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Debra Anne Johnson December 27th, 2008 10:19 pm MSTWell I know it's been some time since posting but I did try durning URNA's rebuilding.
So here we go,
OK as most everyone know Tammie and I have been together now going on 3 yrs yes 3 yrs and this past September we had our Commitment ceremony (like marriage) and had to kinda rush it together as I had gotten a new job in Seattle Washington and had my start date like the 6th of October. So for all that didn't know about Tammie and I ya do know LOL.
Well this is just an update and to also say and tell others that just because your a TS doesn't mean you can't get a good job and that the job needs to be only a "T: friendly place. Look at me......I got a good job and I am a Preop TS not even Postop so there is really truth in that just cause your TS you can't find a good job. Yes I had to struggle and also work bad jobs but I kept plugging away and landed this job. I had to fly from Ohio to WA for the interview and go through an interview with 7 people in the room (talk about feeling like a gold fish in a bowl at feeding time) and answer all kinds of questions coming from everywhere. So yes I was the one being stared at by all of the men in the room and trying to get a job in a male dominated industry. Well DAMN I got the job offer like a week after we went out there and it made us look at things in a different light.
Tammie and I when we were in Cincinnati Ohio were very involved in the LGBT community and trying progress our community even when we were called traitors by our own side of the community because we were on HRC's diversity committee but yet we worked ahead to try and prove the Trans community is a very valuable part of the LGB community. Well we thought we could just jump back in and go to work with the orgs out here but DAMN we still needed to get our own affairs in order here before we could get back to it and then blam the Prop8 issue in Ca was a big deal here too. They had 10,000 + people attend a march out here and DAMN it was unbelievable to see all the support.
Ok enough of that, we are super SUPER I mean SUPER happy that we moved out here. Yes we miss our friends in Ohio that have become part of our FAMILY but this move was the best thing for Tammie as she is now FULLTIME yeah. Thats another story that she call tell ya.
But to everyone......Yes Tammie and I are DAMN happy and are proud to be TS women.
Hugssss
Well now that we are here it is h
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Feeling Great To Be Healing And Alive
Tara Lynn Rose December 2nd, 2008 11:32 pm MSTI am finally getting a chance to do some updating. I have only been back a little while from a nasty 2 story fall through a ceiling onto a concrete floor. Was left with multiple broken bones and spent months in an immobilizer. But mostly all healed and in true Tara fashion am still smiling. After all things could have been worse. Am now sporting a nifty dark tan that helps hide some of those annoying little scars the accident left me with. I have been making up for lost time now that I am back and finally, with the encouragement and support of a dear friend, have gotten up the courage to embrace the outside world. Exhilaration, that is the only way to explain the rush. I have never felt so alive or had so much fun. Of course now I regret all the lost time spent hiding in the house only peeking at the outside world through closed blinds. Thank you with all my heart Dar. Without your kind words and sometimes stern, love you girl
, encouragement I would never have known just had great it feels to experience life the way I have. Have been shopping for new outfits, out to dinner and dancing and spending a good deal of every week being the fun loving lady that makes me happy. Got out on Halloween in a sexy nurse outfit that I never would have believed I had the courage to wear in public. Got a new blonde wig to try some new looks and have been getting a little carried away with the photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/taralynntv/ but enjoying every moment. Feeling like the world is there for the taking and there is no limit.
Huggs to All Tara Lynn
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Feeling Great To Be Healing And Alive
Tara Lynn Rose December 2nd, 2008 11:30 pm MSTI am finally getting a chance to do some updating. I have only been back a little while from a nasty 2 story fall through a ceiling onto a concrete floor. Was left with multiple broken bones and spent months in an immobilizer. But mostly all healed and in true Tara fashion am still smiling. After all things could have been worse. Am now sporting a nifty dark tan that helps hide some of those annoying little scars the accident left me with. I have been making up for lost time now that I am back and finally, with the encouragement and support of a dear friend, have gotten up the courage to embrace the outside world. Exhilaration, that is the only way to explain the rush. I have never felt so alive or had so much fun. Of course now I regret all the lost time spent hiding in the house only peeking at the outside world through closed blinds. Thank you with all my heart Dar. Without your kind words and sometimes stern, love you girl
, encouragement I would never have known just had great it feels to experience life the way I have. Have been shopping for new outfits, out to dinner and dancing and spending a good deal of every week being the fun loving lady that makes me happy. Got out on Halloween in a sexy nurse outfit that I never would have believed I had the courage to wear in public. Got a new blonde wig to try some new looks and have been getting a little carried away with the photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/taralynntv/ but enjoying every moment. Feeling like the world is there for the taking and there is no limit.
