Today was an interesting day.  I found out one of the clients I have been working with for almost 2 years, an older gay guy, had another suicide attempt.  His last attempt was shortly after I started working with him and I wasn't really sure how to deal with it at the time.  Today, when I heard, I felt mildly guilty that I hadn't been in as regular ( Read more... )

Your rainbow is strongly shaded violet and green.

What is says about you: You are a creative person. You feel strong ties to nature and your mood changes with its cycles. You are patient and will keep trying to understand something until you've mastered it. Those around you admire your fresh outlook and vitality.

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I went in to work today and was sent immediately home by my supervisor and co-workers because I still have a very very mild cold.  So here I am not really feeling sick and going a bit stir crazy.  I found this quiz from Bunnykitteh and just found out that if I were a tarot card I'd be the Wheel of Fortune, pretty cool.  http://www.flarn.com/~ ( Read more... )

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Today is the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance so perhaps it's appropriate that I stumbled onto an article about trans kids in The Atlantic last night.  The article annoyed me in that the author kept referring to trans kids as their assigned sex and in general used outdated medicalized language in reference to trans people.  The author did ( Read more... )

Those of you who know me fairly well know I can have a thing for perfection.  Today for example I was worrying about possibly moving to DC and how all the logistics and timing may work.  So I'm telling myself I need to take a step back.  Instead of seeing everything that needs to be done still, I need to look at all I've achieved.  And I have ( Read more... )

Before the vote on Prop 8 many LGBT people who were not on the marriage equality bandwagon.  The thinking for many was that marriage only benefits queers wealthy enough to not worry about daily survival, and that focusing on marriage detracts from other issues affecting queers.  Just before Prop 8 I didn't hear any radical critiques of marriage ( Read more... )

I applied for a position in DC back in October advocating for health care access for people with disabilities.  The organization is real grassroots and a pretty amazing institution of the disability rights movement.  I was beginning to think they just weren't going to hire for the position but got a call today to arrange an interview.  This makes ( Read more... )

Did an informational interview tonight with a guy doing HIV research.  He just did a study of risk among transmen who hve sex with men and his findings are truly depressing.  Most of the men he interviewed experienced physical and or sexual violence in their lives.  Most were in their 30s making around $20,000 in San Francisco.  (The area median ( Read more... )