In about 20 minutes, or 7PM EST, we’ll be calling into Ethan St. Pierre’s annual TransFM holiday live broadcast.
Face in the Mirror
Just caught the tail end of a documentary called Face in the Mirror about David Reimer. Has anyone else seen this? I can’t seem to find any more info about it online. Now there’s one on about pumping parties called Lethal Beauty.
Meat or People
There’s a great video about how women’s bodies are represented in media that was just brought to my attention. It’s in Italian with English subtitles and worth watching. That said, some of the images are really upsetting (and all were broadcast on Italian television).
Cold Case: Time to Hate
One of my all-time favorite Cold Case episodes, A Time to Hate, is on TNT right now.
If this show didn’t win a GLAAD award, it should have.
Egon Schiele
Courtesy Bilerico & Gloria Brame, a lovely YouTube slideshow of the erotic works of Egon Schiele. I’ve long been a fan.
Bilerico Doesn’t Fail
The editors of Bilerico fired Ronald Gold & took his post down.
I firmly disagree with the opinion that posting his screed had anything to do with website hits or publicity, and I disagree emphatically.
The only remaining dilemma, in my opinion, is that Ronald Gold is not the only one, & is in fact representative of some people with queer genders who don’t understand that trans people are categorically different, in their experience of gender, than those who are not trans.
It took me a long fucking time to understand that. It was only when I met stone butches who transitioned to femmey gay men and former straight men who transitioned to geeky tomboys that I realized it had nothing whatsoever to do with gender conformity.
Trans people do not, as a whole, reject gender non-conformity. They are not trans because they are invested in the binary. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
LGBT Athletes & Soldiers
I missed it, & maybe you did too, but here’s Jeff Sheng’s Fearless photography series, which is a collection of photos of out LGBT athletes.
I discovered it via The LA Times’ blog and Sheng’s new series called Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.
= Amazing work.
What amazes me particularly about the first set is how images of LGBT people tends to focus on white people in particular, & then too on men. Gathering their photos based on this other part of their identity – their atheleticism – gives a much larger range of racial & ethnic identity, & a much larger range of genders, too.
Cold Case Trans
Right now, on TNT:
Season 5, Episode 9
Episode Synopsis: The 1963 death of a teen girl who dressed and acted like a boy is investigated to determine if she committed suicide or was murdered. Meanwhile, the consequences of Internal Affairs’ probe of Valens are revealed. Original Air Date: Nov 18, 2007
Misery in Pictures
If you haven’t checked out the Awkward Family Photos site yet, do it the next time your life seems fucked up.
Because if this family photo doesn’t help you feel better by seeing someone else’s misery, nothing will.
Whip It Good?
Has anyone seen this movie?
I found it on the Madison Roller Derby Team’s page. How cool is that?