Huggs to All Tara Lynn
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Feeling great to be healing and alive
Tara Lynn Rose December 2nd, 2008 11:29 pm MSTI am finally getting a chance to do some updating. I have only been back a little while from a nasty 2 story fall through a ceiling onto a concrete floor. Was left with multiple broken bones and spent months in an immobilizer. But mostly all healed and in true Tara fashion am still smiling. After all things could have been worse. Am now sporting a nifty dark tan that helps hide some of those annoying little scars the accident left me with. I have been making up for lost time now that I am back and finally, with the encouragement and support of a dear friend, have gotten up the courage to embrace the outside world. Exhilaration, that is the only way to explain the rush. I have never felt so alive or had so much fun. Of course now I regret all the lost time spent hiding in the house only peeking at the outside world through closed blinds. Thank you with all my heart Dar. Without your kind words and sometimes stern, love you girl
, encouragement I would never have known just had great it feels to experience life the way I have. Have been shopping for new outfits, out to dinner and dancing and spending a good deal of every week being the fun loving lady that makes me happy. Got out on Halloween in a sexy nurse outfit that I never would have believed I had the courage to wear in public. Got a new blonde wig to try some new looks and have been getting a little carried away with the photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/taralynntv/ but enjoying every moment. Feeling like the world is there for the taking and there is no limit.
Huggs to All Tara Lynn
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Feeling great to be healing and alive
Tara Lynn Rose November 18th, 2008 2:06 am MSTI am finally getting a chance to do some updating. I have only been back a little while from a nasty 2 story fall through a ceiling onto a concrete floor. Was left with multiple broken bones and spent months in an immobilizer. But mostly all healed and in true Tara fashion am still smiling. After all things could have been worse. Am now sporting a nifty dark tan that helps hide some of those annoying little scars the accident left me with. I have been making up for lost time now that I am back and finally, with the encouragement and support of a dear friend, have gotten up the courage to embrace the outside world. Exhilaration, that is the only way to explain the rush. I have never felt so alive or had so much fun. Of course now I regret all the lost time spent hiding in the house only peeking at the outside world through closed blinds. Thank you with all my heart Dar. Without your kind words and sometimes stern, love you girl
, encouragement I would never have known just had great it feels to experience life the way I have. Have been shopping for new outfits, out to dinner and dancing and spending a good deal of every week being the fun loving lady that makes me happy. Got out on Halloween in a sexy nurse outfit that I never would have believed I had the courage to wear in public. Got a new blonde wig to try some new looks and have been getting a little carried away with the photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/taralynntv/ but enjoying every moment. Feeling like the world is there for the taking and there is no limit.
Huggs to All Tara Lynn
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Feeling great to be healing and alive
Tara Lynn Rose November 18th, 2008 2:03 am MSTI am finally getting a chance to do some updating. I have only been back a little while from a nasty 2 story fall through a ceiling onto a concrete floor. Was left with multiple broken bones and spent months in an immobilizer. But mostly all healed and in true Tara fashion am still smiling. After all things could have been worse. Am now sporting a nifty dark tan that helps hide some of those annoying little scars the accident left me with. I have been making up for lost time now that I am back and finally, with the encouragement and support of a dear friend, have gotten up the courage to embrace the outside world. Exhilaration, that is the only way to explain the rush. I have never felt so alive or had so much fun. Of course now I regret all the lost time spent hiding in the house only peeking at the outside world through closed blinds. Thank you with all my heart Dar. Without your kind words and sometimes stern, love you girl
, encouragement I would never have known just had great it feels to experience life the way I have. Have been shopping for new outfits, out to dinner and dancing and spending a good deal of every week being the fun loving lady that makes me happy. Got out on Halloween in a sexy nurse outfit that I never would have believed I had the courage to wear in public. Got a new blonde wig to try some new looks and have been getting a little carried away with the photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/taralynntv/ but enjoying every moment. Feeling like the world is there for the taking and there is no limit.
Huggs to All Tara Lynn
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Alive and Ready
Tara Lynn Rose November 12th, 2008 11:41 am MSTI am finally getting a chance to do some updating. I have only been back a little while from a nasty 2 story fall through a ceiling onto a concrete floor. Was left with multiple broken bones and spent months in an immobilizer. But mostly all healed and in true Tara fashion am still smiling. After all things could have been worse. Am now sporting a nifty dark tan that helps hide some of those annoying little scars the accident left me with. I have been making up for lost time now that I am back and finally, with the encouragement and support of a dear friend, have gotten up the courage to embrace the outside world. Exhilaration, that is the only way to explain the rush. I have never felt so alive or had so much fun. Of course now I regret all the lost time spent hiding in the house only peeking at the outside world through closed blinds. Thank you with all my heart Dar. Without your kind words and sometimes stern, love you girl
, encouragement I would never have known just had great it feels to experience life the way I have. Have been shopping for new outfits, out to dinner and dancing and spending a good deal of every week being the fun loving lady that makes me happy. Got out on Halloween in a sexy nurse outfit that I never would have believed I had the courage to wear in public. Got a new blonde wig to try some new looks and have been getting a little carried away with the photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/taralynntv/ but enjoying every moment. Feeling like the world is there for the taking and there is no limit.
