January 2012
A Wish List for Trans-Inclusive Sex Ed
transcending-anatomy:
I wish for no one to be labeled as a “(wo)man”, or even as “(fe)male-bodied”, because of their anatomy. I wish for the chance to describe my own body and to name my own parts.
I wish for discussion about how to come to terms with my body, how to ease the pain of dysphoria (mine or someone else’s), how to be connected with the parts that change and how to accept the parts...
“Frankly, if people aren’t going to cast me because I’m queer, than I...”
– Anthony Rapp
“We are fighting a neverending battle for our bodies.”
– genderfork
Anonymous asked:
I’m a pansexual girl in a relationship with a guy. I love him deeply, but I feel incomplete sometimes because I’m also really attracted to girls and sometimes I just long to be with a girl sexually. Have other people felt this way? I’m afraid that I will feel like this forever and I will never really be able to have a committed relationship. (By the way, the same thing happened...
Building the Master's House: How the Construction... →
As down with queer theory as we all like to be in 2012, the idea of “constructed” identities is still a tricky one to handle sometimes. Since we most often talk about marginalized or minority identities being constructed ones, it can sometimes feel like you’re being told your identity — and therefore your struggles — aren’t real. But it’s important to...
Watchpersistenceanthology:
Flamingo Rampant! Gender Independent Kids Books
Persistence contributor S. Bear Bergman has launched an amazing new project - Flamingo Rampant!, a children’s book series featuring trans characters. You can support this project through Kickstarter. Tell your friends!
14-Year-Old Gay Teen Phillip Parker Kills Himself... →
cassket:
Phillip and Gena Parker didn’t know their son Phillip was being bullied at school until, it seems, Saturday or Sunday. Probably Saturday night. On Friday, they didn’t know. That was the day they found their 14-year-old son’s dead body in their house. Phillip Parker was in 8th grade at Gordonsville High School in Gordonsville, Tennessee and he had killed himself.
“I should have known...
We Are All Subversives: Femme Strength and Queer... →
lionessyawn:
IA completely with Bird. And, going off that, some word vomit: As a tomboy femme, I have so many thoughts about this and neither the time nor the patience to fully delve into the subject. It’s such a war, because every day, on top of defending my identities as a lesbian, a woman, and a feminine person, I also have to go into why aspects of my personality which seem “less feminine”...
“I just want someone to see me for me, I cannot define myself any more than that...”
– genderfork
Queer Children Are Dying... But Many More Are... →
cassket:
Most of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth we saw on the news in 2011 were dead.
Last fall, media outlets around the country reported on the death of Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi. After that, it seemed like everywhere we looked, another teenager was making headlines for ending his or her life. Just this week, we lost another, 19-year-old...
Virginia Tries to Block Funding for Adoption... →
We may have a bit of good news regarding the seemingly never-ending case of ‘Virginia vs. Homosexuals Adopting Babies Who Need Good Families, Gay Or Straight’.
Although Virginia’s Board of Social Services voted to continue a policy that allows faith-based groups and adoption agencies to screen prospective parents on religious or moral beliefs back in April of last year, Senator...
Rough Trade | OHS Canada →
queerasfuck:
My boss contributed to this great article about occupational health and safety for sex workers.
picardy3rd asked: I think pansexual isn't accepted as a word in spellcheckers because it hasn't really gotten into the common usage enough. Not a case of discrimination at all.
misslissalindsey asked: Yes, I have noticed that pansexual isn't recognized as a word. As for why I think why people are unaccepting of people who aren't heterosexual, it's because they're "different". People seem to have a hard time comprehending something outside of their realm of familiarity. People as a whole are coming out of a short extremely oppressive time for human sexuality....
lighthouseaccident asked: con't reply to anon: bit more comfortable with the homosexual and bisexual label cause at least there is a definite line drawn but pansexual encompasses pretty much everything, and this makes them uncomfortable because where is the box? most people (even some LGBTQ from what i've been seeing in tumblr) haven't been educated yet that you don't have to put yourself in a box, that...
