Back in May I posted about The Great Trans Feminist Blogging Shakeup of 2009. Less ridiculously described, it was a series of posts and discussions in April about how Feminist blogs can/should foster discussion about trans issues. The post was prompted by my own disappointment in a discussion over at Feministing, and I was trying to process my own experiences by going through how others had viewed the conversation in April.
Well, the (queer) blogosphere is (once again) up in arms over trans related discussions, so I thought I’d (once again) try and construct a timeline so that I could better understand what the heck has been going on. Here we go!
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Feministing has a regular sex advice column called Ask Professor Foxy. I submitted a question about sexuality changing over the course of the transition, which was posted – along with a response – earlier today. The basis of the question was this: I’m a trans woman in the process of transitioning, and having a lot of frustration in figuring out how to deal with my ever-changing sexuality.
And from the resposne:
Part of this process is also going to have to be exploring your new body and your new desires and not judging yourself during this process. You can even think of it as a burden or as an extra gift during transition. Unlike cisgendered women, who typically have to get used to things on their body, you are going to be able to explore things on your body that you very much want: the breasts, the hips you will likely develop. Enjoy it!
It’s definitely worth reading, but what’s a lot more interesting is the comments…
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Figured now (when I’ve been remiss on posting) was a good time to highlight some posts from around the ‘blogosphere’…
- Trans-Related
- Transsexual Ferox posted a number of questions about her “doubts, worries, and questions” from before going full time as a woman, and her responses have given me a lot to think about. I want to write a whole post about this at some point, but I’ll settle for linking to it for now.
- Random!
- Stuff White People Like’s post #115 Promising to Learn a New Language which struck a little close to home for me… =P
- From the Official Google Blog, a story about how they constructed a zip-line to get across a stream divding the Google campus… I sort of can’t get over how much I love this concept… (Particularly working an an organization that could pretty easily set up a zip-line. That’s probably how I should start getting down from the grid in the gym.)
- Last, but not least, a bunch of politics links
I’m sitting in an Internet Marketing course to discuss how the arts org I’m General Manager of can better utilize ye olde Interwebs and the presenter is talking about organizational blogging.
I felt bad about not having made a post in over a week, so figured this is as good a time as any.
Blog!
-R
I’ve done some major blogroll updates (importing all the blogs I read through Google Reader) and thought I’d highlight a few:
- Queer Blogs
- Queer News and Politics
- Other Blogs
Woo! I’ll try and go through and plug some more later.
-R
Some interesting blog posts I’ve read recently:
- Black History: Loving v Virginia – a post about the 1967 Supreme Court case which ruled that laws against interracial marriage were un-Constitutional. Particularly interesting is a quote from Mildred Loving, the African-American woman married to a white man, who in 2007 said:
I believe all Americans, no matter their race, no matter their sex, no matter their sexual orientation, should have that same freedom to marry. Government has no business imposing some people’s religious beliefs over others. Especially if it denies people’s civil rights.
- Orson Scott Card Calls for Violent Overthrow of Govt if Gay Marriage is Legalized – I’m still not sure how I feel about Card’s (fiction) writing. I loved Ender’s Game, enjoyed most of the other books set in that universe, and really enjoy his short stories (a delightful find from back when I was at the sci-fi/fantasy bookstore, as I’m not sure they’re in print any more). Unfortunately, he’s also a raging homophobe and, at the end of a long rant (in which he denies his homophobic status through a BS semantic argument) says:
How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage, and help me raise my children in a society where they will expect to marry in their turn.
- Some posts on Judaism:
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