Huggs to All Tara Lynn
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Feeling Alive and Ready for Anything
Tara Lynn Rose November 12th, 2008 11:38 am MSTI am finally getting a chance to do some updating. I have only been back a little while from a nasty 2 story fall through a ceiling onto a concrete floor. Was left with multiple broken bones and spent months in an immobilizer. But mostly all healed and in true Tara fashion am still smiling. After all things could have been worse. Am now sporting a nifty dark tan that helps hide some of those annoying little scars the accident left me with. I have been making up for lost time now that I am back and finally, with the encouragement and support of a dear friend, have gotten up the courage to embrace the outside world. Exhilaration, that is the only way to explain the rush. I have never felt so alive or had so much fun. Of course now I regret all the lost time spent hiding in the house only peeking at the outside world through closed blinds. Thank you with all my heart Dar. Without your kind words and sometimes stern, love you girl
, encouragement I would never have known just had great it feels to experience life the way I have. Have been shopping for new outfits, out to dinner and dancing and spending a good deal of every week being the fun loving lady that makes me happy. Got out on Halloween in a sexy nurse outfit that I never would have believed I had the courage to wear in public. Got a new blonde wig to try some new looks and have been getting a little carried away with the photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/taralynntv/ but enjoying every moment. Feeling like the world is there for the taking and there is no limit.
Huggs to All Tara Lynn
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Feeling Alive and Ready for Anything
Tara Lynn Rose November 12th, 2008 12:38 am MSTI am finally getting a chance to do a little updating. I have only been back a little while from a nasty 2 story fall, through a ceiling onto a concrete floor. I was left with several broken bones and spent months in an immobilizer. Am mostly all healed and in true Tara fashion am still smiling. After all things could have been worse. Am now sporting a nifty dark tan that helps hide some of those annoying little scars the accident left me with. I have been making up for lost time now that I am back and finally, with the encouragement and support of a dear friend, have gotten up the courage to embrace the outside world. Exhiliration, that is the only way to explain the rush. I have never felt so alive or had so much fun. Of course now I regret all the time spent hiding in the house only peeking at the outside world through closed blinds. Thank you with all my heart Dar. Without your kind words and sometimes stern, Luv You Girl
, encouragement, I would never have known just how great it feels to experience life the way I have. Have been shopping, out to dinner and dancing and spending a great deal of time every week as the fun loving lady that makes me so happy. Got out on Halloween in a sexy nurse outfit that I never would have believed that I would have had the courage to wear in public. Got a new blonde wig to try some new looks and have been getting a little carried away with the photos, http://www.flickr.com/photos/taralynntv/ ,but enjoying every moment. Feeling like the world is there for the taking and there are no limits.
Huggs to All
Tara
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Feeling Alive and Ready For Anything
Tara Lynn Rose November 12th, 2008 12:17 am MSTI am finally getting a chance to do some updating. I have only been back a little while from a nasty 2 story fall through a ceiling onto a concrete floor. Was left with multiple broken bones and spent months in an immobilizer. But mostly all healed and in true Tara fashion am still smiling. After all things could have been worse. Am now sporting a nifty dark tan that helps hide some of those annoying little scars the accident left me with. I have been making up for lost time now that I am back and finally, with the encouragement and support of a dear friend, have gotten up the courage to embrace the outside world. Exhilaration, that is the only way to explain the rush. I have never felt so alive or had so much fun. Of course now I regret all the lost time spent hiding in the house only peeking at the outside world through closed blinds. Thank you with all my heart Dar. Without your kind words and sometimes stern, love you girl
, encouragement I would never have known just how great it feels to experience life the way I have. Have been shopping for new outfits, out to dinner and dancing and spending a good deal of every week being the fun loving lady that makes me happy. Got out on Halloween in a sexy nurse outfit that I never would have believed I had the courage to wear in public. Got a new blonde wig to try some new looks and have been getting a little carried away with the photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/taralynntv/ but enjoying every moment. Feeling like the world is there for the taking and there is no limit.
