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[30 Dec 2009|10:16am] |
recently i asked a bunch of you to fill out a survey i had made about love
its helping my research on what it all means, but i had asked all the wrong questions to try and get to the root of that feeling
could you send me love letters you/your partners/people you know have written.
that would be amazing
Castillo
42 Murdock Drive 646
Unity,Maine 04988
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[29 Dec 2009|10:23pm] |
Hey y'all,
I recently launched a webcomic that I thought would be of interest to this group. It's called Riot Nrrd, an intentional reference to riot grrl, and it's about three girls who get sick of sexism, racism and homophobia in comics and other realms of geekery and start making their own. And, you know, trying to woo pretty birls and getting into wacky adventures.
I'm hoping for a near-equal number of queer/feminist/social-justice type-geeky references and Star Wars/Buffy/Marvel type-geeky references. It occurred to me that there are a good number of geek comics and a good number (ok, an obscure handful) of comics with a feminist/queer/general-shit-stirrer bent, but not enough overlap, when I know quite a few overlappy people.
Let me know if you have any thoughts and/or suggestions! Today I cleaned up the layout a bit, it was a little eye-hurty depending on what computer you were viewing it from. Here's the link again: www.riotnrrdcomics.com
Also, ( COMPULSORY PICTURES OF MYSELF ENJOY )
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| Genderqueer name |
[29 Dec 2009|01:24pm] |
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I am trying to pick a new name to go by, one more androgynous than the one I was given at birth, which is Arielle. I grew up in the Jewish community, where the names Arielle, Aryelle, Ariel and Ari are common for girls, and the names Ariel and Ari are also boys'.
I am curious about people outside the Jewish community, as I am no longer in the Jewish school system and I'm not living in an exclusive Jewish community - who would hear "Ari" and not associate a gender with it?
I'm keeping track of answers in a poll at my journal. I would appreciate any and all input. Even name suggestions - genderqueer/androgynous names you like!
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| Birl-cuts! |
[29 Dec 2009|04:48am] |
So, I as it has gotten freezing outside, I decided to do the exact opposite of the smart thing and get a haircut! My ears are fucking freezing.( Pictures, anyone? )
I love getting haircuts and cut everyone in my house's hair (I live with seven buzz-cutted boys), so I've gotten good at using clippers. What are you fancy dukes and dames doing for New Year's? Any Arizona birls wanna come over for vegan dinner?
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| x-posted to queer_yay |
[28 Dec 2009|08:23pm] |
So I've seen a lot of my SO's 5-year-old niece over the holiday vacation and we get along GREAT. Well on Christmas Eve I was playing with her with her new presents, and for some reason I said "I love my boyfriend" and she said "Who's your boyfriend?!" So I told her who, and she goes "HE'S your BOYFRIEND?!?! [pause to think] Aren't you supposed to have a girlfriend?"
...LOL, right? I was a little confused, but whatever. I told her nope, he's my boy. She accepted that and moved on.
But then last night, we were playing, and she says to SO's mom, "He [me] said he was gonna throw me in the snow!" Then later, we're all together, and his mom says "Oh, show her [me] how you can sing!" The niece looks at her with her eyes HUGE and then looks at me and giggles. Then looks back at her. She says it again, and the niece turns to me and goes "You're a boy!" And I smile, and she goes "You're a girl??!" And I shrug and said "I guess!"
And then 15 minutes later she calls me "he" again about 7 times in a row.
=D
Hilarious.
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| a question - and only one photo? (CHEAP.) |
[28 Dec 2009|02:31pm] |
So of late I've become completely disgusted with how I've let my body head towards falling apart in the past few months. Not gonna go into detail except to say that I know I'm never going to be able to narrow my hips down like they should be if my mind and body were to match, but I'm okay with ending up with a body like that 2D boy in my icon up there...
Basically, what exercises are, in y'all's opinion, best for building up the shoulder and arm muscles of a human body with no Y chromosome in sight? I know what to do to get myself looking "right" everywhere else, I've done it in the past, but I can't seem to build muscle there.
Now with that mess out of the way... ( This was my Christmas Eve. Shortly after this was taken my mother started asking me why I 'always dress like a man'.... )
Yes, I was drinking that coffee in front of me in an effort to sober up. (Spoiler: IT DIDN'T WORK!) Re-dyed my hair two days ago, so it looks much better now, but I've got no photos yet.
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| happy holidaze |
[27 Dec 2009|01:16pm] |
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Just saying Hi and wishing you all well, I think.
