Comments (4) A joke response to the following…
“Becca, you’re such a musical theatre dork.”
“Formal clothing for women is so much more light-weight than for men!”
“Your long hair is so beautiful!”
“You have such good skin.”
“So you hate beer and only like fruity drinks?”
Any others y’all can think of?
Two weeks from today will be opening night for Uncovering the Mirrors at the Chicago Fringe Festival. Please buy your tickets today or find it in your heart to donate!
As a teaser, here’s some text from my upcoming show:
The Land of Gender, part one
Explorers embarked on great journeys to survey Gender, to make sense of its breadth and variety. Because the terrain had an infinite number of vistas – expansive deserts, lofty mountains, cresting oceans – each explorer came away from the Land of Gender with a different understanding of the landscape. But none of these vantage points proved any more complete or detailed than any other; no explorer had any better view of Gender than any other.
For untold ages, attempting to put the Land of Gender to paper, to capture its shape, was impossible. Cartography was useless, inadequate. The land refused to be charted or unified by a singular map. It continued to exist in only the experiences of those who ventured into the unknowns, their disparate accounts and partial understandings.
While most explorers were content with the mysteries and fluidity of the Land of Gender, one explorer in particular wished desperately to strip the Land of its relentlessness. Where other explorers would enjoy the mysteries of the Land of Gender, this explorer found fear and panic. And so He set about developing a map which could measure, manage, and master the Land of Gender once and for all.
More morning ritual movement st00f. Enjoy!
Morning Ritual, part 2 from Rebecca Kling on Vimeo.
While researching SRS, I’ve been compiling a list of surgeons in North America. I don’t like admitting it, but going to Thailand (the most common non-NA place I see SRS docs practicing) sort of unnerves me. I like the idea of being somewhere where I understand the culture and can communicate with the staff. Maybe that’s an unreasonable fear (based on the reviews I’m reading of Thai docs, it seems like it is an unreasonable fear) but, at least for now, I’m focusing on North America.
So what have I found? Here’s the list of doctors I’m most actively investigating:
Dr McGinn – Pennsylvania
Dr Bowers – Colorado (but moving to California some time within the next year)
Dr Brassard – Montreal
A friend of mine is in the show Talk Radio, which closed today in Chicago. The show is described as follows:
Talk radio host Barry Champlain is a relic of an analog age, on the verge of a deal for national syndication. Tonight, not only is he under assault from many callers-in, but he also has digital communication thrust upon him. Bogosian meets Orwell in this commentary on the media.
I went to today’s 3PM closing, and after 30 minutes of sexism, transphobia, victim blaming, and general obnoxiousness, I walked out. So what’s the protocol for walking out on friends?
I’ve been successful this past week in having a post every day, and even working ahead to have posts ready and in the pipeline a few days out. I’m really going to try and keep this up, because I love the amount of interaction and response that comes when I’m more consistent with my postings.
To that end, here’s a thought for this Saturday:
Google News archives have just over 70,000 results for a search of ‘transgender’:
They also let you see a graph of news results over the last 20 years:
And a timeline for all the results in their archives, since 1960:
An interesting pattern, no?
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Not the actual dog, I presume...
I don’t expect the mainstream media to get queer topics right, particularly when it comes to anything about gender or trans issues. Take, for example, this recent article at NBC LA:
A Pomeranian puppy who has the unusual distinction of having undergone a sex change will be given a home next week.
The puppy, named Red, is recovering after gender-reassignment surgery saved the dog from euthanasia. The dog was born with partially formed male and female reproductive organs and required surgery to prevent infection and reduce the risk of cancer.
Source: http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local-beat/Transgender-Dog-To-Be-Given-a-Home-100304599.html
Lets go through this one by one…
1. The dog isn’t trans. I have yet to see evidence that dogs have any sort of gender identity. Rather, it sounds as if the dog is intersex, having “intermediate or atypical combinations of physical features that usually distinguish female from male.” Transgender != intersex.
I was talking with some coworkers this week, B who has been there almost a year and K, the woman I’m training to be my replacement. We were joking about a number of things, and B made a self-deprecating joke about being gay. I followed up with a self-deprecating joke about being trans, and turned to K, saying, “You know I’m trans, right?”
That’s been my general coming out tactic lately, and I think I’ve mentioned it once or twice before on this blog. Today, K paused (awkwardly, I felt) and said, “Oh, yeah.”
coming out, trans
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coming out, trans, work
We’re having a(nother) Heroes and Villains party in a few weeks, and my roommates and I are tentatively planning on all going as Batman villains. Try to guess what this costume piece will be used for! 
Yay! I may start wearing corsets all the time. Look at that waist!
Everyone making financial decisions looks like this
My brother and I had a long chat earlier this week about finances, freelancing, and money management. He opened his own climbing and guiding business a few years ago, Kling Mountain Guides, so had a very up-to-date take on running your own business. (If you’re in Colorado and looking to go climbing, or looking to book a trip guide for an international climb, definitely look him up!)
I do think there are some significant differences between what he did/is facing and what I’m getting myself into. First and foremost, I have minimal up-front costs. I don’t need a storefront, I don’t need stock, and I don’t need licenses or permits. I do need publicity material – my website, business cards, promotional flyers to send to schools and conferences – but that’s in the order of hundreds or maybe thousands of dollars, rather than the tens of thousands I know my brother has had to put into his business.
At the same time, I’m facing some tough financial decisions.
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