Huggs to All Tara Lynn
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Tara Lynn Rose November 11th, 2008 11:59 pm MSTI am finally getting a chance to do some updating. I have only been back a little while from a nasty 2 story fall through a ceiling onto a concrete floor. Was left with multiple broken bones and spent months in an immobilizer. But mostly all healed and in true Tara fashion am still smiling. After all things could have been worse. Am now sporting a nifty dark tan that helps hide some of those annoying little scars the accident left me with. I have been making up for lost time now that I am back and finally, with the encouragement and support of a dear friend, have gotten up the courage to embrace the outside world. Exhilaration, that is the only way to explain the rush. I have never felt so alive or had so much fun. Of course now I regret all the lost time spent hiding in the house only peeking at the outside world through closed blinds. Thank you with all my heart Dar. Without your kind words and sometimes stern, love you girl :), encouragement I would never have known just had great it feels to experience life the way I have. Have been shopping for new outfits, out to dinner and dancing and spending a good deal of every week being the fun loving lady that makes me happy. Got out on Halloween in a sexy nurse outfit that I never would have believed I had the courage to wear in public. Got a new blonde wig to try some new looks and have been getting a little carried away with the photos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/taralynntv/ but enjoying every moment. Feeling like the world is there for the taking and there is no limit.
Huggs to All Tara Lynn
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Liberty and Justice for some...
Laura Carrillo November 11th, 2008 5:49 pm MSTRoutine. Day after day, hour after hour I feel like I have been trapped in a hamster wheel. A very entertaining and distracting wheel, indeed. I don't really feel like thinking, or doing the IM thing. Can't be bothered if making this wheel turn seems so interesting. It isn't really like there is a whole lot to do after coming back from work. Glenn calls me a bedbug: I get home, take off the work clothes and plop my ass on bed. Maybe I should find something interesting to do. But I don't feel like it. Besides the bed is soft, and the bedroom is the warmest room in the house. I don't really want to have any drama in my life, even though that would make my life a bit more interesting to retell. Yep, not a lot of things get me fired up these days, it is more comfy to sit in bed and play Neopets Flash games with my kids.
There is a turning point in your life when you stop doing crazy things. You remember certain things you rather keep to yourself. Like when you were in the back of a police car for disturbing the peace back in Peru. Or when you marched with a bunch of other college students, interrupting traffic and running the risk of being hit by a bus. I think it was a solidarity march with the miner's union, although I think it was a good excuse for skipping a failing class. Yea, the wild days. It was always a protest in Peru. We did like to complain a lot and let everyone know about it. Sometimes things got ugly, cops on horses were quite intimidating. And the water gun, ugh. Didn't sit in the cop car too long. My godfather ( Rip) was a colonel in the Peruvian Air Force and his name carried some weight. The slap on the face and the couple of kicks I got from the cops did not wipe the grin of my face as I was let go. Crazy days indeed. My grandpa had been a political prisoner during one of the numerous dictatorships Peru used to have. He never talked about it, but my mom always told me the stories. I knew they were not fake because while working at my grandpa's print shop I always noticed political propaganda lying around. He used to print it for free, he never charged for any of it. His political party was illegal for many decades, and he enjoyed the fact that his party won the election during the mid-1980's before he passed away. The current government is also that same party, guess they re doing something right. I wonder if the Us Customs would've let me in if they knew I was this nuts...
Everyone has written about the elections lately. I can't be happier. I followed B. Obama since the primaries. I like to follow politics. Tell you the truth, I liked Dennis Kucinich more, he is just a firecracker. But I knew he was not going to win cuz he is too liberal sometimes. But little Dennis is my hero, he is the one who insisted on impeaching Bush and our heartless vicepresident, even after Pelosi said there was not going to be any impeachments. I think the benefit of the majority superseded the needs of the minorities in this election. Propositions 8 and 2, in California and Florida passed, probably because the black vote decidedly voted for Obama but was definitely against same sex marriage. I think this is a matter of education. The black voters followed their preachers, who obviously would be against anything unholy. Interference of Church in State affairs? Yep, aren't they a meddlesome bunch?
There is no need to blame or feel angry against anybody. It is much better to find a solution. I think protesting works. I do feel like we should voice our opinion, let's make ourselves heard. Can't help but feel like second class citizens. though. We didn't make enough to educate the black vote so they could understand we are being discriminated like they were being discriminated a couple of decades ago.
I attended a town hall meeting, not so long ago, in which the representative of the NAACP was in the panel of speakers. I remember she said, our fight is their fight and that they would be behind us 100%. Glenn can back me up on this, cuz he was there too. I feel like we are not alone in this. We can't do the fighting by ourselves and be taken seriously. Alliances are good. We have waited and we can wait a few more months, I understand there are priorities, like the economy. But we must keep this issue in the front of the news. Protests are good and the Day of Remembrance this month is a good time to be seen and heard. Find out when they're gonna have services in your area, try to attend, that's the least you can do.
