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International Women’s Day
[Below is something I posted on social media today. I’m sharing it here as is, unpolished (per my usual self-imposed blog standards), so more folks can easily find it and link to it if they want. Hopefully I will find … Continue reading
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Tagged celebration, international women's day, misgendering, non-binary, oppression, trans women, trans*, women, women's issues
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Mutable
“Sometimes I feel like ‘male’ is an island I’m clinging to after being lost at sea.” This is hard for me to write about. It has been a year since I started working in a place where everyone (who didn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged body, cis, cis male, cis passing, cisgender, cisnormativity, doubt, gender, healing, male, man, misgendering, non-binary, pain, passing, perception, pronouns, safety, testosterone, trans*, transgender, transition, uncertainty, wholeness
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A Vignette: Misgendering in Exchange for Queer Visibility
Scene: Me, buying lunch. As I struggle to pull my card out of my wallet (it’s kind of jammed in there), I am aware of the cashier watching my face in a subtle, yet noticeable way. I glance up and … Continue reading
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Tagged cisnormativity, gender, heteronormativity, misgendering, perception, pronouns, queer, queer visibility, trans*, transgender, visbility
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Hey Feminism, Trans* People Exist!
I want my freedom to be boundless and expansive, not carved into a landscape of other oppressions. Last week when I watched a video of Emma Watson, Harry Potter star and also now the United Nations Women Goodwill Ambassador, addressing … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-oppression, cisgender, Emma Watson, equality, feminism, gender, gender identity, intersectionality, lgbt, LGBTQ, misgendering, oppression, perception, privilege, queer, trans*, transgender, transmen, women
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Visibility
Coming out of having lived life as a queer woman, one of the realities of physical transition coupled with cis-normativity is an inevitable disconnection from some of the queer spaces I used to feel affirmed and accepted in. While I … Continue reading
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Tagged gender identity, identity, misgendering, queer, solidarity, trans*, trans* visbility, transgender, transition, transmen, visibility
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Perception Anxiety
I often worry that others’ perception of my gender is like that of a computer monitor that has been left on the same screen for too long without a screen saver. When this happens, the screen that has been left … Continue reading
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Tagged being out, gender norms, gender policing, gender roles, misgendering, out, perception, perceptions, pronouns, queer, trans*, transgender
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