August 2012
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July 2012
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healing is incremental.
Seattle has been extraordinarily healing for me. In a lot of ways, I am happier than I have been in a long, long time. And? Last night, in bed, I still could not fucking sleep. I tossed & turned & gnashed my teeth & generally flailed about and saw the sun rise through my window and finally fell asleep after dawn and woke up around 10. I had a lot of Sad Sad Missing My Sweet Sweet...
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Please oh please keep signal-boosting my Ask for...
Folks, I am so thankful for all the love & money that has come my way since I’ve launched this fundraising campaign, but I still gotta long way (as in, roughly another $5,200) to go. If you can, please oh please oh PLEASE keep the signal boosts on this coming. The big money donations are, of course, awesome, but the $5 + $10 + $20 + $25 donations also really add up. And bless you, all of...
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“I have to pee like Jesus — and boy, did he ever have to pee!”
– Um. I kinda love my friends.
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I just texted Colin "This is totally like Twin...
I am sitting at a cafe in Seattle that is baaaaasically the Seattle version of Twin Peaks (which is my favorite bar in San Francisco). But, like, with coffee instead of booze. And decorated by somebody’s slightly butch gay uncle instead of decorated by somebody’s slightly butch gay grandpa. There are lots of sweet old queer men & comfy chairs & tiny precious lamps everywhere....
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Gadabout Green's Misadventures: A List of... →
Signal-boosting!
litglutton:
Today, tumblr has exploded in opposition to Victoria Foyt’s novel “Revealing Eden,” the first book in her Save the Pearls series. This outpouring of intellectual criticism is great! Follow the “Save the Pearls” tag and you’ll found a huge collection of people who have written…
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Gadabout Green's Misadventures: Yo, bruh. →
Read, please.
(Also: I love you, sweet friend. <3 <3 <3)
gadaboutgreen:
I read what you said and I hear you.
I wish I could tell you my everyday, the constant barrage of micro-assaults and micro-aggressions I deal with. I wish you could feel what it’s like to live in a body that’s read as Black, male, large, imposing—a threat. To feel the weight of it as move…
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BAY AREA GIRL TALK FANS! Free this Sunday? Wanna...
BAY AREA GIRL TALK FANS! Are you free this Sunday? Do you wanna help Girl Talk make lots of money for our 2013 show? Consider volunteering on Girl Talk’s behalf at Up Your Alley (aka The Dore Alley Street Fair). Lots of leather & chaps & bears, oh my! More here: http://www.folsomstreetfair.com/alley/ Every Girl Talk-related volunteer at Up Your Alley equals $100 for Girl Talk...
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“The world is not full of Attractive People and Unattractive People. It’s full of...”
– Kate Harding (via Bon-Bon)
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Portland rolly bag help, oh please? :)
Portland peoples! The zipper on my rolly backpack is busted, so I am wondering about two things:
1) Are there any good, relatively cheap tailors in Pdx (preferably in SE) who could repair the zipper on said bag?
Or, failing that, 2) Do you know of good places to go buy a new rolly backpack?
I would prefer to spend less than $60 either way, as that is how much I paid for this bag. It has treated...
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“We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a...”
– Audre Lorde (via nezua)
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Black Girl Dangerous: On Scars, Softness, Numbers... →
Read, please.
blackgirldangerous:
by The Lady Ms. Vagina Jenkins
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I do have visible scars. Up and down the outside of my thighs. They are brown, like me. Just in different shades. Some Carolina-clay-colored, others more of a deep pecan. Most people who notice them nowadays are kinky. They think of them as beautiful. I’m…
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note to self
You can kinda never go wrong with taking a bubble bath & listening to Lou Reed.
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It’s been a rough, stupid night after a rough, stupid day. I could use some kind words.
(And you can ask, but I might not wanna talk about it. Please respect that if so.)
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holy wow.
A bit more than 24 hours after I launched this personal fundraising campaign, and 33 beautiful, beautiful people have contributed over $1,400 online (and about a dozen have written to me and asked where they can send checks, too). I’m, like, stupefied. And I’m also wondering — if *this* is what happened today, in just one day, what will tomorrow and the next day and the next day...
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a little verklempt...
12 hours later, I’m overwhelmed with gratitude at the outpouring of love & support I’ve received after asking for help with getting out of medical debt. Thank you, Beloveds. And *please*, keep spreading the word — email your friends about this, put it up on facebook, re-post, re-blog, re-tweet, etc. I’ve still got a long way to go before my goal is reached.
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Beloved Community... (Asking for Help) →
After much urging from friends & mentors, I’m starting an Indie-Go-Go campaign to get myself out of $8,000 (yikes) of combined medical & dental debt. Please consider donating — no amount is too small, and every bit helps. If you’re not able to make a monetary donation, please consider spreading the word about this campaign. Re-post, share, blog, tweet about it, etc. Every...
