Transgender Day of Rememberance 2009
Yesterday was the 2009 Transgender day of Rememberance in our hemisphere, and it is today in the West. I am really not good at writing these kinds of posts sometimes, but I want to point to this one by kaninchenzero at FWD/Forward: I personally am angry. All over the world, in every society, we are there and we are dying. Because we are still seen as less than, as mistakes, as inherently deceptive, as the butt of every cruel man-in-a-dress joke, as freaks. Our genitals are viewed as substandard facsimiles at best, our sexualities are commodified an

Housekeeping Note
About a month or so ago I made my Twitter feed private. It is just something that I felt I needed to do for me. My Twitter life has been much more enjoyable since then. What I didn’t realize was that the widget that I used on WordPress would replace my live tweets with generic tweets… I don’t routinely scroll down that far on the blog (as is apparent by my blogroll, which has been neglected for quite some time), so I didn’t see the tweets that were put in as place holders. They were awful. The widget has been removed from my sidebar. I apologize to anyone who was offended or triggered by those tweets. Also, if y

Here and There…
If you have read the rest of the Internets, might I recommend: Bitch Magazine: Transcontinental Disability Choir: Disability: The Human Condition Let’s not kid ourselves. Humanity is a disability, clumsiness is a placeholder for that disability and all that is bad with being human, and vampirism as that magical cure, the sure fire fix for all things disabling. Change.org’s Women’s Right’

Obama Came to Korea Today, You Might’ve Heard…
...and there he goes! and some of us were told ahead of time that his motorcade would be driving past the Elementary School on his way out of Seoul. The Community Information Forum I attended a few nights ago included the M

Important Announcement
Anna is teh coolest. She is so awesome that all of Canada actually does know her, they are just too intimidated to admit it. She is so great that this cat actually is dedicating a song to her.  True story.     (from