Tag Archives: gender
How to Be a Dad
https://wp.me/p3GS8V-nS This is a new podcast to me, I only learned of it today. This episode has me in tears, because of the difference between this father’s response, and that of my own father 45+ years ago. It gives me hope.
Continue reading →The Banner of Azure and Argent and Rose
Songwriting is either really hard or really easy for me, and there is not much of an in-between. And most of the time, I will get woken up in the middle of the night by a phrase, or a chorus, and if I don’t get it written down RIGHT THEN, … Continue reading →
Weathering the Changes
What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what … Continue reading →
The Radical Copyeditor’s Style Guide for Writing About Transgender People
Introduction (Read This First) A style guide for writing about transgender people is practically an oxymoron. Style guides are designed to create absolutes—bringing rules and order to a meandering and contradictory patchwork quilt of a language. Yet there are no absolutes when it comes to gender. That’s why this is … Continue reading →
Thank you Venus Envy
Two stories flashed across my news feed today that made me profoundly angry. First: another treasured young trans person (Skylar Lee of Madison, Wisconsin) has taken their own life. Second: a local Ottawa sex shop received a bylaw infraction ticket for selling a chest compression vest to a trans youth under the age of … Continue reading →