On July 21 last year, during a pro-choice street demonstration, a man approached the crowd of us at the corner and targeted a very pale, nervous-looking young guy for persistent badgering and antagonizing. I remember thinking to myself that the young man will just know when to walk away. I remember hearing the man who … Continue reading »
Category Archives: Personal Is Political
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 »
Completely Useless & Wildly Immature Correspondence With SlutWalk Vancouver (Year 3) Organizers
The first correspondence I received was originally posted on this entry, as part of my open call to boycott SlutWalk Vancouver in its third year and in future years. But as I’ve since received further correspondence, and the issues I addressed in the original piece of writing calling for a boycott, as well as in … Continue reading »
A Brief History Of SlutWalk Racism
I recently published this open call to boycott SlutWalk in its third year, on the principle that it is literally a parade of white settler privilege pretending and (more-or-less failing) to “raise consciousness about rape culture”. This post will be addressing the racism that has been inherent in the SlutWalk movement (especially in Vancouver, BC) … Continue reading »
Finished Moccasins, Flood Of Insight
About a week ago, after visiting with my elder and doing more work on my first pair of moccasins, I felt compelled to start making a second pair out of cow hide. But unlike the elk skin moccasins I had just made enormous progress on, these would be plain moccasins. They would feature no beading … Continue reading »
Being White & Anti-Racist: Walking In Wooden Clogs On A Razor Thin Line
Allow me to be the first to acknowledge that there are times as an anti-racist white person that I still make mistakes. Try as I might to stay on the side of the razor thin line that guides my anti-racist activism, I am sometimes walking directly on top of it in wooden clogs. Sometimes those … Continue reading »
The Crisis Of Objectivity
The many promises of objectivity are perpetually sublimating, revealing more and more that whether you have a particular religious faith in a One True God or a pronounced secular bend in a One True Way (i.e., the scientific method or GTFO), we have all been duped. Furthermore, if we don’t take action now, when it … Continue reading »
Emotionally Present / Lived Experience/Memoir / Personal Is Political / Race/Ethnicity / Time-specific
Hair Revisited: One Year Later
A little more than a year ago, I published this post about how my and everyone else’s relationships with my hair, my race (which isn’t nearly so simple as “I’m a white person!”), and my apparent social gender radically shifted overnight when I started shaving my hair clean off for a full year and a … Continue reading »
White Guilt Revisited: One Year Later
I wrote a year ago about how I feel about white people claiming to feel overwhelmed with guilt about winning the birth race lottery—spoiler: I thought “what a useless exercise” then—and I still find the subject matter resurfacing over and over again, with increasing frequency since the beginning of the indigenous nationhood movement. I will … Continue reading »
