Returning to the poison chalice of TERFism, consider this, the underlying conceit underpinning all aspects of fascism: making meritorious mere accidents of birth. How appealing must it be to the insipid that a white cishet woman –who is oppressed as a woman– elevates herself above all Black people for that which she possesses by […]
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, […]
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 […]
