perspectives on stuff from an angry feminist
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 16th, 2008
And the bad news.
Kellie Telesford’s murderer has been acquitted, despite the most ludicrous transphobic defence I’ve ever heard - that, completely out of fucking left field, she had really died in some sort of kinky sex act. This was, of course, on the basis that trans people are weird and just dig that kind of […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 15th, 2008
I’ve noticed in the years I’ve been out that incidents of transphobic violence seem to be relatively less common in Australia compared to North America. I can think of a few cases that I’ve heard about, none of them fatal. Given this, though, I’ve always been curious as to how our courts would react to […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 5th, 2008
I’ve been mentally putting together a post about a host of things - ‘trans panic’ defences, ‘deception’, victim blaming, and all the issues that’ve been swirling around my head in the wake of the Angie Zapata murder.
I’m not quite there yet, but there’s been a few excellent things written over the last couple of days, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 2nd, 2008
The aftermath of the London Pride fiasco keeps going on, it seems, and it isn’t getting any better.
Sarah’s description of a meeting with the Metropolitan Police over the issue is, um, wow. I especially like the bit where the Pride London representative stated that the ban on trans women using the proper bathrooms was instigated […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 1st, 2008
Two weeks ago, Angie Zapata, a 20-year old trans woman from Colorado, was brutally murdered, murdered for merely existing. It’s a story we’ve heard all too many times in this community: a young life snuffed out because some utter scumbag freaked out and decided that she deserved to die for his insecurities.
Her killer, Allen Ray […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 14th, 2008
I’ve been sitting on this post, not knowing quite what to say, ever since returning from Melbourne. Reading (belatedly) a great post from cripchick tonight compelled me to finish it.
As a trans woman, so much of my life, and my own history, has and is defined by the influence the medical establishment has over that […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 12th, 2008
I’m a bit late to this one too, but it warrants some angry words. Unsurprisingly, both the London Pride organisers and the Metropolitan Police have issued public apologies for the incident at last week’s event where trans women were denied access to the women’s bathroom and threatened with arrest. The London Pride apology can be […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 9th, 2008
I’ve been realising recently, in the wake of having gone mostly stealth as trans, just how much that experience tends to obscure the privileges one has in other quarters. When you’re trans, you’re always the one with the life that no one wants. Take that out of the equation, though, and the picture can be […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 7th, 2008
I’ve recently returned from a week at the national student queer conference, Queer Collaborations, and while I wound up having a pretty awesome week, I’m a bit disappointed to say that not much of that had to do with the actual conference. It illustrated so much of what winds up trashing so many attempts at […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 7th, 2008
I’ve been meaning to get back into blogging again for a bit, after a couple of months where I’ve been dealing with a bit too much personal crap to be paying much attention to the world around. This incident of “what the FUCK were you thinking?” at London Pride, however, should prompt as much outrage […]