perspectives on stuff from an angry feminist
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 30th, 2008
I was celebrating the news earlier this week that the Rudd government had decided to end the racist policy of mandatorily detaining asylum seekers, often for years on end and without proper access to legal representation. In one fell swoop, Rudd quietly signaled an end to one of the worst eras in our recent history, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 27th, 2008
I’ve been a little lost for words lately. I’ve always used this blog as part-catharsis, and I have to get this post out. I’m also going to stick the post under a cut, as a possible trigger warning, just in case.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 27th, 2008
Just…fuck.
An Arizona shock jock who goes by the name of “Jon Justice” has made an effigy of Isabel Garcia, a prominent and widely respected immigrant rights activist, and then proceeded to mock sexually assault the effigy on air, while making racist comments. As Emily said, it’s pretty disgusting - and telling - that his first […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 27th, 2008
Earlier this week, the ACT finally had its first female Senior Counsel appointed, in Canberra barrister Louise Donohue. It’s an appointment that is drastically overdue. I’m not exactly celebrating, however. We’ve got a very long way to go, and a disgraceful miscarriage of justice of a rape case that went down this week illustrates that […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 14th, 2008
I’ve been sitting on this post, not knowing quite what to say, ever since returning from Melbourne. Reading (belatedly) a great post from cripchick tonight compelled me to finish it.
As a trans woman, so much of my life, and my own history, has and is defined by the influence the medical establishment has over that […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 12th, 2008
It’s been brought to my attention that my post on the Queer Collaborations conference has been referenced in an article in this week’s edition of Sydney gay press SX.
In an online post, feminist blogger ‘Burning Woods’ wrote: “The socialists wandered off down to the office of the Minister for Finance (because it was close) to […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 12th, 2008
I’m a bit late to this one too, but it warrants some angry words. Unsurprisingly, both the London Pride organisers and the Metropolitan Police have issued public apologies for the incident at last week’s event where trans women were denied access to the women’s bathroom and threatened with arrest. The London Pride apology can be […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 12th, 2008
I’m a bit late to this one, as a result of being offline for a few days, but this one’s too horrifying not to add to the chorus.
Short version: “male radfem” blogger gets outed as sex offender.
Here’s the long version: Kyle Payne is an American guy who puts himself forward as a feminist anti-pornography activist, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 9th, 2008
I’ve been realising recently, in the wake of having gone mostly stealth as trans, just how much that experience tends to obscure the privileges one has in other quarters. When you’re trans, you’re always the one with the life that no one wants. Take that out of the equation, though, and the picture can be […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 7th, 2008
Okay, here’s the one where I retract some of my past views. Like I said in the other post, I’ve had a bit of an interesting week.
I’ve written a few posts and comments before about the issue of folks being attracted to trans people. I’m inherently extremely wary of people who claim to be such, […]