lisselivingston

Wow. The 1st tweet in the new "Twitter Wit" book, page 1, offensive to deaf people. Guess I'll be skipping that shit. http://bit.ly/2C3UiL

Caoimhe / Kynn

I’d really like to see YOU do something with your life other than criticize everything everyone else says or does. Blasting us all over Twitter and the world does not help your cause, and as the co-founder of TAW, I take your words as a personal insult.

Michael

C. Michael Woodward
lgbtQ&A Diversity & Inclusion Consulting

www.lgbtqa.com

( This particular event is intended as a no-holds-barred, open, direct, often irreverent, yet light-hearted approach to educating the less enlightened. Being a little edgy and maybe a bit controversial is exactly the point. )

( There is a bit of a flap over the choice of name for our 'Ask A Tranny Anything' panels. Good. ... But for the audience we hope to attract in these two panels, the word 'tranny' has a special impact and a special purpose. It is a tool in our tool box to educate the world around us. )

However, I would like to note for the others on this list, that this is not a matter of someone else calling us trannies. If that were to happen, they would be fighting words. But it's not. It is us calling ourselves trannies, which is a whole nother situation entirely. To make an analogy, as a person of Irish descent I might take pride in calling myself a Mick. But if someone else of another heritage were to call me that, they might swiftly find themselves horizontal on the sidewalk.

Context is everything.

“Ask a Tranny Anything” Q & A Panel

Tuesday November 17, 2009

5-7pm

Copper Room, University of Arizona, Student Union, 1303 E University Ave.

A “no holds barred” approach to gender diversity education. Ask anything to a panel of open-minded transgender, transsexual, gender-queer, and gender variant folks. This is a safe place to ask the questions that you have about gender identity, gender expression, and your perceptions of gender.

I think it's long past time that the southern Arizona transgender/LGBT community STOPPED giving the impression that "tranny" -- a slur against transgender women -- is an acceptable way to talk about trans people.

I'd really like to see SAGA and SAGA's partners change this. It's hypocritical to celebrate the term "tranny" just a few days before remembering the far-too-many trans women who died while being called that slur.

--Caoimhe / Kynn

 1  Alabama           9-0  [ 3]
 2  Florida           9-0  [ 2]
 3  TCU               9-0  [ 5]
 4  Texas             9-0  [ 4]
 5  Cincinnati        9-0  [ 6]
 6  Boise State       9-0  [ 7]
 7  Georgia Tech      9-1  [ 8]
 8  Iowa              9-1  [ 1]
 9  Pittsburgh        8-1  [NR]
10  Utah              8-1  [NR]

10  North Texas       2-7  [NR]
 9  Vanderbilt        2-8  [10]
 8  San Jose State    1-6  [ 9]
 7  Washington State  1-8  [ 8]
 6  Ball State        1-8  [ 5]
 5  Miami-Ohio        1-9  [ 6]
 4  Rice              0-9  [ 3]
 3  New Mexico        0-9  [ 4]
 2  Eastern Michigan  0-9  [ 2]
 1  Western Kentucky  0-9  [ 1]

http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/11/susan-wu-in-sl.html

Current Mood: curious

Have a look at this alternate viewer which uses a web cam to figure out what emotion you're expressing, and copies it to your AV! Don't know if it works or not. I have a web cam of sorts, but haven't tested it yet.

http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2009/11/jpn-ibm-and-nokia-develop-augmented-reality-in-sl.html

After months of struggle capped by a final wrenching compromise over abortion, Speaker Nancy Pelosi predicted, "we will pass health care reform," and likened the events to the creation of Social Security in 1935 and Medicare 30 years later.

Anyone else getting this today?