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January 04, 2009
5:16
Transgender 101: Transsexualism
From: Black Looks

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Transsexualism is the ism at the point of treatment for a condition referred to as “gender dysphoria” which crudely means, “an extreme discomfort with birth sex”. This can affect male, female or other bodied people. Transsexuals as a result come in MTF (male to female) which means the individual’s sex preference is female or to [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Transgender 101: Transsexualism", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2009/01/transgender_101_transsexualism_.html" });
December 14, 2008
17:35
Intersexuality - XXY
From: Black Looks

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In XXY, a film from Argentina, Alex, the film’s protagonist, is a 14 year old intersex child who comes face to face with society’s prejudice.1 The close knit community of this small fishing village is populated by people this child would have viewed as neighbours. However because of the child’s intersexuality which in this [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Intersexuality - XXY", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/12/intersexuality_-_xxy.html" });
November 16, 2008
6:54
Transgender 101
From: Black Looks

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Although transgenderism is an umbrella term for a cross section of identities, I want to use a series of articles to illustrate what this means in a sort of transgender 101 sense; basic transgenderism, if you like. This is also an attempt to dispel some of the myths around gender ambiguity or variance in order [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Transgender 101", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/11/transgender_101.html" });
November 02, 2008
1:12
For Humanity’s sake?
From: Black Looks

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Putting the human back into humanity is something worth exploring especially if you happen to be of the LGBTI and have at one time or the other suffered the indignity of having your very humanity questioned. I remember some of the comments one of my posts provoked especially one that came with the suggestion that [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "For Humanity's sake? ", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/11/for_humanitys_sake_.html" });
October 25, 2008
21:42
Pandering Prejudices?
From: Black Looks

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You would think a bookshop such as is Waterstones is an institution that encourages the attainment of knowledge and you would be right to think so. However what would you make of the same institution used by some of its workforce as a platform for their prejudicial wiles? Do they (transphobic staff) act this way [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: " Pandering Prejudices? ", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/10/_pandering_prejudices_.html" });
October 20, 2008
7:04
Relationships
From: Black Looks

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For some people relationships are paradise but for others, they could be dire warnings of frayed emotions to come. As a translesbian of African descent I am an avid “people watcher” and if I watch anyone, I watch women in particular as a lesbian and I have found that anything that happens in the straight [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Relationships", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/10/relationships.html" });
October 02, 2008
1:26
Where Africa?
From: Black Looks

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Africa, my Africa! Where are the people of the LGBTIQ of African origin be that Africans in Africa or those in the Diaspora? Wherever you are, this clarion call is what has led me to create the trans-group known as, “Transafro,” which can be found on Facebook. Although the continent of Africa [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Where Africa?", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/10/where_africa.html" });
September 14, 2008
3:26
What Cost Reproduction??
From: Black Looks

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Childbirth in transgender circles has made it into the headlines yet again. This is no quip about whether transpeople should be allowed to have children or not. Rather, it is about the fact that with Thomas Beatie (a transsexual man) giving birth to a baby girl on the 4th of July 2008, precedence was set, [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "What Cost Reproduction??", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/09/what_cost_reproduction.html" });
September 07, 2008
5:44
Make amends now or fall!
From: Black Looks

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When the acronym LGBTI hit the headlines the first thing a friend’s sister said was, “I don’t give a toss about all that Lesbian, gay, transgender, transsexual stuff if you ask me. We are all human, all that is about identity”. I wasn’t asking her but she said it, anyway. When I [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Make amends now or fall!", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/09/make_amends_now_or_fall.html" });
August 31, 2008
12:50
On being transgender
From: Black Looks

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My name is Mia Nikasimo. As a volunteer for Changing Attitudes at the Lambeth Conference I found myself in an opportune position to reflect from a translesbian (i.e. a transsexual woman who identifies as a lesbian not to be confused with above or beyond “lesbians,” or a transgender man) standpoint on the Anglican Communion and [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "On being transgender", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/08/on_being_transgender.html" });

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