Radical feminism came out of the idea that feminists couldn’t overstate the oppression of women. Its motto was “The personal is political” and this was promoted with the better-known but more-frequently misquoted addendum, ”All men are potential rapists.” This is important to acknowledge when we fast-forward 30 years to take a look at recent declarations by … Continue reading »
Category Archives: Gender
SlutWalk Vancouver (Year 3) Organizer Violates My Privacy & Outs Me As Trans
The other day, while I was addressing Vancouver Parks Board with my experiences as an out trans and genderqueer person who only accesses their facilities during private rentals, due to my observations of how other trans (some stealth) and genderqueer people are treated during public swimming hours (to say nothing of how I am treated), … Continue reading »
An Historic Day For The Rights Of Trans* & Gender-Diverse People In Vancouver
I received a text message yesterday morning, in which was asked to speak at a Vancouver Parks Board meeting during which a proposal had been tabled to begin a trans- and gender-variant-inclusion overhaul of their facilities, starting with a work group that was willing to keep advancing future proposals. I was immediately of the mind … Continue reading »
On Cherry-Picking The Meaning Of A Political Identity
In this blog post, I’m going to stick to talking about the “pro-life” movement, pro-choice politics, the “men’s rights” movement, feminisms, white supremacist hate groups, and the Civil Rights Movement. In no particular order. The purpose of this blog post will be to dissect whether it is ever acceptable or appropriate for someone to defend an attempt … Continue reading »
How To Have Hot Sex
Some time ago, I came across this post about challenging an all-too-common, self-centered, goal-oriented masculinity in heterosexual intercourse. Having had a lot of sex with a lot of cismen who actually engage in this behaviour as a matter of habit, and having had a lot of not-hot-at-all queer sex with persons other than cismen who … Continue reading »
Lost: Energy Reserves
I haven’t been updating this blog as often as previously, and also made a difficult decision to stop participating in pickets for a while, way back following Day 171. It seems that the change in the weather, the change in my circumstances, and a palpable change in my sense of security and safety, have all … Continue reading »
Effects Of Patriarchy That Hurt Men
Patriarchy is the organization of society, such that men hold a majority of the roles associated with social power (if not all of them). Feminist theory tends to focus on the many ways that patriarchy subjugates women. I focus on it a lot, too. But it hurts men as well, and though I have not … Continue reading »
An Open Letter To Unknown Female Model: Ignorance Is Not Lovely
The identity of the unknown female model in photos with Cpl. Jim Brown’s Doppelgang (aka Mr. Charles) has been LOLWHOOPS! revealed to me. I am not in the least bit surprised. Just disappointed. I can fully appreciate how uncomfortable it must feel to be informed that the surviving brother of one of the Aboriginal women … Continue reading »
Emotionally Present / Gender / Lived Experience/Memoir / Personal Is Political / RCMP Investigations / Time-specific
A Dream
Last night, the man I’ve been calling Mr. Charles appeared in my dream. I was at some sort of social gathering, discussing a TENS unit I had somehow acquired. It is a device I actually have, and which I use occasionally to treat debilitating muscle tension. Only in the dream, it was a different one, … Continue reading »
Victim-Envying
I’ve recently observed, both in various North American kink communities, and in various North American anti-theist, atheist, and even humanist communities (many of which are overlapping with one another — sometimes even overlapping with kink), an increasingly persistent and highly irritating privilege-avoidance behaviour that is very gradually becoming an accepted and normative habit. That privilege-avoidance … Continue reading »
