this. read this.
This is great. And I’m glad he addressed race towards the end a bit, because I read most of this wanting to insert “white” in front of “cis gay male culture”.
From my experience as a white queer man in NYC who inhabits spaces in the queer world that are not what I would typically call “white cis gay male” spaces but more “queer largely POC spaces that tend to be on the masculine side”, I would say, at least in my world, the MAAB trans people of my life are still very much a part of a queer men of color space. Let’s not pretend I know what I’m talking about fully and that my ideas are well formed and feel free to complicate this or help me along tumblr friends.
All this to say, interesting read but I wish it talked about how race plays into this because it does on huge levels.
(Source: transthings)
Janet Mock, People.com editor comes out as transsexual. She says:
“After high school graduation, many of my classmates were throwing big graduation parties and buying new cars. Those kids went looking for good times and great memories, but I was desperately searching for one thing only: a chance to be in the right body for the first time in my entire life.”
#OW!
BAM BAM BAM! Yes!
Sylvia Rivera, American transgender activist.
hey! i used to work right where she is standing. at her food pantry. love her.
(via gayestgay)
“No Homo (Nationalism)” from one of the most creative, fun and inspirational people i know!!!!
Check out her blog-
I approve of this public service announcement. <3
(There’s a song in the background, but all the text is written.)
Probably the most important piece of news I have read recently. The work the Trans Youth Support Network has been doing in Minneapolis has always given me hope and I’ve been so happy to have the founder and also the current executive director in my life when I lived there. Their work to create true and deep solidarity with all people is inspiring. Read about Katie’s speech at the National Coming Out Day Luncheon (which was sponsored by Cargill) in which she calls out HRC for its extremely short-sighted Corporate Equality Index and Cargill for the deaths they caused in Iraq thru tainted seeds.
the underbelly of canvassing work and the nonprofit industrial complex (and what i don’t want the hell’s kitchen farm project to turn into).
[confession time 2011]
hey y’know what i am real sick of lately?
racism in the queer/trans community. specifically
co-opting my (POC immigrant) culture’s practices.no, white person i do not want you to share your latest
tincture using “oriental” herbs or learn yoga “under you”
as you co-opt brown/asian/african/latin@/indigenous
culture. you’ve visited homelands so many of us
cannot afford to get to or even visit for obligation,
moreover leisure or a redefining spiritual awakening.it’s not community healing when you steal a culture’s
form of healing and art only to capitalize on it yourself,
wear it as a badge on your sleeve to be more radically fit,
pseudo-progressive. and THEN, have the nerve to
offer it to surviving communities, specifically of color and poor,as though it was yours to give in the first place.
that’s just your colonial whiteness showing. kind and well-
meaning intentions don’t make it less problematic.
support your brown/poc queer and transgender healers!
Reteaching Gender and Sexuality: Queer/Trans Youth Speak Up
Our current project Reteaching Gender & Sexuality is a message about queer youth action and resilience. The video was generated to contribute additional queer/trans youth voices to the national conversations about queer/trans youth lives. Reteaching Gender & Sexuality intends to steer the conversation beyond the symptom of bullying, to consider systemic issues and deeper beliefs about gender and sexuality that impact queer youth. We invite you to share the video with your friends, family and networks…
for more about the project, the full length documentary, or to check out their resources, go to putthisonthemap.org!
You rock, kids!
I’m not interested in my community just surviving. I want us to be thriving!
hell. yes. liberation is the goal. the key. the everything.
