Tuesday, July 7, 2009
The G & The L Rises, T Sinks And Fails, And All Is AOK? BS!
Posted by Vanessa Edwards Foster at 2:23 AM
http://transpolitical.blogspot.com/2009/07/g-l-rises-t-sinks-and-fails-and-all-is.html (http://transpolitical.blogspot.com/2009/07/g-l-rises-t-sinks-and-fails-and-all-is.html)
"He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it." — Martin Luther King Jr.
Well it didn't take long for responses to my last blog. One person wrote me privately saying she was disappointed I didn't "understand" how "serious" the Pam's House Blend controversy was and that I should've "come down harder" on her and Autumn Sandeen for these bannings or muzzlings they enacted on their trans "members and bloggers." Then on my posting I had a response from another suggesting I sit down with Mara and patch up philosophical differences, noting she was "not a card carrying member" of either of our organizations ... preferring to contribute to NGLTF because "they promote trans-inclusion."
Two completely different perspectives saying roughly the same thing: we need to make things work in gay and lesbian organizations or functions for us in order to make gay and lesbian led-groups succeed. Talk about your WTF moments! Perhaps my point in the previous blog wasn't clear enough.
As has been said elsewhere, I'm brand new to all this and not a movement veteran...and I don't even know what the whole "PHB controversy" is about ...
But my instinctive reaction is that you are right in your major point. You make it well and it lines up with my first impressions about the politics of being trans...