Midwest Reality
The open house was packed. I fought my anxious impulse to disappear, reminding myself that now it wasn’t just my responsibility to be a visible, […]
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Activist issues and projects, political topics
Oct. 11th in DC: Equality or Egoism?
[First off, sorry for the lag in posts. I am now officially settled in my new job at Oberlin College which means the blog is […]
Continue reading »Ohio “Gay” Pride
Pride season has come, and gone. All queers going busily berserk for 30 days altogether: Always interesting. I gave a speech for Cincinnati’s pride, skillfully […]
Continue reading »Healthy is for the Wealthy
“…What do the young know or care about health insurance?” According to conservative columnist Michael Barone young people have “the fewest medical problems of the […]
Continue reading »Gender-Variant Shot – We’re All Clueless
Last week, two female presenting people, possibly transwomen or crossdressers, where attacked and robbed in Cincinnati. One was shot when the thief tried to take […]
Continue reading »Ageism Fucks Over Activism
This week I went to lobby in Columbus, Ohio’s capital, for the LGBT Equal Housing and Employment Protections Act. Equality Ohio collected almost 500 people […]
Continue reading »Death Fetish
How much does fear and sadness motivate? Does it motivate at all? I mentor my old high-school’s Gay-Straight Alliance, and the last big project was […]
Continue reading »Pink Hair Trumps Human Rights?
An Update on the University of Cincinnati: For over three years we’ve been jumping through administrative hoops trying to get a campus queer center with […]
Continue reading »Gift-wrapped Activism
A couple of my fellow sex education teamsters and I went to an activist conference this weekend. It was for getting activists together from around […]
Continue reading »GIE Policy came through!
It happened! The University of Cincinnati has officially included Gender Identity and Expression in it’s Non-Discrimination Policy. Now anyone who’s transgender, genderqueer, gender-variant, or queer […]
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