tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507821887848971398Wed, 28 Aug 2024 16:30:36 +0000transgenderENDABaltimoreCourageHRCDonna RoseGLCCBGender Identity GroupGeorgiaGodJenna TaylorJohn AravosisLGBTMichelle FarrellNY International Independent Film and Video FestivalNovember 20TDoRUnraveling michellecableday of remembrancediscriminationemapthyexpressionfilm makergratitudeinvolementlogolovesoberstereotypessundancetrangendertransitionvocabularywomenHegel gives us "Identity is the identity of identity and nonidentity." Welcome to the nonidentity.http://noncisgender.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Jen Fischetti)Blogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507821887848971398.post-3330941364769261235Sat, 09 May 2020 19:26:00 +00002020-05-09T15:26:42.507-04:00EDITOR'S NOTE:This post was saved in draft status for nearly six years. It references discussions around the recent coming out of trans model Andreja Pejić. It is safe to say, it was not important enough to post at that time. Today I feel differently about it and I believe it has value, if only to hold a glimpse of my mind, well before I lost it. The discussion swirled around the need to http://noncisgender.blogspot.com/2020/05/trans-chit-chat-is-great-trans.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jen Fischetti)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507821887848971398.post-6094530089510528025Thu, 11 Jun 2015 01:19:00 +00002015-06-10T21:21:59.249-04:00 Author Elinor Burkett asks if women and men have different brains in her quest to assert “What Makes a Woman?” The greater question she wishes to attend to is whether trans women are women. To Burkett, they are not. She asserts that many self defined Progressives are adopting an idea that differentiation within the brain causes differences in life paths taken and hard wires our gender http://noncisgender.blogspot.com/2015/06/who-makes-woman.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jen Fischetti)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507821887848971398.post-6471802318619057126Mon, 08 Apr 2013 03:08:00 +00002013-04-07T23:08:26.779-04:00http://noncisgender.blogspot.com/2013/04/what-could-be.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jen Fischetti)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507821887848971398.post-6342373704682310813Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:40:00 +00002012-02-20T14:39:28.518-05:00BaltimoreCourageGodwomen I was recently asked to provide input for a piece being written in Baltimore GayLife concerning Women's History Month. I was asked who my role models were and if I knew any Sheroes (she-heroes, women regarded as heroes.) After citing several role models and women I admired and looked up to, I was informed by the author, I had be listed as a shero by someone else and if I could write a little http://noncisgender.blogspot.com/2012/02/of-ordinary-strength.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jen Fischetti)0Lauraville, Baltimore, MD, USA39.3455647 -76.573386239.3332852 -76.5931272 39.357844199999995 -76.5536452tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507821887848971398.post-4295869857183533778Tue, 20 Sep 2011 23:51:00 +00002011-09-20T20:18:52.616-04:00 “We can worry about who is this and who is that, we can argue about who does or doesn’t belong. We can talk about how much more legitimate one or another of us is. In the end, we’re all somebody’s freak – and basic human dignity is not a privilege of the lucky superior few, but a right of all or none.” -Gwendolyn Ann Smith I've been busy. Life is full and so are its challenges, http://noncisgender.blogspot.com/2011/09/how-do-i-feel-at-end-of-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jen Fischetti)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507821887848971398.post-5923770602492128126Tue, 15 Feb 2011 05:16:00 +00002011-02-15T00:16:55.410-05:00http://noncisgender.blogspot.com/2011/02/ke-kulana-he-mahu-remembering-sense-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jen Fischetti)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507821887848971398.post-3831331386193507824Mon, 17 Jan 2011 23:39:00 +00002011-01-21T23:15:24.465-05:00..wave the magic wand and a few thousand dollars, you too can be held up as the latest poster child for Role Model and success story in the Wonderful World of Dizzy.I'm not sure where we went wrong. In the rush to crown role models, or more appropriately, Idols on the par with any popular television show, we have skewed our sense of success. It is not longer that triumph of the internal struggle http://noncisgender.blogspot.com/2011/01/and-poof-im-icon.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jen Fischetti)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507821887848971398.post-60897789058136574Sun, 16 Jan 2011 19:53:00 +00002011-01-17T19:48:24.367-05:00A dear friend presented me with this book to assist me with mediation. Sadly, I'm only recently spent time with my nose in it. However, as with our friendship, when the student was ready, the lesson plan would appear.The Child Within - Many of the emotional wounds that we carry around were inflicted when we were children. One way to heal such wounds is to comfort the child within. Imagine a childhttp://noncisgender.blogspot.com/2011/01/child-within.