The Shape of the Problem
What I wanted to talk about today is employment. I am currently unemployed, and have known very few trans people offline who weren’t in the same situation. It’s difficult to really get a true sense of the employment situation for trans people, since most studies are small, and few if any actually separate the sexes [...]
...read moreYou don’t get to out me
So far, I have avoided writing about trans subjects. Though that’s what I’m best known for here in Internet Land, it’s far from my only (or even dominant) interest in politics. I have layers, you know, like an onion or a parfait. Still, I have something that probably needs to be said. It’s basic, but [...]
...read moreI get around
There has been a lot of pop music on Feministe lately – Sarah posted about Robyn recently, and s.e smith posted about Janelle Morae (both artists of which I Approve). So, in honour of Pride this weekend, I thought I’d post about my favourite band of literally ever. Dragonette are a Canadian electropop band that [...]
...read moreAustralia’s First Female Prime Minister
After a successful leadership challenge this morning, Julia Gillard is now Australia’s first female prime minister! Not only that, but Gillard is left-wing even by Australian standards, with a strong background in the trade union movement. Perhaps even more surprising to American readers used to politicians talking about their “families” in politics might be the [...]
...read moreStop right there, thank you very much
Two new fronts on the immigration fight in the US: In Nebraska, a small town called Fremont just passed a referendum today that will require tenants who are not US citizens to get an “occupancy license” from the city council in order to rent housing. Even residents of nursing homes will be required to get [...]
...read moreAllo, allo
I see a couple of the other guest bloggers this week have already started, so I figured twas time for me to get cracking myself with an introduction. I do this with some anxiety, since my introductory thread last year All Went A Bit Wrong… For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Queen [...]
...read more“Women’s only,” round 1000
Did you know there’s a women-only pharmacist in Vancouver? It opened yesterday. Only, “women’s only,” doesn’t mean all women. A number of bloggers have been posting about how this new pharmacy has from its birth held onto some old prejudices – excluding trans women from access to its services.
...read moreI’m being taken over by the fear
“I’ll take my clothes off and it will be shameless/ cos everyone knows that’s how you become famous.” Taking a side step away from specifically trans posts (cos y’all tiring me out already, and I have another week to go here), I want to talk about fear. Recently Mark K-Punk had this to say [...]
...read moreWhy I Hate Filling Out Forms
I hate it, every single time. Name, sorted. Then… clunk. Sex – M or F. Sod. It seems like an easy question, right? For most people it is. For me, it should be an easy question. I live and identify unequivocally as female. I’m not a genderqueer person for whom the very either/or question is [...]
...read moreo hai etc
Hi y’all. I’m Queen Emily, one of this week’s guest bloggers. Some of you will know me from as one of the bloggers at Questioning Transphobia, or possibly my personal blog where these days I mostly talk about what pop music is amazing (girls with synths) and what is rubbish (boys with guitars). Thanks to [...]
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