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Snow Joke
Along with the terrible, terrible post title (I’m so sorry, I’ll hide in embarasment later) here’s a phenomenally terrible bit of a) policing b) lack of neighbourliness and c) appreciation of art and craft:
Via the BBC: New Jersey snow sculpture gets frosty reception
“Police in the US state of New Jersey have ordered a family to [...]
WTF?
Sometimes I think the world is so stupid as to be utterly surreal. Just why? Why?!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year by the way
Once More Unto The Breach
Further to my last entry, Elana is continuing to fight a good fight on Feministing with this post. I seriously doubt I will comment, I’m not even sure I want to read the comments that much once it gets going. But kudos, Elana, for a very, very, pertinent and well made point. And for continuing [...]
Posted in Feminism, General, Trans feminism
Also tagged cissexism, opinion, prejudice, privilege, trans misogyny, trans woman, transgender, transphobia
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Feministing and Unchecked Prejudice
I really would like to like Feministing. I’ve tried to. As others have called for boycotts to draw attention to transphobia there, or organised open letters to point out the ableism, blogged about the racism, I kept reading, kept wanting to find good in it. Thing is that sometimes there is. It’s a big site [...]
Posted in Feminism, Trans feminism, Trans woman
Also tagged ableism, cissexism, homophobia, opinion, prejudice, privilege, racism, trans feminism, trans misogyny, trans woman, transphobia
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Just Because
Just because you aren’t racist, doesn’t mean you never have a racist thought or say something racist.
If you aren’t homophobic, you will still sometimes express a bigoted sentiment.
Even if you are not sexist, sometimes you will say something or believe something that is.
If you don’t fear trans people, it doesn’t mean you don’t have transphobic [...]
Posted in Trans feminism
Also tagged cissexism, culture, homophobia, opinion, prejudice, privilege, racism, sexism, transphobia
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Things that make you go “Wow!”
Every now and then you come across something that makes you go “Oh wow yes, this” and I did today. It’s the mp3 of an event called “Girl Talk: A Cis & Trans Woman Dialogue” at the National Queer Arts Festival (in the US). You can find an article about it here on Body Impolitic [...]
Posted in Trans woman
Also tagged culture, Queer, Trans feminism, trans feminism, trans woman
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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
Also tagged belgium, cissexism, gender, politics, racism, second life, sexism, trans feminism, virtual worlds, Work
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Rainbow of Humanity
Over at The Thang Blog Rebecca has posted a good summary of how recent problems faced by trans women in feminist community blogs played out, particularly in relation to her own experience on Feministing. My personal opinion on the matter is pretty close to hers but that is not what I want to write about. [...]
Posted in Trans feminism
Also tagged cis, cisgender, cissexual, opinion, trans feminism, transgender, transsexual
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