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| User: | drakyn (44607) Kristopher's Journal
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| Name: | drakyn | |||||||||
| Bio: | "It is time to look the monstrous in the eye. It is time. It is time to say that we are beautiful in our fierceness, and that we are our own. We are not the rejected of what we can never be. We are what we were meant to be. We are not pieces of wholes thrown together incorrectly. We are not mistakes. We are not inferior knockoffs of someone else. If our monstrousness is frightening, then it is time we bare our teeth and draw that fear close to us and stop being so afraid of our fearsomeness that we fear everyone and everything else right back. I am throwing my head back, here, and saying it: no more being afraid. Hell no. My monstrousness is not a place of shame. It is a strength. It is the power to say I am mine, and I will tell you what I mean. Not you. I am not any thing trapped in anyone's body. I am tougher than that, and I have plenty of blood to spare in this body of mine, and plenty more miles to go before any of you can bring me to my knees, and I dare you to try." --Part of a poem by little light @ http://takingsteps.blogspot.com/2007/01/seam-of-skin-and-scales.html I hold to my belief that we don't suffer from gender identity disorder. We suffer from everybody else's gender identity disorder. Having such a shallow definition of one's gender is bound to create insecurity in the face of transpeople, and we have to bear the brunt of the world's insecurity on this subject. -Changelingjane People focus a lot of their attention on others’ bodies as the determining factor for their role and their value, while disregarding the body as a potential source of valuable experience and identity. - Kerrick Adrian The "nature versus nurture" debate has meaning for each of us here because we are constantly being asked in life: Why are you the way you are? When did you first know you were different? Do you think that while you were in the womb your tiny fist inadvertently clenched an essential gene too hard? Or was your mother domineering? And my answer is; Who cares! As long as my right to explore the full measure of my own potential is being trampled by discriminatory laws, as long as I am being socially and economically marginalized, as as long as I am being scapegoated for the crimes committed by this economic system, my right to exist needs no explanation or justification of any kind. -Leslie Feinberg Resisting being called "defective" and "broken" is not intolerant; it is standing up for one's rights as a citizen and one's value as a human being. Asking to not be hit is not intolerant; asking not to be called "fag" is not intolerant, asking for the same rights that hetero folks enjoy is not intolerant. I will never accept that being "tolerant" means allowing myself to be regarded as inferior. I don't care if bigots get hurt feelings because I fend off the hand that hits me. --Unknown I do not want tolerance. One tolerates a head cold, a bad smell, or a Conservative government. I want acknowledgement as a fellow member of society and respect of and compliance with my rights as a citizen. --Montrealais     Support ENDA; especially the part about gender identity.   On the use of the word 'cisgender': The point of using the term is partly linguistic convenience - some term is needed, after all. The other point is to try and use a term that makes cisgendered people realize that they are positioned in this debate, rather than implicitly dividing the world into unpositioned people and trans people. You have no more right as a cisgendered person to be treated by others as unpositioned than men have a right to be treated by others as the genderless gender, or whites as the raceless race. --Ampersand Keep your Jesus off my penis! http://www.atomfilms.com/landing/landingIndex.jsp?id=jesus_off&mature=accept | |||||||||
| Interests: | 69: +anima, androgyny, animals, anime, anime icons, bishounen, books, brotherhood, cats, computers, dragon, dragons, elves, fae, fag, fairy, fan fiction, fanfic, fanfiction, fantasy, female-to-male, firefly, ftm, harry potter, hikaru no go, hormone therapy, hunter x hunter, internet, kurt wagner, kurt/todd, manga, narusasu/sasunaruisthesamefuckingpairing, nightcrawler, nightcrawler/toad, queer, queer rights, reading, ryuuichi, sakuma ryuuichi, sidhe, slash, spirituality, the brotherhood, toad, toad/nightcrawler, todd tolensky, todd/kurt, trans issues, trans politics, trans rights, trans*, transboys, transexuality, transfag, transfags, transgender, transgendered, transguy, transition, transman, transsexual, valdemar, werefolk, wings, wolves, x men, x-men slash, x-men: evolution, ♂♂ | |||||||||
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| Account type: | Free Patient | |||||||||
