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Decomposing Difference: Biology and Identity in the Transgender Debates over Au

Started by Shana A, May 14, 2009, 09:25:18 AM

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May 14, 2009, 09:25:18 AM
 Decomposing Difference: Biology and Identity in the Transgender Debates over Authenticity
by: azureamnis
Thu May 14, 2009 at 04:40:56 AM EDT

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=10967

Ran across a blog by bLaKtivist titled The Little Transmasculine Identity, THAT COULD today. Glad I am reading this page; glad that critical voices regarding female masculinities are being circulated.

I remember reading Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg for the first time when I was 18. It completely shaped my idea of a masculine woman, as I had no other representation of such persons in my life. The stone butch identity is the one I tried to personify for a while until I came to Bloomington and was able to break away from the butch/femme dichotomies of the South and the expectations I had built up of myself in others. I must admit though, I could never pass as a stone butch; my facial features are too soft. The best butch I ever became was a "soft" one. haha.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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