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Kristy Leigh is a Human Rights advocate and writer who is writing a series of articles for TGForum dealing with transgender issues from an academic perspective.
Welcome to part 2 of a trans fantasy tale by Kristy Leigh. It’s about a mysterious shop and a regular customer there. It’s one of those places that seems to never have any customers but all sorts of curiosities, and of course there’s an exotic proprietor. In Part 1 Robbie, the regular visitor to the shop, wanders around as if he’s looking for something specific. When the shop owner, Felicity, questions him about what he’s hunting for he is reluctant to tell. Felicity reads her Tarot cards.
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Welcome to part 1 of a trans fantasy tale by Kristy Leigh. It’s about a mysterious shop and a regular customer there. It’s one of those places that seems to never have any customers but all sorts of curiosities, and of course there’s an exotic proprietor. This one gives tarot card readings. Robbie is a weekly customer at the shop. It seems he’s looking for something. What could it be?
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Over the past century or so various learned individuals have arrived at theories of what makes a man and what makes a woman. To some of these (male) theorists it was apparent that women don’t really exist. Just and example of how over thinking is never a good thing. Today Kristina Leigh explores several of the theories of sexuality and gender that were arrived at years and years ago and influence people’s perceptions of why men are men and women are. . . And of course the existence of transfeminine people totally upsets the theorists. Are you ready? Here is A Psychoanalytic Model of Transgenderality.
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Kristy Leigh takes a scholarly look at three of the films in the 1990s that presented transgender characters as not just freakish beings who defied gender norms but began to move toward more diversity for transgender characters. The films she discusses are “Paris is Burning”, “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert”, and “The Crying Game”. There are footnotes.
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New Contributor Kristina Leigh is working on a series of essays about transgender issues. Today we present her first work, including copious footnotes, titled Transgenderality: A Critique of Patriarchal Institutions. Part of her thesis is “A reinterpretation of gender is not only necessary in the postmodern age; it is inevitable. Society and its institutions will catch up with transgenderality eventually. The fraudulence of sexism and phallocentricity has already been exposed; transgenderality has been one of the critiques.”
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