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, […]
I was talking to a close friend I’ve known since I was a teenager this week, and I noted that I was about to reach a significant milestone in my Ph.D. program. She commented that it was amazing because when she met me, my dyslexia was so bad that I couldn’t write a decipherable sentence. […]
The KKK would pass out fliers with caricatures of non-heteronormative people, warning the public that people like me were dangerous. I remember the KKK marching in the streets carrying signs that instructed the adults around me to “frag a fag” in order to “save our children.” I also remember when a popular Houston mayoral candidate, Louie Welch said that the best way to address the HIV epidemic would be to “shoot the queers.”
I grew up at a time when the KKK and evangelical leadership teamed up to fight against queer employment equality. I grew up during a time when the KKK would pass out fliers with caricatures of effeminate gay men warning the public that people like that were vile and dangerous
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 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 […]
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 […]
Someone recently asked me to breakdown the link between the TERF opinion leader Janice Raymond and insurance policies that exclude trans care. Here’s the link to the original article. This article meticulously exposes a few less than truthful fact assertions Raymond has made, but it’s quite long. So, here’s the TL;DR article excerpt version: It was […]
