Despite what you might have heard, this Wednesday INTEGRATION is still on for this Wednesday and every Wednesday there after so if you want to have fun and dance and have a great time them be there see you all there
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
New Flash INTEGRATION This Wednesday Is On So Be There Come See For Yourself”
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Film Screening: Hineini (Here I Am: Coming Out in a Jewish High School)
Thurs. Feb. 25, 2010
Hineini: Coming Out in Jewish High School
Place: Finkelstein Memorial Library, 24 Chestnut St., Spring Valley, NY
Time: 6:30pm
Cost: Free
Info: HINEINI (Hebrew for “Here I am”) chronicles the story of one student’s courageous fight to establish a gay-straight alliance alliance at a Jewish high school in the Boston area and the transformative impact of her campaign on her entire community. The film allows the members of this community to tell their own stories. What emerges is a potent and inspiring story of Jewish pluralism and a community navigating the cross-currents of Jewish tradition and social change. Discussion with local Rabbis and a representative from Keshet to follow film. Keshet is a grassroots organization dedicated to creating a fully inclusive Jewish community for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) Jews.
This film showing has been made possible by cosponsorship from: Rivertown Films, CANDLE, Rockland Family Shelter, PFLAG Rockland, The LOFT: LGBT Community Center, GLSEN Rockland care of Diane Schneider, Center Lane: A Program of WJCS & West Clarkstown Jewish Center.
For a printable flyer please click here.
via Gay Pride Rockland.
This Is What a [Feminist] Poet Looks Like
Featuring:
Monday, February 1: Ching-In Chen, Jennifer Bartlett, & Kate Durbin
Tuesday, February 2: Juliet Cook & Kate Schapira
Wednesday, February 3: Kirsten Kaschock & Michele Battiste
Thursday, February 4: Michelle Detorie & Stephanie Strickland
Friday, February 5: T.A. Noonan & Theodora Danylevich
Saturday, February 6: Amy King & Kirsten Kaschock 2
“My Barbaric Bitch of a Yawp” by Amy King
Thursday, February 4, 2010
To those beyond the hetero-normative...
Our lives contain degrees of narrative, story, plot, and sub-plot; each degree possessing many levels of meaning and substance. In the society we live, there are degrees of life that are defined, recognised, or generally accepted as normal (normative) or (if you will) the default.
The boundaries of what is considered normative in society cut a swathe through many aspects of being human: through the physical, cognitive, social, and emotional ways of being, even to how one identifies and defines themselves.
The language generally used to describe those outside these boundaries of ‘normativity’ is invariably negative or derogatory. The very word disability, for those outside perceived physical, cognitive, social ‘normalcy’, is to suggest that these people are without, or have little, ability (compared to those within ‘normalcy?). Groups that advocate for people defined as disabled, often accept and use this term to identify themselves. They ought think again.
Those who are normal to themselves, yet are outside the confines of what is considered to be normative, have, in my opinion, transcended accepted normalcy and gone beyond that specific normative.
The gay, lesbian, bisexual transgender, transsexual, intersex, queer… GLBTTIQ… the alphabet mangled identity of those communities are beyond a normative… they are beyond the hetero-normative – they transcend hetero-sex, heterosexual definitions of sex, and heterosexual definitions of gender (expression, roles and performance) and are therefore the community that is beyond the hetero-normative.
These communities have changed their alphabet mangle identity over and over again trying to be as inclusive, yet seemingly trying to identify each individual group in that broader identity. The GLB community became the GLBT, GLBTI, GLBTTI, GLBTTIQ, GLBTTIQQ, any number of conglomerations of letters and identities defining people who are all outside the confines of heterocentric normativity or like myself, are beyond the hetero-normative.
Ads: Raging Grannies take CBS to task
The South Florida Raging Grannies really rip CBS a new one over its biased Super Bowl ad choices. And the explanation for what CBS stands for in this catchy jingle is priceless. Check it all out in the video below.
As if the firestorm surrounding this issue wasn’t raging enough already, CBS partnered with Focus on the Family to create the controversial pro-life Super Bowl ad. Dun, dun, dun.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
you want to do what?
