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A Comic I Liked
Uncle Ghastly, the perpetrator of Ghastly's Ghastly Comic, is drawing some other randomish things on Webcomicsnation these days. He's not unfamiliar to transgender themes, although he likes to be crude about it. You have been warned. For Comic, ...
Pippa K. - 2008/01/25 - 9:40pm - 1 comment
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A Pedicure!
Treated myself to a pedicure today. I was dressed in standard random male street clothes, sneakers, socks. Just picked a random nail salon, went in, asked about getting a pedicure, with polish, was greeted with a bit of a giggle, but directed to a pedicur ...
Pippa K. - 2008/08/16 - 9:07am - 5 comments
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A Third Sex In Rural Mexico
Author: Pippa K. Pippa K.'s blog Taxonomy upgrade extras: General Audience (pg) Dating from pre-Colombian times, native people in parts of Mexico recognized a third sex, men who believed they were women, and accorded them an accepted place in socie ...
Pippa K. - 2008/12/06 - 9:57pm - 5 comments
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A Very Big Day
Today is a very big day in the U.S. It's Mardi Gras in New Orleans. It's the day of the Giants victory parade in New York City. And, it's Super Tuesday, a day on which 24 States have their Presidential primary. So, get out there and catch b ...
Pippa K. - 2008/02/05 - 6:47am - 4 comments
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A Watershed Event in Public Understanding of Gender
The New York Times... God bless them! With any luck, this is the wedge that eventually breaks open the minds of the keepers of the rigid "Binary model" of gender. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/opinion/03boylan.html?_r=1... ...
Pippa K. - 2008/08/04 - 12:42am - 5 comments
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An Anniversary!
The "Member For:" counter in my account page here seems to have just flipped over to 3 years. Have I really been a registered Top Shelf-er for that long! ...
Pippa K. - 2008/05/19 - 2:28pm
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Be Inspired
Apropos of nothing, or maybe of the upcoming Transgender Day of Remembrance, I tripped over this today, and it speaks to me: ...
Pippa K. - 2008/11/14 - 4:01pm - 1 comment
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Bicycle Awareness Campaign
Author: Pippa K. Pippa K.'s blog Taxonomy upgrade extras: General Audience (pg) bicycles This is part of a campaign for motorists to pay attention to bicyclists on the road, although it certainly doesn't seem like it at first: http://dothetest ...
Pippa K. - 2008/03/15 - 10:11pm - 10 comments
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Bra Guide-- Fit and Style Reference
Just found this great bra reference page [click here] in the online Macy's catalog. One link has information on measuring size, which might be of great interest to crossdressers and stories about them, especially as it has the "formulas" fo ...
Pippa K. - 2008/07/24 - 1:35am - 6 comments
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Disappointed
Author: Pippa K. Pippa K.'s blog Taxonomy upgrade extras: General Audience (pg) Politics Scandal I'm disappointed in the resignation of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. ...
Pippa K. - 2008/03/13 - 9:36pm - 13 comments
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Eulogizing a Mom
Someone tried to bring this column to my attention several days ago, but I only just found it myself. It's Dan Savage's eloquent eulogy of his mother. Many stories here have dealt with the family dynamics of "coming out" as transgender ...
Pippa K. - 2008/04/10 - 5:00am - 1 comment
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FYI-- Transgender Children Article In "The Atlantic"
I'm posting this for reference and discussion. It's quite a conflicted article, showing the unhappy sides of two opposite approaches to treating gender dysphoric behavior in young children and raising doubts of the value of either. ...
Pippa K. - 2008/10/16 - 8:33pm - 7 comments
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Gay vs. Trans
Interesting story from a business news source that occasionally publishes human interest or sociological trend stories. It's about a new government regulation in Thailand to outlaw elective castration for those under 18. Gay rights campaigners suppor ...
Pippa K. - 2008/08/05 - 4:31am - 1 comment
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Good Medical News For Me!
Author: Pippa K. Pippa K.'s blog Taxonomy upgrade extras: General Audience (pg) Been suffering with a peculiar pain in my abdomen this past week, which I seem to get periodically and no one has been able to diagnose. One doctor thought it might be ...
Pippa K. - 2008/07/28 - 9:58am - 6 comments
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Labor of Love
I hope I'm not being tiresome in reposting interesting tidbits I find elsewhere on the 'net every once in awhile. This story is about an FTM man, legally married to a woman, who opted to carry their child when she couldn't. For me, the most ...
Pippa K. - 2008/03/20 - 3:28pm - 7 comments
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Margaret Cho Talks Back To Gay-Hating "Christians"
I never knew that the funny, irreverent Margaret Cho had her own online blog, but I'll be watching it from now on! Here, she laces into homophobes who claim "Christian values" as the basis of their hatred and "righteous intolerance&quo ...
Pippa K. - 2008/09/17 - 3:59pm - 8 comments
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My Mother Has Died
My mother passed away yesterday evening in the hospice. My father, my wife, and I were in attendance at the time. Her last couple of days were so hard, that it's truly a relief to see her at peace at last. Now, the focus turns to my father. We need t ...
Pippa K. - 2008/01/18 - 3:52am - 13 comments
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Names, Names, What's in Names?
We were chatting about names, meanings, and which sex you might associate them with the other day in conjunction with one of the fine serials running. Then, today, I noticed this story in the New York Times. (online subscription required, but easy to get ...
Pippa K. - 2008/03/12 - 11:16am - 3 comments
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Olympic Sex Testing
I just read this story in the NY Times: http://olympics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/lab-ready-for-s... ...
Pippa K. - 2008/07/27 - 5:47pm - 5 comments
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Palestine
Palestine Alyssa Plant has written one of the most sensitive and affecting tales of emergence. I just love the way it's developing. Anyone who hasn't read "The Road To Haifa" yet, is missing out on a beautiful story, at least I can say ...
Pippa K. - 2008/06/10 - 10:59am - 4 comments