Stuff I've Been Reading (7-13-11)

Like many blogs, I think I will post things that I have been reading around the internet. This way I can share things without making an entire blog post about them and I don't have to spam my Facebook friends.

Oh, in case you were wondering about Holly Tree: she is busy attempting to be an adult in the real world, so at least for now is still taking a break from the blog.


Awesome coverage both of the U.S. vs. Brazil women’s soccer game and the responses to it.
http://feministing.com/2011/07/12/rachel-maddow-on-womens-soccer-amazingness/


Thank you! http://www.bilerico.com/2011/07/you_are_not_transsexual.php
We should not be fighting over terminology so much. Nor, might I add, fight to split up a trans movement that has enough pressure from the outside.
I particularly like this post because, on the same blog, another blogger has recently written several posts insists upon terminology and separating binary from non-binary trans folks (not linking).


Kate, a blogger from Shakesville (http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/), is raising money for her new vagina and is educating people about trans folks as well.
http://acuntofonesown.org/2011/07/11/introducing-a-cunt-of-ones-own/


Jos thinks Google+ has a gender problem. I agree (though my gender is listed publicly as “other”), and Google seems to be listening. Their current solution is to give users the option to make gender private. Not self-identification, but a necessary step regardless.
http://feministing.com/2011/07/12/google-has-a-gender-problem/#more-35848

Why GenderQuery?

Last night, as I was attempting to fall asleep in this blisteringly hot weather, my brain must have gone fuzzy and started putting homonyms together. Somehow, "genderqueer" and "query" were mushed together, and I woke up startled. "That's it!" I said to nobody but myself. "That's what we'll call this blog."

Why GenderQuery? Why this particular play on words?

Trey and I thought long and hard about a blog title. We wanted something that would encompass both of our identities and gave the blog a sense of purpose. As a feminist, I am concerned with gender, gender roles, gender identity, and how the rules many societies invented to divide everybody into two and only two discernible genders affect every one of us. I have thus queried gender, asked questions of the construct, and questioned the construct itself.

Trey is genderqueer, which is the word "GenderQuery" is based on. I am sure ze will discuss that much more in zir blog posts.

Together, the two of us will continue to ask difficult questions, and hopefully, contribute meaningful writing to the blogosphere. Welcome to our journey.