Posts tagged with transgender
I love this. I really, really do. We need these sober reminders every now and again. I love this one, too. They’re from Tranny Panic, a Web-based public art collaboration:
We are trans women. We are trans men.
We are gender queers. We are binary identified.
We are young. We are old.
We are artists. We are activists.
Most of all, though…
WE ARE ANGRY.
As soon as NBC projected he would win the election, I got a lump in my throat and started crying. I was very emotional for the next hour or two as his victory became more solidified.
The promise of political change and Obama’s leadership aside, his win touched me very deeply because it was such a great milestone as far as racial equality and acceptance in the U.S. The victory also resonated inside me because Obama is a minority, just like me.
It gave me so much hope that things could in fact get better as far as tolerance and treatment of transgender people, as well as those with “alternative” sexual orientations, including gays, lesbians and bisexuals. It gave me hope that there might one day be a shift in attitude so that social rejection, hatred, violence, discrimination and prejudice become less common in the everyday lives of LGBT Americans.
I’m just so happy I was alive to witness this, and I’m really looking forward to inauguration day!
On her Flickr profile, Kyoko writes, “I’m a crossdresser from Japan. I love wearing minidress, swimwear and leotard with pantyhose.” She is lovely.
More yumminess from Gazelland Magazine’s Flickr account.
This transwoman columnist (goes by Felicia) for the Edge San Francisco is a total fucking asshole.
A blog kept by the National Center for Transgender Equality, a social justice organization dedicated to advancing the equality of transgender people through advocacy, collaboration and empowerment.