13 April 2011

Tranny Baiting

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Yesterday I had one of those classes that made me wish I'd gone into business or something rather than education.  I was showing a fi...
11 April 2011

They All Want To Write About LGBT Issues

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One of the classes I'm teaching this semester is in research writing.  All students at the college in which I teach it have to take it w...
08 April 2011

It's A Girl Again!

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Another "girl" was "born" today. Or, more precisely, a girl who was born on 7 July 2009 became who she is, again. ...
07 April 2011

Another Campaign of H8

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Even if you haven't heard of the Westboro Baptist Church, you may know about its founder, Reverend Fred Phelps.  And even if you don...
06 April 2011

When Girl Meets Girl

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When you're a performer of any sort, someone in your audience is going to have a crush on you.  Anyone who's a singer or musician kn...
05 April 2011

They Need A Few Good Bikes. The Women, Too.

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A counselor at my second job is a volunteer with Neighbors Link, an organization that helps recent immigrants. He is asking people to donat...
04 April 2011

What Would MLK Do?

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Forty-three years ago today, Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot to death.  It's the first assassination of a public figure that I can reca...
03 April 2011

Why We Should Be Worried About Anti-Islamic Hate

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Although I still have something that resembles a belief system, I have just about no use for religion.  Still, I am very, very afraid when I...
01 April 2011

Maryland HB-235: Trans People Thrown Under The Bus, Again

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What is it with LGBT legislation?  It seems that it's only for the L's and the G's. Mind you, I don't believe that legisla...
30 March 2011

Damien Furtch Speaks Up and Out

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What happened to Damian Furtch is terrible.  He was leaving the McDonald's at Sixth Avenue and West Third Street in Manhattan on Saturd...
29 March 2011

Hearing It All Again

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Sometimes it all seems too familiar.  There is a particularly gruesome attack on a transgender person, and the media splashes it all over th...
27 March 2011

Sometimes You Just Have To Ask

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Today I parked my bike in a place where I never before parked it. The funny thing is that it was a place where I used to go almost daily ...
26 March 2011

What I Learned From Geraldine Ferraro

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Is this turning into a blog about famous recently-departed women? Today Geraldine Ferraro died.  If you're reading this, you probably...
25 March 2011

Violence Against Transgenders On The Rise. Why?

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Lately, I've been reading reports and editorials that indicate or imply increasing violence against transgender people.  Some people m...
23 March 2011

R.I.P. Elizabeth Taylor

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As most of the world knows by now, Elizabeth Taylor died today.   As old as I am, I can just barely remember her heyday as an actress--or...
22 March 2011

Please Don't Approach Me As A "T"

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Today two different people approached me to help with something called " Safe Zone " training.  And I reacted in two completely di...
21 March 2011

It's Her Party, So Why Am I The Center of Attention?

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I went to a party a couple of nights ago. For most people that wouldn't be terribly remarkable, I guess.  And, in the scheme of things, ...
17 March 2011

Barie Shortell and Trans Women In Brazil

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At some point, I came to think of late June as gay bashing season.  It seemed that the couple of weeks before and after this city's Prid...
15 March 2011

Found Out!

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At my second job, I haven't talked about my gender history with my students.  I haven't wanted to, in part because I got tired of do...
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14 March 2011

Keeping Our Fingers Crossed

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Normally, my mind glazes over when I see charts full of numbers.  But A.E.Brain has a way of making such things comprehensible.  I'm ha...