Did you know that the world-famous existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre wrote about transphobes, identifying the bad-faith way transphobes attack trans people? Did you know that he even identified the derangement of personality upon which transphobia is sustained? Well, here it is: Transphobic Rhetoric ever believe that transphobes are completely unaware of the absurdity of their […]
I’ve agonized over this decision since the election as I’ve invested quite a bit of myself into building a safe and supportive community for non-cis folk here in Houston since the 1990s. And yet, here it is: I’m moving out of Texas. I’m the one who convinced the head of Texas DPS policy, Rebecca Blewitt, […]
Yesterday, I learned that a Trumpist gunman was menacing people a few blocks from a school off of Wallisville Road. The gunman said that he was trying to provoke a reaction: The gunman picked the Sonoma Subdivision where the median home costs more than a quarter million. Built in 2005, the subdivision is located in […]
Within the span of one week, I lost two friends to suicide. Of the two, I was closest to Viv. There’s so much that I want to say about Viv’s death… everything from the significance of how it happened to what it was like frantically calling her after I found out that she’d posed a […]
The first is a video I took of a particularly obnoxious anti-abortion protester: I was then invited to speak at the Houston Trans Day of Remembrance at the University of Houston:
A couple of days ago I wrote about my feelings of disgust regarding the behavior of some Tumblr TERFs. While I was responding to an older Tumbr TERF post, they continued to fire back at trans people on Tumblr who were citing my work. TERFs Fire Back: The 1999 TERF Death Threat didn’t happen in 2000 In […]
I have a story that will be coming out sometime this month and it comes from several hours of interviews I did with members of the Lesbian Avengers. They told me about what happened to their group back in 1999, when a mob of violent Michigan Womyn’s Music Fest (MWMF) TERFs held a trans kid against […]
In case you hadn’t heard, a Texas Christian fundie terrorist was just caught plotting to murder a lot of folks in my neck of the woods. While the group’s BS was taken down, I did find some of their stuff in corners of the interwebs: Why do feminists, gays, liberals, anarchists, tyrants, atheists, socialists, and […]
