I wanted to let folks know that I’ll be able to share an interview I did with Diamond soon. I’ll probably be able to upload the interview sometime this weekend on my research blog. We talk about his research experience, the history of terminology, his “rivalry” with John Money and more. I found Diamond to be […]
Over the last 24 hours, I’ve spent about 12 of them scanning Phyllis Frye’s 1970s trans documents. I don’t know that I can even put into words how those documents affected me. Most of us don’t know that we all owe Phyllis a debt of gratitude. In Houston, we trace our community back to Phyllis. On the […]
90.1 KPFT Radio Interview: History of Transgender Language [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/36566598″ iframe=”true” /] . . Old German Trans Terms The more things change, the more they stay the same. From someone being cis to having explicit trans umbrella terms, we’ve been there done that… about 100 years ago. A while back, I had posted a 30-year […]
Here’s a few more interesting finds I thought I’d share: 1907: Transsexual = Cross-sexed 1908: Trans-sexual = Cross-sexual 1915: Trans-sexed = Trans-gendered 1971: Transsex added to Dictionary 1973: Transsex in Glam Rock 1977: Trans-sexed
As many of you know, I have another blog that’s rather dry and is only focused on recording the interesting bits of trans history I come across. A great deal of what I post has to do with the language used to describe the non-cis experience. Here’s a few bits that I’ve not yet shared on this blog: […]
There’s nothing wrong with being colorful when demolishing a falsehood and there’s nothing wrong with robust and vigorous debate… in fact, there’s everything right about that process. The continued tradition of robust debate around language, the objective merits of Separatism vs Inclusionism, communal goals, etc. is a sign of health and should be valued. Community is about unity and NOT uniformity.
This post is a collection of randomness that didn’t warrant its own post; so, I thought I’d lump it all together here… Dana Lane Taylor took down her site after I issued my challenge: After defending the show, ABC’s Work It was canceled and replaced with reruns. . Some YouTube comments I’ve gotten this week: “oh my god fuckin freaks, […]
We can either go the route of Harvey Milk or we can go the route of the Mattachines.
