Hi 🙂 I really enjoyed your “Transitions of Fatness” post. Especially the part about not having my “trans-ness” being taken seriously because of my being fat, hit home. I’m seeing a psychologist because I dropped out of school due to depression, and I told her that I want to transition. She told me that she doubts anyone would prescribe T to me while I’m being ‘mentally unstable’. Well, anyways, thank you so much for sharing;...
Nejdem – I’m not going. An example of one of the campaigns against the Slovak referendum February 7th, 2015.Sitting with my friend at a vegan restaurant in Warsaw, I recap those24 months between 2012 and 2014 when I lived in Slovakia. I moved forlove and research. Both ended, leaving me richer for knowledge and experience in social sciences and what we currently consider ‘life’. Romantic reminiscing does not come without context. It is the day...
The cover of today’s issue of “W sieci”. The text reads “A transsexual in the Parliament, privately lives with a straight woman January 27th, my co-worker and the Vice-President of Trans-Fuzja Foundation, Lalka Podobińska, receives an email from Andrzej Potocki, a right-wing journalist working for a semi-political semi-tabloid paper “Wsieci”. The content of the message leaves us laughing for days andmakes a terrible Tuesday at the office quite bearable. Here are some of the question...
Image by Chop Stock Dear sister, dear brother, dear sibling of mine, It pains my heart to see each one of you fade away. Disappearing into the night like supernovas, who fill the void of space with their brightness, before they die out. In your letters, you say that nothing gets better. That for some it may but for you it will not. And sadly, you are right. Although we are all the time reminded that...
It’s almost 2015, which means that in a few months, it will be two years since my last testosterone shot. These last 20+ months have given me a number of experiences and helped me understand both my body and social processes regarding (de- and re-)transition and how our communities (both cis and trans) very often put a lot of pressure on gender presentation and its association with bodies affected by hormones. Yours truly on December...
IMPORTANT NOTE: This article is a 2013 piece I have written while observing Poland’s political fight for civil partnership. At that time I was studying abroad and had only the information shared with me by my colleagues and the media, but felt a great need to put how I feel about the issue into text. Today, more than a year and a half I feel that it is about time to share this little piece with...
Before I begin with this quite the autobiographic text, let me post some acknowledgements. I owe A LOT to fat positive blogs, communities and everyone who is willing to share their experiences with being fat. Whether it’s just a set of photos showing how fabulous you can be or a story exposing the unfairness of Western culture and its obsession with dieting, living up to size standards or everyday fat-shaming, whatever you have shared, I...
Dear followers (and those who might be interested in the long talk about what makes a community) I have to say, being a trans activist here in Central Eastern Europe is not an easy task (although I am perfectly aware it’s not easy anywhere, I just want you to know where my perspective comes from). Although funding opportunities may be a bit easier, especially giving the fact how our region has always been portrayed, there...
To clear the air before we start – yes, this piece might be read as a form of “internal” war within the trans* community. But no, it is not meant to be a simple who does it better type of post. This particular text is aimed to call out those trans* men, trans* masculine, FTM (and others who found themselves comfortable on some side of the masculine spectrum of what we now call gender) who do not...
A speech and presentation on trans issues I gave during the IPPF EN conference. The transcript of the lecture is located below this description. Important: Before reading: Download the presentation below. Download Be sure to check out http://tgeu.org where the Trans Map along with its index has been published. — Bodies without human rights. Transgender people, sexuality and parenthood Good morning everyone and thank you for inviting me to this important event. The importance of it, seems even greater...
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