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Monthly Archives: June 2009
Cis
There’s a rather large blogsplosion going on, based on the response to, and subsequent “debate” around, the term cis. In the best tradition of blogging about blogging and sticking one’s oar in to a debate that you are only tenuously connected to by reading about it while linking to other blogs, I’m going to do [...]
Posted in Trans feminism
Tagged blogging, cis, cisgender, cissexual, gender identity, opinion, Trans feminism, trans feminism, trans woman, transgender, transphobia
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Trans Dark Matter
Warning! This post might be controversial. Sorry about that. It’s about me! So I can’t help it!
The fact that I lack any safe space is a source of disillusionment for me. I do not expect people to be false and to go against their own opinions to provide it. It’s important to say that. That [...]
Posted in Trans feminism, Trans woman
Tagged cissexism, dysphoria, feelings, gender identity, life, Trans feminism, trans misogyny, trans woman, transgender, transphobia, transsexual
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In Belgium Discrimination Needs No Explanation
One of the things I’m thinking about at the moment is what I might do in the future as a career. An odd thing to think about you might think for someone already in their mid thirties. Not really though, I’ve already started one career as an architect, I found that the reality of the [...]
Posted in General
Tagged belgium, cissexism, Feminism, gender, politics, racism, second life, sexism, trans feminism, virtual worlds, Work
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Busy
Well that was a very busy week. After last week’s lack of internet I had to spend a bit of time focusing on work and catching up. Then the weekend hit and was packed with doing things in the real world, like going shopping, sleeping and yesterday a party for our nephew so all and [...]
Incommunicado
So end of last week our internet broke. Completely. No web, phone or television. Mainly we didn’t notice on Saturday but wow, with all three down you really see how much time these things can be. A way to stave off boredom and stop you having to work to find something to do.
Actually Saturday was [...]
Weekend Break
Back from a really lovely weekend away. We went to stay in a kind of minimalist holiday camp type thing with all my partner’s immediate family, various hangers on and small children. The park thing was in the Netherlands so I can now add another country to my imaginary list of “Countries I Have Slept [...]
