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this week in gender bending: trans media

posted by zavi

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 …

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July 2nd, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: General | Leave a comment

this week in gender bending: sexual biology

posted by zavi

American culture spends far too much time not wanting to really talk or think about gender, sex and sexuality. This is especially true in the deep South, where both Panda and I are from. After coming from a background where abstinence-only sex education is considered ideal, most sex toys are illegal, and teens can be left out of their high school yearbook just for being gender deviant, it’s quite refreshing to find outlets to talk openly about sexuality. “Don’t Feed the Animals” provides a interesting look into the biology behind human sexuality.

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March 29th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: General | Leave a comment