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Michael Penner committed suicide a couple of weeks ago. I found out about it when this post was linked off of one of our Self-Promotion Sundays. It is normally wrong to refer to a trans person’s assigned-gendered past as though it lay at the foundation of life, or to place so much emphasis on becoming [...]

I’d appreciate some help from the Feministe commentariat. I’m trying to buy language software. I have heard wonderful things about Rosetta Stone, but they are fucking expensive. Can anybody out there speak to whether they give good value for the money? Or recommend a cheaper alternative? I’m looking for French and/or (standard) Arabic. I need [...]

I spent this afternoon cleaning out some closets in preparation for giving them a fresh coat of paint. You know how it is: things pile up, like sports equipment and camping gear and canned goods and cheap plastic dildoes that have developed unsavory discolored patches, and before you know it you have a cobweb-clotted mass [...]

Thursday I met with the psychiatrist who oversaw my transition and a few months of my re-transition. It was interesting–very brief, and anticlimactic; at this point, I’m not really in transition in either direction. She also clearly saw it as a one-time deal. She asked some questions about how I was, and what it had [...]

Claire left this comment in the Education 101 thread: Yes, I followed the thread, and I’m very familiar with the phenomenon of transphobic gender essentialists on the internet calling themselves radical feminists. (Presumably, they learned what “radical” means from the Ninja Turtles. I was just being a little snarky and pointing out that little light’s [...]

So–thanks again in significant part to me–the thread on Cara’s boycott post has already been derailed into a thread about the problem of expecting education from members of a marginalized group. So I figured I’d start a new thread. Mind, this is not a 101 thread; I ask commenters to refrain from asking questions like, [...]