For some reason I decided to start using Twitter again — I suspect iPhone — and without any clear purpose …
January 21, 2009 – 11:47 pm
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 …
December 5, 2008 – 4:08 am
reading: sarah waters – tipping the velvet
sarah waters – tipping the velvet
November 19, 2008 – 10:27 pm
transgender day of remembrance
For any queer trans* Berliners who read me, there is a meeting tomorrow night 6pm, at my favourite bar, Silverfuture, …
September 7, 2008 – 12:10 am
reading: leslie feinburg – drag queen dreams
leslie feinburg – drag queen dreams
September 4, 2008 – 4:42 am
köpenickenstr wagenburg
I’ll try and remember where I began. It was last night. Was I searching for something for someone? Was I …
August 16, 2008 – 8:21 pm
chuang tzu again…
About a week ago, a quote from Chuang Tzu turned up on The Useless Tree (another shortly after explaining just …
August 14, 2008 – 3:44 am
small adventures in the black canal
I keep hitting my head on this when I stand up, so I had to move the chair. mmm… comfortable …
August 12, 2008 – 3:42 am
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 …
June 21, 2008 – 11:11 pm
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, …
June 8, 2008 – 4:37 pm
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 …
June 3, 2008 – 3:58 pm
Protected: making our bodies home
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February 17, 2008 – 5:42 pm
Reading: Anne Fausto-Sterling – Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
anne fausto-sterling- sexing the body
January 13, 2008 – 4:59 pm
reading: julia serano – whipping girl – a transsexual woman on sexism and the scapegoating of femininity
julia serano – whipping girl
January 13, 2008 – 4:57 pm
reading: lois may – transgenders and intersexuals – everything you ever wanted to know but couldn’t think of the question
lois may – transgenders and intersexuals
November 22, 2007 – 2:57 pm
kunst and the greens
Three years ago I was so happy to be leaving Australia immediately after the nauseating reelection of that repulsive clique …
November 18, 2007 – 12:10 pm
november 20
This Tuesday is International Day of Transgender Remembrance. I should be dwelling on Happy Things today but it’s been a …
November 11, 2007 – 7:19 pm
ikochi vs dreadcircus
Feast Festival is on in Adelaide and like, wow I have seen nothing… But I am not going to miss …
November 2, 2007 – 12:28 pm
Protected: twiddling of thumbs
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July 4, 2007 – 2:20 pm
Protected: tranny confusion
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February 27, 2007 – 1:07 pm
venus flytrap – visa for love
It’s been about three months since I first mentioned Venus Flytrap, the ultra-tranny manufactured pop group from Thailand, signed to …
February 24, 2007 – 4:20 pm
Protected: saturday tranny blogging
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February 10, 2007 – 12:38 pm
Protected: revenge of the lezzie shemale feminists
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February 1, 2007 – 10:57 pm
Protected: god made you a boy
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January 28, 2007 – 10:33 pm
what calliope did…
There is a stack of books next to my bed in Adelaide, mostly instilling disappointment in the novel as a …
January 8, 2007 – 7:36 pm
Protected: miscellaneous tranny stuff … coz we rule
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December 5, 2006 – 8:28 pm
super-condom tranny
I don’t really want to be ‘tranny activist’ and have to get all political and fight-for-your-rights. Or perhaps more accurately …
November 29, 2006 – 10:14 pm
beyond the valley of the ultra-trannies
A while ago I was quite the fan of Lady, the Korean tranny pop sensation riding on the wave of …
November 17, 2006 – 9:13 pm
first against the wall etc …
At first I wasn’t going to blog this, you know, another smarmy round of greasy dandruff-ridden back-slapping and syphilitic self-congratulation, …
November 16, 2006 – 8:53 pm
