The Girl Who Should Know Better.
A blog mostly touching on transgender and other LGBTQ+ subjects.
Thursday, 30 June 2022
Hope
Thursday, 31 March 2022
Trans Day of Visibility
Monday, 28 February 2022
Gay Pride
For LGBTQ+ history month here's a World In Action from 1979 showing the past was a different place. From what looks like a lovely summer day out, homosexuality has only been decriminalised for just over a decade (though not in Scotland and Northern Ireland).
Marvel at the over policing, lack of big corporate sponsors and edge of defiance. Also regional accents, which is quite rare as more media from this era doesn't travel further north than Camden.
Finally as a reminder, the age of consent mentioned wasn't lowered untill the mid 90s and wasn't equalised until the millennium.
Saturday, 1 January 2022
M2X2I2
A happy new year. Don't make rash resolutions and don't beat yourself up when you fail to keep them.
Friday, 31 December 2021
Goodbye 2021
Saturday, 25 December 2021
Happy Christmas
Monday, 20 December 2021
Cards
Monday, 13 December 2021
Tin Town
Built in the early 1950's a large group of prefabricated houses were built on the edge of the inter-war Pinehurst estate as a temporary solution to the post war housing crisis. More than 70 years on they are nearly all still standing and known locally as "tin town. The council a few years ago renovated some a few years ago making it easy to spot the privately bought.
Sunday, 12 December 2021
Conversion Therapy
Wednesday, 8 December 2021
Head For Heights
Crikey it's midweek I don't know where the days gone, its not like I've been very busy. Watching a tree surgeon high up cutting a old branch in the wooded area rather too dauntingly high even without the breeze. Mind I haven't got a head for heights in the best of times, anything above a curb gives me vertigo.
Sunday, 5 December 2021
There's Something About Miriam
Stumbled across an article which reminded me wow that really was a thing. The thing being There's Something About Miriam. To copy from the Wikipedia page.
"...it featured six men wooing 21-year-old Mexican model Miriam Rivera without revealing that she was transgender until the final episode."
It was around the time of the reality boom where formats were limited only by the depravity of the pitchers mind and no thought was given to the participants. I can't comment further as I couldn't get past the first minute at the time and this from someone who watched a lot of rubbish at the time. The series also fed into the trans deceit libel which still lingers as recent articles have shown. As the recent coverage and hand wringing over Britney Spears highlighted, a lot of things from the 2000s haven't aged well, this was a particularly egregious example.
Thursday, 2 December 2021
World AIDS Day
Yesterday was world AIDS day and its amazing to think how much things have changed and yet there is still global inequalities in treatment. Also the stigma and homophobia from that period hasn't truly been eliminated.