The long awaited.. PRINCE AND THE PRINCESS…
My final project for my book arts class. Hope you enjoy ;o;
not to be a nitpicker but they still called the “prince” a ‘she’.
very fairy tale, as if there were no medieval context what-so-ever
-shrug-
still enjoyed it.
Ahhh sorry it isn’t really clear but Emilia still identifies as female!! Haha the title is a little misleading *__* Both end up as princesses! The title is based off the prince and the pauper and edmund is a prince for most of the story. I’m open to other suggestions for the title though! * v *
YES YES YES ALL OFTHIS
Warden's Fantasy: diversifying your queer reads, part 2: a list of books published in 2012 featuring trans people
Here’s the second of two lists aimed at promoting more diverse queer lit - the first, of 2012 qpoc books, is here. It should be said that there’s no way this list is exhaustive, or even close. If I was unsure about a book’s contents (that is, if I was unsure if the trans content/characters were prominent, or if I thought the book might be exploitative), I tended to give weight to who the author is (that is, I was more likely to include books I know were written by trans people). Of course, I’ll be happy to add books to the list if you have any suggestions that fit the theme! Here’s what I found, arranged by genre:
poetry
Seasonal Velocities: poems, stories and essays by Ryka Aoki
Dialectic of the Flesh by Roz Kaveney
nonfiction/memoir
A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy Who Joins the Church of Scientology and Leaves Twelve Years Later to Become the Lovely Lady She is Today by Kate Bornstein
Real Man Adventures by T Cooper
Bumbling Into Body Hair by Everett Maroon
Transition: Becoming Who I Was Always Meant to Be by Chaz Bono
Rise of the Videogame Zinesters: How Freaks, Normals, Amateurs, Artists, Dreamers, Drop-outs, Queers, Housewives, and People Like You Are Taking Back an Art Form by Anna Anthropy
Cooking In Heels: A Memoir Cookbook by Ceyenne Doroshow
Transposes by Dylan Edwards
No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics edited by Justin Hall
Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Transitions of the Heart: Stories of Love, Struggle and Acceptance by Mothers of Transgender and Gender Variant Children edited by Rachel Pepper
Against Equality: Prisons Will Not Protect You edited by Ryan Conrad
fiction
Heidegger Stairwell by Kayt Burgess
Roving Pack by Sassafras Lowrey
First Spring Grass Fire by Rae Spoon
The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard edited by Tom Léger and Riley MacLeod
science fiction & fantasy
The Drowning Girl by The Spark by Susan Jane Bigelow
Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction edited by Brit Mandelo
young adult
Beautiful Music for Ugly Children by Kirstin Cronn-Mills
Being Emily by
One in Every Crowd by Ivan E. Coyote
Happy Families by Tanita S. Davis
children’s/picture books
When Leonard Lost His Spots: A Trans Parent Tale by Monique Costa and Marina Shupik
The Adventures of Tulip, Birthday Wish Fairy by S. Bear Bergman and Suzy Malik
Backward Day by S. Bear Bergman and KD Diamond
Many thanks to Giovanni’s Room, Malinda Lo, the GLBTRT of the ALA, this trans women in fiction wiki and many goodreads users for providing the resources that made compiling this list feasible!
Aya Kamikawa: Why she kicks ass
- She is the only openly transgender official in Japan at this point, and the first to seek or win elected office in Japan.
- She won a four-year term as an independent under huge media attention, placing sixth of 72 candidates running for 52 seats in the Setagaya ward assembly, the most populous district in Tokyo. In April 2007, she was re-elected to her second term, placing second of 71 candidates running for 52 in the same ward assembly.
- While the government announced that they would continue to consider her male officially, she stated that she would work as a woman.
- She is devoted to work for various groups, the disabled, single-parent families, homeless people to evening junior high school students, LGBT people and to improve rights for women, children, the elderly. She strives to give support for these people and bring positive changes which would help them in society.
