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Tag Archives: TRANS ISSUES
There Are Signs …
It’s that time of year when we are called to be still enough to reflect and express gratitude for all we have—even amid all that is troubling and not what we want, or perhaps, need it to be. These times … Continue reading
Posted in Trans-Politic: Political Musings, Uncategorized
Tagged TRANS ISSUES, trans politics
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Remembering and Imagining (Or…Looking Forward From Philadelphia)
When I was growing up in the 1960s, it was a particularly difficult time to be a child discerning a gender-identity different from one’s gender assigned at birth. In a time where everything our culture saw as normal and “just … Continue reading
Posted in In The Spirit of Things, Uncategorized
Tagged queer theory, TRANS, trans advocacy, TRANS ISSUES, trans politics
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Deflection Politics: Tried and True Tactics
(Or…the Soothing Sound of Katydids) It is evening here, in North Carolina, where House Bill 2 (the first of the “bathroom” bills) once loomed heavily, casting a storm of attention over our lives and giving the shelter of darkness to … Continue reading
Getting Dusty with Jacob
An ancient wisdom asserts that the whole universe is in the Torah, we just have to keep turning it to see it more fully. I believe this to be true—even as a transgender person of faith, even in light of the many ways our sacred texts have been used to exclude trans and LGBQ people. Perhaps, it is precisely because of the hurt arising from the misuse of scripture that I have come to hear refrains of our diverse human conditions sounding forth from Biblical narratives. Continue reading
On The Down-Side of the Up-Side of Passing
“As human beings, we all want happiness, peace and release from suffering.” His Holiness The Dalai Lama Few of us would argue the idea that at the core of all our longing and striving is a desire for happiness and … Continue reading
Posted in In The Spirit of Things
Tagged Passing as FTM, TRANS ISSUES, Transsexual Passing
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Passing By
“Be You As Passersby…” … Continue reading