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April 2015 – transmusings
https://thiasez.wordpress.com/2015/04
April 6, 2015. April 6, 2015. Scenes from a Life. Early summer 1967. I’m seventeen. It’s early evening and I’m sitting in the spit and sawdust pub next door to the Co-op Dairy in Gloucester where I work. I shouldn’t be there, I’m underage, but not that obviously so; despite having a smooth, androgynous face that occasionally has old ladies squinting at me and asking “Are you a girl or a boy? 8221; or “Why would a pretty girl like you cut her hair short and wear boy’s clothes? 8221; delivered in an accent...
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#ThisGirlCan is Brilliant, Now Let’s Encourage Trans Women Too – transmusings
https://thiasez.wordpress.com/2015/01/17/thisgirlcan-is-brilliant-now-lets-encourage-trans-women-too
January 17, 2015. January 17, 2015. ThisGirlCan is Brilliant, Now Let’s Encourage Trans Women Too. Ad campaign is inspired and breaks new ground in presenting a broad range of women in a body positive way, participating in and enjoying various forms of physical exercise. There have been some criticisms, though I feel these have been overstated, given the extremely positive direction and context. While congratulating. Criticisms that I’ve seen (discounting those emanating from the usual crop of term...
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Sacred Country – transmusings
https://thiasez.wordpress.com/2015/02/25/sacred-country
February 25, 2015. A few days after I first came out to my now ex, she handed me the book she’d just finished reading. “You should read this, I think you’ll find it interesting” she said. The book was. Begins in 1952, with the six year old Mary Ward having the revelation that. 8211; as still. Coming back to Sacred Country. Almost five years later, having transitioned, this viewpoint seems to me to be strange and not reflect trans people’s life experience all that well. In the intervening period...Cynthia...
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February 2015 – transmusings
https://thiasez.wordpress.com/2015/02
February 25, 2015. A few days after I first came out to my now ex, she handed me the book she’d just finished reading. “You should read this, I think you’ll find it interesting” she said. The book was. Begins in 1952, with the six year old Mary Ward having the revelation that. 8211; as still. Coming back to Sacred Country. Almost five years later, having transitioned, this viewpoint seems to me to be strange and not reflect trans people’s life experience all that well. In the intervening period...Cynthia...
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December 2014 – transmusings
https://thiasez.wordpress.com/2014/12
December 19, 2014. December 19, 2014. I’ll be Away for Christmas! I’ll be off to Wales tomorrow, to spend two weeks over Christmas and New Year with family. Opportunities to get online, other than via my phone, are likely to be limited, so it’s unlikely I’ll get any blogging done before I get home. December 9, 2014. December 9, 2014. 8216;Transparent’ – in Review. For the benefit of those who don’t know, Transparent. Is a TV series, currently available exclusively on Amazon Prime. And stars Jeffrey Tambor.
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Into the Forest – transmusings
https://thiasez.wordpress.com/2015/04/06/into-the-forest
April 6, 2015. April 6, 2015. Scenes from a Life. Early summer 1967. I’m seventeen. It’s early evening and I’m sitting in the spit and sawdust pub next door to the Co-op Dairy in Gloucester where I work. I shouldn’t be there, I’m underage, but not that obviously so; despite having a smooth, androgynous face that occasionally has old ladies squinting at me and asking “Are you a girl or a boy? 8221; or “Why would a pretty girl like you cut her hair short and wear boy’s clothes? 8221; delivered in an accent...
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Casting Trans: Part One, Lessons From ‘The Danish Girl’ – transmusings
https://thiasez.wordpress.com/2015/03/04/casting-trans-part-one-lessons-from-the-danish-girl
March 4, 2015. March 7, 2015. Trans Roles in Film. Casting Trans: Part One, Lessons From ‘The Danish Girl’. Just about everyone’s already said their piece about the casting of. In The Danish Girl. At least, from a trans perspective he’s playing Lili, because those of us who are trans are aware, perhaps painfully so; that Lili is who the real-life character portrayed in the film. An artist, who over a period of time transitions to. Dubbing the casting of cis actors in trans roles. Yet nothing is ever that...
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January 2015 – transmusings
https://thiasez.wordpress.com/2015/01
January 17, 2015. January 17, 2015. ThisGirlCan is Brilliant, Now Let’s Encourage Trans Women Too. Ad campaign is inspired and breaks new ground in presenting a broad range of women in a body positive way, participating in and enjoying various forms of physical exercise. There have been some criticisms, though I feel these have been overstated, given the extremely positive direction and context. While congratulating. Criticisms that I’ve seen (discounting those emanating from the usual crop of term...
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May 2012 – transmusings
https://thiasez.wordpress.com/2012/05
May 2, 2012. May 3, 2012. Can ‘trans’ Ever be ‘cis’? 8217; The “post-trans” myth in the broader sense, is something i intend examining in a future article, but isn’t something i’ll be discussing further here. What sparked this article – and indeed, jarred me sufficiently to provoke the abandonment of my long-held policy of procrastination and actually. The blog (yes, if it was your remark,. That i take issue with, it’s the way you describe it that’s the problem) was to produce a link to the W...ˈsɪsdʒɛnd...
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Can ‘trans’ Ever be ‘cis’? – transmusings
https://thiasez.wordpress.com/2012/05/02/can-trans-ever-be-cis
May 2, 2012. May 3, 2012. Can ‘trans’ Ever be ‘cis’? 8217; The “post-trans” myth in the broader sense, is something i intend examining in a future article, but isn’t something i’ll be discussing further here. What sparked this article – and indeed, jarred me sufficiently to provoke the abandonment of my long-held policy of procrastination and actually. The blog (yes, if it was your remark,. That i take issue with, it’s the way you describe it that’s the problem) was to produce a link to the W...ˈsɪsdʒɛnd...