- She was also a committee member for Trans-net Japan (a self-support group for transgender people) and organised meetings and social events to give support and symposiums to raise the public awareness.
I need to see more stories like this one every day. Actually we all do.
I’m trying to make a point to a friend. Reblog this if you’d be okay with your child coming up to you and saying “I think I was born as the wrong gender.”
3.2% of Americans Identify as LGBT, According to New Gallup Poll
GOOD NEWS - Polling data finds American are slowly becoming less afraid to Come Out of the Closet, and 3.2% of them answered affirmatively to the question “Do you, personally, identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender?”
This is similar to the data found in the Williams Study, that showed when you add in the still shy & nervous you get between 8% and 10% of the population.
INTERESTING NEWS — Lauren S. Kannry, Director of Public Relations for Gallup, called it a “landmark” study, which also identified 44% of this LGBT population as Democratic, 43% as independent, and 13% as Republican.
The survey also found that nonwhite individuals are more likely to identify as LGBT. African Americans (4.6%), Asian Americans (4.3%), and Hispanics (4.0%), all exceeded the Non-Hispanic white percentage of 3.2% LGBT … the author of the report, Gary Gates, determined that the findings should cut against stereotypes associated with the LGBT community.
“Contemporary media often think of LGBT people as disproportionately white, male, urban and pretty wealthy,” he said. “But this data reveal that relative to the general population, the LGBT population has a larger proportion of nonwhite people and clearly is not overly wealthy.”
This movement on the part of people who call themselves pansexual to demonize people who identify as bisexual is quite recent; it has only been the last 10 years or so, but it has been vicious. There are some sites where you will be bullied if you identify as bisexual instead of pansexual.
I have been attracted to trans people all my life, and am gender variant myself; imagine how it felt to be watching a YouTube video about pansexuality in which the young college student stated that all bisexuals are not attracted to trans people and only like manly men and feminine women. And she stated this with total certainty.
We still are trying to find out who is training this generation of college students to hate, and who is trying to set non-monosexuals against each other. Where are these biphobic lies coming from?
” Estraven2 (via bisexualftw)
Affordable Care Act bans discrimination based on gender identity
“This means that no one can be discriminated against because of their gender identity.”
Google’s Bisexual Problem If one of the biggest companies in the world decides to erase your identity, will anyone notice?
BiNet USA president Faith Cheltenham goes on HuffPost!Gay to takes on Google (and the silent complicity of the organized Gay/Lesbian Community) over it’s continuing block of the word bisexual from its Auto Complete and Instant Search features
To provide Google with more feedback, visit here.
oh my god that’s terrible
Trans* Umbrella
Following terms from GLAAD
TRANSGENDER-SPECIFIC TERMINOLOGY
Transgender An umbrella term (adj.) for people whose gender identity and/or gender expression differs from the sex they were assigned at birth. The term may include but is not limited to: transsexuals, cross-dressers and other gender-variant people. Transgender people may identify as female-to-male (FTM) or male-to-female (MTF). Use the descriptive term (transgender, transsexual, cross-dresser, FTM or MTF) preferred by the individual. Transgender people may or may not decide to alter their bodies hormonally and/or surgically.
Transsexual (also Transexual) An older term which originated in the medical and psychological communities. While some transsexual people still prefer to use the term to describe themselves, many transgender people prefer the term transgender to transsexual. Unlike transgender, transsexual is not an umbrella term, as many transgender people do not identify as transsexual. It is best to ask which term an individual prefers.
Transvestite Derogatory see Cross-Dressing
Transition Altering one’s birth sex is not a one-step process; it is a complex process that occurs over a long period of time. Transition includes some or all of the following personal, legal and medical adjustments: telling one’s family, friends and/or co-workers; changing one’s name and/or sex on legal documents; hormone therapy; and possibly (though not always) one or more forms of surgery.
Sex Reassignment Surgery (SRS) Refers to surgical alteration, and is only one small part of transition (see Transition above). Preferred term to “sex change operation.” Not all transgender people choose to or can afford to have SRS. Journalists should avoid overemphasizing the role of SRS in the transition process.
