Posts Tagged “fear”

Queerly Allied

By | January 12, 2012

Swirling Heart

Have you ever been in the situation where your identity makes you the automatic authority on all things related to that facet of yourself? It’s something I experience fairly often at school, as the resident openly queer queer.  I’m certainly not the only one there, but the on-campus presence is small enough that I am [...]

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Transphobia and the Need for Trans-Positive Education

By | March 13, 2011

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 [...]

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Cad tá agam?

By | November 30, 2010

Let’s start with what you know, Nik. When you were a child, you wanted to be a priest. Well, sure. You also wanted to be an astronaut, a rockstar, president, and a superhero. Somewhere along the line, you realized or were told that you couldn’t be a priest, and thought that nun maybe sounded nice, [...]

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Spider Dance

By | September 27, 2010

I hate spiders. I hate spiders in a religious inquisition, burn first ask questions later, hunt them all down and make them feel lots and lots of pain sort of way. With a little thinking I can tell you every single movie or television episode I’ve ever seen that had spiders in it – the [...]

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