Janice Raymond, TERFs, & Insurance Policy
Views: 1088Someone recently asked me to breakdown the link between the TERF opinion leader Janice Raymond and insurance policies that exclude trans care. Here’s the link to the original article. This...
View ArticleGoodbye friends
Views: 1015Within the span of one week, I lost two friends to suicide. Of the two, I was closest to Viv. There’s so much that I want to say about Viv’s death… everything from the significance of how it...
View ArticleSex Essentialism vs Fat Essentialism
I want to present two absurd essentialist arguments in order to demonstrate the function of reductionist essentialism within our culture’s discourse. The first example of rhetoric […]
View ArticleProtesting PRIDE
Houston has always been one of those places where everyone could clearly see The Good Ol’ Boy’s foot on all of our necks. If you were […]
View ArticleCivil War Monuments, Heritage, & Southern Culture
I’ve lived in the Houston, Texas area all of my life. That means I’m a child of Southern culture: I’ve had a CHL for years, I […]
View ArticleSex Essentialists don’t understand materialist analysis
I spent a few days trying to reason with a sex essentialist activist regarding their ideological claims, clearly pulled straight from the quagmire of confusion that […]
View ArticleGLBT Political Caucus: Elect Alexis Melvin
Elect Alexis Melvin as the Houston GLBT Political Caucus President! I’ve worked with Alexis for many years. She was doing trans advocacy with Lee Brewster years before […]
View ArticleThe Sandra Bem Sex Role Inventory
Currently, the 1970s-era Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI) is about as useful as a Buzzfeed gender quiz in that it can only offer the slightest peek at […]
View ArticleBETOids
I was, and still am, a huge Beto fan and while I’d hoped that he’d win, I wasn’t expecting it. In fact, since the last Dem […]
View ArticleWhite House = Death House: AIDS & George HW Bush
It’s one of the few diseases where behavior matters. And I once called on somebody, “Well, change your behavior! If the behavior you’re using is prone […]
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