One of the problems we ran into with crowdfunding The Switch - A Transgender Comedy is that our community's spending patterns are unlike most others. While most Kickstarters would exponentially grow towards a goal and then exceed it, often easily doubling or quintupling their goal, ours crested the minimum before the halfway mark, and then... ( Read more... )

 I don't agree with this

As a trans woman and activist, I love the use of trans, trans* and transgender as umbrella terms

In my experience, the problem we have is one of semantics, rooted in whether transgender means:
(a) people who break the rules of gender other than in who they sleep with (i.e. people whose identities *and/or expressions* differ ( Read more... )

(From a Facebook discussion relating to [THE ORGANIZATION IN QUESTION])

I've seen waaaay too many "women's" (and "labour" and "gay" and "student" and "environmental" and "neighbourhood..." and for that matter "patriot") organizations derail criticism of their actions and stall out change by saying that to call for public accountability of them "is ( Read more... )

For a long time, when discussing responsibilities, other activists have told me "I had to realize that there is only so much one person can do, alone or as part of a group ( Read more... )

Women-only pharmacy reverses policy excluding transsexual and intersexed women

Also see the Femininjas's Website

I still have some concerns about whether the gentrification issues have been addressed, but this, at least, is good news.

I understand they need volunteers, and this is a good time to make change.

Dear Premier Campbell,

I am a car owner and former urban studies student in the GVRD. In the light of your government's commitment to the environment and to BC's long-term economic prospects, it is my suggestion that you avoid twinning the Port Mann Bridge. Widening the bridge is a poor idea. Due to the phenomenon of "traffic elasticity,"
the ( Read more... )

So I was thinking of boycotting the Olympic sponsors when I ran into this.

Not cool.

I'd say it's over the line, but I think that we've past that point. I mean, it's the sort of thing I'd expect from - oh - the United States Central Intelligence Agency.

In any case, long befer this story, it seems that several thousand other people had already come ( Read more... )

I'm following up on the letter I sent out earlier to a woman's kink thingy.

What amuses me about all of this is:

[edit: I'm leaving the remaining typos in to remind myself why I shouldn't write important letters when I should be sleeping]

1. With this dyke event, where variant gender-expresion is presumably welcome (short hair, comfortable shoes), I'm ( Read more... )

XRO:
The office is full of old papers and I am left to puzzle out what happened over the last year and where we spent our money. There should be two rather pricey banners sitting around, but I've not seen them. There is a box of just shy of a thousand "I Support the SFSS" buttons. Those ran a little over five hundred bucks and I think went largely ( Read more... )

SNOW!!!!!!!

I went to the Trans Alliance Society's AGM. It's nice, or at least it's interesting, to go somewhere where some of the people assume you're FTM, while a few others who know this is not the case diplomatically negotiate around not being sure if the name you gave them last week still holds, but everyone likes the fact that you volunteered ( Read more... )