(Some) Stuff I Read This Week

For some reason I decided to start using Twitter again — I suspect iPhone — and without any clear purpose …

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, …

reading: leslie feinburg – drag queen dreams

leslie feinburg – drag queen dreams

köpenickenstr wagenburg

I’ll try and remember where I began. It was last night. Was I searching for something for someone? Was I …

chuang tzu again…

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

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 …

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 …

Protected: making our bodies home

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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 20

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

ikochi vs dreadcircus

Feast Festival is on in Adelaide and like, wow I have seen nothing… But I am not going to miss …

Protected: twiddling of thumbs

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Protected: tranny confusion

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Protected: lucky?

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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 …

Protected: saturday tranny blogging

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Protected: revenge of the lezzie shemale feminists

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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 …

Protected: miscellaneous tranny stuff … coz we rule

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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 …

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 …

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, …

harisu gets married

One half of me is like, yeah cool look how progressive parts of Asia are for a transsexual to get …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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” …

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 …

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, …

Protected: do i really need to say this?

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transsexuals in china

There was a kinda interesting article in China Daily, about a transsexual named Xiao Ying, who is about to have …

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 …

lady – the blog

Lady, the hot trash Korean transgender manufactured pop band noone has listened to but everyone has seen pictures of, now …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

dana euro-trash

mmm … eurovision … it celebrated 50 years of costume and aural genius on the weekend, and some crap foursome …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

sadomania

One of my all-time favourite directors, and I say this with utter seriousness, because people usually laugh at me when …

miss waria indonesia 2005

Probably because it happened in late June when I was mostly living in airport lounges I missed the whole Miss …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

all-naked lady

Giving Harisu a run for her money in the Korean Trannie Superstars Awards, my favourite band of the moment, Lady …

middle sex

Amidst a long list of stuff I’ve missed in the last couple of weeks was this doco on Channel 4 …

Miss Tiffany Universe 2005

Miss Tiffany 2005 was crowned in Pattaya, Thailand a couple of days ago. Sometimes Asia can be years ahead of …

agnes and his brothers

The Goethe Institute is currently screening a bunch of new German films in the Festival of German Films 05 including …

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 …

we are lady

Forget about Sylvester and Divine, and even Harisu, the new face of shemale pop is Korea’s own Lady. In the …

tropical malady

More good queer and just strange films coming out of Thailand. This month, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s most recent film Sud Pralad …

all about genesis

One evening in Taipei, drinking at some bar I met my evil twin. It’s not often I meet someone who …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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