Camp Trans was a huge mess and a nightmare, as I’m sure has gotten all over the internet by now. I, standing up against some really fucked up shit, became a huge target, and ended up having to leave in the middle of the night for my own safety. This blog was initially set up [...]
Camp Trans
So, I hate to ask for help (because things are rough all around, and everyone’s money is tight), but, I am going to be able to get to Camp Trans, but, the travel costs are going to be heavy this year for me (last minute backing out of people from a rideshare leading to a [...]
Fashion and the Poor, Fat, Genderqueer Femme
I’m thinking of starting a separate fashion blog, mainly because I’m always complaining that almost all the femme fashion blogs out there seem to be femmes who are thin, the visibility of fat femmes seems to be really tilted toward femmes whose bodies have an hourglass shape, most of them seem to have a good [...]
Camp Trans Call For Workshops
CALL FOR WORKSHOPS CAMP TRANS 2010 – PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY Hi, I’m gayge, and I’ll be helping to schedule and coordinate workshops and caucuses for Camp Trans again this year. Every year, we have workshops and caucuses on a variety of topics connected to trans issues or of interest to trans people. Workshops are a [...]
“Femme Means Attack” Call for Submissions
“Femme Means Attack” call for submissions: “Femme Means Attack” is a collaborative zine of submissions by people who identify as femme and as radical, anarchist, and/or anti-authoritarian. Femmes are often seen as non-radical or counterrevolutionary in many radical communities, despite the fact that we can take to the streets just as well as anyone else, [...]
Femme, High Femme, Competition and Solidarity
This could also be “how I learned to talk about high femme without indulging in femme competition and honoring femme solidarity in my life”. Also, it should be said that I really love the ways sublimefemme talks about high femme. I really love how the other fierce femmes in my life talk about how intentional [...]
A Birthday Story
So, this past Saturday was my birthday. Part of my birthday celebrations – as I’ve been doing different things when different people have been available – was a picnic in a park on my birthday, which, of course was fabulous – the weather was beautiful, we all brought yummy food, my birthday cake was amazing, [...]
More on the Bash Back! Convergence
A Response to the Anarcho-Liberal Takeover of Bash Back! and also here, with different comments. Goes into the bustedness of people moving barriers, addresses issues that a spontaneous action wasn’t consensed on, lot of good discussion in the comment threads about what went wrong and what went right. What happened at Bash Back is a [...]
Chicago Police Attack Queers at Bash Back!
REPOST (not originally by me): Chicago Police attempt to reinact Stonewall by rioting against queers. On Saturday night, May 30th, a group of approximately 100 queers disembarked the red line train at the Belmont stop into Chicago’s Boystown area. Intending to march around a bit, the crowd found themselves too large to fit on the [...]
Talking About Invisibility
It seems to me that the busted things I deal with in my life tend to group themselves into themes. Lately I seem to be dealing with a lot of invisibility and how it seems to steal my voice. Invisibility is often hard to address in the moment, especially when speaking out means I’m going [...]
