mis-conceptions of woman-hood as described by a southern bell dropout ( Read more... )

this article was a facinating read http://questioningtransphobia.wordpress.com/2008/10/25/trans-sex-ual/
and this one from the same blog i want to come back to and consider:
http://questioningtransphobia.wordpress.com/how-to-check-your-cis-privilege/

but when all is said and done, i can't handle the community i found them in.
i interpret hostility in ( Read more... )

i've been having a lot of conversations with people revolving around a simmilar theme for me.

( race and trans topics...the last bit is a little less formulated b/c I'm still irrate about it all )

A slave name is a term for a name given to a person who is or has been enslaved or a name inherited from enslaved ancestors. A name often assigned by the owners. It is a derogitory term.

"A number of African-Americans and Jamaican Americans have changed their names out of the belief that the names they were given at birth were 'slave names.' An ( Read more... )