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“[A]s a person who was assigned female at birth, everything that society would expect of me as a “woman” feels unnatural… The definitions I have experienced around the word transgender often fall in line with my identity, however when I identified as transgender I felt pressure towards becoming the “opposite” gender — that is to say, I felt a pressure to be a man and to adopt masculine behaviors that felt as equally uncomfortable as feminine ones. I also unfortunately felt a pressure to alter my body, and it was ultimately my accepting my body which led me to find happiness in the middle.”
- Jiz Lee: What is Genderqueer?](http://jizlee.com/wordpress/wp-content/gallery/fleshbotawards09/Fleshbot-Jiz-Lee.jpg)
“[A]s a person who was assigned female at birth, everything that society would expect of me as a “woman” feels unnatural… The definitions I have experienced around the word transgender often fall in line with my identity, however when I identified as transgender I felt pressure towards becoming the “opposite” gender — that is to say, I felt a pressure to be a man and to adopt masculine behaviors that felt as equally uncomfortable as feminine ones. I also unfortunately felt a pressure to alter my body, and it was ultimately my accepting my body which led me to find happiness in the middle.”
Did I ever tell you about
the time in 1985 that I did cocaine in the ladies restroom in the Peabody Hotel lobby bar in Memphis? No? Well, I did.
I was 3 at the time, visiting my future stepfather with my mom, and I was feeding the ducks outside the hotel
More Personal Stuff
Dear Tumblr,
Personal disclosure: I volunteer as a crisis/suicide hotline counselor.
(Oh, AMA, if you like. I can’t give specific details, and I can’t give my location, but I can answer general questions.)
Here’s what inspired me:
Yesterday I spoke with a caller who mentioned that she had a tumblr, and that she’d received support from people following her when she posted about her struggles with depression. This made me realize something I’d suspected for a while, which is that a lot of teenagers use tumblr as a (semi-anonymous?) social resource. For some people, tumblr is support network. I think this is kinda neat, not weird or lame. Please comment.
Reposting so I remember to watch this. Oooh, Milo Manara!
Sex in the Comics, a French documentary on erotic comics, directed by Joelle Ooserlinck, with interviews with R. Crumb, Zep, Milo Manara and others, hosted by a (dubbed, mini-skirted) me. Broadcast January 28th, 8pm, on ARTE
Photo Courtesy: allbecauseofu
I’ve heard this phenomenon described as a defense for using retouching in photography… to simulate the experience of looking at one’s beloved
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CANDY 3
JD Samson photographed by Xevi Muntané
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