheryl Courtney-Evens of Transgender Individuals Living [...]
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Last night, I attended a panel at Atlanta’s local feminist bookstore, Charis, about issues facing the transgender community. It was a wonderful panel, and many people showed up for it. I will post an in-depth reflection about the panel later.
Before the panel started, there was this group of queer women outside Charis, asking if people [...]
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At 8pm today the National Center for Transgender Equality held a conference call for activists, transgender people, allies, and leaders of the movement around the country to discuss the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). As you know, from my earlier post, a transgender inclusive ENDA has been re-introduced to the House by Barney Frank [...]
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A good friend of mine, Samia, made a post on her blog in where she explores some ideas that fall under trans-feminism. I was attempting to make a comment, but it got too long, so I have to post it here. Please go read her entry before reading on.
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I’ll respond to portions of your post [...]
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