“Congress shall make no law…”
This is how the past two days have begun and ended for me. I’m taking a U.S. Government class (it’s a California state requirement for undergrads) as well as Law of Mass Communication which is a requirement for the journalism major. Suffice to say… There’s been a lot of talk and reading about the First Amendment between those two classes in the past few days. The content of each class pretty much overlaps, although the Law of Mass Comm. class deals with more of the specifics of what is discussed in my government class. On one hand it’s nice to have two classes so closely related that I get the broad scope of how our government works as well as the specifics of how it works (court cases, policy, restrictions on the government, statues vs. rules and regulations etc.) but its contributed to an enormous amount of boredom on my part.
It’s not that I’m not interested in this kind of stuff because I definitely am. As an aspiring journalist (whether I’ll actually be successful remains to be seen) I have to be interested in government and its inter-workings. Or at least stay awake and afloat in class enough to be reasonably well-versed if I ever need to be.
For example, when you know enough about government and the law, you are then able to ask questions about the facts to determine whether something might be unconstitutional or not, or at the very least, whether it will raise questions.
For instance, this morning it was discovered that someone had vandalized the gay and lesbian resource center on the University of Oregon campus. Someone broke in sometime between yesterday afternoon and 1 a.m. and spray painted a large swastika on the center’s carpet. Most people suspect that the vandalism is related to recent controversy on campus with the Pacifica Forum, although no links have been proved thus far. The Pacifica Forum is a group that is categorized as a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center for its invitations of holocaust deniers to speak at events and its alleged condemnations of gays and lesbians. Apparently the University of Oregon, because one of the group members is a retired professor, allows this group to meet on campus to hold discussions and events. This year there has been a considerable uproar about the group coming back to the school (although I do not attend UO I saw postings and groups opposing the Pacifica Forum on Facebook). Associated Students of the University of Oregon (ASUO) are considering a ban on the group in order to take a strong stance against hate speech and support student safety, according to an intern at Autostraddle.com who is a student at U of O.
So. What that all tells me and should tell you is that banning the group would be an obvious violation of the First Amendment (because the University of Oregon is a public school, and therefore controlled by the government). They know that. The most obvious argument to me against banning the Pacifica Forum from the U of O campus is that as a public university, the facilities used by the Forum are in default, a public forum designed for the exercise of free speech by the public. According to my handy dandy Communications Law textbook by John Zelezny, “…If a public forum has been created, government attempts to control the content of speech in that forum are presumptively invalid prior restraints.” Despite all this, from all accounts ASUO appears to be forging ahead with resolutions to ban the group (and potentially similar groups) from campus.
Now as much as I’m not a fan of crazy white supremacist folk, I do have to say that ASUO will be hard pressed to ban groups like this from the campus, especially if it’s not a blanket ban on all outside groups, and if the Pacifica Forum takes U of O to court, they’ll probably win. My campus dealt with similar issues last semester (only on a much, much smaller scale) when an anti-gay, anti-feminist, anti-drug etc. etc. preacher paid us an annual visit and all hell broke loose on campus (see my photos from my last post). As much as I hated the guy’s messages, they were all protected under the Constitution, as was his ability to speak on the university campus. It was utterly shocking to me how many people pushed for kicking him out because they didn’t understand that doing so would be a violation of the First Amendment.
Anyway, that’s my rant/input for the day. if you didn’t know about what happened at U of O, now you do. If you didn’t know crazies were allowed to be on public university campuses, well now you do. If you think I got any of my info wrong, or should’ve expanded more on something, let me know.
