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December 10, 2019

Crosspost from Patreon: Examining Whiteness

Crossposted from my patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/examining-32183696 Examining Whiteness Our culture is saturated with whiteness; whiteness and its performative values are socialized within all of us from a young age. Those who are not white are socialized to react to whiteness in specific ways, and those who are white (or white-passing) are socialized to perform whiteness without Continue reading

Author, Feminism, Race, transgender, Writing

checking one’s privilege, dismantling bias, dismantling whiteness, racism, white fragility, white privilege, white supremacy, whiteness
May 10, 2019

Update on the Fight for Trans Healthcare

On Friday, May 2nd, 2018, Governor Reynolds signed HF766 into law. She made the regrettable choice not to use her line item veto to eliminate the amendment designed to discriminate against transgender Iowans. The Amendment, tacked onto a Budget bill last minute, was specifically coded directly into the Iowa Civil Rights Act. This is the Continue reading

Feminism, transgender, Writing

IATransHealthCare, Iowa, legislation, legislative battles, LGBTQIA, TAGIowa, trans*, transgender, transgender healthcare, transphobia
May 1, 2019

Fight for Transgender Healthcare in Iowa

Transgender Iowans had a victory in March when the Iowa Supreme Court ruled that the ban on trans-related surgeries for Medicaid and Medicare was unconstitutional. However, this long-fought victory was shortlived. Around Thursday or Friday of last week, Trans Iowans discovered that the Costello Amendment was added to the HF 766 Budget bill at the Continue reading

Author, Feminism, transgender, Writing

IATransHealthCare, legislation, legislative battles, trans healthcare, trans people of color, transgender, transgender healthcare, won’t be erased
April 28, 2019

Deconstructing the Biases Within

Crossposted to Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/25299584 Deconstructing the biases within Everyone has a bias of which we may or may not be aware. This isn’t to say that everyone is bad — biases are due to socialization by a imperfect and often discriminatory society, where we internalize the racist, sexist, transphobic, homophobic, ableist ideologies of society from Continue reading

Author, Feminism, Race, transgender, Writing

ableism, bias, cisnormative, colonialism, deconstructing bias, feminism, heteronormativity, indigenous, intersectional feminism, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, Race, sexism, transgender, white supremacy
April 5, 2019

Compilation of Thoughts

About Taxes and Poor People and the Narratives surrounding both Written January 17, 2019: I know folks don’t like reading long things, but I really thought hard about the twitter feud going on about the post concerning taxes. Read what I wrote here if you want. Walk away if you want. This is the twitter Continue reading

Feminism, Race, transgender, Writing

facts, feminism, impact we have, love, narratives, politics, poor people, taxes
January 12, 2019

Re-imagining a Better Future

Re-imagining a Better Future In order to re-imagine a better future, we first have to dismantle myths that end discussions about solutions before we can even begin them. Dismantling myths https://twitter.com/diannaeanderson/status/1081357243344244736 I read that thread in full. It lists what the tax laws were from 1940s through 1980s, and the impact that had on America, Continue reading

Feminism, History, Race, transgender, Writing

capitalism, climate change, economic justice, future, history, income inequality, justice, social justice, socialism, taxes, universal basic income, universal healthcare, work ethic
November 2, 2018

Examination on the Words Used within Our Human Rights Movements

Introduction I truly believe that words hold inherent power, and to be mindful of that power is essential to creating an inclusive, intersectional, sustainable, and love-focused movement toward equity and equality for all people. This essay is derived from some of my Facebook posts and Twitter semi-essays I’ve written in the past few weeks, and Continue reading

Author, Feminism, Race, transgender, Writing

activist, intersectional feminism, language, social justice, words
October 6, 2018

In essence Thoughts on Life in This American Society

At Home Mournful harmonies and piano arpeggios grace my speakers on this grey-muted day, the clouds heavy with the threat of rain. I sit in the chair provided by my job for at-home work, and it’s stiff back and ergonomic shape adjusted for my unconventional sitting posture — curled up with feet on the seat Continue reading

Author, Books, Feminism, Philosophy, Race, transgender

discrimination, economic justice, environmental justice, fighting injustice, income inequality, inequality, injustice, intergenerational trauma, intersectional feminism, justice, PSTD, racism, social justice, transphobia, trauma
July 30, 2018

Pronoun Etiquette Guide

I wrote about how to write Trans Characters in a prior post here. A common follow-up question involves pronouns, such as a guide on how to use them, who uses which pronouns, and how to pronounce the gender-neutral ones. In this guide, I will have links to other trans individuals to provide a more nuanced Continue reading

Blogging, transgender, Writing

gender identity, gender-neutral, gender-neutral pronouns, neopronouns, nonbinary, pronoun, pronouns, trans people of color, trans*, transgender
July 28, 2018

Reshaping the Story of Society

The Consequences of Ideas that Dehumanize and Erase Groups of People This article discusses the marketplace of ideas, and how we have allowed a very toxic idea to become normalized within our marketplace of ideas: Bubbles — Both sides http://www.armoxon.com/2017/09/bubbles-10-both-sides.html Read the article as it is wonderfully written. What I write in the following is Continue reading

Author, Blogging, Feminism, Race, transgender, Writing

bad faith arguments, dehumanization, erasure, fighting injustice, fighting with love, marketplace of ideas, Race, social justice, story, transgender