10 June 2011

Meeting The Past, Again

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This summer, I'm teaching a class on the campus where I worked my primary job this year. Something odd is happening:  Even though I have...
08 June 2011

Advice from Brian May

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If you're of my generation--or a Queen fan (Come on, admit it, you loved Night At The Opera!)--you surely remember the Brian May song Fa...
07 June 2011

A Real Woman?

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I understand Ann Coulter is hawking her new book.  Oh joy oh joy.   Once a reporter asked her what she would do if she found out her son...
06 June 2011

How Could I Ever Break Up Your Family?

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If I recall correctly, one of the characters in Alberto Moravia's The Conformist  (and in Bernardo Bertolucci's film based on the no...
05 June 2011

Thirty Years Later, It's Our Epidemic

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Thirty years ago today, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report , published by the Centers for Disease Control, included a piece of inform...
04 June 2011

Reflections Cycling

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All of my kidding aside, I really am a rather reflective and contemplative woman.  I've had to be.  Maybe that's why I sometimes, ...
03 June 2011

Can They Raise A Gender-Free Child?

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People have been asking me what I think about the Canadian parents who are raising a genderless child --or, at any rate, one who is not spec...
01 June 2011

The End Of Memory: Beyond Forgetting

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Yesterday I rode my bike through a part of Brooklyn in which I spent much of my childhood.  I hadn't been there in four years.  The la...
31 May 2011

I'm Here

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I know it's been a few days since I've posted.  The semester has just ended, and  that has meant a lot of work.  And, over the weeke...
27 May 2011

If They're Committed To It, Don't Let Them Do It

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"I don't have anything against gay people.  I just don't think they should be allowed to get married." I'm sure you...
26 May 2011

Rain and Earthquakes

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The semester is just about over.  I'll be teaching a summer class, but I will have a few days off in between.  Hopefully, it will be eno...
23 May 2011

Transgender Group Honors Former Governor

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Yesterday the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund honored former Governor David Paterson.  During his final year in office, he si...
22 May 2011

Looking At My Vagina Again

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Early this evening, I got home from a bike ride I took to Point Lookout, via Rockaway Beach.  After feeding my cats and myself, I dilated.  ...
21 May 2011

Since We Last Met

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On my way home last night, I bumped into someone I hadn't seen in at least a year.   Lucy  was getting chicken-on-a-stick from a "s...
20 May 2011

Near The Finish Line

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Been so tired this week. I've been reading papers practically non-stop when I'm not in my classes.  None of it is really new: I have...
18 May 2011

Reading At The Doctor's Office

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Today I went to my doctor for a follow-up.  His office is across the street from a high school.   I'm thinking now of one of the firs...
16 May 2011

Power Relations

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Another of the mighty has fallen.  Or so it seems. Dominique Strauss-Kahn is the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund and...
14 May 2011

Transploitation

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After Sophie's comment on yesterday's post, I could not stop thinking about the ways we are dehumanized, wittingly or not. The re...
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13 May 2011

First Love With A Fugitive

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If you follow this, or any other, blog, you know that Blogger has been down for the better part of the last couple of days.  It's good t...
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10 May 2011

Are We Trannies?

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It had to happen sooner or later:  Some are suggesting we stop using the term " tranny ." Others say it is "our" term, a...