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A Busy Day
Some of you may have noticed that I had a link to the right for my surgery fund, and that the link has now changed. I’ve been working on my taxes this week and because I was technically self-employed...
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Amazingness… Something We Can All Achieve
Over the past week or so, as I’ve gone through the stress of taxes and gone from worrying about having to drop out of school for a year or two to work 60 hour weeks so I could afford to pay them back...
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Anger at the VA
Today I don’t have much to talk about, as I’m busy dealing with the VA. The problems I have are a mix of ones that transgender people face with all medical providers, such as trying to get our...
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Queer Movies
A discussion yesterday with my friend Dori got into the topic of queer movies. We both work at an LGBT youth center (her paid, me as a volunteer), and tonight is a movie night at the center. The thing...
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Evolving Sexuality
About a week ago, an acquaintance of mine asked me a question about how being asexual works with being in the leather lifestyle. This is an interesting question with multiple levels that I could...
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Things Best Left Unsaid
So yesterday, I was reading Matt’s post over at Tranifesto, and he was talking about a workshop a friend of his went to where there was an activity where the participants were to turn to one another...
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Differing Sexual Identities
An acquaintance and reader asks, “why don’t we consider trans* bodies that have medically transitioned in some way as intersex? Why isn’t there a separate sex category for altered bodies?” This is a...
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Physical Differences in Sexual Identity
Last time I began addressing the issue of why trans* people are not all intersex, even if some intersex people are trans* identified. I left off mentioning that I would discuss more in depth the...
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5th Annual Hug A Trans* Person Day
I mentioned a while back that there’s a queer themed holiday almost every month of the year. Well, today is one of those days, thus I’m doing my blog post a day early this week. Today is the 5th annual...
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On Depression and Other Disabilities
I just this past weekend finally came out of a two week long major depressive phase. I’ve made no secret of my suffering from PTSD and depression in the past, and the thing is, a lot of LGBT people...
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Transgender Round Table Discussion at the VA
This morning, I attended a round table discussion at the Dallas VA hospital about how to improve VA service for trans vets locally. At this discussion were the director and assistant director of the...
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Job Hunting
As the semester has come to an end and I’ve completed my finals (three confirmed A grades and likely two more), I’ve begun job hunting. In this kind of market, job hunting is difficult already. Factor...
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Transgender Employment
Hey all. Been a couple weeks because I’ve been super busy. Turns out, about an hour after I made my last post, I got a call for an interview for a job. The very next day, I got a call for another...
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Trans Representation in Literature
A reader asks: “What do you think, if anything, about the representation, or lack-thereof of transgender ‘beings’ in literature?” There are actually quite a few transgender characters in literature and...
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Birthdays and Symbols
I just logged in to find out that today is my one year anniversary of running this blog, it’s tranniversary if you will. Interestingly enough, as my blog has it’s birthday, I was already planning on...
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Digital Girls Have Real Cooties
My good friend Dori invited me to submit some of my own work over to another site she blogs for that is all about geek girls getting our message on, often with a secular spin, known as Secular View....
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An Open Letter to Congressional Republicans, From a Queer Vet
Dear Congressional Republicans, My name is Caitlin Fairchild, and I’m an Air Force veteran and a college student. I served for seven years active duty with two tours under Operation Enduring Freedom,...
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Back to Writing, and a Reader Question
It’s been nearly a year since I last wrote here. It’s been a BUSY year. I had two jobs for a time, took a nasty fall off a ladder and got a concussion, adopted three cats, had two busy semesters of...
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A New Series: Feminist Perspectives on Media
Hey all. Just writing a quick note here to let you all know that starting Monday, I’ll begin writing a weekly series on here where I take a feminist perspective to some of my guilty pleasure games,...
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My Little Feminist
Ok, sorry this is later than planned. This weekend was INSANELY busy here. Daddy got invited to a housewarming for a coworker (or former coworker), and it was something like an hour drive out of the...
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