Traps-1: The Prisoner’s Dilemma
So I have, of late, begun speaking to the challenges of resisting oppression and overcoming internalized stigma. Now, I’m nominally more suited to the challenge of stigma, no doubt, but let us not...
View ArticleImages Of Transness
http://www.dyssonance.com/the-shame-inside-us/ So I had a link to a brief, outsider’s perspective to the ongoing internal efforts regarding the language we use to describe ourselves, and of course...
View ArticleAfterwards…
Afterwards. There is a lot in the process of transition that often gets lost because it is not now, not immediate, even though it is something that people think on rather constantly. That something is...
View ArticleThe #Shame Inside Us
Trans people, as a generalization that applies across most of them, have a great deal of shame about themselves, about being trans, and about the very process they have to negotiate to solve many of...
View ArticleCis Sexism, Cis Centrism, and Transphobia
Three concepts. Each of them interrelated, yet each of them establishing something distinct. Of the three, the most common is cis centrism. This is the placing of concerns of cis folk as normative...
View Article12089
So I received an email recently that asked me a few good questions — about me, personally. About my motivations and my goals and the usual stuff. I like it when I get email questions. Seriously —...
View ArticleMil(l)(e)stone coming…
Complicated title, lol. At times, this blog has felt like a millstone around me. I recall that clearly — it was, in the end, one of the many reasons I stopped writing it last year. And yet, here I am...
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Chessboard
So we have shown what Transness consists of, and found a definition for it that works across time and culture. We have delved into the nature of how the world exists to oppress trans people. We have...
View ArticleThe Highly Refined Art of Cruelty in the Digital Age, part 2
Yesterday I wrote part one. Today I write part two. The power of Neglect Ostracism is a deeply harmful element of culture, and one that can have long term effects on the physical well being of people,...
View ArticleOn the Audi & Doritos Commercials
So two commercials. I won’t get into the physical reaction I had (that was lookist, without any doubt) to the Go Daddy commercial. That’s something for another day, when I feel like working on that...
View ArticleQueens & Empresses
I don’t always deign to be with the common people, but when I do, I do it Regally… Queen There are a lot of folks in the Trans community who don’t like to be called Queens. In part because it is often...
View Article:Former: – um, no.
So I am, officially, on vacation. This is a real vacation, whee I don’t do work, but the trouble with following my bliss in this case is that even when I am on vacation I see stuff, lol. I’m not sure...
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