Yesterday morning, I arrived at the launch site for the so-called “New Abortion Caravan”, which is a pro-life campaign, co-opting the language of the original pro-choice campaign of 1970 to effect immediate widespread confusion. As is tradition for my presence in such protests, because I wouldn’t dare try to look anything like the people I … Continue reading »
Monthly Archives: May 2012
Carrie, You Are Shiva
It’s been two weeks since all of my emotions completely shut off in an instant. And tonight, Carrie, you turned them all back on just as quickly. You are one of the few people who stepped up to help me when I was most in need. I wasn’t just in need of financial help (as, … Continue reading »
An Open Letter To All Anti-Choicers
Tomorrow at noon, a “New Abortion Caravan” full of brain-washed young adults is showing up at the Vancouver Art Gallery — its first stop across Canada, in an anti-choice campaign that co-opts the language and concept of the original Abortion Caravan (a pro-choice campaign that went across Canada in 1970) for the exact opposite end … Continue reading »
Week 2 Follow-Up to Anti-Misogynist Action
I am beginning this writing after 1 a.m., even though my shoulders are sore, my body is drained of energy and hydration, and I am under-slept. But today was the happiest day I’ve had in at least a month. And it all started with writing out the following sign on bristol board in preparation for … Continue reading »
Whites Who Oppose Racism: Here’s How To Stop Doing It Wrong
In the tradition of my first very similarly-titled blog post on how to be a better anti-misogyny ally, I am simply going to copy/paste the privilege-conscious disclaimer portion of that entry here. Some other sections of this blog post are also copy/pasted portions of that same blog post, because a lot of what I had … Continue reading »
Six Months On Testosterone
The time has finally arrived. It’s been six months since I started injecting testosterone. I began life with two X-chromosomes and a perfectly anatomically complete and functioning female body, but have felt persistently for as long as I can remember having even a vague conception of my gender identity, that my body and the person … Continue reading »
Disability / Emotionally Dissociated / Gender / Lived Experience/Memoir / Personal Is Political / Race/Ethnicity
Fuck The Body Police
Body policing is a huge collection of ideology, rooted in self-appointed authority over other people’s bodies as if they were property to govern and assert control over, and reprimand for any exhibit of defiance. In more specific terms, it is the assumption of being entitled to assert control over which bodies are acceptable, where they … Continue reading »
Follow-Up to Being Provoked to Anti-Misogynist Action
I am really humbled by the number of people who showed their support today at the anti-misogyny demonstration against a slut-shaming pro-lifer and her peers. Both friends and strangers assembled just a few minutes past noon, and stood peacefully at the same corner. Their signs dwarfed the pro-lifers’ sandwich boards. They took their body-policing rhetoric … Continue reading »
P.S. I’m Extraordinarily (Devastatingly) Under-Confident
This is an aspect of my being that I forget to tell people. I’m not confident. I’m not even faking it. You just can’t embarrass someone who has very little ego beyond rational self-interest. I mean, what are you going to tell them? “You have troll hair.” Yes, and? “And bad breath.” This is something … Continue reading »
The Right Kind of White
Since beginning to write about issues that I’ve directly experienced because I’m pale-skinned, I’ve been writing and speaking about the “right kind” of white, and the fact that there are multiple kinds of white. Importantly, I’ve been writing and speaking about how they aren’t all treated equally, especially by whites themselves (see my previous posts … Continue reading »
