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Living Without Gender?

So I don’t propose life without gender. I LOVE my gender and its complexities. I love my partner’s gender. I love reading about gender, and talking about gender. I love gender. But I do suggest the removal of sex from IDs, as I see no reason for it to exist, and so many reasons for it not to. [...]

Gay Marriage Hamsters

This is win. It is so much win.

That said, I really prefer the term marriage equality over same sex marriage or gay marriage. Why? Because not everyone who wants the ability to marry identifies as gay (lesbian, queer, bi, or a couple with a trans person who now identifies as straight), [...]

A Thank You To Femmes

I’ve been seeing this video pop up on various blogs and social networking sites all week, but I just now had the time to watch it.

And I cried. A lot. It hit so close to home, to my experiences, to my partners (past and present), to my invisibility, to my having to repeatedly out [...]

Vanilla is a yummy flavor too

I don’t know what is is about this week, but lots of people have been talking about some of the ‘nilla hate that goes on in the kink community. First, there was Lee Harrington to who mentioned on twitter that vanilla is a valid and delicious flavor (both in food and sex). Then Mollena got [...]