Seriously, I'm coming down sick, and in trying to be a little bit nicer to my body today I slept 10/11 hrs, depending on how you count. Which is *way* more time than I can afford w/ 15 pages due tomorrow that I haven't started writing.

oh well.

What are some good sources for info about trans misogynistic/effemanic/transphobic "reparative therapy" clinics (e.g. Jurassic Clarke)? I found a paper written either this year or last that specifically is analyzing anti-trans violence as genocide, but they don't have any institutional or intersectional analysis and it's frustrating. So, I'm ( Read more... )

For anyone not already aware, writing about & researching genocide for a deadline is a BAD IDEA.  Particularly when that deadline is soon.

Can I have a hug?

This book I want for my paper, Conquest : sexual violence and American Indian genocide, by Andrea Smith--every copy in Illinois is checked out ( Read more... )

(There is a sick irony to seeing this article the day you start working on your paper about trans genocide.)

India: Stop 'Social Cleansing' in Bangalore

(New York, November 18, 2008) - Police in Bangalore forced about 100 hijras (working-class transgender people) from their homes on November 10, 2008, suggesting a spreading pattern of prejudice- ( Read more... )

The objection to trans medicine as conformist, as changing your body instead of changing the world, fails to question whether real health care is or can be separate from the radical transformation of society.

(it makes more sense if you read the community medicine section)

My body is not in the shape is was born in. It is several feet taller and weighs over ten times as much as it did when it came out of my mother’s womb. Its functioning is the product of modern medicine science. I suffered a life threatening illness at age eight and would almost certainly be dead were it not for antibiotics. My appearance, also ( Read more... )

( Susan Stryker, why do you have to do this to me? Help? )

So, those of you lurkers should know that my use of this journal is changing dramatically because of Taking Up Too Much Space, and that stuff I write here am/will be (likely) mostly or entirely friends-locked, and the public posts are likely getting less interesting than they used to be. So! Comment if you want to keep reading this journal if I ( Read more... )

I just managed to send a lot of things to the archive through search-and-destroy, going from 560+ "new" messages in my "inbox" to < 230 ( Read more... )