Category: LGBT
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Being Bearded While Female
There’s nothing like venturing far from home to make you realize how difficult it is to be outside the gender binary in more conservative areas of the United States. Sure, you hear about it plenty. You read the news articles and blog posts and your skin crawls at how awful people can be. You can try…
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Positive and Negative Forces
Yesterday morning, I checked my Facebook feed and found this right at the top: “Great,” I thought. “I’m sure I’m the ‘certain people.’ What sort of anti-gay misinformation is she posting now?” Let me back up a bit. Brittany is my cousin. She’s a year younger than I am. We have a very long,…
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Korrasami
I’ve been sobbing with overwhelming positive feelings for the past half hour. Why? Because of this: I’ve been celebrating the revelation that the Korra/Asami (“Korrasami”) relationship from The Legend of Korra is canon since it was confirmed by Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino. My friends, bless them for their patience, have either been celebrating…
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Running the Gamut
On the heels of my previous post, I had a day that ran the entire gamut of responses to my appearance. Pull up a chair, dear reader, and allow me to share with you what the full range of reactions to my fuzzy self looks like. It started when I was headed to my favorite…
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The [Hairy] Elephant in the Room
“No, don’t look at her!” “Uh, too late…” You’d be surprised at the things whispered behind your back when people think you can’t hear them. We tend to assume that this sort of thing is the stuff of immaturity, only lasting through the torturous years of junior high and high school. But that’s not always…
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LA Pride 2013
This was my second year attending LA Pride (third watching the parade), and it was great fun! I only caught a portion of the parade, and that’s where I spent all of my picture-taking energy. It was, however, my first year attending the Dyke March on the Friday before the Pride festival proper. To be…
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“I’ll Make a [Wo]Man Out of You”
However, transgender and gender-nonconforming youth are largely ignored in mainstream media. Where is the message for these young people? It’s nearly nonexistent. There is, quite literally, next to no mention of gender-variant youth in popular culture, nothing for them in magazines, books, TV (OK, maybe TV — but then one would have to consider whether…
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LGBT, Gaming, and Kickstarter
I’m proud to have backed both GaymerX (formerly GaymerCon) and Gaming in Color. And I’m thrilled that both projects were funded (GaymerX spectacularly so). Both of these events are quite relevant to my interests, being a gay, genderqueer female who has been working in the game industry for almost ten years. GaymerX has gotten a…