I have a migraine, I'm off.
xoxo
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| the customer is always right? |
[27 Dec 2009|03:16am] |
at work I walked by a group of four young boys and heard one utter to the group "shemale" followed by shushed laughter from the other three.
uuuuuuhg...
I hate the service industry, taking it up the bum because they bought a cheeseburger is LAME.
I think in this case the customer is quite wrong.
Have any of you experienced biting your tongue in the work place, either to customers or coworkers? How far is too far as far as rude comments and insults go from customers, and do you think some things are tolerated more than others (such as racist comments to homo/trans phobic comments, for example)? Is it just as wrong to insult a service workers intelligence as their sexuality/creed/race/gender...etc.
Just something I thought might make for an interesting discussion as I'm sure many of you have been in a service industry of some kind at some point.
I hope you all had a great Christmas, for those who celebrated! :D
Ray
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| Greetings |
[26 Dec 2009|11:08pm] |
I havent post on here in idk when. Its been awhile, so I thought I would recap.
Im Lee. Im 25 and I live in phoenix. Majoring in Education. I play some mean wheelchair basketball and enjoy running off the curb with my chair and landing face down in the bushes. I have a new pic as well as a link for my newly published book. Hope everyone had a good holiday.( A few.... )
EDIT: Stupid lj-cut wont work!
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| Intro |
[26 Dec 2009|03:49pm] |
Hi! Uhh, I'm new.
I was on LJ for a long time but left... a few years ago, I guess? And I basically rejoined to watch this community.
My name is Xue and I live in Boston.
I don't think I look particularly androgynous, but I feel much more comfortable in less feminine digs.
( Read more )
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[25 Dec 2009|08:16pm] |
Hey birls! If you remember a few months ago I was asking for submissions for this compilation. Well, it's finally done, and it's a free download so go get 'em!
Queer as Folk-Pop Vol. 1!
Queer as Folk-Pop is a delicious buffet of singalongable queerfagdykebutchfemme&tranny-centric lovejams for the pansy pop-addict in all of us. Because don't tell me you're not sick of the same old compulsive heteroboticism harshing your tunebox. This project aims to communicate to audiences of DIY folk/pop/whatever music that we're here, we're queer, and we dig handclaps.
QAFP is an ongoing project, so please send submissions to queerasfolkpop@gmail.com. It's a great way to get some headphone-play for your hot mess of a music project, and contribute to queer visibility in the nebulous DIY music scene too. There are no guidelines regarding the form or content of submissions. It doesn't have to be a new or exclusive song; it can even be a cover. The options include everything under/over the rainbow, so use your imagination.
Let's pitch in to make something that sissies and spinsters alike can sing, snap, stomp and swoon along to for ages to come.
Queer Lovejams for the Win,
Meagan aka Wisdom Tooth
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[23 Dec 2009|02:45am] |
I've been bored recently. I'm visiting family in Ohio and I'm dying. So, I've been spending lots of time taking pictures of myself and veggie out.Plus, today I had a shitty day so I was trying to cheer myself up.. My best friend is pissed at me because her best friend and I have been talking. It's a mess. She doesn't want anything happening between us. I've tried to tell her that we are adults and that we can do what we want.. but at this point she's threatening to kick me out..
I am NOT enjoying the cold.
Eli. 21 in march. Pre everything
( plus a few more. )
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| roll call! |
[23 Dec 2009|04:40pm] |
Yet another ridiculous photo of me pulling a stupid face but what can you do  Any queers from Brisbane, australia wanna hang out and maybe be friends? |
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| Just some thoughts. |
[22 Dec 2009|02:22am] |
Yo. I'm Rebecca. I introduced myself once ages ago but I never posted here after that, though I occasionally comment. I never thought I had anything to say or bring to the proverbial table. Then I wrote this journal entry and I was like, "Hey." So anyway this is my first non-introductory post.
Tonight, my girlfriend asked me if I had ever considered a sex change. This partially excited me because I feel like in most places where I work or live, it is a taboo subject, and I really just want to be able to talk about it freely and openly, like we'd discuss what we want for lunch or what we think about this book or movie. Any gender stuff at all, whether or not the discussion involves transsexuality, is so interesting to me--yet for some reason a lot of people willingly block transsexuality out of it.
Anyway, so I was just sitting here being awake and on the Internets and pondering this and being like, "Why not use this as an opportunity to ramble about myself in a public sphere? It's fun!"
