After a very tedious week of bad hot takes about the American election, the most obnoxious of which centered around a narrative that a majority of American voters support Trump and that's why trans people should be thrown under the bus, today California's count finally inched up to the point that it put Trump under 50% nationally. Which, if you ( Read more... )

Last week Sunday morning i headed out to the corner of town where my European colleagues are housed up while they are in Taipei. I met up with J from Slovakia, who was one of the first to arrive. He was unprepared for the heat, humidity and torrential downpour that ensued over the next couple hours, but we did have a nice coffee and - more ( Read more... )

Something that is different about going to parties outside of Berlin is that people take photos. In Berlin nightclubs it's considered somewhat inappropriate, and some clubs even go to the extent of placing stickers over the camera lenses on people's phones to discourage it. Of course plenty of people still take photos - furtively - but unless you' ( Read more... )

It's been a tiring week and i'm not sure why. Yeah, it's end of the quarter. Yeah, we had a product release and even working as an internal-focused team there are some trickle-down effects on our stuff. But... i dunno, it's something else. Maybe i'm just on one of my bipolar down-swings? I felt exhausted and run down for most of the week ( Read more... )

Since i hardly ever hang out with other people, especially not other people who take photos of me, i rarely get a glimpse of how i look to them. I don't even think much about how i look to me. I do take the occasional selfie, but that's more for the benefit of my friends and family, to let them know i'm alive, happy and generally in good health. On ( Read more... )

Continuing the pattern of last weekend, i'm taking another bum day this time around. Every now and then i look at my bank balance and try calculate how much longer i can continue to travel without dipping into savings, and a little voice whispers that this ain't gonna last. Sometime in 2022 i will have to start working again, especially once i get ( Read more... )

I mean, we're not a monolith. There are left wing trans people and right wing trans people and activist trans people and politically disinterested trans people and religious trans people and nonreligious trans people. There are all sorts. We don't agree on much. But there is one thing that i think most of us agree on, and it's that we all sometimes ( Read more... )

Except... it isn't quite bullshit.

I am done being trans. Being trans was so fucking 20 years ago. I decided i wanted to be a girl, i did my transition, i got my surgery, the fucking end, i'm done with being trans.

Except, i suppose, you're never really done, are you?

Last month was Pride month, and my oldest friend jenndolari answered a whole month of ( Read more... )

Like a lot of us here on LiveJournal, i sometimes poke my head into our most famous English-language community ohnotheydidnt. I care precisely zero about celebrities and never even flicked through a gossip mag in my life, but after most everyone from fandom and the various alternative subcultures that used to hang out here left, ONTD singlehandedly kept the ( Read more... )

A strange thing about my sexuality, or my gender, is that i kind of always wish i had been gay ( Read more... )