perspectives on stuff from an angry feminist
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 16th, 2008
And the bad news.
Kellie Telesford’s murderer has been acquitted, despite the most ludicrous transphobic defence I’ve ever heard - that, completely out of fucking left field, she had really died in some sort of kinky sex act. This was, of course, on the basis that trans people are weird and just dig that kind of […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 15th, 2008
I’ve noticed in the years I’ve been out that incidents of transphobic violence seem to be relatively less common in Australia compared to North America. I can think of a few cases that I’ve heard about, none of them fatal. Given this, though, I’ve always been curious as to how our courts would react to […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 9th, 2008
It’s been a good week for getting rid of politicians with a penchant for sexual harassment.
Earlier in the week, Troy Buswell, the Western Australian state Liberal leader, finally stepped down. Buswell had been lambasted for months after various incidents of sexually harassing women, including sniffing the chair and making sexual remarks towards a Liberal staffer, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 5th, 2008
I’ve been mentally putting together a post about a host of things - ‘trans panic’ defences, ‘deception’, victim blaming, and all the issues that’ve been swirling around my head in the wake of the Angie Zapata murder.
I’m not quite there yet, but there’s been a few excellent things written over the last couple of days, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 2nd, 2008
The aftermath of the London Pride fiasco keeps going on, it seems, and it isn’t getting any better.
Sarah’s description of a meeting with the Metropolitan Police over the issue is, um, wow. I especially like the bit where the Pride London representative stated that the ban on trans women using the proper bathrooms was instigated […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 2nd, 2008
Lisa Harney and Queen Emily put up two of the best posts I’ve read in a long time last night last night. I don’t have anything to add, but I strongly recommend that people read them.
* Queen Emily: An open letter to cis feminists
* Lisa Harney: Cis Feminists: Trans Issues Are Important
It’s an important reminder, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 1st, 2008
Two weeks ago, Angie Zapata, a 20-year old trans woman from Colorado, was brutally murdered, murdered for merely existing. It’s a story we’ve heard all too many times in this community: a young life snuffed out because some utter scumbag freaked out and decided that she deserved to die for his insecurities.
Her killer, Allen Ray […]
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 […]