14 February 2011

Carriers Of News

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Today I was drifting aimlessly in cyberspace when I really should have been doing other things.  And, somehow, I came upon this: Someone...
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13 February 2011

Another Disappearing Tranny?

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My relationship to my past is changing.  I've been thinking of moving in with someone who's not a lover or relative.  And I notice m...
12 February 2011

Walking With Our Heads Up

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After reading Diana's post today, I checked out one of the links she provided. That there is discrimination against transgender peo...
11 February 2011

Turning Sepia or Chiaroscuro

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"Sophia" had an interesting response to my post " Giving Up What I Never Had ." On her blog, she describes " A Li...
10 February 2011

What Do I Do Now?

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Yesterday I was actually starting to like the idea of moving.  Well, I wasn't thinking so much of moving as I was of being in an apartme...
09 February 2011

Into More Light?

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I don't know whether I have become more photosensitive after hormones and surgery.  Lately it's seemed that way.  I've been real...
07 February 2011

Agoraphobia

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I'd been avoiding Sara .  Actually, I'd been avoiding her friend, too, perhaps even more than I'd been avoiding her.  But she so...
06 February 2011

Sean Avery Speaks (Up) For Us

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It's been said that politics makes for strange bedfellows. Well, let me tell you, I've had some pretty strange bedfellows.  And I...
05 February 2011

Giving Up What I Never Had

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The other day I was talking--about what, I don't recall-- with another faculty member.  All I know is that it had to do with things we w...
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03 February 2011

Protesting Undercover in Egpt

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According to Scott Long, the LGBT coordinator for Human Rights Watch, "a large number of LGBT Egyptians have joined the protesters who ...
02 February 2011

Backlash Against Whom And What?

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What I said yesterday about the un-funny Saturday Night Live sketch brings to mind a conversation I had with a colleague. She remarked th...
01 February 2011

Getting Over "Saturday Night Live"

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It's been decades since I've watched Saturday Night Live regularly.  So I would never have known about a sketch they did last week i...
31 January 2011

What You Don't Have To Prove

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One of the wonderful things about getting older (Notice that I didn't say "old"!) is that confessions don't seem as self-c...
29 January 2011

Alchemy And Invisibilty

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In the waiting area of Hannah and Her Sisters' nail salon, I was reading The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.   A woman about my age, but of e...
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28 January 2011

Stopping Is Part Of The Journey

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I can say with near-certainty that on this date at around this time, ten years ago, I was riding on rollers , which are a kind of treadmil...
24 January 2011

Yes, We're Guilty. Aren't We Always?

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I was "surfing" the radio when I heard the tail end of what seemed to be one of those talk shows geared toward white men who wan...
23 January 2011

Unemployed and Homeless LGBTs: How Many?

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The weather forecast is calling for the coldest night in six years.   I can recall that cold spell.  It was like that winter:  It was bruta...
20 January 2011

OK Now

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Yesterday I bumped into somebody I hadn't seen in about two years.  Suzanne and I used to work together; now she's working for hers...
19 January 2011

Along The Way

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The strange thing about goals is that, so often, when you reach them, they turn out not to be goals after all.  You realize that they were j...
16 January 2011

Third, Or Not Specified

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Lately I've read a couple of interesting gender-related stories.  One comes from Nepal , the other from Australia. In the conservativ...