AltWeeklies Wire
What do the transgendered owe their families?new
How can the NYT's Ethicist columnist tell a reader to not transition for the benefit of her family? She is part of her family; her misery also becomes part of the family. How can such misery be confined?
Tags: transgender
Minding—and mining—the moonnew
How will a harvested moon affect our dreams, our breath and our poetry?
INDY Week |
Eva Hayward |
10-24-2012 |
Commentary
Facebook and Amendment 1new
Like twigs and sticks caught in a spring current, social media rafts us together into new solidarities—holy and unholy—in the rapidly emptying channels of its newsfeed.
How Beauty Pageants View Transwomennew
What does the social acceptance of passing transwomen mean for other transwomen who do not fulfill social expectations of prettiness? Or who do not wish to pass at all?
Why a Sex Change is Not Extraordinarynew
All that seems arcane about transsexuality -- hormone replacement therapy, surgeries, name changes -- can be understood as marks of healing and of the desire to live well.
Tags: Transsexual, Sex Change
Changing Sex, a Desire to Lovenew
Following your desire is a brave way of recognizing that something is happening to you, something remarkable. Perhaps it will break open your world, or perhaps it will simply open your heart. Things will change.
Tags: Valentine's Day
Polar Bears, Our Environmental Bellwethersnew
We deploy voguish (if also necessary) green technologies in a hope that green money will save our blue planet and its white poles. Dare we place our hope in consumer capitalism? Can we buy our way toward a future?
INDY Week |
Eva Hayward |
01-04-2012 |
Environment
Tags: Polar Bears
Gratitude in the Face of Crueltynew
Occupiers protesting the crimes of global capitalism found fellowship with a group of transgender activists and allies: a vivid prompt of solidarity and the potential of conjoined political energies.
Tags: #OCCUPY, transgender activists
Losing our Humanity: Politics and the Death of Compassionnew
If U.S. politicians are an example of humanity—many of you are snickering—how has empathy shaped politics?
Tags: politicians, humanity
Hate and Marriagenew
I invite those folks supporting this legislation to ask themselves: What is your shame? What have you done that you should hate so?
Tags: Gay Marriage
The Sexuality of Androgynous Singingnew
What is it that makes gender-ambiguous voices so different and appealing?
Transgenderism and Transsexualism are Expressions of Life-Loving Inventionnew
By living their lives, transpeople invite everyone to question his or her assumptions. The invitation is a reminder to us all that change is what we are.
