Some Links

Queen Emily describes what being transgender means to her. I need to post my own, soon.

Drakyn posts his description here.

Nexy responds to Emily’s post here.

Shiva describes the natural alliance of disability and transgender activism. I intend to cover this myself, but I didn’t get this done by today as I’d planned.

Monica Roberts continues her Transgender Day of Remembrance posts with Remembering Our Dead.

Gorgon Queen expresses some common frustration about the transphobia coming from certain prominent gay men.

Cara on Feministe posts about the transgender politician sued for fraud. I covered this somewhat, but didn’t comment much. Cara has a lot to say that I happen to agree with.

Brownfemipower, BlackAmazon, Donna, and Sylvia respond to Hugo Schwyzer resurrecting the Full Frontal Feminism controversy. The discussion about how women of color are marginalized in feminism is very to the point.

Miss Crip Chick wrote a poem everyone should read.

Kim at Bastante Already explains why she turned away from online radical feminism.

Dw3t-Hthr of Letters from Gehenna posts regarding mental health, sexual assault, and the personal being political.

Renegade Evolution discusses pornspeak, how some women react to it, and some women try to use it as a weapon.

Lesbianism. It’s serious business.

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2 Responses to “Some Links”

  1. drakyn Says:
    November 25, 2007 at 1:50 am

    Hey Lisa, I just posted my response to Emily’s post in my journal. ^.^
    http://drakyn.livejournal.com/79043.html?
    It was somewhat disappointing because I don’t feel like my experiences are all that different from a lot of other trans*guys’, but it did help me realize why I have such a hard time understanding most other form of trans*ism; being a transsexual is so very simple to me, my response and the responses of others may not be, but transsexuality is for me just the fact that my body and my neural map don’t match up.

  2. Lisa Harney Says:
    November 25, 2007 at 2:05 am

    I liked this:

    I don’t really identify as trans* or transsexual—at least, my gender identity and my subconscious sex are male/man. I identify as transsexual/trans* because that is how others see and classify me. It is an identity forged through a life lived with a certain medical condition and how I have been mistaken for and had to pretend to be something and someone I was not.

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