Helen Boyd Kramer's journal on gender and stuff
The Gender Puzzle is a 45 min documentary about intersex that can be seen on YouTube; it’s worth watching if you’re new to intersex issues. You can also check out a 10-min. version.
You can buy a copy here, check out a t r u t h o u t column about it (& Caster Semenya), or check out the filmmakers’ website.
To donate to help LGBT Haitians in the midst of this horrific earthquake, try The Rainbow World Fund. (GLAAD recommends them, too.
Normally we wouldn’t necessarily funnel our funds through an LGBT org, but considering Haiti’s shite national support for LGBT civil rights, we’re worried our families won’t be counted & so won’t receive aid, so we need to make sure we are counted & helped.
I assume the corniness is typical for daytime TV, but there’s no reason a same-sex sex scene can’t be as corny as anyone else’s. With fireworks, even.
For someone who went to see My Beautiful Laundrette about a dozen times – in theatres, people! – it makes me happy to see this on regular old television.
Love is love is love.
(h/t to Alex Blaze @ TBP and to Feministing)
Prototypes is a new band; I have no idea where I found them. Air is from the late 90s, Les Rita Mitsouko were around in the late ’80s, when this track – and the video – got play in plenty of clubs (at least the ones I went to).
I have no idea if anyone in the world watches the show Conveyor Belt of Love, but I did find this clip (& this blog post about it) interesting.
Scott Schofield, as he introduces himself, is Scott Turner Schofield, trans guy, activist, artist.
More interesting to me is the whole “geek hot” idea – I mean that it requires its own terminology. I didn’t know other people didn’t find geeks hot. When is smart not hot? Baffling. Once again, I discover that I have never done “straight woman” correctly.
Okay, this made me cry, really.
The world is changing. Slowly, but it is. I have met so many really cool kids – teenagers & adults, mostly – who are cool with their parents’ gender stuff that it is really nice to see this. That’s what made me cry; just seeing a presentation of all those cool KOTs (Kids of Trans) in any medium.
Here’s my favorite:
The rest are here. (h/t to Candace!)
This is exactly the kind of thing I don’t want to know about: Steve Severin of the Banshees has written scores for surrealist silent films & will be performing at Galapagos. Cocteau’s Blood of a Poet and Dulac’s The Seashell & The Clergyman are two of the films.
From the “there goes the MTF end of things sucking all the air out of the room again” division: in fact there were two trans people appointed by the Obama administration in late November.
The difficulty arose because Simpson is a former NCTE Board member, & so they sent out a press release noting their former board member’s new job, which is what caused all the hullabaloo.
On a cheerier note: there are a lot of these lists, too, of the major events of 2009, but I thought I’d do my own. It’s an odd mix of public and private, but so is my life.
So, yours? Are there any events you expected me to list that I didn’t?