ZELENKA
Buying stuff online gives me a reason to live for another 5-7 business days.
November 2011
October 2011
A condom fell out of my bag today when I went in to reach for my wallet. I didn’t notice but the man who worked there pointed it out and said “You dropped a million bucks” and continued to laugh at me. I thought it was all hilarious. At least it looked like I’ve had sex recently. Little do they know…
“The average life span of a transgendered person is twenty-three years. The statistic is shocking, until it begins to make sense. Gender non-conformists face routine exclusion and violence. Transgendered people are disproportionately poor, homeless, and incarcerated. Many of the systems and facilities intended to help low-income people are sex-segregated and thereby alienate those who don’t comply with state-imposed categories. A trans woman may not be able to secure a bed in a homeless shelter, for example. Spade writes that just as the feminist movement tended to “focus on gender-universalized white women’s experience as ‘women’s experience,’” the lesbian- and gay-rights movement has focused primarily on a white, middle-class politic, centered on marriage and mainstream social mores.”
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Guernica / Trans-Formative Change
Dean Spade is the first openly trans law professor. Meaghan Winter interviews him for Granta.
(via awakeinthenight)
I shit myself every time I think about how great studying abroad in Florence is going to be next semesterrrrrrrrr. So basically I’m shitting every second of my life seeing as it’s all I think abouttttt. Shit shit shit shit shit everywhere
happy halloween