Cross-Dressing To occasionally wear clothes traditionally associated with people of the other sex. Cross-dressers are usually comfortable with the sex they were assigned at birth and do not wish to change it. “Cross-dresser” should NOT be used to describe someone who has transitioned to live full-time as the other sex or who intends to do so in the future. Cross-dressing is a form of gender expression and is not necessarily tied to erotic activity. Cross-dressing is not indicative of sexual orientation.
Gender Identity Disorder (GID) A controversial DSM-IV diagnosis given to transgender and other gender- variant people. Because it labels people as “disordered,” Gender Identity Disorder is often considered offensive. The diagnosis is frequently given to children who don’t conform to expected gender norms in terms of dress, play or behavior. Such children are often subjected to intense psychotherapy, behavior modification and/or institutionalization. Replaces the outdated term “gender dysphoria.”
Intersex Describing a person whose biological sex is ambiguous. There are many genetic, hormonal or anatomical variations that make a person’s sex ambiguous (e.g., Klinefelter Syndrome). Parents and medical professionals usually assign intersex infants a sex and perform surgical operations to conform the infant’s body to that assignment. This practice has become increasingly controversial as intersex adults speak out against the practice. The term intersex is not interchangeable with or a synonym fortransgender.
TRANSGENDER TERMS TO AVOID
PROBLEMATIC TERMS
Problematic: “transgenders,” “a transgender”
Preferred: “transgender people,” “a transgender person”
Transgender should be used as an adjective, not as a noun. Do not say, “Tony is a transgender,” or “The parade included many transgenders.” Instead say, “Tony is a transgender man,” or “The parade included many transgender people.”Problematic: “transgendered”
Preferred: “transgender”
The adjective transgender should never have an extraneous “-ed” tacked onto the end. An “-ed” suffix adds unnecessary length to the word and can cause tense confusion and grammatical errors. For example, it is grammatically incorrect to turn transgender into a participle, as it is an adjective, not a verb, and only verbs can be used as participles by adding an “-ed” suffix.Problematic: “sex change,” “pre-operative,” “post-operative”
Preferred: “transition”
Referring to a sex change operation, or using terms such as pre- or post-operative, inaccurately suggests that one must have surgery in order to transition. Avoid overemphasizing surgery when discussing transgender people or the process of transition.DEFAMATORY TERMS
Defamatory: “deceptive,” “fooling,” “pretending,” “posing” or “masquerading”
Gender identity is an integral part of a person’s identity. Do not characterize transgender people as “deceptive,” as “fooling” other people, or as “pretending” to be, “posing” or “masquerading” as a man or a woman. Such descriptions are defamatory and insulting.Defamatory: “she-male,” “he-she,” “it,” “trannie,” “tranny,” “shim,” “gender-bender”
These words only serve to dehumanize transgender people and should not be used.Defamatory: “bathroom bill”
A new term created and used by far-right extremists to oppose non-discrimination laws that protect transgender people. The term is geared to incite fear and panic at the thought of encountering transgender people in public restrooms. Use non-discrimination law/ordinance instead.Note: some people prefer Sex Realignment Surgery, as you aren’t so much reassigning genitalia as aligning your genitalia with your gender identity.
Also, don’t use the word “trap”
IMPORTANT PLEASE READ!!
If studying-lgbtq-people inboxes you asking to take part in questions about LGBTQ people “to help her understand” DO NOT DO IT. It is Sophie M Herold, the girl from Germany who attacks LGBTQ people and outs them to others. She is transphobic, homophobic and one of the sickest people I know. And now she’s back with a cunning new plan to get your NAME, ADDRESS, BIRTH DATE, AND PHOTO.
This girl is dangerous, and for some reason is allowed to keep making new tumblr accounts. We’ve raised awareness before and it helped, so lets do it again before she puts another persons life in danger. She collects your information and gives it out to others, she has sent letters to peoples parents outing them, other people have gotten hurt because of her. Yes, hurt.
