January 2010
16 posts
destination
Let’s just say that transfolk, as a community, are not ones to find ourselves easily thwarted by a difficult task.
And by the way, since we’re talking about it, this is a job skill. I think we approach job interviews full of dread, full of fear, hoping that someone will “see past” our trans histories or our trans identities and hire us anyway. The hell with that. ...
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there is a light that never goes out - the smiths
Watchstart-anywhere:joshuajudd
“anybody have bjork’s email? i want to ask if i can borrow her swan dress and maybe trick it out with some sequins and blood. that plus my armpit hair will make sure they never invite me back to hollywood.”
-amanda palmer, from here
Taking steps: I'm so heavy tonight →
“There is very little I have in common with that kid—we don’t look the same, or know the same people, or do the same things, our plans for life are completely different, we live in different places with different families and different politics and different heroes and different dreams. We don’t even have the same name. I have a future; that kid, or that idea of who I thought I would be, anyway,...
So I don’t think that butch fear of femininity is all that simple to unravel. It is not just our own misogyny that makes us see anything less than manly as weak or less than. Our fear of our own inner girl is so much more complicated than that.
Most of us grew up uncomfortable not only in our clothes but in our pink bedrooms, our gender roles, our families expectations, and even our own skins....