Unfortunately, my contact form was misconfigured and did not send the sender’s email. I fondly remember everything this person describes and am so very happy to hear that she is doing well! Thank you for contacting me and for letting me know how you’re doing!
This is Black History month and I find myself thinking of it a bit differently this year. A few months ago, I discovered that some of my great grandparents were enslaved Black folk whose descendants, due to White rape and White supremacy, later tried to pass for White people of Portuguese descent. As a trans […]
My Russian tortoise is trying to dominate the foot of my African tortoise.
I never thought that I would find myself writing a blog post like this, but here it is. I wanted to document what I fear will come to pass as Trump considers his choice: Do whatever it takes to maintain the power of the presidency; or, Oversee a fair election and transfer of power to […]
An American CNN journalist interviewed me about the differences between TERFs and radical feminists, and I thought the interview went really well. Unfortunately, the UK version of CNN took the story and apparently reinterpreted what I’d said to the US journalist and, the end product was, at least to my eyes, near incomprehensible. Below is […]
I recently saw that this meme was apparently making its rounds in alt-right and TERF circles, and while I know they meant this to be a pithy blow against “trans ideology” (whatever that means), it makes an excellent (unintentional) point about the essentialist ontology they always apply to trans people, but nowhere else. For instance, […]
It’s one of the few diseases where behavior matters. And I once called on somebody, “Well, change your behavior! If the behavior you’re using is prone to cause AIDs, change the behavior!” Next thing I know, one of these ACT UP groups is saying, “Bush ought to change his behavior!” You can’t talk about it […]
I was, and still am, a huge Beto fan and while I’d hoped that he’d win, I wasn’t expecting it. In fact, since the last Dem was beaten by Cruz by 16 points, I thought that it would be remarkable if Beto came within 10 points while hoping for 5. In fact, he came in […]