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jen Fischetti)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507821887848971398.post-8109213284142446703Sat, 01 Jan 2011 05:01:00 +00002011-01-17T19:30:51.120-05:00Happy New Decade to all of my friends and family. A side effect of being a bit geeky is knowing that the New Millenium and thus Century and Decade started on 01/01/01. This means of course last night marked the close to our very first decade of a very apparent brave New World. Most for the obvious reasons, many for reasons yet obscured, yet I suspect, we all feel great change. I know I do.In http://noncisgender.blogspot.com/2011/01/happy-new-decade.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jen Fischetti)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507821887848971398.post-2859576739837704195Mon, 27 Dec 2010 18:34:00 +00002011-01-17T19:37:56.696-05:00Dear Coworker,I realize you are the lone hold out of my peers at work which refuses to accept my existance. I understand when you refuse to reply to my hellos. I can have empathy with your disrespect of my personal property by throwing it away. I feel the rise in your bile as I sit directly across from you in the break room causing you move to another table. My dear coworker, I am compelled to http://noncisgender.blogspot.com/2010/12/dear-holdout-coworker.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jen Fischetti)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507821887848971398.post-4534946763441401253Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:39:00 +00002011-01-17T19:44:17.134-05:00I wanted share a note I wrote on a profile I kept of me, presenting as male. I wanted those who I was friends with to be told in a manner in which I controlled the tone. I sincerely hope this note helps someone else, either in their own transition, or in coming to terms with a friend or family members coming to terms. Dear Friends, After years of struggling, therapy, love and support, I am http://noncisgender.blogspot.com/2010/12/my-coming-out-note-from-may-2010.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jen Fischetti)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507821887848971398.post-5503825379620366427Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:47:00 +00002011-01-17T18:35:48.506-05:00In May of this year, I removed any pretenses of my own making, which served to deflect the attentions of anyone, including my family, to who I truly am.The reactions were mixed as expected. Six months later I can see perspectives held by friends and family members for what they are, their own opinions of who I am and what they believe to be truth in the World. I can allow them to live in their http://noncisgender.blogspot.com/2010/11/i-wasn-only-one-with-out-story-in-my.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jen Fischetti)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507821887848971398.post-8719578166321464260Sat, 18 Sep 2010 23:52:00 +00002011-01-17T18:36:23.040-05:00In wishing to follow the suggestions from someone I hope to grow spiritually from, I'm writing. I'm writing on how I'm still powerless. Yet before I can talk about that, it's best to describe how I lacked the proportion of the ability to think straight and to utilize my human resources to solve my problems.I learned some hard facts about what little power I did possess and what means to affect http://noncisgender.blogspot.com/2010/09/wow-5-years-later-and-still-powerless.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jen Fischetti)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507821887848971398.post-1350021474553725003Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:48:00 +00002011-01-17T18:36:44.747-05:00I sit here listening to one of my muses, Sarah McLachlan reflecting back upon last year. It has been truly an amazing year. I've endured some hardships, challenges and victories. Nothing compares to the serenity I received when body and mind were made whole. I'm grateful for many things, yet this is one of the greatest.In the last year, I've said hello to new friends and old school mates. I've http://noncisgender.blogspot.com/2009/12/new-years-restitution.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jen Fischetti)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507821887848971398.post-7031118899860236265Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:29:00 +00002009-12-15T15:29:32.270-05:00Martin O’Malley, Governor Office of the Governor of Maryland 100 State Circle Annapolis, Maryland 21401-1925 December 15, 2009 Dear Governor O’Malley, We are deeply concerned that the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA) is considering moving backwards in policy related to obtaining accurate identification for transgender Marylanders. If adopted, the proposed MVA policy for genderhttp://noncisgender.blogspot.com/2009/12/letter-to-marylands-governor-omalley.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507821887848971398.post-8172907606190549875Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:15:00 +00002011-11-23T09:03:40.410-05:00I want to start out my wishing congratulations to two of my friends, Elaine and B. Elaine took a trip out to Scottsdale AZ and B a trip to San Francisco. I wish both of them a speedy recovery. I've know Elaine for over 3 years. The journey she has taken has been unfolding before my eyes. With B, our friendship is less than a year old, but equally as wonderful. As with most things in life, I findhttp://noncisgender.blogspot.com/2009/12/turn-and-face-strain.