June 2011
6 posts
Hey guys: I'm switching to a new tumblr, because I... →
my friend K showed me a text conversation between...
T: are you coming tonight? K: I don’t know yet. T: Silas is going to be there. K: I love him. T: I love him, too.
basically: my friends are awesome.
on names.
Today I asked my friends to start calling me by a male name and pronouns (for those of you who didn’t hear from me, it’s not a slight in any way — I’m trying this out in Columbus first, and since I haven’t told many people back home, I simply haven’t told anyone. Expect an e-mail soon; in the meantime, call me whatever you’re comfortable with, but please...
“Instead of trying to fictionalize gender, let’s talk about the moments in life...”
– Julia Serano, Performance Piece (Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation eds. Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman)
May 2011
22 posts
watching Boys Don't Cry with my students, part 2
the last 40 minutes of this movie are so fucking hard to watch.
i’m doing my best to hold it together by not actually paying that much attention to what’s happening on the screen. ugh.
lost power at the coffee shop.
hipster baristas making horror movie jokes.
help.
watching Boys Don't Cry with my students
and laughing about the fact that they are so shocked by the scene where Brandon gets ready in the morning by binding his chest and packing because it just seems so familiar to me.
Reblog if you're willing to answer anything that...
bearwitnessunto:
yeh-dooriyan:
pleaseeeeeeeeeee i’m so bored
I never do these, but holy fuck I’m so bored.
“I think this is the important thing I want the non-trans world to understand...”
– Autostraddle — “Becoming Chaz” Review: About a Boy or About a Body? (via xxboy)
I Haven't Always Known
leotron:
I haven’t always known that I was trans*. Yet, because of the heavily reinforced “typical” narratives of transgender in mainstream media, there is an assumption that if you identify as such, you have known so since a very young age.
We all come to these realizations at different times in our lives; there is no certain ripe time interval in which you must figure out your gender identity...
“I wish the whole day were like breakfast, when people are still connected to...”
– Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You (via thedesignatedclapper)
love this book so fucking much.
becoming chaz is really pissing me off.
mostly because i want to punch cher in the face for complaining about what a “pain in the ass” it is for her to remember to call chaz “him.”
stfu.
"Becoming Chaz" will air on OWN on May 10 at 9pm →
leotron:
Chaz Bono will also be featured on Oprah on May 9.
really excited to watch this tonight.
srsly.
packing makes me even more dysphoric. wtf. like, seriously.
dear cough,
please go away.
ummmm.
my packer came in the mail today and i just made a harness out of the elastic from an old pair of boxer shorts. also, i got this and got to pee standing up for the first time.
24 is going to be a good fucking year.
In 2011, gays are openly permitted in the...
April 2011
41 posts
IT'S MY BIRTHDAY.
so excited!!!!
1 tag
da levee now has po' boys.
if anyone is looking for me today, that’s where i’ll be, stuffing my face full of delicious cajun food.
[da levee.]
It's Monday night.
Time to get drunk with my best friend? Yes.
my birthday is later this week and so...
I just went a little crazy with online shopping and bought a new binder, a packer, and an STP device with my credit card. Probably not the most financially responsible choice, but definitely the best birthday present(s) I’ve ever bought myself.
Tom Raper
Driving through Indiana and there are 800000000 signs for Tom Raper RVs. Also: we saw a billboard that said:
Hell has no exit.
Sponsored by the Tom Raper Foundation
“Suggesting that nail polish has anything to do with sexual preference or gender...”
– Jessica Valenti, on the controversy surrounding J.Crew’s Jenna Lyons painting her son’s toenails pink. Read Valenti’s opinion, “Petty in Pink: The uproar over a J.Crew ad reveals deep-seated hatreds.” (via thedailyfeed)
So in my family we use a lot of Yiddish in...
stopitsgingertime:
because on both sides of my family, all my grandparents’ first language was Yiddish.
So when I’m out in public and I say something like “Stop fydreying my kup!” or “This looks ferkokt” or “What kind of a schmatah is that?”
I get all these weird looks
and I’m just like
…..
AWESOME.
Check out this Awesome Event, Coming Up this May!
ftmark:
We are proud to be men, and we are proud to wear dresses. We believe we are men, no matter what we wear (or don’t wear) We stand with women, equal in all attire Have fun! Wear a Dress! Have a Dress Party, or a Dress Outing, or just stand around and feel the wind between your legs! Skirts also acceptable. Facebook RSVP reblog, spread the word, and partake! Feel free to post the...
awesome fucking students.
I think most of you know by now that I teach freshman composition. The main focus of my class is a series of assignments that makes them think about the language and rhetorical techniques used by American media and popular culture to make arguments about non-normative gender and sexuality. (I hate the term “non-normative” but it’s the easiest way to explain it to my 18-year-old...
tequila was a really bad idea.
really.
Watchmandaflewaway:
CLICK TO MAKE SOME MUSIC
why yes, i am drinking out of part of my blender.
and no, i don’t think it’s time to do dishes. why do dishes? i have plenty of other objects that can still be used to hold beverages.
This American Life is basically the best thing ever.
favorite thing ever.
putting my students in groups to “discuss” things so I can have five minutes to get on Facebook/Tumblr. I am a horrible teacher.
Amazing
The concert, that is. None of my videos came out good, though, except of the awesome opening act. But seriously: The Mountain Goats are amazing live.
WatchMegafun opening for The Mountain Goats—Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, OH, 4/11
