This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Five Myths About Marriage by Stephanie Coontz of The Washington Post asks: Is marriage really better for the community? 2. S/He by Jesse Green of New York Magazine says parents of transgender children are faced […]
If terms like “genderqueer” and “pansexual” had been a part of the cultural dialogue years ago, Lyla Cicero wonders if more people today would be living more authentically. I frequently find myself thinking ‘If only you were born now,’ while working with middle-aged people. The few times I actually say it out loud, it’s painfully […]
Justin Cascio reports on the changes he’s been through since he began taking testosterone more than 12 years ago. When I began transition at 24, I thought of it as getting to an end goal of looking like a man of my own age. The changes I went through in the first year got me […]
This originally appeared on Undercover In The Suburbs. Republished here with permission. I got married for one reason. I found someone I wanted to marry. I didn’t decide I wanted to marry and then find a man. In fact, it just as easily could have been a woman…or no one at all. And yet, here […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. The President’s Gift by Emily Bazelon of Slate.com dissects what Obama’s personal support for gay marriage means for the law. 2. Attachment Parenting: Freakish or Feminist? by Tracie Egan Morrissey of Jezebel.com looks at the […]
In response to North Carolina’s vote yesterday to define marriage as between “one man and one woman,” Lyla Cicero sends a message of support to all the queer kids of the state and the rest of the country, comparing the decision to a form of bullying. This letter is to all the queer kids, the […]
Burger King’s new ad featuring famously handsome soccer player David Beckham is a risky but refreshing marketing shift for the company. Hugo Schwyzer compares it to BK’s previous campaigns and applauds the brand for its subtle nod to same-sex male attraction. Just a few short years ago, Burger King, their sales slumping, ran their infamous […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Census Data Reveals Elder Women’s Poverty Crisis by Leslie Bennetts of The Daily Beast says that a study of census data reveals that more than half of older women in America are unable to pay […]
Versions of this article have appeared on QueerRockLove.com and also on The Bilerico Project. Republished here with permission. Here we go again. For Texas families with elementary-aged kids, every school year seems to include at least one unit on families. My son, Waylon, is in third grade, so we’ve been around this thorny mulberry bush […]
This originally appeared in slightly different form at Not So Secret. Republished here with permission. When it comes to sex and sexuality, words can get in the way of expressing things that really matter. Especially when expressing ideas that we use to define our worlds and our place in them. As someone who writes about sex and […]
This originally appeared at No Longer Quivering. Republished here with permission. (We republished Part I of this piece here.) I’ve written a few times about how the modesty doctrine hurts women. Now it’s time to switch lenses. The modesty doctrine also wreaks havoc on the minds of young men in the Christian patriarchy movement. Here’s how: It teaches men to be […]
This originally appeared on RealAdultSex.com. Republished here with permission. Kind of weird what you get when you run that L.A. Times article about Tim Gunn’s 29 years of celibacy through Regender.com. The original article is kind of a piece of work. The reporter (and, evidently tens of thousands of people querying Google) are somewhere between […]
