Sometimes Women Have Scrotums.
So a new advertising campaign has been released for testicular cancer awareness clearly aimed at cis female-attracted men. It features Rhian Sugden, a cis female model, posing sexily for the camera, running her hands over her body, then pulling a scrotum out of her underwear and examining it. Watch the YouTube video here, because embedding [...]
...read moreDUDE Now Available for Free Download
If you’re looking for a little bit of light reading and you find the thought of a zine written about trans men by trans men, you should check out DUDE. It’s a zine on transmasculinity and sex, produced by the awesome Jez Pez, who spoke at the Feminist Futures conference that I wrote about a [...]
...read moreCisgender News
This site really reflects the ridiculous fashion in which the mainstream media reports on trans* people, especially when the article is a “gossip” piece. It’s a shame it takes shifting the focus to cisgender people to emphasise the sheer offensiveness and fail of this style of writing. How about we just stop talking about people’s [...]
...read moreOn the Day of Mehserle’s Sentencing: A Feminist Vow
This was originally posted at Kloncke and reposted here with permission. *** [Today, former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle was sentenced to 2 years in prison, with 146 days already served, for the involuntary manslaughter of Oscar Grant. The Grant case marked the first time in California's history that a peace officer was tried for [...]
...read moreTransgender Day of Visibility
Today’s International Transgender Day of Visibility. Started last year as a movement on Facebook, the goal of today is to increase visibility and celebrate transgender identity: “I went on Facebook and I was thinking… whenever I hear about our community, it seems to be from Remembrance Day which is always so negative because it’s about [...]
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You Respect A Cisperson’s Right To Choose Their Name, Why Not A Transperson?
A TransGriot Post I wrote on April 25, 2009 Why do cisgender people feel they have the right to disrespect transgender people by refusing to use or acknowledge the names we have chosen for ourselves? Would you disrespect Cherilyn Sarkisian that way despite the fact she’s gone by the name of Cher for several decades [...]
...read moreWe Want The Same Things You Do
A TransGriot Post I wrote June 28, 2009 “The ideals and ambitions which the Negro entertains for himself are precisely those which the white man entertains for himself. And this the white man foolishly resents.” NAACP founder Archibald Grimke spoke these words ninety years ago, and they still ring true for African descended people be [...]
...read moreBeing Trans Is A Worldwide Thang
A TransGriot post I wrote July 27, 2009. One of the things that I love about the Net and compiling TransGriot is that it consistently reaffirms for me that I have brothers and sisters all over the planet. It reminds me that no matter what corner of Planet Earth we call home, we transpeople deal [...]
...read moreWhy Black Transgender Role Models Are Important
A TransGriot post I wrote in April 2009. Wyatt T. Walker wrote in a December 1967 Negro Digest article, “Rob a people of their sense of history and you take away hope.” So when I stated that I wish I’d had pioneering transgender role models to look up to of African descent growing up like [...]
...read moreStealth Was A Mistake
Another Classic TransGriot post One of the ongoing arguments in the transgender community that’s guaranteed to generate heated debate one way or the other is the stealth vs out one. Basically, stealth is the transgender equivalent of what we call in the African-American community ‘passing’. Back during the bad old days African-Americans who had features [...]
...read moreI Have To Prove It Every Day
Another one of my classic TransGriot posts for your Feministe reading pleasure. There was a recent Battlestar Galactica episode in which Sharon and her husband Helo were discussing some issues. During the conversation Helo remarked that to him his Cylon wife was always human. She countered that to the rest of the fleet she has [...]
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What A Difference A Year Makes
Back in May 2008 I wrote a TransGriot post entitled ‘Destruction of the Black Transwoman Image.‘ In that post I pointed out that transwomen have some of the same problems as our cisgender sisters when it comes to Black womanhood. I also lamented in that post the lack of positive trans role models of African [...]
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