While it’s an interesting fact (one I learned when studying German films in college, which included Head-On), I wouldn’t have mentioned this if I were you. She’s made it pretty clear how she feels about that time in her life (she was underage when she started). Out of respect for this actress, who’s proved to be…

Whats so dark about porn? I bet you watch porn.

(For anyone who doesn’t know, that’s Queer As Folk, the original UK version)

Littlefinger will always be Carcetti to me.

EXCUSE ME?!?! You missed the best one....

+

I know him as Gaius Julius Caesar, from the Rome TV series.

And that’s your experience. And it’s totally valid. But there are also literally billions of other female experiences in the world that don’t match yours, and tons of women who more strongly identify along demographic lines other than being women, such as race or sexual orientation. Identity is an extremely complex…

No, it’s not like that. Would it be okay to have an all-white women’s festival? After all, WoC’s experiences of womanhood are often very, very different from white women’s experiences of womanhood. Or how about an all-straight women’s festival? Or one that excluded disabled women? This is basic, basic…

If someone was raised as a boy despite knowing they were trans, they may have been treated like a boy, but they certainly didn’t feel like one. Do you not see why it would be upsetting to say to someone “you lost the childhood and adolescence you should have had because you were born in the wrong body, therefore I…

But is definitely an experience that can not be applied to all and things like “shared girlhood” try to erase that. I would definitely say that things like race and class mattered just as much, in some instances more, than me being seen as a girl when I was growing up. Statements like this is one of the reasons that…

I wouldn’t say there’s no difference between the world viewing you as a boy vs. viewing you as a girl. Of course there is. But women have all kinds of different experiences and upbringings. I think the experience of being a woman “raised as a boy” is just one diversity of experience that should be welcome at a women’s…

If you’re trying to say that there’s no difference culturally between a childhood/adolescence/young-adulthood where the world views you as a boy, and same where the world views you as a girl, I really can’t get with that. It isn’t true.

Great article. Just out of interest, what happened to Kat Callahan and her insightful posts on transgender issues? I miss her. Or is she just concentrating on her Jalopnik writing these days?

As it was explained to me (by someone who used to attend the festival, but is in favor of being trans-inclusive), there’s a lot of nudity at the festival (which, on its own, must be pretty powerful—seeing the non-sexualized bodies of tons of women of all shapes and sizes, normalized and not in a context of…

When I read “raised as girls” I immediately had a flashback to Sleepaway Camp.

yep!

well this comment fucking sucks, is the thing.

As I said elsewhere, it’s a pretty clever PR move. If the festival had kept going, it would have just kept accumulating badwill for its bald-faced transphobia, even if they had thrown out the trans-exclusionary rule. But now they can claim victimhood that the evil trans women forced their poor innocent festival into…

I like this lady’s swag tho