I have indeed been in periods where I heavily contemplate the state of my femaleness, or lackthereof, or total differentness, and whether that is "male" and whether I am unhappy with anything about my femaleness, or whether I am desiring of physical maleness. I even picked a male name out for myself in the possible event that I concluded a sex- and gender-change is "for me."
Definitely, there is a maleness to my personality and my sexuality. Although I tried to deny and to push it toward the back of my consciousness in early childhood, and only timidly and privately addressed it throughout my adolescence, having it manifest many times more frequently and unwittingly through outlandish, rebellious, and overtly sexual ways (one could argue it was a sort of secondary "male adolescence" I guess), when I began reading about gender in my early 20s (feels weird to say that, haha, since I'm still technically IN my early 20s...), I became excited and, soon, liberated by coming to see the various ways one can experience and express their gender and sex. It is not so set in stone, so ~binary~. It is fluid, amorphous, many things, a spectrum.
It's okay to be female and male at the same time, in varying degrees and intensity. This doesn't have to be a conflict. It can be a marriage.
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| What's a fella to do. ?!? |
[21 Dec 2009|10:16pm] |
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Let me do a total re-introduction. Nat 22, gender chopp`d & screwed. Have you ever been caught in a situation that seems like its impossible to tell or even express? I have this amazing girlfriend and its been close too about 2 months with us, and the first month we were together she went home for Thanksgiving break, and that was hard and now she back home with her family again 'till the 4th of January. My bday is on the 30th & our 2 months is on the 23rd and you know Christmas of 'course. Its been weird w/o her by my side ... Enough on that note. I have been having these thoughts about transiting for a long time at that and I brought it up to her and she was very supportive during the conversation but she said to me that she doesn't believe she could ever see me as a MAN. I have my own definition of a man, & that is a "MAN" isn't defined by whats between his legs - all the FTM's I know have the strongest mental state I have ever come in contact with. I feel like my mental sate has overcome the female mind that I have, a brain is powerful, like a sponge . I want to transition one day but the mental state is a journey that I have to go through before any testosterone hits my body. 
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[21 Dec 2009|12:34pm] |
Hey this is probably not allowed here but I thought I'd give it a try any way but Im starting this blog about my everyday life and I kind of need people to actually read this thing so im doing the advertising thing. You can delete this post if this is not allowed, but i talk about pretty much everything so don't be afraid to check it out.
Here's the link
http://moswaggz.blogspot.com/
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[21 Dec 2009|08:50am] |
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I'm looking for some new emo music, so I was wondering what everyones faves are?
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| Los Angelino/a? Want to protest Ugandan bill against LGBT people? |
[20 Dec 2009|01:41am] |
Live in or near Hollywood? Want to protest criminalization of homosexuality, specifically the murderous Ugandan bill against LGBT people? Well, it's happening TUESDAY, the 22nd!
cliiiick http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=211085097067
From the event coordinator:
Date: Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Time: 10:00am - 1:00pm
Location: 7095 Hollywood Blvd. Los Angeles, CA
"The Ugandan government has proposed a bill entitled the "Anti-Homosexuality" bill. If this bill is passed, it would mean the legalization of genocide against lgbt people in Uganda.
"The protest is located outside of the L.A Honorary Consul to Uganda's office. His name is Matthew Crouch. After repeatedly calling and emailing his office he has still failed to provide the public with a statement regarding his stance on the bill. This failure to act on such a serious issue is reason enough to protest outside of his office."
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| My introduction, if you please |
[20 Dec 2009|02:52am] |
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My name is Joanna, 31 years old, and I've been a member of this community for a few years now, though I have never posted before. I honestly couldn't tell you what I am. I guess I've always been confused and feel as though I am ever fated to be so.
I have always found myself sexually attracted to men, but I have had crushes on a few females before. However, I can never quite imagine myself with a woman sexually. I have always been thought of by other people, as a first impression, a lesbian, as I have never been girly in my life, much to the dismay of my mother. It's just not a part of my being I suppose.
I've always felt as though I'm really a guy. And when I say that I'm a gay man trapped in a woman's body, I'm not joking. However, I don't think of changing myself into one either...I just wish I had been born one. Sometimes though, and I mean sometimes, I don't mind being a woman.
I suppose this isn't much of an introduction. I feel as though I'm not really saying what I mean to say here.
I guess I could end this in saying that I truly do identify with those of you on here.
I am hear, I am confused, and today...it's not so bad.
Thank you!
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[18 Dec 2009|08:32pm] |
haircut.
hell yes.
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