A Record of A Transition

lorraineandjulianne: I am inspired by beautiful relationship

keltik — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 03:10:25 +0100

I am inspired by beautiful relationship

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keltik — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 03:08:44 +0100

"If someone tries to put out your flame, remember to just walk away. Whatever you do. Never let go...."

keltik — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 03:07:24 +0100

“If someone tries to put out your flame, remember to just walk away. Whatever you do. Never let go. It’s your life. Not theirs.”

- Erika Linder. (via moresorrow)

fuckyeahvintage-retro: Students in the hallway of Davenport...

keltik — Thu, 31 May 2012 08:59:37 +0100

fuckyeahvintage-retro:

Students in the hallway of Davenport High School, Iowa (1953)

Gendered Intelligence: Out of the Blue - Storytelling & drama for children with a difference

keltik — Thu, 31 May 2012 05:48:42 +0100

Gendered Intelligence: Out of the Blue - Storytelling & drama for children with a difference :

genderedintelligence:

Out of the Blue is a new participatory storytelling group for children under 5, working in collaboration with Gendered Intelligence.

We plan to look at alternative children’s picture-story books that overtly challenge the existing stereotypes of gender, race, disability, family & class, as…

amosmac: Original Plumbing magazine hits tumblr! If you follow,...

keltik — Thu, 31 May 2012 05:46:39 +0100

amosmac:

Original Plumbing magazine hits tumblr! If you follow, they will come.

STPAOY or Stand To Pee All Over Yourself

keltik — Sun, 27 May 2012 23:17:23 +0100

I got my STP from Early To Bed, a couple weeks ago and excitedly ran off to the bathroom to try it and immediately managed to piss all over myself. I opted for the STP Fitz, with the nipple, in large, cos y’know, size queen…

I can’t say I’m overly impressed with the design, the nipple/receptacle is glued right at the base of the shaft, so unless you’re pretty skinny, you’ll have a bit of bother trying to fit everything between your legs and piss with confidence. Although I found when trying to use it while dressed, I had to have my trousers and shorts around my ankles and stand in a kinda ridiculous stance to get everything in place. Obviously I can’t do that at a urinal, so I’d have to use a cubicle and if I’m gonna use a cubicle, I might as well sit down and not run the risk of pissing all over myself, again.

I got the ‘Pete’ by SpareParts to try and hold everything in place, I should mention it’s not really designed for use with STPs, just packers.

So, I’m about £100 lighter and still no further forward. Great.

iragray: I can honestly say this is the most helpful and...

keltik — Sun, 27 May 2012 21:06:24 +0100

iragray:

I can honestly say this is the most helpful and educational video about phalloplasties I have ever seen.

Trigger warnings for genitals, scars, and discussion of surgeries.

Best part: “I gained sensitivity.”

Also, the style of this surgery is pretty different than others I’ve seen. It doesn’t look like he’s had a scrotoplasty, and his original junk is left exposed.

Can’t view this just now, but it looks like its been taken from MTS.

theselfmademen: We now offer four different types of packers or...

keltik — Sat, 26 May 2012 15:40:40 +0100

theselfmademen:

We now offer four different types of packers or prosthetics from GoodVibrations.

Check out the review video and then shop around our online store!

genderedintelligence: genderedintelligence: In conjunction...

keltik — Sat, 26 May 2012 00:29:31 +0100

genderedintelligence:

genderedintelligence:

In conjunction with the LGBT Consortium, Gendered Intelligence has produced a ‘A guide for parents and family members of trans people in the UK’. We hope that this might offer parents and family members some information about what it means to be trans, how it might feel as a parent or family member of a young trans person, and perhaps most importantly, a bit of advice on how to move forward after a young person has shared their trans identity with their family.

This booklet was compiled through a series of focus groups with parents and family members of young trans people.

It is available online here, or you can order hard copies on our website.

Gendered Intelligence also runs ‘SOFFA’ youth group sessions every quarter, which are for significant others, family, friends and allies to come along with trans young people, meet other families of trans people and gain support. More details of our next SOFFA session will be posted soon on our tumblr.

Great to see this getting a bit more attention! The next SOFFA session as we mentioned in the original post is tomorrow. GI has made a few resources which we’re gradually uploading on tumblr, watch this space for more!

Maxine Holloway: Pornography and Feminism

keltik — Thu, 24 May 2012 16:02:05 +0100

Maxine Holloway: Pornography and Feminism:

maxineholloway:

From my Blog at www.maxineholloway.com

Pornography and Feminism: I am a porn performer and a feminist. Yes, these two things can actually go together. There is a large anti-porn perspective from many feminists because their idea is that porn is harmful for society, especially women. I…

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keltik — Tue, 15 May 2012 06:21:34 +0100

cupcakedingus: Sharon Needles is a goddamned goddess.

keltik — Thu, 10 May 2012 02:01:23 +0100

cupcakedingus:

Sharon Needles is a goddamned goddess.

amosmac: Open Call for OP’s 10th issue: JOCK! Deadline June...

keltik — Thu, 10 May 2012 01:53:55 +0100

amosmac:

Open Call for OP’s 10th issue: JOCK! Deadline June 20th.

