I have awoken multiple times from a nightmare hearing this phrase screamed at me over and over again. Whether awake or asleep, it echoes over and over and over again through my brain. It is like machine-gun fire,…
By Suzan Cooke Transsexual and Transgender people are everywhere, for good or bad, in high positions in life and low. We are not just sex workers and murder victims even though we are often stereotyped as such. Like…
We have two reader questions in one post today, and in order to catch up with my backlog of Ask Matt questions, I will be posting a Thursday edition this week as well, so be looking for that.…
I’m blessed to have some pretty smart people around me as you can tell by some of the conversations that get started on my Facebook page. Sometimes those profound conversations get cranked up by some post I’ve written.…
Today we have two letters about identity that I thought went together quite well. So here goes: A reader writes: “I consider myself transgender – I was born female, but feel very much that the concept of ‘womanhood’…
A reader writes: “I am having issues determining my sexual identity since transition from female to male. Dating and having a relationship are things I consciously took off the table while I was in the early stages of…
1st Wave: Feminism from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s which tended to focus on women’s suffrage. Racism was a significant issue and genderqueer individuals were oftentimes shut out of the movement. 2nd Wave: Feminism from around 1960…
If you’re a researcher or provide services to a target population, how do you work with identity vs reality vs definitions? How does your datasets deal with: White people who do not identify as white Non-transsexuals who identify…