Archive for January, 2007
Friday, January 26th, 2007
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Maybe it's the BLAHgosphere....
[This cartoon is free. Have fun. But don't blame me if ya' get flamed.]
[1] http://jaysennett.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/any-given-blogging-day.JPG
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Friday, January 26th, 2007
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Or at work!
[This cartoon is free. Use it in good health.]
[1] http://jaysennett.com/?attachment_id=603
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Thursday, January 25th, 2007
So when you start your own business, it takes a lot longer to set up processes than I had ever really expected.
All the previous time I spent blogging, I now spend organizing. I think, though, it will end soon.
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Friday, January 19th, 2007
I will post here the last email I sent to Robert. In it, I explain why I still found his behavior bigoted. I realize people may think that is a form of name-calling. Perhaps. But I used it very specifically in its broadest sense. The name-calling gesture is often one offered by people uncomfortable with direct speech or raw emotions or just hard truth-telling. I do not regret my use of the term nor the interaction I have had with Robert. He allowed me the opportunity to become more engaged with my own feelings of discomfort, always a gift.
The post I reference in my email is here [1].
Robert,
In an effort to not offend anyone - a vaguer person does not exist I am sure - you have actually offended several people.
[1] http://middlezonemusings.blogspot.com/2007/01/group-project-1-briefs-no-boxers.html
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Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
Isabella at Change Therapy [1] tagged me to write a story in six words [2]. Hemingway claimed he could write a story in six words. He followed through on his claim. "For sale. Baby shoes. Never used."
I'm updating mine for 21st century sensibilities.
No breasts. Complete hystorectomy. Gender: Male.?.
Hmmm. Who shall I tag????
[Update: Middle Zone Musings is sponsoring a contest for the best six word story. Go submit your stuff]
Update: 4:15 pm. Please do not submit your stuff to this blog. You'll waste your breath. In a comment which I refused to approve one Mr. Robert Hruzek informed me that my submission would not be accepted because it wasn't "G-rated."
I so emailed him and basically asked him if was prejudiced. Here is his reponse:
did not mean to give offense; please accept my apologies for causing you any anguish.
But I stand by my decision.
In reality, this subject would be not be considered "G-rated" by any movie or TV rating agency, either. Please understand, I did not intend any reflection or judgement on you or anyone else; I merely reiterated the constraints set out at the beginning of the contest as gently as I could.
If you like, I will be happy to add this response as a comment on your post for your readers to see. In the meantime, please accept my invitation to try again; all entries within the constraints are welcome and appreciated.
Sincerely,
Robert Hruzek
So vegankid makes the all-too obvious question: What about the preteen intersex kid on Grey's Anatomy? or the trans woman on Grey's Anatomy?
Bob hasn't gotten back to me yet. I did say in my response to him that I think he is a bigot hiding behind other people's rules. His blog is at: middlezonemusings.blogspot.com I also have his two phones numbers but that is a bit much to put on a blog. And no, I won't give them out, though I did entertain the notion for a moment.....
So, please, friends give Bob a g-rated smack down!
[1] http://www.moritherapy.org/
[2] http://www.moritherapy.org/article/15-years-15-stories-6-words/
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Monday, January 15th, 2007
My film Phallocy is currently in the curated show "If Other, Please Explain ______________"
From the curator, Nicole Marroquin:
Here is a link to youtube videos of the upstair and downstairs of the show- fast but you get an idea of the layout, for you who don't live here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7qroH8dDtA [1]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVe5VeJx39c [2]
Here's a link to some photos of the show (incomplete, but good enough for a glimpse till the professional photos come back.)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/beanqueen/sets/72157594477574444/ [3]
photos of the opening and real documentation to follow.
Thanks again!
[1] https://owa.mse7.exchange.ms/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7qroH8dDtA
[2] https://owa.mse7.exchange.ms/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVe5VeJx39c
[3] https://owa.mse7.exchange.ms/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.flickr.com/photos/beanqueen/sets/72157594477574444/
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Sunday, January 14th, 2007
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[This cartoon is free. Have fun.]