It sucks to have a right being taken away from you by popular vote. Why is a right that everyone else has, included in a ballot for the majority to vote on? How did it get there in the first place? I don't know all the political intricacies but I suppose there is a clear disregard for a constitution that claims it contains inalienable rights for every citizen. Everyone is talking about how America has again become the greatest democracy in the world. How come other democracies like Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, the Netherlands and Belgium have allowed same sex marriages for years now? Same sex partner benefits are also recognized in countries such as Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Israel, Italy, New Zealand, South Africa( the country, not the continent Palin followers...) and Spain. America has now to catch up.
So, if you have been caught in a rut for a while, remember you can't complain about your rights being taken away without doing nothing about it. Get off your couch, stop playing that video game, don't worry about dumb jocks and their affairs with grabbing a football and attend your local Day of Remembrance services. You know what we are remembering, right? If that is not enough motivation, I do not know what will :-)
*note: all the pictures are from the protests against the passing of Prop 8 in Cali. More than 5000 gathered to march, crazy people :-P
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Liberty and Justice for some...
Laura Carrillo November 10th, 2008 9:57 pm MSTRoutine. Day after day, hour after hour I feel like I have been trapped in a hamster wheel. A very entertaining and distracting wheel, indeed. I don't really feel like thinking, or doing the IM thing. Can't be bothered if making this wheel turn seems so interesting. It isn't really like there is a whole lot to do after coming back from work. Glenn calls me a bedbug: I get home, take off the work clothes and plop my ass on bed. Maybe I should find something interesting to do. But I don't feel like it. Besides the bed is soft, and the bedroom is the warmest room in the house. I don't really want to have any drama in my life, even though that would make my life a bit more interesting to retell. Yep, not a lot of things get me fired up these days, it is more comfy to sit in bed and play Neopets Flash games with my kids.
There is a turning point in your life when you stop doing crazy things. You remember certain things you rather keep to yourself. Like when you were in the back of a police car for disturbing the peace back in Peru. Or when you marched with a bunch of other college students, interrupting traffic and running the risk of being hit by a bus. I think it was a solidarity march with the miner's union, although I think it was a good excuse for skipping a failing class. Yea, the wild days. It was always a protest in Peru. We did like to complain a lot and let everyone know about it. Sometimes things got ugly, cops on horses were quite intimidating. And the water gun, ugh. Didn't sit in the cop car too long. My godfather ( Rip) was a colonel in the Peruvian Air Force and his name carried some weight. The slap on the face and the couple of kicks I got from the cops did not wipe the grin of my face as I was let go. Crazy days indeed. My grandpa had been a political prisoner during one of the numerous dictatorships Peru used to have. He never talked about it, but my mom always told me the stories. I knew they were not fake because while working at my grandpa's print shop I always noticed political propaganda lying around. He used to print it for free, he never charged for any of it. His political party was illegal for many decades, and he enjoyed the fact that his party won the election during the mid-1980's before he passed away. The current government is also that same party, guess they re doing something right. I wonder if the Us Customs would've let me in if they knew I was this nuts...
Everyone has written about the elections lately. I can't be happier. I followed B. Obama since the primaries. I like to follow politics. Tell you the truth, I liked Dennis Kucinich more, he is just a firecracker. But I knew he was not going to win cuz he is too liberal sometimes. But little Dennis is my hero, he is the one who insisted on impeaching Bush and our heartless vicepresident, even after Pelosi said there was not going to be any impeachments. I think the benefit of the majority superseded the needs of the minorities in this election. Propositions 8 and 2, in California and Florida passed, probably because the black vote decidedly voted for Obama but was definitely against same sex marriage. I think this is a matter of education. The black voters followed their preachers, who obviously would be against anything unholy. Interference of Church in State affairs? Yep, aren't they a meddlesome bunch?
There is no need to blame or feel angry against anybody. It is much better to find a solution. I think protesting works. I do feel like we should voice our opinion, let's make ourselves heard. Can't help but feel like second class citizens. though. We didn't make enough to educate the black vote so they could understand we are being discriminated like they were being discriminated a couple of decades ago.
I attended a town hall meeting, not so long ago, in which the representative of the NAACP was in the panel of speakers. I remember she said, our fight is their fight and that they would be behind us 100%. Glenn can back me up on this, cuz he was there too. I feel like we are not alone in this. We can't do the fighting by ourselves and be taken seriously. Alliances are good. We have waited and we can wait a few more months, I understand there are priorities, like the economy. But we must keep this issue in the front of the news. Protests are good and the Day of Remembrance this month is a good time to be seen and heard. Find out when they're gonna have services in your area, try to attend, that's the least you can do.