harisu gets married
One half of me is like, yeah cool look how progressive parts of Asia are for a transsexual to get …
October 31, 2006 – 6:28 pm
miss international queen 2006
I’ve been meaning to blog about this for a few days but I am lazy and self-centred. So. Finally I …
October 16, 2006 – 2:34 pm
amazing philippine beauties 2006
Actually I know why you mostly come here and it has nothing to do with having a social conscience. You’re …
August 21, 2006 – 9:14 pm
I know that I AM
Today was emotionally really shitty, the kind of day I want to finish by getting wasted, all teen-punk angst. Lucky …
August 6, 2006 – 3:28 pm
less art more self-indulgence
It was about a year and a half ago when I considered the probability of an endless stretch of boringness …
July 20, 2006 – 3:45 pm
every transsexual is first at something
Once being first was easy, when everything hadn’t been done, lately, first is the prefix on a long chain of …
July 8, 2006 – 8:28 pm
何清濂教授的易性术手术 sex change surgery with professor he
Professor He Qinglian in Shanghai has a website, 何氏性别再赋整形美容网 offering sex-change information and surgery at the surgery department of the …
June 26, 2006 – 12:02 pm
korean law ruling allows change of sex
During the weeks I ventured west into the mountains, Korea’s Supreme Court was debating whether to permit male-to-female transsexuals to …
May 30, 2006 – 2:23 pm
transsexual law in korea and japan
A couple of articles on the current legal and cultural positions of transsexuals in Japan and Korea broadly illustrates a …
May 30, 2006 – 1:53 pm
shenzhen beautiful transsexual photo studio
Having been tardy in writing about anything that attracts the most readers, and a bit of a follow-on from a …
May 28, 2006 – 11:19 pm
miss tiffany’s universe 2006
It’s that time of the year again, and in wishing to have some kind of fair competition, I neglected to …
April 17, 2006 – 11:55 pm
narcoleptic shemale attempts blog…
It started with Hanzi Smatter‘s year-old piece on someone who’d got 妖 tattooed on their neck, which might mean “charming” …
March 26, 2006 – 10:52 pm
陈莉莉 chen lili – the face of plastic surgery
Someone said to me, “lesbians are so 90s; trannys are where it’s at now”, and I thought, “eeeee!!! once again …
February 22, 2006 – 5:09 pm
buck angel – i’m old greg … i got something to show you …
Buck Angel is a sex pig. I thought so last year when he and Allanah Starr made shemale porn spectacular, …
February 8, 2006 – 3:17 pm
Protected: do i really need to say this?
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December 27, 2005 – 3:16 pm
transsexuals in china
There was a kinda interesting article in China Daily, about a transsexual named Xiao Ying, who is about to have …
December 15, 2005 – 5:05 pm
mimi marks and stupid people
About a month ago, Mimi Marks won the Miss International Queen 2005 beauty pageant for transsexuals in Thailand, which I …
November 29, 2005 – 10:28 am
lady – the blog
Lady, the hot trash Korean transgender manufactured pop band noone has listened to but everyone has seen pictures of, now …
November 3, 2005 – 12:01 am
人妖 or 变性 … how about 变性人妖
While I was trawling through the internet, scraping up stuff on Miss International Queen 2005 I found a longish entry …
November 2, 2005 – 8:59 pm
miss international queen 2005
Tiffany’s second annual beauty pageant for transsexuals Miss International Queen 2005 was held in the glowing centre of the she-male …
October 26, 2005 – 5:38 pm
lady ride the shemale bubble
Rounding off the month’s stories of chick-with-dicks even The Independent finds Lady irresistible, but being news need some controversy, so …
October 26, 2005 – 5:31 pm
when jurisprudence lags behind reality
It’s a really nice idea that a post-operative transsexual can change their gender on their birth certificate and every other …
October 26, 2005 – 5:25 pm
dana euro-trash
mmm … eurovision … it celebrated 50 years of costume and aural genius on the weekend, and some crap foursome …
September 22, 2005 – 4:09 am
harisu is a hot issue
