Gendercast

Gendercast Episode 4: The Gender Community:  Building Up; Tearing Down Our discussion of media and social networking as tools for building transmasculine community.  We explore many kinds of resources as well as other forms of building community through the result of our community being discriminated against and our own divisiveness. Links Injustice At Every Turn, a report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey. National Center for Transgender Equality National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Dean's new paper on Purportedly Gendered Body Parts YouTube  TMates, Beefheads Fittness and itsTtime2010  Blogs mentioned  Butchtastic and SugarButch. We discussed a chapter from the book Nobody Passes by Matilda.  The chapter we discussed is The End of Genderqueer by Rocko Bulldagger's

Gendercast Episode 3: Sex, Attraction and Desire A special valentine's episode from us to you!  Our take on our gender identity and gender expression though navigating attraction and desire in the romantic sense.  A great episode to get to know us and respond by telling us your experiences! Links For Lovers and Fighters by Dean Spade Links for Check-ins Workplace Woes:  article discussion, here is the link to the abstract for Do Workplace Gender Transitions Make for Gender Trouble? Article by Kristen Schilt and Catherine Connell. Please email us at gendercast@gmail.com if you want us to send you the full article. Legislation/Law/Policy: On Obtaining a Passport Debunktion Junction:  What's Your Assumption?  Queertransmen.org on Safer Sex for Transmasculine Community and the Fact Sheet on Transgender Men's HIV Prevention Needs (out of UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies). 

  Gendercast Episode 2:         The Hormone and Surgery Dilemma   Our discussion and information about the options and decisions around taking hormones, having surgery, natural tranisitoning and challenging the binary from a no/ho, no/op transmasculine genderqueer identity.   Jiz lee’s discussion regarding genderqueer identity and decision not to take hormones nor have any kind of surgery and more tools to challenge the binary by Motivated Grammar the use of they/them as a singular pronoun.   Information about natural transitioning from Tristan Skye and Trans Queer Nation  _______________________________________________________________________________________________________   Hormone and surgery information/guides: &nbs

 Gendercast Episode 1:  The Gender Conundrum  Books we Referenced: PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality, Edited by Carol Queen GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary, Edited by Joan Nestle, Clare Howell and Riki Wilchins Lynnee Breadlove's One Freak Show, By Lynn Breedlove Links Wikipedia has the horrible definition of gender (Better definition we used is from Genderqueer:  Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary, see above) The Sylvia Rivera Law Project:  Trans 101 is where we found definitions for transgender, transgender people, genderqueer and the importance of self-identification. Sugar Butch is where we found the definition for transmasculine that we like. Human Rights Campaign  Rachel Maddow's MSNBC blog and personal website  Dean Spade