Geopunk over at Bad Moon Rising notes that while the New Hampshire senate voted for same sex marriage, they unanimously voted against anti-discrimination protections for trans people: I am finding it very difficult to feel happy about victories in the realm of same-sex marriage, not because I’m one of those asshats who would deny others [...]
Blasphemies of the Flesh
I have blasphemed against my flesh. I have denied its power. I have sullied it by allowing it to be labelled by standards not my own. I have, in the past, fucked and been fucked by cis people for pleasure. Inevitably, this has always led them to compare my flesh to cis flesh, and to [...]
91 PWD Arrested Outside the White House
As always, free speech requires a permit: U.S. Park Police arrested 91 people, many in wheelchairs, outside the White House Monday afternoon. Those arrested were part of a group demonstrating in support of legislation that would allow people with disabilities to use federal funding to pay for attendant services in the community rather than nursing [...]
Musing on Smashing the Gender Binary
Or why this is so threatening to binary-gendered people (and why it shouldn’t be). So, I was thinking about what a world without a gender binary would be like, and, of course, the first thought would be that my gender would be just as meaningful as man or woman. Then, I realized that that would [...]
Found a Temporarily Able-Bodied Privilege List
Over at She Dances On The Sand there is a post called The Invisible Crutch. In the style of Peggy McIntosh’s Invisible Knapsack. I believe that it is the first one of the type that I’ve seen in regards to Temporarily Able-Bodied Privilege, and it’s excellent. And as someone else and myself both commented, much [...]
Verdict in the Angie Zapata Case
So, the murderer of Angie Zapata was found guilty of 1st degree murder, bias motivated crime, auto theft, and identity theft. And he’ll get life in prison without parole. The reason I haven’t been blogging about the case was, really, I had no idea what to say as a prison abolitionist. It is definitely a [...]
Derailing Specific to Disability
There’s a post up at Hoyden About Town about how TAB (temporarily able-bodied) people derail conversations about disability. Yes, a lot of derailing follows the same general format — the privileged group making it all about them and their experiences — but this particular post is excellent in giving how that specifically applies to disability [...]
Ownership of Bodies
Yesterday, on the bus, I saw a white temporarily able-bodied cis male guy who coded as at least working class and who read as straight, go up to every visible PWD on the bus, and, without any invitation to, offered to pray for them, engaging them in conversations they were very obviously not interested in, [...]
I Hate To Say “I Told You So”…
Actually, I don’t. I remember when every radical was celebrating the election of President Obama, as if he somehow wasn’t supported by the same industries that support every Democrat and Republican. Lenin’s Tomb breaks down just some of the problems with the Obama administration. Let’s see, the Obama administration is taking a more extreme position [...]
