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Article: Girl Clothes in a Box Article: Lesbian Bodies in the Age of (Post)Mechanical Reproduction |
| In 1993 Brandon Teena (born Teena Brandon), an FtM (female to male) transsexual who had been living as a man in a small town, was discovered to be a woman. Two of his "friends," John Lotter and Marvin Thomas Nissen, confirmed the discovery by stripping him. On Christmas Day they raped and beat him.
Brandon reported the rape and identified his attackers, but the sherrif did not arrest the men. No doubt emboldened by this turn of affairs, Nissen and Lotter broke into the house where Brandon was staying on New Year's Eve, and shot him and two of his friends, Lisa Lambert and Philip Divine. The only occupant of the house they spared was Lisa's 8-month old baby.
For more information go to:A news report from the The Advocate, March 8, 1994 or FtM International's page on Brandon Teena |
Article: GID Reform.org
The campaign to remove Gender Identity Disorder (GID) and Transvestic Fetishism from the DSM-IV psychology's official handbook.
| "Why gentlemen, James Gray will cast off his skin like a snake and become a new creature. In a word, gentlemen, I am as much a woman as my mother ever was, and my real name is Hannah Snell." --The Female Soldier, 1750
From The Hannah Snell Home Page Check out the Catalogue of Female Cross-Dressers from the same site |
Thesis: Gender Pretenders: A Drag King Ethnography
| "I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that's where us gay people come from... you heterosexuals."
-- Ellen Degeneres, from an interview on 20/20 |
Article: The "Empire" Strikes Back: A Posttransexual Manifesto
An analysis of attitudes towards transexuals.
Article: TA/TG: The Pedagogy of the Cross-Dressed
Queer theory, public bathrooms, and underpaid teaching assistants.
| "Outrageous, Puddle would feel it to be, that willfully selfish tyranny of silence evolved by a cafty old ostrich of a world for its own well-being and comfort. The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that, seeing nothing it might avoid the Truth. It said to itself: 'If seeing's believing, than I don't want to see -- if silence is golden, it is also, in this case, very expedient.'"
-- Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness |
Article: Lesbian Invisibility and the Femme's Dilemma
Deuteronomy 22:5: The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God. Which just goes to show you that the practice is at least as old as the Bible. "The bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision." -- Lynne Lavner |
Article: Gender Slumming
Very dense and full of psychological (?) terms. Good luck.
Article: Stranger in a Familiar Land: Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Academe
| "I looked out into the audience and I've never seen my dad so happy. He was so proud. I know that wearing that dress made his life complete."
-- Ellen Degeneres, after she hosted the 1994 Emmy Awards (it was the first time she'd worn a dress in fourteen years). |
Article: Drag Kings
The art of "kinging."
Essay: Lesbian Identity and the Politics of Butch Femme
Heavy-duty stuff.
| "First they came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Communist.Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Jew.Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up, because I was a Protestant.Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me."
-- Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945 |
