Feeling Change: Trans in Ohio
This past weekend was the 4th Annual TransOhio Transgender and Ally Symposium, the only trans focused event of its kind in Ohio, and one of […]
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Pride, People, and Perseverance
Pride’s over for another year, making this the week of recuperation for many local folks. I always need some downtime after Pride, but this year […]
Continue reading »Gender Proof and Queers; We should know better
Yesterday I took part in Equality Ohio’s LGBT Lobby Day, a gathering of folks from all over the state descending en masse on the capital to lobby […]
Continue reading »Transwoman publicly beaten for trying to use bathroom; No One Helped
This is a follow up from a Bilerico post about a transwoman who was brutally and repeatedly beaten and dragged across the floor in a Baltimore McDonalds because she tried […]
Continue reading »Queer Blog States We Can “Live Without Queer People of Color”
Last night, in the period of a few hours, the blog Queering posted a series of comments about people of color’s inclusion and, at one […]
Continue reading »Queers Not Too Proud for Pop-Culture Hand-Outs
I am a proud person, but I have never really considered myself to be “proud” of being trans or genderqueer or queer or femme or […]
Continue reading »A GenderQueer’s Bad Romance
I tried working out some intro about my experiences as a performer to go along with this post, but I feel the performance speaks for […]
Continue reading »Cincinnati Pride or Privilege?
Cincinnati Pride is approaching, and this year issues have gone beyond the usual problems with Pride. Pride is a cluster of issues, visibility, consumerism and […]
Continue reading »Ableism, Access, and Gender Identity Disorder
This past weekend I was invited to be a speaker on the Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference’s plenary panel “Five on Five: Winning The Removal of GID […]
Continue reading »Be Queer, Buy Queer
I’d like to give a shout out to Emily Wunderlich of the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse, the winner of the Campus Pride and OUTmedia’s BQBQ contest. […]
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