It sucks to have a right being taken away from you by popular vote. Why is a right that everyone else has, included in a ballot for the majority to vote on? How did it get there in the first place? I don't know all the political intricacies but I suppose there is a clear disregard for a constitution that claims it contains inalienable rights for every citizen. Everyone is talking about how America has again become the greatest democracy in the world. How come other democracies like Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, the Netherlands and Belgium have allowed same sex marriages for years now? Same sex partner benefits are also recognized in countries such as Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Israel, Italy, New Zealand, South Africa( the country, not the continent Palin followers...) and Spain. America has now to catch up.
So, if you have been caught in a rut for a while, remember you can't complain about your rights being taken away without doing nothing about it. Get off your couch, stop playing that video game, don't worry about dumb jocks and their affairs with grabbing a football and attend your local Day of Remembrance services. You know what we are remembering, right? If that is not enough motivation, I do not know what will :-)
*note: all the pictures are from the protests against the passing of Prop 8 in Cali. More than 5000 gathered to march, crazy people :-P
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Liberty and Justice for some...
Laura Carrillo November 10th, 2008 9:32 pm MSTRoutine. Day after day, hour after hour I feel like I have been trapped in a hamster wheel. A very entertaining and distracting wheel, indeed. I don't really feel like thinking, or doing the IM thing. Can't be bothered if making this wheel turn seems so interesting. It isn't really like there is a whole lot to do after coming back from work. Glenn calls me a bedbug: I get home, take off the work clothes and plop my ass on bed. Maybe I should find something interesting to do. But I don't feel like it. Besides the bed is soft, and the bedroom is the warmest room in the house. I don't really want to have any drama in my life, even though that would make my life a bit more interesting to retell. Yep, not a lot of things get me fired up these days, it is more comfy to sit in bed and play Neopets Flash games with my kids.
There is a turning point in your life when you stop doing crazy things. You remember certain things you rather keep to yourself. Like when you were in the back of a police car for disturbing the peace back in Peru. Or when you marched with a bunch of other college students, interrupting traffic and running the risk of being hit by a bus. I think it was a solidarity march with the miner's union, although I think it was a good excuse for skipping a failing class. Yea, the wild days. It was always a protest in Peru. We did like to complain a lot and let everyone know about it. Sometimes things got ugly, cops on horses were quite intimidating. And the water gun, ugh. Didn't sit in the cop car too long. My godfather ( Rip) was a colonel in the Peruvian Air Force and his name carried some weight. The slap on the face and the couple of kicks I got from the cops did not wipe the grin of my face as I was let go. Crazy days indeed. My grandpa had been a political prisoner during one of the numerous dictatorships Peru used to have. He never talked about it, but my mom always told me the stories. I knew they were not fake because while working at my grandpa's print shop I always noticed political propaganda lying around. He used to print it for free, he never charged for any of it. His political party was illegal for many decades, and he enjoyed the fact that his party won the election during the mid-1980's before he passed away. The current government is also that same party, guess they re doing something right. I wonder if the Us Customs would've let me in if they knew I was this nuts...
Everyone has written about the elections lately. I can't be happier. I followed B. Obama since the primaries. I like to follow politics. Tell you the truth, I liked Dennis Kucinich more, he is just a firecracker. But I knew he was not going to win cuz he is too liberal sometimes. But little Dennis is my hero, he is the one who insisted on impeaching Bush and our heartless vicepresident, even after Pelosi said there was not going to be any impeachments. I think the benefit of the majority superseded the needs of the minorities in this election. Propositions 8 and 2, in California and Florida passed, probably because the black vote decidedly voted for Obama but was definitely against same sex marriage. I think this is a matter of education. The black voters followed their preachers, who obviously would be against anything unholy. Interference of Church in State affairs? Yep, aren't they a meddlesome bunch?
There is no need to blame or feel angry against anybody. It is much better to find a solution. I think protesting works. I do feel like we should voice our opinion, let's make ourselves heard. Can't help but feel like second class citizens. though. We didn't make enough to educate the black vote so they could understand we are being discriminated like they were being discriminated a couple of decades ago.
I attended a town hall meeting, not so long ago, in which the representative of the NAACP was in the panel of speakers. I remember she said, our fight is their fight and that they would be behind us 100%. Glenn can back me up on this, cuz he was there too. I feel like we are not alone in this. We can't do the fighting by ourselves and be taken seriously. Alliances are good. We have waited and we can wait a few more months, I understand there are priorities, like the economy. But we must keep this issue in the front of the news. Protests are good and the Day of Remembrance this month is a good time to be seen and heard. Find out when they're gonna have services in your area, try to attend, that's the least you can do.
It sucks to have a right being taken away from you by popular vote. Why is a right that everyone else has, included in a ballot for the majority to vote on? How did it get there in the first place? I don't know all the political intricacies but I suppose there is a clear disregard for a constitution that claims it contains inalienable rights for every citizen. Everyone is talking about how America has again become the greatest democracy in the world. How come other democracies like Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, the Netherlands and Belgium have allowed same sex marriages for years now? Same sex partner benefits are also recognized in countries such as Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Israel, Italy, New Zealand, South Africa( the country, not the continent Palin followers...) and Spain. America has now to catch up.
