perspectives on stuff from an angry feminist
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 16th, 2008
I’m trying to get at something that’s been bothering me for a few months now. I am forever thankful for the luck I’ve had in recent times. I am slowly coming to terms with the realisation that I will in all probability never be misgendered again, in spite of all my fear. I have a […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 14th, 2008
There’s a piece of news I’ve been meaning to blog about for a few days: it seems that I’ve finally found an honours supervisor.
I’ve been planning for a while now to write my thesis on cissexual appropriation of trans identities, lives and experiences within queer and feminist theory. I’d always had the problem, however, that […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 11th, 2008
Tonight - completely unexpectedly - turned out to be a milestone that I feared I’d never reach.
There’s two things that I found so difficult about being a transwoman. One was the fact that I’d never be able to have children. The other was losing my singing voice. I’d spent much of my childhood taking singing […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 9th, 2008
Best one I’ve seen yet. I think I could have gotten every single square on a couple of threads lately, so this one is getting saved for future use…
props to nix for the link.
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 9th, 2008
Finally, tonight, I need to rant. I have the course from utter hell this semester, and it just keeps getting worse and worse with every passing week. It’s the ultimate in ignorant, entitled white middle-class feminism mixed with quite a bit of plain there-are-no-words crazy, and after a string of “OH NO YOU DID NOT […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 6th, 2008
I’ve spent a bit of the afternoon reading through the archives of the mailing list discussion that led to this post, and I started to get a feeling that worries me.
The Australian trans community has been lucky to - at least as far I’ve seen - escape some of the conflict that has shown up […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 5th, 2008
I’m unsurprised in many ways at the media saga that has surrounded the pregnancy of Thomas Beattie. What’s really saddened me, though, is some of the pretty appalling comments I’ve seen made about him from within the trans community.
One of the awkward issues that many of us who are trans are going to face, whether […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 31st, 2008
I was reading threads at Bilerico yesterday, and read to my surprise of the support of The Butchies - a band I’ve always really liked - for Michfest’s trans exclusion policy. It’s almost ancient history now, as it was seven years ago, and they’ve broken up in the intervening years, but their public statement at […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 26th, 2008
I’d been wondering for a while why this post on two dodgy cops who outed a transwoman to her violent partner was so popular among people getting here from Google. It seems that I’ve found - in the spree of concern trolling and personal abuse that’s poured into that thread in the last couple of […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 5th, 2008
I’m entering my last year of an undergraduate gender studies major at the moment, and as much as I love it, I’m getting increasingly frustrated with the way that it’s taught.
Women’s studies as a discipline is essentially dead in Australia - I don’t know of any university that still maintains an undergraduate department in it. […]