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 […]
Currently, the 1970s-era Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI) is about as useful as a Buzzfeed gender quiz in that it can only offer the slightest peek at one’s gendered experience with culturally sexed roles. For instance, I wonder how my result would have changed had it asked me if I ride a Harley, if I like […]
Elect Alexis Melvin as the Houston GLBT Political Caucus President! I’ve worked with Alexis for many years. She was doing trans advocacy with Lee Brewster years before Stonewall and she wants to bring that experience to the Houston GLBT Political Caucus. Most importantly, I’ve watched her turn around queer nonprofits and this is exactly what the […]
I spent a few days trying to reason with a sex essentialist activist regarding their ideological claims, clearly pulled straight from the quagmire of confusion that is Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist analysis. Here’s the materialist logic I tried (and I believe failed) to get the sex essentialist activist to grasp: Thoughts about sex and the material […]
I’ve lived in the Houston, Texas area all of my life. That means I’m a child of Southern culture: I’ve had a CHL for years, I love riding my Harley Road King, and I love my Texas hill country music. I grew up just blocks from the KKK center in Pasadena, Texas. So, when some […]
Houston has always been one of those places where everyone could clearly see The Good Ol’ Boy’s foot on all of our necks. If you were queer in any sort of way, you knew it on a visceral level. When cops began joining us in Pride, that was a huge WIN for us because the […]
I want to present two absurd essentialist arguments in order to demonstrate the function of reductionist essentialism within our culture’s discourse. The first example of rhetoric will focus on sex essentialism while the second will employ the same rhetoric upon the binary of thin and fat: Sex Essentialist Argument: Male people who undergo dangerous genital surgeries are […]
