Best line of the day goes to D’Anne Witkowski over at PrideSource Blog:
Fuller alleges, if voters had known Bruce was a tranny, they’d never have voted for her. In fact, Fuller’s attorney, in a bizarre logical leap, claims that by running as a woman, Bruce was able to curry unfair favor with Riverdale voters.
“It [...]
November 29, 2007 | Posted in
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I was amused and quite glad to find out that the Logo Network and Calpernia Addams have decided to take the Fox’s “Something About Miriam” dissaster format and turn it into a positive.
From Perez Hilton:
MTV’s GLBT channel, Logo, will be airing a reality dating show starring a transgender woman as the lead!
Transamerican Love Story is [...]
November 29, 2007 | Posted in
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I tend to expect that Heart over at Women’s Spaces/The Margins to come unhinged by the transgender community. Her recent diatribe about transgender people:
My gut, experience, knowledge tell me that the group of persons which will receive the absolute least sympathy and concern is female persons. We are trafficked, prostituted, enslaved, raped, all of the [...]
November 29, 2007 | Posted in
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By Vanessa Edwards Foster
“I don’t like defining myself. I just am.” — Britney Spears
Beyond dealing with my own issues this month (family crap, work insanity and a computer virus with its residual problems), it’s been a memorably weird month, this November.
To begin the month, one of my NTAC-mates, TransAdvocate’s Marti Abernathey mentioned to [...]
November 28, 2007 | Posted in
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Just wanted to let everyone know I’m still here. I know I haven’t posted recently, for the following reasons:
1. I got a nasty virus that infected everything PC wise…both my network computers, both my ipods… just about anything that could be infected. I’ve switched over to Linux (Xubuntu to be exact), and I couldn’t be [...]
November 23, 2007 | Posted in
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I was recently on WFHB’s GLBT program, BloomingOUT. There show is only an hour, so I only spoke for about 10-15 minutes. I wanted to do this podcast to expand on the thoughts from the show.
The musical break in the middle of the podcast is from Georgie Jessup with a song called “Post-Op Freeway”.
In the [...]
November 16, 2007 | Posted in
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If it was offensive and funny, it might have some value… too bad it isn’t.
November 14, 2007 | Posted in
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by Vanessa Edwards Foster
“Throughout America’s adventure in free government, such basic purposes have been to keep the peace; to foster progress in human achievement, and to enhance liberty, dignity and integrity among peoples and among nations. To strive for less would be unworthy of a free and religious people.Any failure traceable [...]
November 12, 2007 | Posted in
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Crossposted from Transpolitical
My oh my, you sure know how to arrange things.
You set it up so well, so carefully.
Ain’t it funny how your new life didn’t change things?
You’re still the same old girl you used to be. — Lyin’ Eyes, the Eagles
Duplicity is duplicity, no matter how you slice (or parse) it. Or [...]
November 10, 2007 | Posted in
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Last night I wrote a friend a rant that was full of expletives and frustration. Most of my disgruntlement was from the Wednesday’s passage in the House of Representatives of the sexual orientation only Employment Non-Discrimination Act.
It was a historic day for gays and lesbians (if only symbolically), but it was a setback for the [...]
November 9, 2007 | Posted in
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