So, today I’m flying with a layover in Charlotte. I travel a lot (I’ve written about traveling while transgender here, before), but this is my first time traveling in my own country to a place that is openly, legally, hostile to transgender people.
After hearing an interview with Larry Wilmore on Fresh Air, I decided to give The Nightly Show another shot. It’s really starting to come into it’s own. The monologue was great, the correspondent section was good and the panel was fun and snappy. You guys, there is hope in this bleak post-Colbert/post-Stewart world.
You should know about #weejustneedtopee. This goes with Ivrinlel's post about the Planet Fitness lady. It started with one selfie (I think someone posted about it here, but it's now become a huge thing). Basically, trans people are giving conservatives exactly what they wanted by taking selfies in the bathroom of…
Okay, we all know OKCupid is a shit show. We all get really weird messages; the one-liner, the hey beautiful, the way out of your age range, the aggressively sexual. They're usually easy enough to ignore but sometimes they catch me on the wrong day or they're just too bizarre/stupid to let go and I have to say…
Hey anime watchers, I just plowed through all of Knights of Sidonia and Attack on Titan and I'm looking for something new. I wouldn't say that I'm a genre specific anime fan, like I don't watch anime just to watch anime, but I really like good anime with good characters and stories. I really liked Cowboy Bebop,…
Hey Everybody, look over there. That's not a 280 million dollar deficit and cuts to education, it's a homosexual with a job. Isn't that terrible? http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/kansas-g…
When the Leelah Alcorn story broke, I didn't even read it. In the last twelve years or so that I've been involved in the GLBT community I've read dozens of stories about trans people committing suicide. Almost every trans person I know has attempted it or at least seriously thought about it and a few of the girls from…
So, I saw this going around Facebook today:http://nycfirewire.com/today-i-stoppe…
I really like Thanksgiving you guys. Unlike Christmas, Thanksgiving is for everyone. Yes, originally we were supposed to be giving thanks to god for the harvest, but there's nothing about Thanksgiving that is specific to one religion or that excludes atheists. With Christmas, we're all supposed to suck up being…
I am currently crushing my way through His Dark Materials. I'm not usually a rereader, but goddamn I had forgotten how good this series is. Is there anything else you guys would recommend by Pullman? I've been really disappointed by the last several books I've picked up and would like to read something else that is…
So friends, it's Friday night. I'm at home, throwing myself a bourbon and cheese party watching the Fosters* and I am not ashamed.
I've recently starting rereading the Golden Compass as a pallet cleanse after slogging my way through a terrible fantasy novel and it got me thinking about the movie. It wasn't perfect, but I enjoyed. I really liked the casting, the way the characters were portrayed and the visuals really fit with what I had in my…
...how blue is it?
I know this is very much a classic, but I just saw it for the first time today and it's the cutest thing, ever. Have some ABCDEF—Cookie Monster.
This video of Erykah Badu only making 3.60 street performing is going around:http://gawker.com/erykah-badu-ma…
I'm not going to bullshit around with false modesty: I'm smart, funny, bilingual, a decent conversationalist, with an interesting job, tales of adventure and I'm not completely terrible looking. Is it really too much to ask to have sex with someone else who is also smart, funny, interesting and not terrible looking?…
I love my mother and we have a very good relationship, but like a lot of Americans, everything that's outside of the US (or even far away parts of the US) is put into the category of "over there." More than a few times while I've been traveling I've had to respond to emails titled, "Everything okay?"
