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One Body Per Lifetime.....a painful death

Started by Lara the Lover and the Fighter, June 06, 2014, 09:35:05 AM

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Lara the Lover and the Fighter

Okay so my website died.  I had this webcomic going called One Body Per Lifetime and it was going good.  Suddenly it died.  I guess I got hacked or something.  I dunno.

Well, I want to make it something different.  Not just a webcomic.  Something that focuses on body image.  Not just for transgender people but for everyone.  I still want a bunch of trans stuff but I want to include everything since we are not the only ones facing body image issues.  I'm still facing my own body troubles and I just want to help people and let them know that they are already beautiful.

What I need is ideas.  What would you like to see?  What would help you on the web?  Perhaps beyond the web?  I have this dream of opening up a place where trans folks can go if they need sanctuary.  Just to come and hang or to live if need be.  Anyway, for now I'm just building a website.

Any ideas?
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suzifrommd

Quote from: Lara the Lover and the Fighter on June 06, 2014, 09:35:05 AM

What I need is ideas.  What would you like to see?  What would help you on the web?  Perhaps beyond the web? 

Any ideas?

Be cool to have a place where people can read stories that help understand things from the point of view of marginalized people. Some examples:

* Dating when you're visibly disabled/trans/disfigured/different.
* Trying to run a business or deal with customers when you are a different religion/nationality/sexual orientation/gender identity from the people you deal with.
* Dealing with either/or questions when you are neither or in-between. E.g. male/female, hold a college degree, married/separated/divorced, etc.
* Non-traditional marriages. Soulmates where sex is impossible/uninteresting for one of the partners but not the other. Spouses that don't sleep in the same bed/room/house/city.
* Financial decisions when unemployed/low-wage/homeless.
* Job hunting when obviously different from the people doing the hiring.
* Assumptions we make about each other, because "most people are like that".
* What happens when society expects/requires something of you that you can't do.
* Differences between on-line and real life.

I hope this helps. It's what I could come up with off the top of my head.

Don't know how much I could help. I'm not really good at art/layout/visual communications, but I'm a decent storyteller.
Have you read my short story The Eve of Triumph?
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Nora Kayte

Wow, I was just thinking of a half way house out here where supposedly there are so many resources. There are a lot in California but not my county. How awesome would it be to have a place to stay for someone until they got on their feet.

I am building a transgender friendly resource website. Because I have called 4 hormone doctors and been disappointed or embarrassed each time. I would be 5 months on hrt if the first one would have worked out. Still pre hrt.
I would love to have a link to your site on there. It will be transgenderfriendly.net once I have the domain pointed there. Once I have links to resources up I will do that.

You can check it out now but nothing works yet. I only worked on it for a couple if hours so far.

http://asexything1.wix.com/transgenderfriendly







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HoneyStrums

If you want to make people feel comfortable about themselves.
They need a hero they can relate to.

Think about it? how many trans hero's are they? how many fat hero's are they?
The geek have their pass with superman, the wheel chair users have theirs with irone man.

Just realised im taking the word comic to its stereotype, but I think that's why x-men appeals to so many?

Anyway their is a comic called "rain" out there look it up on comic fury. but as far as image issues I don't know.

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Miss_Bungle1991

Quote from: Lara the Lover and the Fighter on June 06, 2014, 09:35:05 AM
Okay so my website died.  I had this webcomic going called One Body Per Lifetime and it was going good.  Suddenly it died.  I guess I got hacked or something. 

Yeah, it's been that way for at least a couple of weeks. I wasn't sure if you knew about it or not.
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Lara the Lover and the Fighter

These are great ideas!  Im going to write all these down.  I was thinking something like a blog where I collect art (whether its my own or otherwise) that relates to feeling good about our bodies.  You only get one body per lifetime or whatever.  Im thinking photography, fine art, music, or whatever.  I want to put our heros out there.  Not just the pretty trans heros but also the ones that don't pass and don't care.  Not just the skinny heroes but the ones that don't fit the cookie cutter image. 

I also need to include a trans database but I'm really not even sure where to start.  Finding a doctor to prescribe HRT was a real pain.  It shouldn't have to be that way.

This is great!  But what would it look like?  The sky's the limit. I was thinking something simple with a minimalistic approach.  The latest post then an archive.  Only a few pages.  Maybe 5 at the most. 

@Laura Squirrel  I still want to include your fan fics if thats okay.  We'll find somewhere for them to call home. 

@suzifrommd  AWESOME IDEAS!!! Sheesh you were just tossing them out there.  Nice.

@Norma Lynne  Great idea!  Alot of people could use a resource like that.

@ButterflyVickster I love the comic reference.  I think the hero idea is going to be the theme or something similar.  Thanks so much!

WORK WORK WORK!
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Nora Kayte

Quote from: Lara the Lover and the Fighter on June 06, 2014, 12:25:55 PM


I also need to include a trans database but I'm really not even sure where to start.  Finding a doctor to prescribe HRT was a real pain.  It shouldn't have to be that way.

@Norma Lynne  Great idea!  Alot of people could use a resource like that.

Exactly what and why I'm working on it. Once I figure out how to ad users it would be cool if you want to work on your state. I could add you so you can log in to the admin and work on all the resources for your state. Eventually I would love to have someone on here working on each state in their area
. So we all have input.







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Lara the Lover and the Fighter

Sure!  I can take care of North Carolina.  :)
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Nora Kayte

Freaking awesome!! I will have the domain pointed to the website next week and I will read how to add members so you have your own login. I'm going in the direction of tgroadmap.com. I actually sent an email to get permission to copy stuff from there. Hopefully she says yes. Good site but has not been updated in years. Can't really work on it on the weekends. My wife still wants it hid from my stepson.







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Joanna Dark

How would you go about writing a comic dealing with body issues. It's pretty broad. I would narrow it down and have a specific protagonist. Also, you'd need an antagonist. I'm not entirely sure where you're going with it. I know for me I feel pretty alone a lot because I'm not so much trans as I am intersex. I started growing breasts when I was 11-12. I never really had a male puberty and have kind of languished in between for the 20 years since then but have constantly dealt with people asking why I have breasts, why I look like a lesbian, why I have a woman's ass and leg, and delicate hands, on and on it goes. It's not so much I was born in the wrong body as I was born in the right body but with an effing penis and fused vaginal opening. It's pretty weird. The only person I ever showed it to was my BF and that was because he got all intersted in my stretch marks that run up and down my thighs. My ex used to say i am woman with a birth defect, which is basically the truth. So, I would write it about a hermophrodite, since that's what I am, though more of a pseudo one than true. Those are the techy terms. I idetify as trans though, since I'm undergoing transition. I to F. I know a lot of trans peeps try to fake or exaggerate conditions to be intersex and I don't know why cause it's no different. Well, it's different in a lot of ways, but who cares. Same concept. And that's dysphoria. I mean really in order to tell peeps the difference I'd have to hold a freaking seminar on DNA, genetics, and the translocation of the SRY region in the X chromosome from the father because of...who cares. This is where my BF says I should shut up since it's too deep, weird, and hard to grasp.

Anyway, good luck. This is just my two cents and take what you will. Or take nothing. Hope to see a link one day.
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Miss_Bungle1991

Quote from: Lara the Lover and the Fighter on June 06, 2014, 12:25:55 PM
Laura Squirrel  I still want to include your fan fics if thats okay.  We'll find somewhere for them to call home. 

Sure, that's cool. Just let me know when you have things up and running.
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