On Thanksgiving Jodie spoke with her dad on the phone. He said to her “so, your spouse is translucent?” Knowing that her dad has Parkinson’s and quite a bit of resulting dementia, Jodie only recently began discussing my transition with him. She said “well yes dad, my wife is transgender.” He said, “well the only photo I have of you two is from before, and it’s really hard to explain it well to my friends.” She says “So dad, would…
The other day I received the following email: Followed you for a very long time and proud of your accomplishments, but thinking of taking you off the list of places I go often. I know you’re busy-you lead a full life for sure-and it shows. Rare new bits and pieces, and not updated to often like it once was. So,time to move on. Thanks for the ride. My response at first was that I cried. After a bit I got…
Happy Halloween. Um, love my costume! So happy I teach and have an excuse to do this. I wasn’t sure about this year with all of us online. However I have been stressing that it is important to take care of our mental health, so I went for it. Super happy I did, it’s been a hell of a couple of weeks. Not with my classes, my students are fabu! But some other things have really challenged me. Now where…
Tank – White House Black Market – @WHBM, Similar @ Amazon Skirt – ?????? – Similar @ Amazon @ Ann TaylorShoes – Born O Concept – Schirra in Navy @ Amazon Similar @ Famous FootwearBelt – WHBM – Similar @ Amazon @Black Butterfly While it may not seem like it, from my lack of personal style photos, I am still pushing myself to dress my best on almost a daily basis. On occasion I do dress just purely for comfort,…
As a transgender lesbian I am tired of living in a country whose leader encourages hate against me and my community. I am also tired of his supporters telling me this is acceptable because they like his fiscal policies even though they are more socially liberal than he is. My ask is that we ALL work very hard to VOTE someone in who can at least respect ALL humans right to exist. For that is what is happening…… our leader…
I was just reading someone’s opinion on a website about MtF transgender voice therapy and something struck me, how critical are you of gender “tells?” The specific thought someone posted was in saying that while they have heard many transgender women speak they are still aware that the person was born AMAB. I am not wanting specifics on where that opinion was posted as I am not wanting to trash that person, that is not the point. What I am…
I read a quote the other day that perfectly describes my wife: Startling as it is, all of these feelings and more can live inside someone whom, to you, seems like the most brilliant, competent, strong, and compassionate human being you know. Uhm, yup, that is a quote about Jodie. Well most of you don’t know about what that first part might be referring to, but I do. Other than that, that last part, about being brilliant and such, yeah,…