We seek to publish personal stories or articles relating to (but not limited to) sports, olympians, training, fitness, healthy and unhealthy obsessions with the physical form in the trans male community, physical fitness triumphs or woes, body diversity in sports, personal stories about your life in gym class, competitive sports teams, feelings towards main stream athletics from a trans perspective, or anything that you feel falls into the category of SPORTS / ATHLETICS / UNCONVENTIONAL JOCK REALNESS.‬

I took this photo of Saul for another project but it felt like a good fit for the latest call for submissions.

© Amos Mac.

Hey remember the time my gym rejected me for being trans?

Homeless? Fuck that.

keltik — Tue, 08 May 2012 06:28:57 +0100

I don’t often talk about my living situation at home, to be honest it’s a little embarrassing. I now live in my grandmother’s old house. She passed away a few years ago and my uncle, who lived here with her for 30 years took over the house when she died. About 3 years ago, I had lost my job and had to sell my flat. I asked him if I could move here, he’s a single guy with no family, living in a fair sized 3 bed semi detached house. He agreed and was quite happy to have company and as he was basically living out of the living room, I could take the upper level of the house for myself.

And so it’s been for the last 2 years, I’ve lived here and paid for most things, spent a lot of time and money on the house, getting it fixed and brought back to a livable standard. We’ve had our differences but for the most part we got along.

My uncle is in his mid 50s now, he’s a heavy alcoholic and spent his youth in and out of prison and in trouble with the law. He’s never held down a job and his health now means he can’t work. He’s played the system all his life. My aunt, his sister, does everything for him. She comes by every weekend with his messages and is his ‘advisor’ on things that he can’t or won’t deal with himself.

So a couple of weeks ago, my mother told this aunt that I’m trans. She said that her reaction was quite sympathetic and supportive, that I had the right to do what I needed to do to be happy. All seemed well, so I told my uncle. At first he was a bit confused, he thought I was gay, but after some explaining I made the situation clear and told him what to expect. He took the news well and even made a couple wee jokes. Everything seemed fine. Or so I thought…

As I’ve mentioned, with work I’m away from home most of the time. But I did find out from my mother a day or so later that my uncle had been doing some thinking. He was drunk at the time I told him (it’s hard to catch him sober…) and he didn’t fully appreciate what I had told him. He had come to the conclusion that this would in some way damage his ‘street cred’ in the village we live in, that I had been sneaky and concealed this when I first came to stay here (he wouldn’t have agreed to me staying if he knew this originally!) and that he doesn’t want me living in the house any more. My aunt is in agreement with him on this matter.

I’m happy to say though that my mother has taken my side 100%, that she argued the case back to my aunt and unfortunately this has now caused a rift in our already fragmented family. Things at home are tense, the odd time I am at home, my uncle purposefully avoids me. Which I don’t really mind to be honest, he could be a pain in the arse at times when he’s drunk and wants company. But there is an atmosphere, they have been warned though that discriminating against me because I’m trans is illegal in Scotland. I don’t want to ever have the police involved, but I am left to wonder what will happen in my absence.

I’m happy to report that another aunt, who my uncle decided to tell that I’m trans before I had the chance to, has contacted me and been quite vocal about her support for me. She told me that when my uncle called her, saying he was “freaking out”, she rightfully told him to fuck off and set the record straight regarding his bullshit.

My parents did offer to let me move back in with them until I could find something on my own, but I didn’t spend 3 years and several hundreds of pounds on this house just to walk away and hand it to a fucking jakey who’s never worked a day in his life.

I don’t fucking think so.

tinahorn: that’s so takai

keltik — Tue, 08 May 2012 01:25:01 +0100

tinahorn:

that’s so takai

Trans Mental Health and Wellbeing Survey

keltik — Sun, 06 May 2012 15:38:43 +0100

Trans Mental Health and Wellbeing Survey:

genderedintelligence:

A survey has been produced by Sheffield Hallam University in partnership with Scottish Transgender Alliance, Trans Resource and Empowerment Centre and TransBareAll looking into mental health and well-being in trans people. A bit about why they are doing the research:

“There has been very little research about trans people, or people with trans histories, and their well-being. What there is suggests that trans people have worse mental health and life satisfaction than many others, but it is not clear why.

We think that trans well-being and mental health are very complicated, because trans people have to go through a lot of things that other people don’t experience, and these issues can all affect well-being and mental health.”

Please take part in the survey if you feel able to. You must be over 18 to take part. Anyone who takes part can enter to win £50 of amazon vouchers.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/transmentalhealth

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keltik — Sat, 05 May 2012 18:09:45 +0100

genderedintelligence: The Trans Youth Sexual Health booklet was...

keltik — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:52:44 +0100

genderedintelligence:

The Trans Youth Sexual Health booklet was produced by trans people aged 16-24 at Gendered Intelligence, in partnership with Terrence Higgins Trust. The project allowed young trans people to get together as a group and learn about sexual health, and also to discuss how to make sexual health information more relevant to trans people. As a result, a group of young people produced this information booklet, which is aimed at trans youth and their partners.

Check out the full pdf here. Hard copies can be ordered here.

leslie-feinberg: CeCe McDonaldphoto 3 of 3FREECECE! ‘kay,...

keltik — Wed, 02 May 2012 03:12:16 +0100

leslie-feinberg:

CeCe McDonald
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FREE
CECE!

‘kay, heart melted now… #freecece