So, if you have been caught in a rut for a while, remember you can't complain about your rights being taken away without doing nothing about it. Get off your couch, stop playing that video game, don't worry about dumb jocks and their affairs with grabbing a football and attend your local Day of Remembrance services. You know what we are remembering, right? If that is not enough motivation, I do not know what will :-)
*note: all the pictures are from the protests against the passing of Prop 8 in Cali. More than 5000 gathered to march, crazy people :-P
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Liberty and Justice for some...
Laura Carrillo November 10th, 2008 9:30 pm MSTRoutine. Day after day, hour after hour I feel like I have been trapped in a hamster wheel. A very entertaining and distracting wheel, indeed. I don't really feel like thinking, or doing the IM thing. Can't be bothered if making this wheel turn seems so interesting. It isn't really like there is a whole lot to do after coming back from work. Glenn calls me a bedbug: I get home, take off the work clothes and plop my ass on bed. Maybe I should find something interesting to do. But I don't feel like it. Besides the bed is soft, and the bedroom is the warmest room in the house. I don't really want to have any drama in my life, even though that would make my life a bit more interesting to retell. Yep, not a lot of things get me fired up these days, it is more comfy to sit in bed and play Neopets Flash games with my kids.
There is a turning point in your life when you stop doing crazy things. You remember certain things you rather keep to yourself. Like when you were in the back of a police car for disturbing the peace back in Peru. Or when you marched with a bunch of other college students, interrupting traffic and running the risk of being hit by a bus. I think it was a solidarity march with the miner's union, although I think it was a good excuse for skipping a failing class. Yea, the wild days. It was always a protest in Peru. We did like to complain a lot and let everyone know about it. Sometimes things got ugly, cops on horses were quite intimidating. And the water gun, ugh. Didn't sit in the cop car too long. My godfather ( Rip) was a colonel in the Peruvian Air Force and his name carried some weight. The slap on the face and the couple of kicks I got from the cops did not wipe the grin of my face as I was let go. Crazy days indeed. My grandpa had been a political prisoner during one of the numerous dictatorships Peru used to have. He never talked about it, but my mom always told me the stories. I knew they were not fake because while working at my grandpa's print shop I always noticed political propaganda lying around. He used to print it for free, he never charged for any of it. His political party was illegal for many decades, and he enjoyed the fact that his party won the election during the mid-1980's before he passed away. The current government is also that same party, guess they re doing something right. I wonder if the Us Customs would've let me in if they knew I was this nuts...
Everyone has written about the elections lately. I can't be happier. I followed B. Obama since the primaries. I like to follow politics. Tell you the truth, I liked Dennis Kucinich more, he is just a firecracker. But I knew he was not going to win cuz he is too liberal sometimes. But little Dennis is my hero, he is the one who insisted on impeaching Bush and our heartless vicepresident, even after Pelosi said there was not going to be any impeachments. I think the benefit of the majority superseded the needs of the minorities in this election. Propositions 8 and 2, in California and Florida passed, probably because the black vote decidedly voted for Obama but was definitely against same sex marriage. I think this is a matter of education. The black voters followed their preachers, who obviously would be against anything unholy. Interference of Church in State affairs? Yep, aren't they a meddlesome bunch?
There is no need to blame or feel angry against anybody. It is much better to find a solution. I think protesting works. I do feel like we should voice our opinion, let's make ourselves heard. Can't help but feel like second class citizens. though. We didn't make enough to educate the black vote so they could understand we are being discriminated like they were being discriminated a couple of decades ago.
I attended a town hall meeting, not so long ago, in which the representative of the NAACP was in the panel of speakers. I remember she said, our fight is their fight and that they would be behind us 100%. Glenn can back me up on this, cuz he was there too. I feel like we are not alone in this. We can't do the fighting by ourselves and be taken seriously. Alliances are good. We have waited and we can wait a few more months, I understand there are priorities, like the economy. But we must keep this issue in the front of the news. Protests are good and the Day of Remembrance this month is a good time to be seen and heard. Find out when they're gonna have services in your area, try to attend, that's the least you can do.
It sucks to have a right being taken away from you by popular vote. Why is a right that everyone else has, included in a ballot for the majority to vote on? How did it get there in the first place? I don't know all the political intricacies but I suppose there is a clear disregard for a constitution that claims it contains inalienable rights for every citizen. Everyone is talking about how America has again become the greatest democracy in the world. How come other democracies like Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, the Netherlands and Belgium have allowed same sex marriages for years now? Same sex partner benefits are also recognized in countries such as Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Israel, Italy, New Zealand, South Africa( the country, not the continent Palin followers...) and Spain. America has now to catch up.
