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Rawr! I have my gallery back up! Yay! ^_^

I've taken 315 more pictures since it's been down. *sweatdrops* Too many to comment on... I'll comment on any new ones that I take.

I also have a commitment to put any pictures I take online. Period. Kinda good, kinda bad. Eh. So, those are all the digital pictures I've ever taken and still have available to me. ^^

http://www.zeldasgallery.ath.cx

Comment if you have a question~

Gender and Java Reminder

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This month Gender and Java will be Saturday December 11 from 4-6 at good beans cafe. If you have any questions feel free to contact me at cjtunecopeland@comcast.net

Hope to see you there.

~CJ

Article on transgender Jews

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Hey, I'm supposed to be writing an article for Tikkun Magazine about transgender people who are Jewish. Especially interested in people practice Judaism actively. I'm hoping to have some interesting stuff on the intersection between gender and religion. Please drop me an email at tikkun (at) charlieanders (dot) com if you or someone you know might be able to talk to me for this article. The more diversity of voices, the better!

Thanks,
Charlie Anders

TransGender Michigan December Calendar

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( TransGender Michigan Calendar )

We need YOU!

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Unconscious irony

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I was just looking for an old post of mine and came across this. I felt like posting it here.

Things like this keep happening!
So while trick-or-treating at that tradeshow... (i.e. visiting booths, getting goodies; no costume or Halloween implied)
One of the vendors had actors at their booth doing this whole little skit. All the customers/audience were given employee badges identifying us as members of some fictional company. Then the guy running the show would call up three "employees" and pretend there had been a security breach at the fictional company, explain how their software would help, etc.
Well, the second name he called up was a man's name, but the badge had accidentally been handed to a woman customer. So the actor rolled with it and made some insipid jokes - "I understand, Bob, I want to be a woman too" - and I'm sitting there in the audience thinking, geaaaarch.
And then the third name is my badge, so I go up on the little stage to play my little part, and now I'm thinking, gleearghchgug. And now I'm under the lights and at the center of everybody's attention, and the actor is still making jokes about how the woman next to me is supposed to be a man...
People just don't know when we're right under their noses - or at least, the actor didn't. And things like this have happened before. They think we only exist in jokes or on talk shows. It's not that the jokes are offensive - my situation is funny, I laugh at it myself - it's just that situations like this show that we're just not real to them. It never occured to that guy that a real, flesh-and-blood transgendered person might be right there in his presence, in the real world.
I'm sure some of the spectators perceived the irony, if only becuase their attention was drawn to it. I guess we can call that my consciousness-raising act of the day, then.