December 2011
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Xmas survival techniques
Pretending to nap in the living room so people will leave me alone. That’s acceptable behavior, yeah?
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Today I wore my “trans pride” shirt out with my mom (because it would be easiest if the problem is just that she’s forgetting my gender and needs to be reminded sometimes instead of that she just refuses to believe it exists). I usually expect stares in that shirt, I usually wear it in secret with scarves on top or a sweater. But I wore it nothing less than emblazoned across my...
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just thinking about how I came to love glitter and...
and how it’s not actually a very pretty story.
Because first I hated glitter and fabulosity because I was using butch misogyny, and the general hatred of all things feminine, as short-hand for gaining legibility as, at least, a masculine person, if not a man. And because glitter represented something “feminine” that could embed itself under my skin and stay there without my...
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