Even if we can’t stop her again, get this message out and stop others giving her information etc.
And Sophie, you should know by now not to fuck with me again, wrong move, buddy.
SIGNAL BOOST.
Y’all know I don’t normally signal boost, but this is so important. This girl is literally putting peoples’ lives in danger.
unclear if she’s in Germany or Virginia. she browses tumblr for LGBTQ people’s (especially lesbians’ and trans people’s) personal info in order to out as many people to their families, peers, employers, etc. as possible. if anyone contacts you about participating in a survey about LGBTQ people, ESPECIALLY if they ask for personal info, exercise caution. google any “real” name they provide and/or the username under which they contacted you; report suspicious tumblr accounts to support@tumblr.com. if they say it’s research being conducted by/for a student, academic body, organization, or business, they need to supply details about the survey research. don’t do any survey whose conductor, purpose, process, OR confidentiality is unclear or questionable, and don’t do any survey by Sophie M. Herold or Sophie von Bayron. the about section at now-defunct studying-lgbtq-people is clearly homophobic and transphobic:
Hello!
My name is Sophie Miriam Herold. In the past, I have contacted LGBTQ people around the world and pointed out to them how wrong their behaviour (being LGBTQ) is. Then, I started collecting names, addresses, photos and other personal information about them and sold them to anti-LGBTQ-organisations.
Now, it is time to take a more direct approach and find out what is really going on inside LGBTQ individuals.
That’s why I am asking LGBTQ people around the world to participate in my series of tests.
I want to experiment with gay people to find out how they react to
-cold, heat
-physical pressure
-different levels of psychological stress
-different chemical substances.
I just want to find out if LGBTQ people react like normal people.
Everyone who is LGBTQ can participate, no matter if you are British, German, Canadian etc., no matter if you are White, African-American, Asian etc., no matter if you are 18 or 28 years old – you just have to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer.
Depending on the amount of people who want to participate, the studies will start in fall 2012 or early 2013.
During the first phase of this test you will receive a questionary with questions regarding your past. In the second phase, you will participate in different role playing games (via skype) to find out how you react in everyday life situations. These skype sessions will be recorded. In the third phase, you will be invited to a laboratory close to your hometown to undergo the chemical and physical testing.
This study will be absolutely free for LGBTQ people.
If you are interested or know a LGBTQ person who wants to participate, please email me your
-full name
-full address
-birth date and age
-latest photo of yourself
-and describe yourself in a few words and why you want to participate in the testing.
Please send this message to:
sophiemherold@aol.de
Thank you very much for your cooperation.
My name is Sophie Miriam Herold, and I mean you no harm. I am just being curious.
It looks like her tumblr has been removed. Good.
Please check your own privileges at the door: Sometimes we don’t have to look too far to find the people who persecute members of the LGBTQ+ Community(s). Be honest. How many of these have you used? And how many of these have been used against you?
I’m glad I can bring these things to people’s attention, and I’m glad you’re working to address your lack of knowledge into the issue. Just a few practical ways of reducing one’s own binarism include;
* Not referring to ‘women and men’ when you mean ‘the whole population.’
* Looking at the world and noticing the ways and spaces in which people are forced into one or the other box, and if it is within your power to do so trying to lessen the effects of this. For example, in designing a questionnaire, putting ‘gender’ as a text field that people can write what they want in.
* Try not to make assumptions about people’s gender, and if you’re not sure about pronouns, ask without arguing about the answer (a tendency unfortunately very strong in people).
* Work against any other kyriarchal attitudes you may have; this includes both the other things that non-binary folks almost automatically encounter such as cissexism, and all other oppressions such as racism or ableism. Due to intersectionality, they all get tied in with binarism.
This is an incredibly incomplete list, but I hope it helps. And I hope the list didn’t sound too confrontational. Anyway, here’s to oppression-ending!
” STFU Binarists (via scar-lip)
