This morning I woke up to the news that Graham Linehan, the writer behind Black Books, The IT Crowd, and Father Ted, was arrested at Heathrow Airport for advocating violence against trans people — specifically, saying that trans women who use women’s public restrooms should be “kicked in the balls.” It’s kind of weird going…
OK, so it’s a cliche to complain about how bad you are at remembering to update your blog in a blog post. I have an excuse, I quit smoking. I didn’t kill anyone. Fuck you. I’ll have more to write here at some point soon, but I’m slowly chugging along on the milestones. I’m out…
As you can see, it’s been a week since my last post on this intended-to-be-daily platform. Sigh. Part of the idea behind this journal is that it’s an exercise in keeping my transition top-of-mind. It’s easy for day to day stuff to push into my consciousness and sort of crowd out my long-term intentions. Transition…
That’s something I’ve had to sit with a lot during this process, and it’s the main reason I’m just now finally committing to the process after finally coming out to myself three years ago. Let’s start with the fact that I’m tall. This is going to wander off into statistics nerdiness here, so buckle up.…
This isn’t the most profound observation in the world, I realize, but as a starting place it leads to a couple of interesting places. One of those perennial complaint topics on the Internet is the problem of “manspreading.” Specifically, this is when men sit down in a public space — often on public transit —…
Kimberly Bloom is not my name. It’s neither my birthname, my deadname, nor my new, chosen name. Kimberly Bloom is a name that came to me the week I realized I was trans and started the road to transition – not the process of transition itself, mind, but the long path leading to the beginning…