Vancouver's Parks Board is considering a proposal to create a committee to discuss the possibility of making gender-neutral washrooms a reality in all of their facilities. It would be an incredibly awesome thing to do, and while we're really just at the consulting page, I'm really excited that it's even on the table. And I know some awesome people ( Read more... )

I have tons to talk about but my life has been absolute hell recently with everything on my plate, and it's not going to get better until the end of July, which makes me dread the whole month before it's even started. :/ In the midst of all of it, though, someone on Facebook posted this video and it's awesome, so I wanted to make sure I shared it ( Read more... )

Of course, other people always end up saying it better than I do. :) Obama Loves Queers! (Except Not) by Mia McKenzie. Also this Tumblr post with gifs that's pretty fabulous (I love love the last one).

In the meanwhile, Argentina just passed a fabulous gender identity law that allows adults to request a legal gender change on their documentation ( Read more... )

I have lots to post, about my parents' visit and our roadtrip to Alberta, and Joss Whedon and probably a dozen other things if I'm basing myself on the tabs I currently have open in Firefox. I don't have time for that right now, but I did want to take the time to post in a timely manner about the trial of CeCe McDonald, a young black trans woman ( Read more... )

I really feel like I haven't given the Occupy movement enough attention here or even in life. Probably most of you will have read or seen the video of what happened at UC Davis with non-violent student protestors getting pepper-sprayed - this photo (and other versions of it) has been circulated around a lot, and you can see a video of the whole ( Read more... )

So I was going to go to bed but then LJ decided to be a douche (again).

LJ is considering making gender a mandatory field when signing up. Not only that, but they would be removing the "unspecified" option, too. The log about this is here, but you can read more about this hereI won't go into why this is offensive, discriminatory, enraging, ( Read more... )

In the midst of everything else... I look at this photo and feel a little bit better. I mean friends, smiles, kisses and activism, what's not to love?


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A thought from the first half of the Positive Space Workshop I attended this week at UBC ( Read more... )

omg that video with Morena being trans is awesome. Apparently thunder_nari came across it first. Heee. I just love it. See for yourselves:

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While I wait to figure out how to alternate the photo stripe on the sidebar, I'm going to stick with activism since it's more in keeping with the theme. But I'm preparing a better stripe of kisses, too. :)

I'm pretty much done with my paper on negotiations of identity and sexuality in trans folks and their partners, and I loved writing this paper. People can be ugly, but sometimes, they're not, and our capacity to reconcile concepts that society wants us to see as contradictory is an amazing thing.

Which is why I think I might need this t-shirt. ( ( Read more... )