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You Are What You Read?
Author: Pippa K. Pippa K.'s blog Taxonomy upgrade extras: General Audience (pg) Here are two reading lists, one of men's "must reads" from Esquire, and one of women's from Jezebel. Can we assume someone's gender orientation ...
Pippa K. - 2008/12/19 - 9:55pm - 77 comments
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Wigging Out
I haven't posted anything in a couple of weeks, and I just found myself writing a message to a company that specializes in dressing boys up as girls (tranniegear.com). Having re-read my own letter, and having a streak of narcissistic self-appreciatio ...
Pippa K. - 2008/02/19 - 8:28am - 10 comments
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URGENT! Need Your Experiences!
*mumble* *grumble* I should have known this would happen. *mumble*... ...
Pippa K. - 2008/11/10 - 12:04am - 3 comments
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Transgendered Children-- Part 2
Author: Pippa K. Pippa K.'s blog Taxonomy upgrade extras: General Audience (pg) A couple days ago, someone posted a link to an NPR program on approaches to treating TG children. Here's part 2 of the series: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s ...
Pippa K. - 2008/05/09 - 1:27pm - 4 comments
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Trans Express-- A Different Kind Of Bus Journey?
I find the name of this bus inspirational, at least from a fiction point of view. I first saw it go by a couple weeks ago when I was driving through a neighborhood in Brooklyn. On Saturday, we were out doing a bit of shopping in that same neighborhood whe ...
Pippa K. - 2008/09/08 - 7:52am - 11 comments
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The Essence Of Being
I'm posting this here, because I think that readers who might otherwise enjoy a particular story are skipping over it because they're making certain assumptions about it that miss an important point. ...
Pippa K. - 2008/04/26 - 5:29pm - 4 comments
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Telling Emma
Pippa K. General Audience (pg) 500 < Short Story < 7500 words Crossdressing Autobiographical Non-fiction Boring Conversations True Confessions Posted by author(s) The true-life story of when I confessed my crossdressing to my favorite cousin. A bit ...
Pippa K. - 2012/03/18 - 1:58pm - 10 comments
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Save The Drag Queens
Funny parody video (of a climate-change Public Service Announcement) from the Seattle alternative newsweekly, "The Stranger". (Drag queens do not appear until 1:00 into the 2:51 film.) http://youtube.com/watch?v=3EIClOemRD8 ...
Pippa K. - 2008/07/07 - 10:07pm
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Re: Your Apology
I'm not going to gloss over the reality that you really, really upset me. I don't expect everyone to agree with my human rights stance on issues and my "politics." Reasonable, and reasoned, debate is always interesting. ...
Pippa K. - 2008/02/02 - 12:16am - 17 comments
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Re: FTM, Trans, Porn, Boundaries
This week's column from Tristan Taormino takes a look at what she characterizes as a new wave of "tranny porn". She reviews a number of movies featuring transmen. The reviews are explicit. The films don't sound like ones I'll be l ...
Pippa K. - 2008/04/13 - 1:59pm - 2 comments
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Poker En Femme
A happy blog entry, just for a change! As some of you may know, from a chatroom we often hang out in together, I've been having some really great breakthrough experiences lately! I've somehow made friends with a few of the staff of a local lesbi ...
Pippa K. - 2008/08/14 - 6:03am - 5 comments
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Poignant
Sometimes a paragraph or two will move me, a lot. This is from an article I just started reading. This scene is from a classroom in Toronto where, for over a decade, the author has been sponsoring a series of sessions to promote social and emotional liter ...
Pippa K. - 2008/04/23 - 2:39pm - 2 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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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