Browsing Submissions (4 total)

This was hard to write, and even harder to post. Harder still to post publicly. Still, here it is – after having sat in my drafts folder for about four months, but thrown to the world at last.=In an effort to help people understand privilege,…

Am I not cis-gendered? This is very weird for me to own up to. I… do? identify as genderqueer? Usually I just like to go with “queer” and have that count for everything. “I am not cis-gendered,” seems weird because I identity with women;…

1. You don’t have a gender; you do gender.

2. I’d like to be free from gender norms.

3. Cis and transgender people are people, not genders.

4. Gender is always mixed up with ethnicity, sexuality, class, age and culture.

5. Doing…

Thoughts On A Pink Bathing Suit; Hacking Fat Gender And Considering Femme
Published June 1, 2010

Did I tell you we planned (very last minute) for a Body Acceptance Swimming session at this year’s Wiscon? If I didn’t, we did. It was superb. A…