Reading: Susan Mann – Precious Records: Women in China’s Long Eighteenth Century

Shortly before departing for Brussels, I finished Susan Mann’s brilliant The Talented Women of the Zhang Family, and began Gail Hershatter’s …

Reading: Joan Slonczewski — The highest Frontier

A new author for me. I heard of Joan Slonczewski for the first time only a couple of weeks ago when …

Reading: Rosemary A. Joyce – Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives

Rosemary A. Joyce – Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives

daniel is reading…

judith butler – undoing gender susan sontag – styles of radical will deleuze and guattari – a thousand plateaus

things to do at silverfuture this weekend

Because I haven’t been there for oh so too long, and I need a bit of queer drunkenness… and books …

reading: sarah waters – tipping the velvet

sarah waters – tipping the velvet

transgender day of remembrance

For any queer trans* Berliners who read me, there is a meeting tomorrow night 6pm, at my favourite bar, Silverfuture, …

where i was last night…

When people ask me why I came to Berlin, I say, well partly for the dance, and partly for living. …

reading: leslie feinburg – drag queen dreams

leslie feinburg – drag queen dreams

chuang tzu again…

About a week ago, a quote from Chuang Tzu turned up on The Useless Tree (another shortly after explaining just …

reading: leslie feinburg – stone butch blues

Yes, I finally bought it, on a trip to Prinz Eisenherz, oh such a joy to find this, and then …

saint uncle judith… jude… i mean judy

I’m not sure of the trail that led me to spending some of an afternoon reading interviews with Judith Butler, …

Reading: again… some for the fifth time…

Suffering from a paucity of new books the last two weeks, and packing mine all away in preparation for inevitable …

Reading: Harriet Evans – The Subject of Gender: Daughters and Mothers in Urban China

harriet evans – the subject of gender

Protected: making our bodies home

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Blog for Choice day

Today marks thirty-five years since Roe vs. Wade. A number of my favourite blogs including Feministing and (en)gender posted on …

november 20

This Tuesday is International Day of Transgender Remembrance. I should be dwelling on Happy Things today but it’s been a …

Protected: twiddling of thumbs

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mediocrity

Due to the content of my Ignition 7 – Gender Studies performance, all the people i can remember sleeping with…, …

all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 15 & 16 & this week

Libby said, “You’re panicking. Deal with it”. I said, “Oh I need to write that down”, it would go well …

all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 14

Xuan said to me, over lunch, “I never dream I’m an …”, makes little creeping tendril extraterrestrial fingers, “alien …”, …

all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 13

So after last rehearsal, I was variously meant to watch all the video on Friday, but too busy with Melbourne …

all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 11 & 12

It was Throbbing Gristle. Though I need to go into town and try and find a record shop in this …

all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 9 & 10

Oh lazy huh? And today feeling awful, possibly from lack of sleep and I really hope not from Ebola. Anyway …

all the people i can remember sleeping with … day 8

I couldn’t really justify rape fantasies or liking being strangled through Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble, and I did do an …

Protected: tranny confusion

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Protected: pain, tranny crap and the insipid miasma of self-indulgence

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Protected: god made you a boy

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what calliope did…

There is a stack of books next to my bed in Adelaide, mostly instilling disappointment in the novel as a …

我不知道我是什么性别

Happy reading for me this afternoon from Mary Ann in Shenzhen, who writes one of the best blogs coming out …

stuff i read and even bookmarked in the last week

Bookmarked, that is, so I could blah on loudly here about it, in lieu of dragging myself through the warm …

Hell Is Invisible … Heaven Is Her/e

One of the only tattoos I ever seriously considered getting was the Psychick Cross of the Temple ov Psychick Youth, …

Protected: do i really need to say this?

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JT LeRoy – keeping it fake

Part of me likes the great simulacrum of the media endlessly recreating its own reality until it is all simultaneously …

fast chicks and low cars

From one of my daily reads, we-make-money-not-art, comes my favourite combination of culture, fast cars and hot bikini chicks. Tell …

KJ #64: Special Issue on Gender in Asia

Kyoto Journal is seeking submissions for KJ#64 Gender in Asia, guest edited by contributing editor Sally McLaren. More information on …

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