She didn’t quite have the same effect in Cherry Blossoms as Buck and Allanah do in Allanah Starr’s Big Boob …
September 8, 2005 – 3:51 am
les dames du bois de bologne
While the media is getting particularly wet over Harisu, Lady and Nong Toom, and other famous transsexuals, and places like …
September 5, 2005 – 3:19 am
jenny saville – passage
It’s not that she’s new or anything, but I love how certain artists come back to my attention over the …
September 2, 2005 – 5:00 am
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 …
September 1, 2005 – 5:42 am
sadomania
One of my all-time favourite directors, and I say this with utter seriousness, because people usually laugh at me when …
August 20, 2005 – 6:53 pm
miss waria indonesia 2005
Probably because it happened in late June when I was mostly living in airport lounges I missed the whole Miss …
August 17, 2005 – 4:16 am
transsexual soldiers, 20 years after halo jones
When I was a serious comic junkie and would spend waaay too much of my dole payments in the local …
July 28, 2005 – 9:21 pm
香平麗 our love – drag queen underworld
Not that I have much of a focus on China at the moment, but I know lots of you come …
June 15, 2005 – 7:34 pm
beautiful boxer at singapore arts fest
Anyone who even heard of Beautiful Boxer knows what happens when a Muay Thai boxer decides wearing a dress is …
June 15, 2005 – 7:21 pm
April Ashley – Transsexuals have more fun
The Sydney Morning Herald, about the closest thing Australia gets to a newspaper, but still mostly a gossip rag had …
June 15, 2005 – 7:13 pm
all-naked lady
Giving Harisu a run for her money in the Korean Trannie Superstars Awards, my favourite band of the moment, Lady …
June 15, 2005 – 7:11 pm
middle sex
Amidst a long list of stuff I’ve missed in the last couple of weeks was this doco on Channel 4 …
May 13, 2005 – 2:16 pm
Miss Tiffany Universe 2005
Miss Tiffany 2005 was crowned in Pattaya, Thailand a couple of days ago. Sometimes Asia can be years ahead of …
April 21, 2005 – 7:36 pm
agnes and his brothers
The Goethe Institute is currently screening a bunch of new German films in the Festival of German Films 05 including …
April 5, 2005 – 10:05 pm
sex-change ops on the tab
The New Zealand government has decided to start picking up the tab on sex-change operations. Not for everyone though. Only …
March 31, 2005 – 9:55 pm
we are lady
Forget about Sylvester and Divine, and even Harisu, the new face of shemale pop is Korea’s own Lady. In the …
March 22, 2005 – 6:10 pm
tropical malady
More good queer and just strange films coming out of Thailand. This month, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s most recent film Sud Pralad …
March 18, 2005 – 9:07 pm
all about genesis
One evening in Taipei, drinking at some bar I met my evil twin. It’s not often I meet someone who …
March 17, 2005 – 1:53 pm
조승우 cho seung-woo plays hedwig
Korean actor 조승우 Cho Seung-Woo, fresh off the musical Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and the film Marathon is about …
March 15, 2005 – 10:34 am
roppongi kingyo – performance art at its finest
It’s not really dance or art, and it’s almost a month since I read this, but there’s something about the …
February 23, 2005 – 2:38 pm
香江大舞台 fragrant river showgirls
There’s a show going on at night at the Wah Fu Estate in West Hong Kong Island that’s open to …
December 20, 2004 – 4:24 pm
人造美女 – miss artificial beauty
The first beauty competition in China for people who had plastic surgery, 人造美女, is over, and the winner is Feng …
December 15, 2004 – 8:57 pm
plastic surgery disasters
Actually I’m a bit of a fan of the whole thing, in a post-modern kind of way, especially after finding …
November 9, 2004 – 10:56 pm
let’s talk about sex baby
It’s a sex-arama in across China and Taiwan this week. Leaving behind me in Guangzhou is the second annual sex …
August 22, 2004 – 3:04 pm
chinese transsexuals at the olympics
A while ago, I wrote about the IOC making moves to allows transsexuals to compete in the Olympics. A couple …