By Callie Wright
True Stories of The Lives of Queer and Trans People
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Dr Simonis is a scientist who studies chemical weapons, and they've seen and documented some pretty scary stuff in Portland and other places https://www.dapperstats.com/ https://twitter.com/JuniperLSimonis chemicalweaponsresearch.com
i thought i was done with big trans related changes, but...
i figured something else important out the other day...
transitioning during a pandemic is something else
quite often, the medical profession just....isn't great to us
is this....healing?
Incarcerated folks get basically no institutional support when they leave the system. so they have to figure out their own ways of dealing with life when they come home.
"science" and "biology" should not be loaded words. but here we are.
everything is the same and i hate it
predatory online marketing has reached the trans community and i'm not stoked
you start a new thing, you suck at the thing, you get frustrated and quit? i say "you" but i actually mean "I."
time for another in the somewhat regularly occurring series of ask callie episodes. lets goooooo
medical gatekeeping sucks. this week is a story about someone who was able to circumvent it, kinda learn more about Cal here: http://calcates.com/ Read their letter here: https://www.calcates.com/post/when-the-boob-is-on-the-other-foot And this is a cool site they write a bunch for: http://online.healwell.org/
It seems to be a sort of accepted thing...the most strident homophobes are closeted gays! the idea has never sat super well with me. so i found a super smart person to talk to us about why its a crap...
Netalie is a Muay Thai fighter and coach. Like a lot of things, being trans has made that more complicated than it should be. come join the Queersplaining Discord: bit.ly/qsdiscord
its the end of 2020. i'm not quite sure what else to say about that, haha.
so much of being trans is needlessly complicated. and a lot of those complications simply don't have to exist. to join the new Queersplaining Discord, check out bit.ly/qsdiscord gimme a call to leave a voicemail (i think they're limited to...
trans and non binary folks officially exist in the star trek universe now. you know i had to make an episode about it. just know i took great care to make it make sense to folks who aren't star trek...
we all come to the realization we're trans in different ways
well its officially "the holidays." and that means is a really weird time of year for a whole lot of us
i did a thing
trans awareness week leads up to the trans day of remembrance. and that feels kinda weird to me.
Sunday was a lot.
and don't forget to breathe <3
Rafi and Phillip never considered getting married. Until they did.
Twitter trolls love talking about de-transition. What about retransition? help my fundraiser for Women's Crisis Center! bit.ly/calliewcc
niceness (or lack thereof) is NOT the problem
the word prepper has a certain image attached to it. but its not exactly right. and there's some valuable stuff we can learn from fellow leftists who are preppers. and given the unrest that's almost sure to follow the election,...
i learned not to have heroes the hard way
we don't talk enough about gender euphoria. so that's what we're doing this week <3
it's an uncomfortable topic for lots of people (myself included). but its something that's super important to talk about, so let's do that. this week we'll hear from two of my friends on why they care so much about this,...
a bit of queer history this week! the public universal friend is someone i've heard stories about here and there. i decided to do a deep dive and i found some super interesting stuff. enjoy, friends!
its been about 8 weeks since we did one of these, so we're doing another! if you want to ask questions for the next one, hit me up at callie [at] queersplaining.com love you friends!
Today I'm dropping an episode of a new podcast called TransLash into the feed. It's a show about news and politics from a trans perspective. I think its really important that this show exists and so I'm super excited to...
i figured out something important for my mental health. and i switched to injectable estrogen. believe it or not, these two things are related! Check out TransLash here: https://play.acast.com/s/translash/introducingthetranslashpodcastwithimarajones
last week was an outdoor adventure with friends. this week is an indoor adventure with me and Wedge.
some new friends and I went adventuring <3
this week is audio from my virtual presentation at the Secular Student Alliance virtual conference. I talked about how to have some of the hard conversations we're having right now about racial justice, gender, sexuality, and other topics where we...
i started taking an anti-depressant for my anxiety. here's how that's been going...
A full transcript of this episode is available here There's been a lot of talk about cancel culture lately. Its the 21st century version of the Satanic Panic. There was an open letter released by Harpers Magazine decrying this new...
My new friend Will is giving us a primer on what communism's all about!
Awhile back I said I was going to make mailbag episodes a regular thing. Then the world kind of erupted. But this week is that mailbag episode! Planning to do these about every 8 weeks or so. Each one will...
We've heard story after story of the super messed up things the police are doing in response to the protests happening across the country. My new friend Kevin got arrested in the course of a protest in Cincinnati, and what...
Jillian T Weiss comes back to talk to us about what the latest SCOTUS decision means and doesn't mean Follow Gillian Brastetter for more on the utter failure of the mainstream media to highlight trans voices in their media coverage...
Tuck from Gender Reveal is here to help us talk about "objectivity" in journalism and why we need to think critically about what we read, even from outlets we may trust. I'll be back to storytelling next week, but...
Resources: Anti-Racism Media: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BRlF2_zhNe86SGgHa6-VlBO-QgirITwCTugSfKie5Fs/preview?pru=AAABcnXnOhM*YNlgMgo4D07mNyOtlVctmg Another Resource Guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hpub-jkm9cLzJWqZSsETqbE6tZ13Q0UbQz--vQ2avEc/edit?usp=sharing If you're white, this is an org you can join and support to talk to and hold other white people accountable in the fight for racial justice: https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/ 7 Ways...
I had the good fortune to be invited to a virtual lavendar graduation ceremony a few weeks back
You might remember Miri from a few weeks ago when they gave us some really good coping tips for the moment we're living in. Miri's also a breast cancer survivor. They created a super meaningful ritual in response to their...
Kage has always been a singer. That got more difficult when he started T.
Paul was one of many people in the middle of the fight over gay marriage in the United States. And not in a way he would've ever wanted