Transformation

I’ve been changing a lot since I first started this blog. And in fact, I believe with conviction that I have been changing the most in the past year that I have barely been publishing any new writing. Tonight, I looked back through over 300 posts, after thinking for several days that I need to … Continue reading →

For Non-Natives: On Two-Spirituality

This piece of writing is a call-out. If you are a non-native, you are not now and will never be Two-Spirit. You will never know what it is to be racialised as an indigenous person who also bears the experience of falling under the LGBT umbrella. This is especially true of white people, for we … Continue reading →

Anecdotal Observations From A Trans Guy

I have been living full-time as a man now for a year and a half. I was raised a girl with aspirations of one day becoming a woman, and though I certainly no longer hesitate to credit myself with giving a convincing performance until my late 20s, living as a woman was, for me, really … Continue reading →

White, Angry, & Learning About Structural Racism

When I was a kid, I was taught early on (and often) that racism means treating people badly because their skin colour is different from my own. I was taught that this is wrong, and I should never do that. And though this was a good thing to teach, it falls dramatically short of teaching … Continue reading →

Sugar Skulls & White Smug

It is said that we are mirrors for each other, so this one goes out to the smirking white blonde mirror reflecting that one time I attempted to paint a sugar skull onto my own white face, as I am writing to myself. You’re white. You’re blonde. Your eyes are blue. Your water is always … Continue reading →

Revisiting Dreadlocks, White People, And The Cultural Appropriation Brigade

I’ve written before, and more than once, about how (and why) white people get hostile over the matter of white people wearing dreadlocks, and how fundamentally ridiculous an exercise this is. Just yesterday, the matter resurfaced again in a way that I was unprepared for—as a brief moment in a short YouTube video made to … Continue reading →

Dissociative Identity Disorder, Crisis Management, & Emotional Triage

Recently in my life away from writing this blog, a conflict erupted. It was a big one, with consequences reaching much further than my antagonist realises. I don’t call her my antagonist as if to imply that I am a do-no-wrong protagonist. I make a lot of mistakes. But what is clear is that we … Continue reading →

Because I Am White: An Incomplete List Of Privileges

Because I am white, I am more likely to have a gun put in my hands than to have one pulled on me. In fact, this has even already happened to me (I wasn’t yet finished high school when my father brought home a gun from his workplace and put it in my mother’s hands … Continue reading →

Debunking the Men’s Rights Movement

Originally posted on Debunking MRAs:
What follows is a response to a popular list of claims and arguments made by men’s rights activists. 1. SUICIDE: Men’s suicide rate is 4.6 times higher than that of women’s. [Dept. Health & Human Services — 26,710 males vs 5,700 females] Not for lack of trying: women attempt it…

Pro-Life Is A Hate Movement: Know Your Enemy

Have you ever wondered why pro-life demonstrations aren’t merely upsetting, but actually enraging? Once you see the answer, you can’t unsee it. It’s an organized hate movement. Once in a while, someone will publish a daring tell-all piece about how they lost their faith in the movement—often detailing years of social isolation, masterfully executed manipulation … Continue reading →