Posts Tagged ‘gender’
We’ve all heard the spiel. Some have given it during more failtastic times. And even if you haven’t had it directed at you and haven’t said it, chances are you’ve witnessed it. The Nice Guy™ spiel. Most of us have known at least one. Some of us are one or were one. Many of us (women) […]
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Tags: feminism, fuck this fuckery, gender, kyriarchy, patriarchy, privilege, rape culture
Guest Post: Castles in the Air
Quest post from Quinnae, for your viewing pleasure: I’m Quinnae Moongazer and I’ll be your bloggy type person for today. My identity is, like most people’s, ever a work in progress and I’ll be pretty damn awesome if I’d only finish it. But I’m a trans woman trying to make her dreams come true and […]
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Tags: gender, guest posts, identity, transgender
This post has been crossposted as a guest post at Questioning Transphobia here. There was an incident a few weeks ago. It didn’t happen to my face but it still was a direct invasion of my privacy. First, some background: If you don’t know me, I’m polyamorous. I date, love and am intimate with multiple […]
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Tags: bullshit, cissexism, expectations, gender, kyriarchy, marginalization, privacy, privilege, transgender
Mild Clarification: Some people were a bit confused and thought that conceptual sexuality and physical sexuality are invariably separate. Actually, it’s quite possible to have both. So say if you were attracted to breasts and vagina only, but also could only find folks who are women attractive (so say, you’d not find a pre op/pre […]
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Tags: cis, gender, identity, marginalization, privilege, self expression, sexuality, transgender
In tradition of my previous post of building trans women up and decentering cis folk’s oppression of us for a while (as well as avoiding the stress inducing shitstorm of anger toxicity that I get when I let rage consume the fuck out of me, as I have been doing lately), I’ve been working on […]
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Tags: body image, cis, expectations, feminism, gender, identity, kyriarchy, self esteem, self expression, transgender
I’m going to start this post with one statement to all of my sisters out there: You are beautiful. No exceptions. No dismissals. You. Are. Beautiful. What brought this on? Well besides the obvious (that more of us need to be built up instead of being torn down) I recently spotted a search term that […]
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Tags: body image, dysphoria, gender, gid, identity, kyriarchy, marginalization, patriarchy, privilege, self esteem, self expression, sexuality, society, transgender
As a note, this is a general statement for folks with privilege in a given area. Which means it probably applies to you even if the specific examples given below don’t because you lack those privileges. Don’t get hung up on the details, think of the message. I consider this a For The Uninformed post, […]
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Tags: bodily domain, cis, expectations, feminism, for the uninformed, gender, kyriarchy, marginalization, patriarchy, privilege, rape, rape culture, sexual assault, sexuality, society, transgender, trauma, violence
Get Your Agenda Off My Body
This post was originally published Sept 03, 2009 here. (As a note: This applies to womanism too, as womanism only fully expands the women’s rights lens to issues of race but still leaves trans women in the dust more often than not.) I’m sure we all have a pretty good idea of the cardinal elements […]
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Tags: bodily domain, feminism, gender, kyriarchy, patriarchy, rage, transgender, transphobia
Male/Female: Broken Language?
This post was originally published August 21, 2009 here. In case you didn’t know (and you probably do) I am a MtF transsexual (by official definitions). By less official (my own) definitions I am a badass awesome genderfuckery factory who was born with a certain body and figured out that oh shit, that body fucking […]
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Tags: broken language, cis, gender, identity, intersex, linguistics, sci, sex, transgender
Genderbitch: An Archive 