So, if you have been caught in a rut for a while, remember you can't complain about your rights being taken away without doing nothing about it. Get off your couch, stop playing that video game, don't worry about dumb jocks and their affairs with grabbing a football and attend your local Day of Remembrance services. You know what we are remembering, right? If that is not enough motivation, I do not know what will :-)
*note: all the pictures are from the protests against the passing of Prop 8 in Cali. More than 5000 gathered to march, crazy people :-P
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Cycling Marathon in November 2008
jacalyn C D September 15th, 2008 10:07 am MDTHi everyone, THis November I am going to bicycle in the 165 mile Miami to Key West Cycling Marathon. The event is to raise money for aids research and aids victims. Anyone wishing to help by sponsoring my ride please contact me for further information as to who to make the check out to.(not to me)giggle! I just put up a picture of me in the outfil I'll be wearing for the ride. Thank you for your help on behalf of our unfortunate friends who have contracted aids. Jackie[Comment on this post]
Where are you?
Holly Rebecca Mason July 29th, 2008 11:19 pm MDTIm on the lookout for the special someone...and, Im done with the "average guys". Bleh. I need someone more feminine. I need someone who understand me. Someone who will love me despite some of the crazy things I may do or say. This is UrNotAlone..but right now I feel really alone.[Comment on this post]
Conociendome a mi misma
Ana Georgina July 13th, 2008 2:18 am MDTHola, mas que un mensaje para otras personas, es un mensaje para mi,a principios de año, me habia dejado el cabello largo, que algunas gentes me decian señora. Cerca de 8 meses, con el cabello largo que incluso, cuando por fin lo fui a cortar , la señora, donde fui, entendio que solo deseaba despuntarlo y darle una volumen mas de mujer. Mi sorpresa fue mayor, cuando vi, que efectivamente le habia dado un estilo mas de mujer que de chico o unisex; es sin duda una sorpresa, cuando vez en el espejo, una imagen netamente femenina y que posiblemente mucha gente asi me vea. No se si en el fondo, todas las chicas tvs pasamos por esa situacion o solo se dio. Fue tanto mi excitacion en esos dias, con esa imagen femenina, que incluso quise llevar la experiencia mas lejos. Hoy, cerca de 5 meses despues que me lo corte, nuevamente lo tengo en un largo medio femenino, vldra la pena ahora si dejarlo en un corte femeninmo?[Comment on this post]
new look new friends
Patty July 6th, 2008 1:58 pm MDThi all thanks for the new friends and i am tring a new look[Comment on this post]
Is it true
Debra Anne Johnson June 4th, 2008 2:40 pm MDTIs it true,
Is it true that my life has changed and has changed in such a positive and different way.
Yes my life has changed in so many ways from what it was before. Not only the obvious but also in such a way that I never would have imagined. I have not only changed physically and emotionally but also my perspectives have changed too.
I am talking about not just sitting in the background and waiting for legal changes for us to have rights. Tammie and I have gotten so into the Advocacy part of being TS. Yes both of us have. I'm tired of hearing all the winning about not having protections and support from others. I know that taking this road leaves not only me but also Tammie open for being Fired,loss of our home, no medical insurance and having to do things that others are to afraid of doing. But if we don't stand up and help fight who in here will.
We as a group need to stand together and fight for our rights not just a few of us. Tammie and I have been to some speeches and Lobby events and have noticed the LACK of TS people showing up but yet we here all the time all of the excuses of why not. We can never get ahead if all of us don't stand up together and show our strength and also how many there really is of us. Us as a minority yes minority (TS) have been refused any type of Job,Housing,Medical and Basic human rights. TS people get treated as the lowest of the low in reguards to rights. But yet there is only a very small handfull of us who are willing to fight for our basic human rights. I know what I am about to say is or will piss and upset some people in here but at this point tuff. I do apologise in advance if you are on that end of what I am about to say. This is about how the TS group of us.
Ok we as Transexual people keep getting lumped in with all these others that fall under the TG umbrella. The rights that are being asked for are for TS people in the housing and workplace not CD's or TV's. But yet all the reasons for us being denied these rights are because our Government and others in society belive that this opens doors for CD's and others to use public areas. We as the whole TG group know that this is not true. CD people will not go to work in Fem they don;t want they're family and friends to find out. They have to much to lose if someone finds out but yet we don;t move ahead because of this and also because they don't have a true sense of whta the TS community is all about.
Yes I know i'm just ranting about all of this. But I see it at some of the things I attend. Tammie and I have really gotten involved with activisium and plan on doing this until whenever. So please try and understand where my thoughts are coming from. I am in NOWAY putting anyone down. I am just venting my displeasure of how things trully work.
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