Monthly Archives: March 2012

struggling to explain my gender to others…working through a helpful parallel with science “shop talk”

Posted on March 29, 2012 by

i recently received an e-mail from a friend “out of the blue” about my gender stuff.  they were super supportive (yay!) and also had some questions about things.  they were genuinely curious in an effort to try to understand things … Continue reading →

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soundtrack to a solo appalachian road trip

Posted on March 28, 2012 by

i recently got back from a 6 day vacation…bless you spring break and bless you advisor/professor for the class i’m teaching for being cool about me taking off for the week…i desperately needed to get out of town and decompress.  … Continue reading →

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“we got a dude!” [some thoughts on (not)passing, the pendulum, and hoping that one day people will just believe me]

Posted on March 18, 2012 by

recently, i was having a group conversation with a variety of trans* people about the notion of passing.  and the question was posed to me what it meant for me, as a genderqueer-identified person, to “pass”. i think about passing … Continue reading →

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developing resiliency: the story of and the fallout from my first gender-associated bathroom incident

Posted on March 3, 2012 by

last thursday night, i was at  a local establishment [in upstate new york] for “queer night”, which btw, is a usually a really awesome and fun thing.  i was enjoying a few beers and chatting with some friends and generally … Continue reading →

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