I am currently enjoying a delicious snack of insta-miso soup. It is warm and yummy and, combined with the dried mango and crackers I have in my desk, a very good snack ( Read more... )

From the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition: Children See Prejudice in Absence of Women, Minority Presidents

A new study has found that one in four children thought it was illegal for women and minorities to hold the office of president, while one in three attributed the lack of female, African-American and Latino presidents to voter's racial and ( Read more... )

I've seen a number of these articles, but this one is by far the best:

The XY Games

If transgender athletes are now allowed to compete officially, and if gender testing has been shown frequently to render false results, then what exactly are the Chinese authorities testing for ( Read more... )

During my lunchbreak, I was sitting in the Sweet-Ass Temp Job's break room (yes, I am back here again!), enjoying my copy of Judith Halberstam's Female Masculinity while eating pasta with fake meat sauce. As I was trying to decipher whether Halberstam considers the 1980's cultural feminist conception of the stone butch sexual identity as stemming ( Read more... )

A New York Times piece on the Albanian custom of "sworn virgins":

Pashe Keqi recalled the day nearly 60 years ago when she decided to become a man. She chopped off her long black curls, traded in her dress for her father’s baggy trousers, armed herself with a hunting rifle and vowed to forsake marriage, children and sex.

On Wednesday, ahimsa114 is taking me to a WNBA game. I'm really excited about it for a number of reasons - because Ahimsa just happened to have an extra ticket the day before my birthday, because the audience will probably have plenty of hot lesbians, because this whole rugby thing has really tuned me into the enjoyment of watching and supporting women's ( Read more... )

On the one hand, I am so close! Less than a week until I will be done with undergraduate work FOREVER ( Read more... )

So I was in a great mood earlier, and then I sat down to write an essay on Simone de Beauvoir, specifically about some chapters where she talked about phalluses and how women kinda suck, and I checked Facebook about a million times and played some Solitaire and kept jumping up and wandering around ( Read more... )

Every so often, it just really hits me that Hillary Clinton is a viable candidate for president of the United States and I have to mentally pause in my tracks and go "...woah. Chances are, we're going to have a woman president this time next year ( Read more... )

So I just finished writing my take-home final for my LGBT Issues class, and I loved it SO much that I decided to share it!

( In which I discuss nonconsensual gender, short haircuts on women, and metrosexuality )