22 February 2011

A Day For Celebrating Our Real Beauty

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The college in which I've been moonlighting is going to have an event called "Beauty Day," in conjunction with Women's His...
21 February 2011

A Victim Or An Accuser?

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When is a victim an accuser? She is when the crime against her is rape, stalking or domestic violence. At least,  that will be the case  ...
20 February 2011

On Current Events

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I've been holding off on saying anything about the developments in Egypt, Bahrain and Wisconsin. There are more issues involved than the...
19 February 2011

This Doesn't Change: Conflicting Advice

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It almost goes without saying that a gender "transition" involves changes as great in number and degree as most people are likely ...
17 February 2011

Finding Out About Lola

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Today I heard the Kinks' Lola on the radio.  That, in itself, is not so unusual:  "oldies" and "classic rock" statio...
16 February 2011

The Art Of Gender And Prestige

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Writing about newsboys and news carriers (Carriers?  I thought they had to do with diseases!) got me to thinking about what happens to jobs ...
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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