Burning Words

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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I’ve recently returned from a week at the national student queer conference, Queer Collaborations, and while I wound up having a pretty awesome week, I’m a bit disappointed to say that not much of that had to do with the actual conference. It illustrated so much of what winds up trashing so many attempts at […]

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I’ve been meaning to get back into blogging again for a bit, after a couple of months where I’ve been dealing with a bit too much personal crap to be paying much attention to the world around. This incident of “what the FUCK were you thinking?” at London Pride, however, should prompt as much outrage […]

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It’s a bit of a small world.
I came out fairly widely to my friends when I was fifteen, and I lost more than a few at that stage. It’s been seven years, and for the most part, the people who weren’t exactly what one might call supportive then are long forgotten, and most of them […]

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