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An open letter to cis queers 12 Jun 2013 | 08:35 am
Cis queers (and queer trans men, too): My heart is heavy tonight with the sadness of a whole world of trans women, many of whom are grieving the recent loss of a friend. Now, cisqueer/transmasc folks,...
A PSA for Cis people who don’t want to have sex with me (and other trans women) 23 Apr 2013 | 11:56 pm
Dear Cis People Who Don’t Want to Have Sex with Me (A Trans Woman), For those of you pursuing your goal of not having sex with me by not telling me you want to have sex with me, bravo! You are doing i...
The Trans 100 9 Apr 2013 | 09:16 pm
The Trans 100, a list of 100 significant trans people in the style of such lists as the OUT 100 or the Forbes 500, was released recently. Created by Jen Richards of We Happy Trans and Antonia D’orsay,...
Choose your victories: Trans rights legislation 22 Mar 2013 | 12:08 am
Conservative Minster of Foreign Affairs, John Baird, possibly lost in thought while contemplating the rights of trans people. Canadian Parliament passed a transgender rights bill yesterday that is bei...
A visualization exercise 19 Mar 2013 | 07:04 pm
How power is distributed by cis privilege. (Image depicts a large bulldozer with the word ‘CIS’ emblazoned across the front scoop, and small stick figures holding a flag with the word ‘TRANS’ on it st...
Cisness, accountability, and what I don’t love about being queer 16 Mar 2013 | 05:43 pm
The 2012 documentary What I LOVE about being QUEER, by director Vivek Shraya, focused the camera on members of Toronto’s queer community and asked them to describe the things they love about being que...
OK, so, Lana Wachowski… 26 Oct 2012 | 05:40 pm
Lana Wachowski, director of The Matrix films, recently got an award from US lobby group HRC (aka the Human Rights Campaign). (Transcript of speech) Some thoughts: 1. Her speech was lovely and all, but...
Enforcing context, and the silencing of marginalized voices 24 Oct 2012 | 12:55 am
I’ve been thinking a great deal lately about Body Dysmorphic Disorder, and my personal experience with it. I’d even started a piece on BDD for this blog, but ultimately scrapped it. I found myself una...
Men in Dresses: Transmisogyny and Halloween 11 Oct 2012 | 07:55 pm
With Halloween approaching we are reminded again of the the importance of calling out racist and otherwise oppressive costumes. I’d like to add another problematic costume to this list: Men in drag. W...
What we deserve, and cultures of dissonance 16 Aug 2012 | 10:58 pm
As awareness of the marginalization of trans women has grown in cis queer communities there has developed a noticeable gap between the language and ideas of allyship and how those ideas are implemente...