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Pervocracy: Green Flags →
Oh, this is so smart and fabulous!
hobbitdragon:
But the mere absence of red flags doesn’t really say anything good about a person, does it? “I went on a date with the most wonderful guy! I don’t think he’ll emotionally or physically abuse me! What a catch!” So let’s talk about green flags. (Um. White flags? …Cyan…
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Tobi Hill-Meyer: Doing it Ourselves - streaming... →
Hey, I’m in this! :)
tobitastic:
Have you been interested in my first film but never had the chance to watch it? Well now’s your chance. Today only Hot Movies for Her will be offering the coupon code “Doing It” to watch the whole first disc as a part of their “Porn Party” with Sinclair Sexsmith.
The idea is that everyone can…
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Good-bye, Mister Maupin.
So, I’ve heard through the internet grapevine that Armistead Maupin is moving from San Francisco to Santa Fe, NM.
Armistead, maybe you will find this online. Maybe you won’t. On the off chance that you do come across this farewell, I’m writing this in the second-person. Consider this my love letter to you.
I wish you & your beloved Chris very well on your journey. I hope...
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Happy Birthday, Tobi! →
It is Tobi’s birthday tomorrow — YAY! Please pitch some money & love towards her awesome new project (Doing It Again: In-Depth, a sort of documentary follow-up to Doing It Ourselves: The Trans Women Porn Project) and help her reach her fundraising goal for her birthday! Even just $5-$10 from enough people could make a big difference.
(And I’m so fucking glad you were born,...
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how do i snap out of this and ACTUALLY WRITE?
So, I’m ostensibly in Portland on Writing Retreat. I’ve been here since last Tuesday night. For the first days I was here, especially considering how hard the heartbreak was hitting me in SF and how badly I thumped the weekend before I left due to a fibro flare, I was willing to just let myself settle in and rest. And a lot of my sad around the break-up actually alleviated. A change of...
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Hey, fellow LAURIE ANDERSON FANS, help me out plz?
Yo, LAURIE ANDERSON FANS who might be reading this: Do any of you have digital copies of her albums Home of the Brave, Bright Red, or The Ugly One With The Jewels? Would you be willing to put them into Dropbox for me? Or, if you live in Pdx, would you be willing to make me a cd? I have (well-worn) copies of all these albums back home, but I stupidly forgot to import them into (onto? which...
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Doing it Again: In Depth - Casting Call →
Signal-boosting!
tobitastic:
I’m looking for trans women and others on a trans female / trans feminine spectrum, as well as their partners and lovers to be in my upcoming documentary. If you haven’t heard of Doing it Again yet, check out the Kickstarter page for more information.
If you’re interested, please head on over to the casting call and fill out your responses. I’m especially...
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Tobi Hill-Meyer: Violent Threats and Harassment →
I love you, sweet friend. Thank you for this brave & honest post.
tobitastic:
I just received a comment posted to my Butch Trans Women Panel video
“HOLY SHIT! KILL IT WITH FIRE!!! KILL THEM ALL WITH FIRE!!!”
I reported it, blocked the user, deleted the comment. It’s all become so routine. I realized this has become so common for me over the past year that I wasn’t…
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well, that was annoying...
Folks, my email got hacked by a spammer. Utmost apologies if you’ve been served any word salad courtesy of moi over the last day or so. Password has been changed & it all seems settled, now.
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the things themselves: Yet another reason to... →
What the ever-loving fuck?!
ashleyisaboysnametoo:
pinebark:
dandytrans:
So Dan Savage has been working on a new theatre production which he wrote and direct called Miracle!. Here’s the blurb from the website:
You know writer and activist Dan Savage from The Stranger and the It Gets Better Project,…
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“Trust me, Bathhouse Sex Envy is a recovery step!”
– A very wise friend said this to me last night. Truth!
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this is a long-shot, but: anyone in pdx gotta...
ATTENTION PORTLAND PEOPLES:
I think I would like to have a bicycle or adult tricycle at my disposal while I’m in yr fair city for five weeks, as I have heard Pdx is very bike-able. Does anyone in my network have a spare bike I could borrow? Or even rent or buy for cheap?
I’m 4’11”, so I definitely need a bike for short people. (Many kids’ bikes work great for me;...
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Portland, here I come!
So, I’m going to Portland, OR for five weeks starting on Tuesday. It’s a working vacation/writer’s retreat, as I’m finishing a draft of my novel. I’m also hoping the change of pace & scenery will help ease some of this heartache.
Some things:
1) I’m staying with friends and house-sitting, but I’m also keeping my eyes peeled for more house &...
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independence day
I got lost in Sausalito tonight, on the shoulder of the road.
I don’t know Sausalito at all. The bus driver told me that I was at the right stop and waved me off with a smile, but once I was off the bus, it was clear to me that I was not in the right place. I was supposed to meet up with my friend Sara at the Spencer Avenue Bus Pad, which is a transit hub. Then we were going to drive...
