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Spirituality and the New Feminism

Posted in Education, Quotations, tagged , , on November 11, 2009 | 3 Comments »

[This post is by my friend Robin Rice and is copied with her permission.]
Spirituality and the New Feminism
By Robin Rice
(Robin Rice is an author, spiritual mentor and contemporary shaman. Visit her at www.BeWhoYouAre.com.)
The first time I heard the word “feminism,” it sounded to me like there were rocks in the speaker’s throat. I don’t remember [...]

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Resources on cisgender, cissexual and cis privilege

Posted in Education, Equal Rights, News, Trans Life, tagged , , , , , on July 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Perhaps, someday, I will have the time to write a proper blog on this topic. For now, however, I simply want to record (for my own future use, and that of my friends) various internet discussions on the the use of the terms “cisgender” and “cissexual” and the issue of cis privilege. I [...]

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Some Thoughts on Activism

Posted in Education, Equal Rights, Trans Life, tagged , , , , , , , , , on January 1, 2009 | 7 Comments »

My friend Michael is one of the organizers of, and the webmaster for, the Central Arizona Gender Alliance.  Recently, he asked me to write a profile of myself to be posted as the feature story on the CAGA website for January 2009.  Rather than start from scratch, I adapted my “Who I Am and [...]

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Who I Am and Why I Do What I Do

Posted in Education, Trans Life, tagged , , , , , on November 26, 2008 | 7 Comments »

I have participated in the Arizona Transgender Alliance (AZTA) since its inception. Like any organization, it has struggled to define itself and its purposes in a way that unites, rather than divides, us. Nonetheless, it continues because people see a need to join together. One of AZTA’s current projects is to produce [...]

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Transgender Day of Remembrance – 2008

Posted in Education, Equal Rights, News, Trans Life, tagged , , , on November 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Tomorrow, November 20, 2008, is the 10th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance.  I’m not going to attempt to describe all the emotions that this day, and the reason it is needed, raise in me.  Suffice it to say that it brings up the most profound sadness and doubt about the future, about whether it will [...]

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CBS Sunday Morning: The Sex Change Capital of the U.S.

Posted in Education, News, Trans Life, tagged , , , , , , , on September 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »

On Sunday, September 7, CBS Sunday Morning did a fairly long story on Trinidad, Colorado, the home of Dr. Marci Bowers, one of the leading sexual reassignment surgeons in the U.S. I don’t like the phrase “sex change” but the story is pretty straight forward and not at all sensationalistic. I was in [...]

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