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Cartographies: May 2012
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Monday, 28 May 2012. Carto's Seal of Approval. This is not a bad article on issues trans. It is from a cis perspective, by a (presumably cis) journalist Jesse Green, and it's not perfect, but hey, you've got to start somewhere, and you could do a lot. Worse than this. Ignore the cringeworthy heading. The comment thread is full of fail, as per usual. Avoid.). Links to this post. Tuesday, 22 May 2012. This is not a guide for the cis. For that, please use Google. Or whichever tickles your fancy). But in the...
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Cartographies: June 2014
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Sunday, 29 June 2014. Long time no post, or, what I found out about myself today. Met a couple of fellow old-timers today (if you're reading this, hi! And it does seem I've moved on, and, more importantly: I've moved on to expressing my anger. Which is good! Anger is a normal reaction to having been (metaphorically) tossed around like a rag doll in a dryer. Anger is a perfectly normal response to people trying to treat your body as public property. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A Statem...
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Cartographies: Carto's Seal of Approval
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Monday, 28 May 2012. Carto's Seal of Approval. This is not a bad article on issues trans. It is from a cis perspective, by a (presumably cis) journalist Jesse Green, and it's not perfect, but hey, you've got to start somewhere, and you could do a lot. Worse than this. Ignore the cringeworthy heading. The comment thread is full of fail, as per usual. Avoid.). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). No transphobia. Period. No racist crap, either. Attack the issue, not the person posting it. The blogs I read.
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Cartographies: August 2012
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Thursday, 2 August 2012. Carto's guide to doctors treating trans women. It can be summed up in two words: be careful, and please try to warn before you ask about really intimate stuff. Genitalia and trans, for example, being "really intimate stuff". To see a doctor. DIY-ing is not an option, even though cranberry juice can help. You don't want any nasties in your urethra, and you definitely don't want them in your kidneys. And also, you having a trans background, it. Trouble is, I. Links to this post.
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Cartographies: August 2011
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Sunday, 7 August 2011. There's been a Slutwalk in my home town. It bothered me quite a bit, but I couldn't lay my finger on what it was that bothered me, considering I quite agree with the people organising the thing with the issues: blaming the raped woman for the rape is just sick, and yeah, no means no and yes means yes - that's the way it should go. Period. Finally, I found this excellent bit of thinking. Therefore, the word slut has not been used to discipline (shame) us into chaste moral categories...
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Cartographies: Quick notes on non-cis life
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Sunday, 6 April 2014. Quick notes on non-cis life. Owning up to your past is almost impossible. Whatever you say will very likely be twisted into something unrecognizable that'll fit into cissexist conception of what you are. You don't really learn how to relate to the cis: in the beginning you have to lie both to other people and to yourself as convincingly as possible, in order to survive. How does one learn to relate to other people while doing that? You might end up alone. It's still better than ...
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Cartographies: January 2013
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Thursday, 24 January 2013. I'd like to leave this trans crap well alone, but it won't leave me. Here's what, you Good People:. I'm not your, or anyone else's, badge of tolerance. Neither I'm a collectible item to add to your collection of "different" friends that you can then parade in front of people you want to impress with your, I dunno, breadth of humans you know. Should you do this to me, let me assure you you're no friend. Friends don't objectify their friends. Links to this post. Aiming for perfec...
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Cartographies: Bibliography
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Monday, 25 June 2012. Books I've read during my life as trans that have actually helped:. Kate Bornstein: Gender Outlaw. Yes. Aunty Kate. I didn't quite agree with her back then, and I certainly don't agree with her now, but yes, it did help. It made me see that I could shake off the coercively assigned sex/gender, that it was a possibility. Riki Wilchins and Joan Nestle: Genderqueer. See above. Glenn Schiraldi: PTSD Workbook. Especially chapter on managing anger, plus several others. Monique Wittig....
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Cartographies: February 2014
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Sunday, 2 February 2014. Yael Bartana's upcoming movie, True Finn. I won't be writing about this at length, as I don't have the time, but a single quote should suffice. A Finnish-Québécois man states, in an interview. Search-and-replace "Finnish" with woman, and "Québécois" with "trans". The movie screens in Bio Rex, in Helsinki, on 31st of March. It sounds like it'll be brilliant. Links to this post. Labels: cis people are rubbish when describing trans people. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Its all about m...
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