I Came So Far For Beauty

This post title is from one of my fave songs (originally by Cohen), here’s a version by Stina Nordenstam (link is halfway down the page)
More fuel for the TG assimilation media rocketship:
Winner of the Miss India Transgender pageant Karina Shalini (C) celebrates with runner ups Romi (L) and Padmini.
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It’s a pretty cool gesture that the [...]

The DSM-V gets a poke from The New Scientist, and Bilerico with their pants down (again – ‘I think they like it!’)

I’m happy to hear that the APA has postponed completion of the DSM-V. I agree with the overall statement here of The New Scientist. Unfortunately, suggesting ideas for change to BIG PHARMA is like a chihuahua barking at a dragon.
“…the American Psychiatric Association has announced that the publication of DSM-V will be delayed until May [...]

WTO “Battle in Seattle” 10th Anniversary

It’s been a decade since a week of unrest turned the world’s attention to the “Battle in Seattle.” Producer John DeGraaf looks back at the World Trade Organization Protests. Here’s a preview of DeGraaf’s documentary, “The Whold World Was Watching.” Check out this documentary which aired yesterday.
“Let them eat cake!” Did she really [...]

Mona Kuhn

Mona Kuhn’s photos are a dreamy delight of nude photo art, and a testament to the synchronous relationship between photographer and subject. | monakuhn.com | Scott Nichols Gallery | 13-minute audio interview for Lens Culture.

Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance

The Transgender Day of Remembrance was set aside to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. The event is held in November to honor Rita Hester, whose murder in 1998 kicked off the “Remembering Our Dead” web project and a San Francisco candlelight vigil in 1999. Since then, the event has [...]

”Candy” launched in London: The first fashion magazine ever completely dedicated to celebrating transvestism, transexuality, cross dressing and androgyny.

”Candy” is the first fashion magazine ever completely dedicated to celebrating transvestism, transexuality, cross dressing and androgyny, and it was launched last night in London. A limited edition of 1000 copies, the publication is promising to shake the fashion world, and pushes people to take on the persona of what they always wanted to be. [...]

Transgender woman forced to perform oral sex, prison guard gets four month jail term.

Courage comes in many different forms. For Esmeralda a transgender asylum seeker from Mexico who faced horrific circumstances in immigration detention, it came in the form of seeking justice. Kept in a segregated cell with other transgender detainees, Esmeralda never realized that her experience in detention would match the trauma of discrimination she had faced [...]

Antony Hegarty – on “Everglade”

Antony Hegarty:
“They’re actually entwined, those two ideas – being born into the transgender community, my experience of being in my body has been quite alienated. I felt I was stuck inside this thing. I have been searching my whole life for a place where I belonged, and ‘Everglade’ is about my realisation that I do [...]

God’s Gift To Transgender

I spent some time researching Christian and other religious group affiliated blogs, and found lots which show compassion toward transfolk and lgbt in general. The focus in media and the lgbt movement is from a negative religious right stance. What is the percentage of Christians in North America who are on the right or on the [...]

Letter Of Remembrance

One year, on Remembrance Day I stood at the epitaph. It was cold and wet and there was no-one around. I stood looking at all the wreaths and noticed people had put some letters there as well. I stood there for a while and was looking at this one letter. It was two pages folded, [...]