June 30th, 2008 maggie
I haven’t been to the Boston Dyke March in a few years since I work on Friday nights, but this morning I enjoyed looking at MassResistance’s report. MassResistance is our super looney right wing anti-lgbtq organization and they love to go to queer events, take pictures, and then pretend to be shocked and appalled. I was looking at pictures, laughing at their offensive commentary, when I saw this.
Okay, the dyke march is all about clever, snarky signs. But that is just not cool. You can’t see the person holding the sign in this picture, so we can’t guess anything about hir or why ze might think such a sign is clever and cool. For a lot of us, Pride breeds insecurity about how we are seen and our place in the community. Why someone would think this is a good idea is beyond me.
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May 22nd, 2008 Jenn
The Inside Out lesbian and gay film festival takes place every year starting in the second week in May in Toronto. I am always excited about the festival; it provides ample opportunity to see new work by queer filmmakers, to dress up and connect with other folks in the community.
So you can imagine the excitement to flip through the program when it comes out. I rip through the pages every year hoping for some new and exciting films that present fresh ideas and issues. This year I wasn’t let down.
This year an exciting edition I do not remember previously being part of the program is an entire program of shorts on femme identities. And there was also one solo short, “be safe and considerate†by Anna Peak as part of the “Let’s Get Physical†program. Read the rest of this entry »
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May 15th, 2008 Sassafras
Last Saturday Kestryl and I were wondering around Trader Joes filling our shopping cart with apples, cheese, pasta and all the rest of our favorite weekly foods when a butch walked by with pallet of bread. As pronoun passed they smiled and nodded at us! Later, when Kestryl was off grabbing us free samples the same butch now sans bread hurried back the other way but while passing, caught my eye and grinned! Now for many folks this doesn’t sound particularly special, but for me as a femme who on my own continually passes as straight, and as the partner of a passing transgender butch we are almost exclusively read as straight these moments tend to stand out.
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January 6th, 2008 maggie
This started out as a comment to Sassafras’s last entry but it got so long that I figured it could be its own post.
I have a friend, Steve, a bi non-trans man who is very chivalrous. We used to go out to dinner and I called it “heterosexual privilege night” because I could feel people watching us when he helped me on with my coat and such and it felt very different from how people look when I’m with a butch. They were probably thinking “how sweet” or “how quaint” instead of trying to figure out who we were and what we were doing together. Read the rest of this entry »
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