Bayard Rustin
"Our job is not to get those people who dislike us to love us"
bell hooks
“I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance”
I’m A Bitch, I’m A Lover
Meredith Brooks once sang: “ I’m a bitch, I’m a lover I’m a child, I’m a mother I’m a sinner, I’m a saint I do not feel ashamed I’m your…
Science and Ideology: The Blanchard-Bailey-Lawrence Model of Transsexuality
By Élise Hendrick (reprinted with permission) Autogynaephiles, Homosexuals, and Fabricators: The Blanchard-Bailey-Lawrence Taxonomy of Trans Women I. A Hypothetical Let us suppose that someone claimed to have found that rape…
Christ Commands You To Get Your Ass Kicked!
From the Evangelical Bible: I Fundamentalists: 1 And Christ said “if you’re a transsexual, you’re doomed. 2You deserve to be raped or sexually assaulted.” Or so it would seem from…
Transadvocate Reports: In development
I’m working on bringing the podcast you hear at times, Transadvocate Reports, into a live show. I NEED YOUR HELP! I’m trying to decide which intro and outro music is…
I’m Just an Angry Transsexual Activist Mafioso
In KQED’s recent interview of J Michael Bailey and Alice Dreger, Bailey said: “Again I reject the assertion that it’s all transgendered people are offended by my book. Many…
Stylebook? What Stylebook?
From the AP Stylebook: “Use the pronoun preferred by the individuals who have acquired the physical characteristics (by hormone therapy, body modification, or surgery) of the opposite sex and present…
Truth In Numbers, Hate Crimes Statistics
From a recent report out of UCLA entitled: Comparison of Hate Crimes Rates Across Protected and Unprotected Groups ( by Rebecca Stotzer, Public Policy Research Fellow at the Williams Institute)…
Isn’t It Ironic, Don’t You Think?
During the HRC/LOGO Presidential Forum John Edwards was asked: MR. SOLOMONESE: Susan Stanton is in our audience tonight. She was, for 17 years, the city manager in Largo , Florida…
For Matters of Disclosure, I Open Myself To You
The post that follows this will discuss Alice Dreger’s “The Controversy Surrounding The Man Who Would Be Queen: A Case History of the Politics of Science, Identity, and Sex in…
Summer Songs that helped us Survive
When I was Stone Blue … Rock and Roll sure helped me through …. Warning beforehand, this is a fluff-piece – you’ll have to excuse me. Actually, a little of…
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