Tuesday February 2nd 2010 - Lactation Attempt 2 - Day 2
The second day of my second attempt to induce lactation. i chose a neat front fastening white bra with shoe-string straps that i “stole” from my Wife years ago when She outgrew it. i love this bra for it is great under a tee-shirt and shapes my breasts nicely. i chose a pair of white striped “boy-leg” panties with lace trim to go with the bra. i was not alone at work today so my underwear had to remain hidden beneath my male outer clothes. The presence of others around the office made nipple stimulation with the breast pump a little difficult also. my wife was at work though, and so the house was empty. i used the breast pump first thing after my wife had left for work and again when i made an excuse to go over to the house mid-morning and later at lunch time. i needed to go to the shops during the afternoon so took another opportunity to use the breast pump then. Once everyone had gone home, i was able to use the pump in the office, away from my wife who returned home as my workers left. All has to be very secretive. At least the domperidone can be easily taken. i decided today that i would take one every 3 hours making it 60mg during the day.
The breast pump really does make me horny. i just adore the sensation of my nipples being suckled and they send signals down to my genitalia as if they were hot-wired together. i know that inducing lactation is a major goal of mine but it will come at the price of becoming increasingly aroused with no hope of release due to my CB-2000 chastity device.
While i was out at the shops, i saw a pair of ladies reading glasses in a deep pastel pink colour on offer in a local store. The magnification was the same as my existing glasses and i could not resist the temptation – a bargain at just $6. i shall now be able to clean Mistress’ house without having to resort to my male glasses or my old pair of ladies glasses that do not hold together well and keep sliding off my nose.
Still no sign of Mistress Ana but had more emails today from Goddess Joyce – She has moved house which is why i had not heard from Her for a while – She has been busy packing, moving and unpacking. Hopefully She will soon be settled.
i added another of my Experiences to Experience Project today.
On: “I want to swap bodies”
There is absolutely nothing wrong with my body in terms of its health and fitness apart from the fact that i am imprisoned in it. i have come to accept and live within my male body over the years even though i hate it. i am undeniably female in my innermost self, i cry at movies and tend to get quite emotional over even relatively small issues. i can multi-task like most women and very few men and dislike male attitudes and macho behaviour even though i have had to grow up adopting such an outward appearance for my own protection, hiding my femininity beneath a macho male veneer. i have always preferred the company of girls and women, am interested in fashion, enjoy sewing, knitting, cooking and even household chores like cleaning, laundry and ironing i find acceptable. i do of course wear women’s clothes whenever i can and have an extensive wardrobe and footwear collection, i love shopping for clothes, even to the point of trying on women’s clothes and shoes before buying whether i am dressed as a male or female. But i am stuck with my male body and do sincerely wish i could swap it for a female one.
Many men ogle women and i confess i admire women with good figures but not from a sexual desire point of view like other men, i look at them in full admiration of their figure and pure jealousy, i want their body in exchange for mine. How frustrating it is to read of or see butch lesbian ladies desperately changing their figure and growing facial hair to be more masculine while i am doing the exact opposite. Oh wouldn’t it be wonderful if there were such a thing as a body exchange where these unfortunate males trapped in female bodies could swap with women like me who are stuck inside a male body they do not want? i read years ago of a husband and wife who both had gender reassignment, he becoming she and vice-versa so that they remained married and a couple but each finally found peace of mind in the body suited to their mindset or psyche. It was a wonderful article and it made me cry, tears of joy for the couple and of sadness for my ongoing dilemma.
i have dreamed that one day i am involved in a car crash in which my own body dies but not my brain whereas the other crash victim is a woman who’s brain dies but not her body and when i wake up from the nightmare crash and my nightmare life before it, i find that she has donated her body to me and that i have at last got the female body i have always wanted. The sad thing is that she would have to die; a body swap with a woman that wanted to be a man would be oh so much better and a win-win all round. Why can’t someone establish a sort of clearing house that will match people who wish to change sex so that they effectively do swap bodies?
Also, i came across a terrific lingerie sale on Ideeli and fell in love with this matching set of lingerie – i think it looks just gorgeous. They have it in other colours too!
Finally, on finishing work, i cooked dinner, did the dishes, finished the ironing and then helped my wife undress before returning to my office to have one more session on the breast pump and tidy up loose ends, always in the hope that Mistress Ana may just happen to be on line. Sadly not and i shall go to bed once again thinking anxiously of Her and hoping all is well with Her.
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