perspectives on stuff from an angry feminist
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 […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 27th, 2008
It’s a bit of a small world.
I came out fairly widely to my friends when I was fifteen, and I lost more than a few at that stage. It’s been seven years, and for the most part, the people who weren’t exactly what one might call supportive then are long forgotten, and most of them […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 17th, 2008
There’s a not-half-bad post up at Reweaving at the moment expressing frustration (from a radical feminist perspective) at the vast amounts of transphobia in the radical feminist community, and specifically with regard to trans-exclusive women’s spaces. It’s worth a read, and there’s a good comments thread as well.
However, there’s a couple of things that get […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 7th, 2008
It’s been a bad week for LGBT stuff, but I’ve just gotten an email that suggests that the Rudd government might be starting to move on trans issues.
A transwoman who’d stayed married to her former partner but had had SAS has just been notified by Centrelink that the guidelines have changed and they are now […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 6th, 2008
via The Bilerico Project:
The American Psychiatric Association has named the members of it’s working group to reassess the inclusion of Gender Identity Disorder in the forthcoming new edition of the DSM, the DSM-V. It could almost not possibly be worse. The list reads like a who’s-who of obsessed creeps who’ve made a career out of […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 5th, 2008
It’s been a fairly sombre day after yesterday’s revelation that the Civil Partnerships Bill, or at least the most important elements of it, were dead in the water.
We’ve done what we could to get at least some comment out there; for my part, several comments from me are included in this morning’s Age, and I’ve […]