Posse of Exes, Xtra West, March 27, 2008
It’s been almost 15 years since I came out. God, that seems like such a long time. You’d think I’d be at the Master’s Level in dykiness or something by now. But the truth is that I still lack quite a few lezzie credentials. For example, I do not have what a friend of mine calls “the posse of exes” — you know, the gang of ex-lovers who are now your best friends.
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When the Marginalized Marginalize, Xtra West #379, February 28, 2008
Last month I sent an email to all my friends about an upcoming queer event. One wrote back, “I would love to come but I can’t get my wheelchair up the stairs.”
Read the rest on the Xtra site…
PS: Check out the post on Elizabeth McClung’s blog that I mention in the column.
Making the Happy Holidays Even Happier, Xtra West #373, December 6, 2007
Here it is, your exclusive preview of the soon-to-be-bestseller: How to Welcome Your Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender/Whatever-They’re-Calling-
Themselves-Now Family Member Home for the Holidays (and Make Them Wonder Why They Ever Left)! Read it on the Xtra site…
Competing for Victim Status, Xtra West #371, November 7, 2007
Those of us who have been part of feminist or queer politics in North America have had plenty of experience with this competition to be named MVP —Most Victimized Person. Many of us dropped out of political activism because of the hellish hours we spent sitting in circles accusing each other of racism and homophobia until someone “won.”
Lessons in Connection, Xtra West #369, October 10, 2007
James Loney is my hero. That’s the one-sentence version of how I feel about him.
My intense admiration for him started in March 2006 when he and two other members of the Christian Peacemakers Team (CPT) were rescued, having been held hostage for four months in Iraq.