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507821887848971398.post-7798201064762479480Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:32:00 +00002009-11-25T18:04:16.646-05:00There was no way I saw this coming. I started 2009 with same level of frustration and discomfort as any of my prior years since acknowledging and accepting myself. Each year started without any reasonable expectation that better things would come to pass. I have since come to understand that as hopeless, that lacking of. Not hopeless as in unemployed, homeless, struggling with addiction issues http://noncisgender.blogspot.com/2009/11/wow-2009-you-shocked-heck-out-of-me.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507821887848971398.post-9190758958458462327Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:06:00 +00002009-11-22T12:57:42.104-05:00To all of my friends who are parents and are trans, here is to you. Sharehttp://noncisgender.blogspot.com/2009/11/happy-transparent-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507821887848971398.post-373097630378409697Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:52:00 +00002009-09-01T15:29:23.743-04:00I figure the title will scare away all the Godless heathens....8Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 10That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in http://noncisgender.blogspot.com/2009/09/2-corinthians-128-10.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507821887848971398.post-1467310209266467808Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:00:00 +00002009-06-07T15:51:04.940-04:00I would like to thank OpenLetterstoKRXQ.wordpress.com for posting the podcast of The Rob, Arnie and Dawn show on KRXQ in Sacramento. I was reading all sorts of complaints about one of their shows in which Rob and Arnie were suggesting violence to children who express gender identity disorder and had not hear it myself. Thank you. Now,Who do I see to get back the last 30 minutes of my life?I http://noncisgender.blogspot.com/2009/06/pardon-me-may-have-last-30-minutes-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507821887848971398.post-8062276821028017520Mon, 25 May 2009 03:17:00 +00002009-05-24T23:21:13.209-04:00http://noncisgender.blogspot.com/2009/05/extremely-gifted-leith-has-spoken-again.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507821887848971398.post-1610711218985092370Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:48:00 +00002008-10-01T11:55:05.432-04:00It's ironic. One year ago, while at SCC I heard Joe Solmonese speak to the largest transgender conference in America. However I didn't remember him being so " uhm" well, "uhm" un-well-spoken..... I know I usually stammer when I'm trying to deceive someone....Uhm, but, in his uhm defense, he, uhm did , uhm say he was , uhm optimist uhm about our uhm chances....http://noncisgender.blogspot.com/2008/10/one-year-later.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507821887848971398.post-7660831774729019656Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:32:00 +00002008-09-13T12:57:32.888-04:00Comprehensive National Survey on Transgender Discrimination Launched by National Center for Transgender Equality and National Gay and Lesbian Task Force"This is an absolutely critical national effort. We urge all transgender and gender non-conforming people to take the survey to help guide us in making better laws and policies that will improve the quality of life for all transgender people. We http://noncisgender.blogspot.com/2008/09/comprehensive-national-survey-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507821887848971398.post-8257445872015497390Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:18:00 +00002008-08-21T17:41:58.969-04:00film makerMichelle FarrellNY International Independent Film and Video FestivaltransitionUnraveling michelleMy friend Michelle Farrell is a film maker here in Baltimore. She has spent the last two years, in between gigs and projects, working to film, co-produce, edit and promote her project, " Unraveling Michelle" .Having just recently been honored with the Best Local Film Award at Artsfest Film Festival in Harrisburg Pa, she was estactic to receive word that the film was accepted by the NY http://noncisgender.blogspot.com/2008/08/unraveling-michelle.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-507821887848971398.post-9128396002372036357Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:49:00 +00002008-08-21T17:47:08.109-04:00BaltimoreGender Identity GroupGLCCBgratitudesoberI've been preoccupied with looking for work, staying sober and trying to be of service to my friends and fellows.Moderating The Gender Identity Group is one of the most rewarding experience I've been blessed to have had in my life. To get the opportunity to meet new friends, sharing the same dream, the dream of freedom to be ourselves, is incredible. Twice a month all of my problems disappear http://noncisgender.blogspot.com/2008/08/hang-in-there-baby-fridays-coming.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0