Palestine

Alyssa Plant has written one of the most sensitive and affecting tales of emergence. I just love the way it's developing. Anyone who hasn't read "The Road To Haifa" yet, is missing out on a beautiful story, at least I can say that through part 3 which is all that's posted so far.

A couple days ago, someone posted a link to an NPR program on approaches to treating TG children.

Here's part 2 of the series:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90273278

Sometimes a paragraph or two will move me, a lot. This is from an article I just started reading. This scene is from a classroom in Toronto where, for over a decade, the author has been sponsoring a series of sessions to promote social and emotional literacy, as well as empathy, by inviting a mother and her baby to spend time with the students.

Someone tried to bring this column to my attention several days ago, but I only just found it myself. It's Dan Savage's eloquent eulogy of his mother.

Many stories here have dealt with the family dynamics of "coming out" as transgendered. A frequent theme that appears is "oh, we thought you were gay," or hateful homophobic epithets while the beating occurs.

This is part of a campaign for motorists to pay attention to bicyclists on the road, although it certainly doesn't seem like it at first:

http://dothetest.co.uk

We were chatting about names, meanings, and which sex you might associate them with the other day in conjunction with one of the fine serials running.

Then, today, I noticed this story in the New York Times. (online subscription required, but easy to get and free.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/science/11tier.html?pagewa...

Today is a very big day in the U.S.

It's Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

It's the day of the Giants victory parade in New York City.

And, it's Super Tuesday, a day on which 24 States have their Presidential primary.

So, get out there and catch beads, cheer, and/or vote, as appropriate!

Uncle Ghastly, the perpetrator of Ghastly's Ghastly Comic, is drawing some other randomish things on Webcomicsnation these days. He's not unfamiliar to transgender themes, although he likes to be crude about it.

You have been warned.

For Comic, Click Here

I don't know how many of you read my report on the Memorial Service (click here to read) we held for the Transgender Day of Remembrance on Tuesday, but we had some additional benefits today.

I'm a big fan of Dan Savage's sex advice column. Dan himself is gay, but he does a great job, in my humble opinion, of giving good advice to straight people, too. I find him to be witty, worldy, and well-centered and generally enjoy his sensible and insightful answers to even the kinkiest letters.