Burning Words

I’ve mentioned it before on this blog, but one of the things that’s thrown me off a little bit over the last few months is that I’ve suddenly started getting read by people as straight. Until about the end of last year, I’d been read as queer ever since I was old enough for people […]

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Okay, considering what I say about myself on this blog, I’m sure it’s pretty easy for people who know me in real life and stumble across this blog to put two and two together. I know that the address of this blog has been floating around local queer lists on a couple of occasions, so […]

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I find myself having a strange dilemma these days.
I’ve never really passed for straight, or at least not until recently. From the time I was old enough for people to make assumptions about my sexuality, people have thought I was queer. In my early teens, that meant most people assumed I was gay. In my […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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