| Transgender in Canadian Military |
[Nov. 8th, 2009|02:15 am] |
hey guys, I have the opportunity to write an article for "This Magazine," a Canadian national magazine.
I want to write a feature on transfolk in the Canadian forces and this means I need a character. If anyone is in Toronto or the surrounding area and is interested in making their story known, please message me!
Thanks so much! |
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| Question |
[Nov. 8th, 2009|01:39 am] |
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I am getting ready to move to a new state and town in the next year or so. When I go I am hoping to introduce myself from the get go as female. I understand that this will probably scare some people away but then again those are not the people I would want to get to know anyway right? I guess my question is, is it a good idea to be upfront with new people right away about being trans or is it likely to isolate me from the community before they have a chance to accept me? |
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| It's funny because |
[Nov. 7th, 2009|11:36 pm] |
I was registered as a Republican when I took this picture.
PS No, I did not vote for McCain. I didn't vote for anybody.
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| Fabric Find! |
[Nov. 7th, 2009|08:56 pm] |
Today's fabric find is from the Fat Quarter Shop, a place I discovered through someone here on ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) steamfashion.
The "Be a Man" collection featuring:
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It's so rare to find fabrics with gears on them. And this one is in a color I don't mind. I wish the price were lower, but it could still be fun to play with! |
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| silver engraved goggles and more on eBay!! |
[Nov. 7th, 2009|08:21 pm] |
Just letting every one know I have completed a few things one of which is a set of engraved silver goggles!
here is the obligatory picture
and a couple of masks, rest of this including ebay links are below the cut!
( Read more... )
hope everyone is having a great weekend! |
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| Anitque laces and trims |
[Nov. 7th, 2009|05:04 pm] |
Awhile ago I bought a large box of antique/vintage laces and trims. I have only scratched the surface of what was in there, I found a fun use: adorning velvet blazers. I get velvet blazers at the thrift stores and reline, trim and give them a new life. I posted one a while ago with keys as buttons, but I just wanted to show you more cause you asked for it. And some other goodies I have been working on
Without further ado: (and available on my etsy)
www.shawkstitches.etsy.com
( More steamy goodness ) |
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| tales of a pt student activist... |
[Nov. 7th, 2009|04:31 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | activism, lbgt, school | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Andrew Bird-Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left | ] |
Went to the first organizational meeting of a handful of students who want to start a queer student group at Kishwaukee Community College. Apparently they've tried several times in the past few years but *couldn't find the minimum 10 queers/allies to charter the group*. Grand total this meeting: 4 males, 3 females plus one faculty advisor. One of the males was your prototypical gamer geek straight boy with no social skills who knows fuck-all about being a good ally (but insists he really is one!) monopolizing the entire meeting with his tales of being in the Knights of Columbus and how he only slips up and tells a gay joke once in a while, honest. If he doesn't STFU at the next meeting we are going to have to have a quiet word.
What would be a good inclusive name for an LGBT and allies student group? I was thinking of playing off rainbows and the school name, but alas, Kaleidoscope is already taken as the name of the school paper. Help me brainstorm? |
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| Calling for help! |
[Nov. 7th, 2009|04:40 pm] |
Hi! I am looking for a few titles for a research project I am doing. It's about the comparison/contrast of the Deaf and Queer (focus on Trans/Intersex) cultures. I would like to just borrow for the book no longer than a month, I promise not to highlight in it or dogear. I take good care of books, and will promptly return them no less than a month. If you have a title (or any that fit under this theme), please comment and we can get in touch via private message to discuss semantics :) I have plenty of deaf (written by deaf authors, sans Harlan Lane) books, just not a lot of queer ones (ironically...) Our libraries (and I searched them all through the SAILS network, including college libraries) do not have these titles, so suggestions of looking for the library are unhelpful!
No Pity: People With Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement by Joseph P. Shapiro
Fear Of A Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory by Michael Warner
Intersex and Identity: The Contested Self by Sharon E. Preves
Transgender Rights by Paisley Currah
Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body by Lennard J. Davis
Transgender History by Susan Stryker
Just Add Hormones: An Insider's Guide to the Transsexual Experience by Matt Kailey
Transmen and FTMs: Identities, Bodies, Genders, and Sexualities by Jason Cromwell
In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives by Judith Halberstam
Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality by Anne Fausto-Sterling
No Pity : People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement by Joseph P. Shapiro
Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category by David Valentine
The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals by Stephanie A. Brill
I have crossposted this in a few different places to cover some good ground. |
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