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Frustrations with some members of the trans community.
I understand how vital, for some transpeople, passing can be. It seems to me that it's vital for several reasons: 1) if you do indeed want to be perceived as the gender with which you identify, passing successfully is a large component of that, and it's often necessary for reassurance and validation, and 2) it cuts down on the potential, sometimes ( Read more... ) -
Sorrow.
Benazir Bhutto was assassinated today. How horribly sad. It's always sad to see lives lost. The world can, sometimes, be a very cruel place. I want so much to help make it better. *sigh* -
Aoide and I.
I love my cello with a passion I usually only reserve for other human beings. She was a gift from my parents five years ago (I'd been playing on various lower-quality instruments, for about....eight years or so?) and just perfect, and beautiful, and when I got her I named her Aoide, after the Greek muse of song, because it seemed so right. [I ( Read more... ) -
It seems as though I just went on a date from hell.
I despise dating. Yes, I do. I hate navigating the glbt waters of the relationship scene. The need for definitions, categories, delineated lines always repels me, and I always end up in conversations that go a little like this:
"Straight or gay?"
"Pansexual."
"....oh."
or,
"Gender identity?"
"Androgyne."
"MtF?"
"No, androgyne."
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The nature of a gift.
My sister got a printer for Yule. A printer that does other things, too - a printer that not only prints, but scans, and copies, and collates. It is a giant, mammoth, techno-beast, and the little slots where the paper and cartridges are supposed to go in make it look like a massive gray box with a hungry mouth that just intends to....I don't know ( Read more... ) -
The family strange.
I thought that maybe, since it was Christmas Day and Christmas Day is good for stories, and also because I am feeling predisposed to cheer, that I would share something a little lighter in what can be a heavy, sometimes-stressful, holiday season - especially for people of varying sexualities and genders.
My family had our annual Christmas gathering ( Read more... ) -
Enter in!
An abundance of love to you, and welcome to my journal. A diary of my passions and failings and flaws and wild wild dreams. I'm new to this, of course, but - I love to write, especially about the things that matter to me. For those of you who know me, this is a good way to keep up, no? And for those of you who don't....
....well, welcome to the ( Read more... )
