Archive For The “Gender” Category
So here’s the thing – I live in this fantastic mostly queer space where bacon, mustaches, ridiculously tall bicycles and every kind of artisan whatever (I swear to god, if someone could make artisan rubber bands, they would do it here) abound. Relatively speaking, there is a high population of queer identified people. That’s great [...]
Passing
By thisnik | May 7, 2011
I’ve always had trouble passing. When I was a kid, it was being cool enough – my love of reading and unfortunate eyeglasses got me labeled as four-eyes. As a teen, I wasn’t sexy enough, and though I wore my shirts tight and short, my habit of wearing big boots and knowing how to use [...]
We are taught from our earliest experience that heterosexual and cisgendered identities are “normal,” and that any variation from these norms is deviant and substandard. Consider the popular usage of the term gay, which has come to mean substandard, effeminate, and flawed. The word gay has become a derogatory slur used as unthinkingly as people [...]
We were standing outside Holocene, cooling down from that overheated dance floor, when you reeled out the door, steps unsteady and eyes full of malice. After looking our little group over, you apparently decided that we didn’t pass your definition of acceptable gender presentations, because you stopped right in front of us and let fly [...]
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