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"People should not fuss over whether they are officially willing to call themselves 'attracted' or not. 'Attraction' is not some mysterious thing that people have to "discover" before they can allow themselves to have sex with someone. It is only a question of worry about some mysterious thing called 'attraction' or 'non-attraction' or 'gay' or 'straight' because their mysterious thing that they

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I don't know what about all this gay marriage, committed monogamous love, serving in the military, being "born with it," or raising up normal non-gay babies that has gay people all excited.And I'm not against two people of the same sex, whatever that means, getting married to each other. It doesn't really matter to me. I've never thought that to be "married," I needed to have an official of

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Effeminate, as we know, is the male form of feminine; femininity divorced from femaleness. Perhaps to equate femininity and effeminacy is going too far, though. It is part of our gender revolution to encourage the re-mystification, the re-enchantment of language. A word means what it is, a feeling, an uncapturable thing. Instead of naming our town Riverside, we name it Klatsand, and we only

zeraphhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17032274476748969498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276054919111369007.post-80420279158464583942010-11-21T18:30:00.001-08:002010-11-21T18:34:02.555-08:00

Today is november 21st, which means that once again, i have forgotten the transgender day of remembrance. This year i forgot about the Trans Day of Remembrance in San Francisco, on one of the cities highest points, where the distance from the fog rolling through the golden gate to the bay bridge is only as far as a sidelong glance. I was absorbed with the thrill of running to this high place, the

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I used to dream of facial hair. The dreams were not, however, about facial hair. They were about a multitude of ordinary and non-ordinary situations, are dreams often are, but written into the subtext of these dreams was my facial hair. Usually, I would catch sight of it in a reflective surface as I passed; perhaps I would wake in my dream morning to look at my sleepy face in the mirror and note

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Police were caught using excessive force during San Francisco's Pride celebration this year. In the beginning of this video you can see the police surround a girl who was not being violent, deck her, and beat the people around her with batons. One girl then swoops in to steal one of the batons while bystanders yell "fuck the police." The video leaked just days before the jury's verdict is

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So I looked around, and have come up with some USA made, ethically made and/or union made underwear. Much of it is boring, some of it is downright frightening and/or grandfatherly, and some of it is cute, or at least comfortable. The list for Boys and people who wear boy underwear:#1 Junk DrawersEtsy-crafter men's/androgy underwear made from salvaged fabric in the US. Cute, cheap, what more can

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I've started to see gender as if it were knives. Some people play with knives, juggling, knife throwing, etc. Or, say, they have particularly keen interest in their use in martial arts. This is seen as amusing, dangerous, what-have-you. Almost all people use knives -- cooking and eating and such. Everybody uses some knives, everybody gets a knife at the dinner table. Some people need sharp

graceoflarkspurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12064905094885369909noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276054919111369007.post-53553979715121241302009-11-03T13:54:00.000-08:002009-11-03T13:56:22.304-08:00

Instead of including same-sex unions in the definitions of marriage, let's let marriage be a religious and personal ceremonywith no legal weight.Instead of legal marriage, we could have two relationships: called legal kinship and full legal kinship.Legal kinship would confer several rights, including:Death benefits. Those with legal kinship would have say in the handling of the deceased's remains

zeraphhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17032274476748969498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276054919111369007.post-30251311959299533042009-10-08T20:21:00.000-07:002009-10-29T16:14:35.351-07:00

I have so far been silent on the "Gay Marriage" issue in Maine, but it is time for me to be heard! This has gone way to far for me to not comment. I know that I've said I don't think we should fight for gay marriage because it's fighting for inclusion in a very limited, unfairly privileged, state-sanctioned familial arrangement that has historically been used to improve family standing by the

zeraphhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17032274476748969498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276054919111369007.post-24165686915792884652008-11-18T17:14:00.000-08:002009-10-29T16:25:17.368-07:00

Transsexuals and bisexuals are the inside outsiders of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) movement. Our place in the sphere of gayness is neither contested nor entirely accepted, and through that discomforting influence, we have changed the course that queerness will take as it winds through the landscape of the cultural mainstream.Just as we are not entirely comfortable within

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There has long been debate in the queer, straight, and scientific communities about what exactly causes homosexuality and transsexualism. My experience has shown me that neither nature, nurture, nor choice fully explain the origin of my dirty thoughts. Here I argue for a fourth theory: person-to-person transmission through a yet-undiscovered mechanism.To begin our discussion, it might be helpful