[1] http://jaysennett.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/scan0001.jpg
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Sunday, January 14th, 2007
This year is the Year of the Pig in the Chinese astrological calendar. In honor of the pig’s jovial qualities, I’m offering Self-Organizing Men for 9.99 plus shipping. Just click on the link below.
This offer has ended.
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Saturday, January 13th, 2007
Two friends are seeking information about trans and developmental disabilities. They are aware of John D. Allen's book "Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender People with Developmental Disabilities and Mental Retardation: Stories of the Rainbow Support Group." They acknowledge that it is NOT the best book for trans and DD intersectionality, even if it is the only one.
You can contact them directly.
LoreeCD at aol dot com (Loree Cook-Daniels)
tgwarrior at forge-forward dot org (michael munson)
Thanks.
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Friday, January 12th, 2007
Juliet Victor Mukasa [1] is transgender and recently spoke movingly about the experience of being transgender in Africa. Later in this post Mukasa describes personal violations of human rights because she is trans. Holding the bladder for 12 to 18 hours showed up in the list. Then I thought about an old work acquaintence who grew up in a migrant farming family from Mexico. "My parents remember when they won the right to have a toilet next to the fields they had to work. Before that, they had to hold it or risk a job loss or the humiliation of having to relieve themselves in public." I'm paraphrasing, of course. I will say though that people worldwide do a damn fine job of punishing people through urinary segregation and prohibition.
In Africa, transgender people are seriously punished for being who they are. While still with my parents, I was always beaten by my father for “behaving” like a boy. In school, the same story. While peeing one day my neighbours daughter found me peeing while squatting and she screamed like she had seen a monster. I became the laughing stock of the village and I expelled myself because of the humiliation. I could speak the whole day about the discomforts. I have suffered in life more because I am a transgender than a lesbian.
All trans people that I have interacted with mention such or even worse moments in their lives. It can be a very deep violation of our being to be forced to perform our gender differently than we want it and feel it for ourselves.
Some people, like myself, are born with a sense of ourselves as male in some ways, even though we are biologically female.
As a transgender person, I am constantly demanded to explain and justify why I am not fitting into other people’s idea of what a woman or a man should be.
[1] http://www.ilga.org/news_results.asp?LanguageID=1&FileCategory=1&FileID=908
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Thursday, January 11th, 2007
Self-Organizing Men inspired a reader to write the following poem. He has graciously allowed me to reprint in its entirety. Read the whole thing here [1].
[1] http://jaysennett.com/SOM/?p=12
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Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
I have been following the lives of Cristian Arcega, Lorenzo Santillan, Oscar Vazquez and Luis Aranda for some time. In March 2006 MIT named them the winners of the NASA sponsored Underwater Robotics contests. Dubbed "The Smartest Kids in America," they beat the well-manned, and very well-funded, team from MIT.
Vazquez and Aranda graduated from Hayden last spring, but they’re not in college now because they’re undocumented immigrants and thus ineligible for student loans or low cost in-state tuition. Vazquez is hanging drywall and Aranda is filing papers at a Social Security office. Santillan and Arcega are still at Hayden; their chances for a college education are slim. (more here [1].)
I wish to write briefly about this practice of "undocumenting" people. While I cannot speak to any personal consequences of UN/documentation, I can speak to its sister practice of "misdocumenting" people.
[1] http://chicanismo.blogspot.com/2006/01/fears-of-aztan-smartest-kids-in.html
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Monday, January 8th, 2007
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For the origin of this cartoon, please see Brownfemipower's powerful post and equally powerful discussion here [2].
[1] http://jaysennett.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/ethical.JPG
[2] http://brownfemipower.com/?p=790
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Monday, January 8th, 2007
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This cartoon is free. Have fun.
[1] http://jaysennett.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/the-snow-is-back.JPG
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Thursday, January 4th, 2007
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[This cartoon is free. Use it in good health]
[1] http://jaysennett.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/youre-an-asshole.JPG
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