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Why isn’t there an equivalent of this in every class room and/or queer space?
Note: this is a modified version of a poster created by the Stonewall Center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The original and others are available here for very … Click to continue reading genderqueer educational poster Are there bad questions to ask a trans and/or queer person? …Yes. Of course there are. There are in fact bad questions to ask any human being. The conjecture that rude, personal questions are just being asked out of ‘innocent curiosity’ is up there with the presumption that the customer is ‘always right.’ We at genderpanic have done our time behind the counters of coffee shops and retail stores and we know. The customer is not only sometimes wrong, but is also on occasion being absolutely and deliberately stupid. This same logic applies to inquirers of private information. Calpernia Addams is here with razor sharp wit to share some of these bad questions. And may we just say – Calpernia, you kick ass. 
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/374/Somewhere-Out-There All too often, mass media neglects the voices of minorities and misses out on an entire range of human experience. Featured this week are the seldom heard stories of trans people and how they define their own gender and sexuality. Make Me A Boy – This “collection of unwritten life stories” features interviews with transmen about their life experiences. Somewhere Out There – Check out “Act Two: Tom Girls” of this NPR episode, which tells the story of two young trans girls meeting at a transgender conference in Seattle. Defining Queer Virginity – Brightest New Things asks a quite diverse selection of queers to explain gay sex, in all … Click to continue reading this week in gender bending: trans media I hope this upcoming St. Valentine’s Day finds you healthy and happy and loving yourself (and others). Gender-Panic would like to ring in the occasion with a quick to reminder to get out there and support your local performances of “The Vagina Monologues”. It’s a great opportunity to take a lovely somebody out for a moving, hilarious, and informative show, while supporting local women’s groups in the process. You can find a show near you by visiting the events section of the V-Day website here. If you’d rather spend the night in, GP highly recommends the Logo special “Beautiful Daughters”, a short documentary piece about an all trans production of “The Vagina Monologues”. I’d like to close with a short note on the recent wave of controversy following the hyper-masculine, “hen-pecked” men theme made very present in the Super Bowl ads this past weekend. The main ad of concern was the Dodge Charger ad entitled “Man’s Last Stand”. The premise of the ad is that because men put up with their mothers, sisters, girlfriends, and wives, they should be allowed to drive an expensive sports car. Because being a … Click to continue reading happy almost v-day! |
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