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This list is intended for those who are interested in considering how their privilege as a cisgender, or non-transgendered, person affects their lives, and how that makes their experiences in the world substantially different from transgender, genderqueer, and gender non-conforming people. This list is adapted from the list found on the T-Vox Wiki, other cisgender privilege materials, and the

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This information attempts to cover some basic etiquette guidelines for interacting with transpeople in casual contexts. For information on dating and intimate situations, check out Raven Kaldera's How to Get Your Hands on a Transman and The Transwoman's Boudoir, and How to Get Into It. Some people have asked me how they can avoid offending me, or avoid offending other trans people. Here are some

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Aristophanes professed to open another vein of discourse; he had a mind to praise Love in another way, unlike that either of Pausanias or Eryximachus. [. . .] In the first place, let me treat of the nature of man and what has happened to it; for the original human nature was not like the present, but different. The sexes were not two as they are now, but originally three in number; there was man,

zeraphhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17032274476748969498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276054919111369007.post-18018652590920969072008-11-18T16:29:00.000-08:002008-11-18T16:30:11.632-08:00

I remember noticing as a teenager that my parent's generation, particularly those currently in their late forties and older, had a different outlook on world events than those younger. The younger people took images of chaos and destruction for granted; were utterly unmoved by atrocity; expected hypocrisy, lies, and faithlessness from those in power; were skeptics to the point of becoming

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The thrust of modern society with all of its ills is the removal of sacredness from all things. In our television-driven culture, sacredness is exchanged for brand development. A vestige of sacredness survives as the erotic allure of the product, its commodified "essence": the scent of freshness, the coolness of rugged self-sufficiency, the exoticism of a western adaptation on an ethnic art

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WORK & CONSUMPTIONDominance and submission (or superiority and inferiority) are manifested in the adult as submission to the boss (or to the internal judge or abuser) which is then metamorphosed and re-manifested as consumer power. Consumer goods, especially leisure items, bought with the money earned from a job are a way of getting back at the dominator, of stealing a bit of freedom back. For

zeraphhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17032274476748969498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276054919111369007.post-84427768214749785642008-11-18T15:54:00.000-08:002008-11-18T16:18:34.456-08:00

An article originating in New Zealand describes the purchase and insertion of human genetic code into non-human animals, specifically the cow, to create designer milk.This may over time, says one contributer, lead to the construction of "human animals" (redundant, much?) which are human in appearance or in organ structure, yet have underdeveloped minds, to be used for study or organ transplant.

zeraphhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17032274476748969498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276054919111369007.post-75846992640541683402008-11-18T15:51:00.000-08:002008-11-18T15:54:35.881-08:00

In the age of a continuing epidemic, do modern gay successes support systemic racism?The 1980s found a grieving and fighting gay community pushing for changes in public perception, and government and private response to an epidemic that was sweeping their ranks, as well as affecting many others. After a radical shift in the late 60s and early 70s, in which gay liberationists allied themselves

zeraphhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17032274476748969498noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276054919111369007.post-38074926859238962362008-11-14T15:50:00.000-08:002008-11-14T16:46:10.740-08:00

According to Freegan.info, nearly 30% of food produced in the US gets thrown away! What an atrocity!The guidelines here are not meant to be taken as dumpster law, except for of course the section on Dumpster Etiquette, which should be observed to the letter. The important thing is to get out there with your friends, your lovers, you mom, whatever, and start salvaging the excesses of our wasteful

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Why have energy orgasms?Energy orgasms will clear the body of repressed emotions, old hurts, and blocks. They put a bounce in your step, give you a positive outlook, energize and yet relax the body, and balance the chakras. Energy orgasms help pre-orgasmic women to become genitally orgasmic and help genitally orgasmic women to become much more multi-orgasmic ("megagasmic"), and plus they make

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By Hakim BeySince absolutely nothing can be predicated with any real certainty as to the "true nature of things", all projects (as Nietzsche says) can only be "founded on nothing." And yet there must be a project—if only because we ourselves resist being categorized as "nothing." Out of nothing we will make something: the Uprising, the revolt against everything which proclaims: "The Nature of

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by Angela MorenoDoctors have come from distant cities just to see me -- stand over my bed disbelieving what they're seeing they say I must be one of the wonders of God's own creation-- Natalie Merchant (from the song "Wonder " on her album Tiger Lily)There was never any reason to suspect anything strange. I appeared female when I was born in 1972, and I was assigned and raised as a girl.When I

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