Gay WWII Codebreaker To Be Celebrated on Stamp →
projectqueer:
By Winston Gieseke
Alan Turing
A gay computer pioneer whose skills helped the Allies decrypt Nazi codes during World War II will be celebrated on a postage stamp in the U.K. Alan Turing, who worked at the U.K.’s main decryption establishment during the war, invented the Turing machine, which helped decipher German messages intercepted by the Allies. Despite his...
Anonymous asked
This is probably a stupid question, but why do you think people are so none accepting of people who are pretty much anything but a heterosexual? I’m forced to stay in the closet as a pansexual because I’ll probably get kicked out of my super religious father and homophobic family, not to mention when I do tell few people they just laugh or keep calling me gay or bi. It’s...
Massachusetts passes law protecting trans... →
Today in Boston, a ceremony marked a newly passed MA state law which prohibits discrimination against transgender residents in employment, housing, insurance and credit.
Governor Deval Patrick told a crowded Statehouse ceremony on Thursday that he was happy to approve the bill as a “matter of conscience” in order to protect the rights and dignity of an estimated 33,000 transgender citizens in...
Bernice King makes gay-inclusive speech for MLK... →
gaywrites:
In her father’s honor, one of MLK’s daughters yesterday made a speech that pleasantly surprised audiences for its LGBT inclusivity.
Bernice King, the second daughter and youngest child of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., has a history of making anti-gay comments and a generally homophobic track record. But during a speech in Atlanta on the day honoring her father, she mentioned the LGBT...
Asking who's the "man" and who's the "woman" in a...
“Wanting to wear a tuxedo to my university’s equivalent of a prom is not a...”
– genderfork
Troy, MI Mayor Suggests Gays Should Be Cured,... →
My hometown of Troy, MI is a Detroit suburb that is usually only notable for being the former K-Mart headquarters and the home of the world’s swankiest shopping mall. Recently, though, it’s been the focus of some not-so-flattering news in the LGBT press, all thanks to its very bigoted and far-too-vocal-about-it mayor, Janice Daniels. In Autostraddle’s Michigan round-up post, we...
“Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (via gaywrites)
Sweden keeps forced sterilization law for trans... →
cassket:
Apparently my go-to back-up country in case the U.S. goes to shit (oh, wait…) of lovely liberal idealism isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. In fact, their law around transgender individuals seeking to legally change their assigned gender is pretty fucking archaic — but what’s worst is that they recently decided to not change it:
Members of the Swedish government have announced they...
genderbitch:
tuuli:
autumn-and-eve:
“[tw: t-slur] “If somebody calls you a green martian, would you be offended by it? No, you wouldn’t be. Why? Because you know you’re not a green martian. But if you’re offended by someone calling you a ‘tranny,’ it was only because you believe you are a ‘tranny!’ [laughter.] So then, the solution is: Change your mind about yourself being a ‘tranny’.” [tw:...
“When you watch Torchwood there is a warning at the very beginning that some...”
– John Barrowman (via fatmolly)
A Note About Cissexism...
genderqueer:
manybothans:
I had a really great pride this year, but I was also troubled by comments I heard over the last week from a lot of people in both the mainstream and radical queer communities. I want to say a few things about cissexism, specifically towards trans women and other MTF spectrum folks.
1) Gay sex does not require genital symmetry.
Most people in the community...
“I have long since recognized that this is my life to live and I really...”
– genderfork
Groundbreaking Lesbian Film "Pariah": Actually... →
We’ve talked about Pariah semi-constantly for quite some time now and this discourse has been partially enabled by the fact that a lot of us are lucky enough to live in cities often utilized for “press screenings” and “limited release” affairs.
You’ve responded to our personal essays andinterviews and previews by asking when the hell this fucking awesome movie...
How Should Asexuality Be Introduced to Sex... →
ace-reporter:
This is something that I think needs far more attention than it has received. Asexuality is currently left out of sex education classes or only briefly introduced. If we leave this up to the sex educators, we may find that the definitions are very odd.
'They' is me - By, Ivan Coyote →
A couple of weeks ago I got an email from a young woman, a college student, who claimed that her professor had assigned her entire class a special little assignment, for extra credits, for students who could track down my legal name and bring it to class. This young woman had tried and tried, she said, to find it online, but couldn’t, and she really wanted those extra marks. Would I be so kind as...
