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The sleeping, ancient blog machine coughs a puff of dust. A light flickers. Spiders scurry furiously out of dark crevices in its interior. A terrible grinding sound is heard. A slow whirring sound begins to emanate, gradually getting faster and louder.
Hello, non-existent reader. Some introductions. My name is Shannon. You will find me around the commentarat circles moving forward under the handle 'shanmongom.' I am the third organizer of the New Narratives workshop, and admittedly, the least verbose, least erudit e, and least luminous organizer of the whole affair. I am the attractive nose-studded engineer who spoke with Michelle Goldberg for close to 4 hours for her New Yorker article. My shitty tumblr is located under . I engage cautiously, because I am following down several thought paths simultaneously, some of which conflict with each other.
A New Narratives inspired forum for gender critical trans discussion is coming.
Over the coming weeks, I will begin writing on a series of topics that interest me the most. I am not, h owever, a practiced or great essayist. I prefer to write like an impressionist painter; small blotches of paint and ideas spread around, seemingly unrelated, until a picture emerges. I prefer vignettes. It's how I write, how I paint, how I come up with guitar rolls, and how I communicate ideas, from simple conversation to giant distributed enterprisey cash-spitting software contraptions. So the task of writing coherent a-b-c-and-thusly-you-suck thought pieces on transgender bullshit… well, it fills me with a sense of dread.
But maybe it'll get easier the more I do it. How does one eat an elephant? One bite at a time. And so, given my writing preferences and limitations, I'll attempt to share my thoughts on this nascent uprising of gender critical trans women in small pieces as I am able. In the works, sort of in order:
- A summary of my thoughts and hopes for New Narratives
- Narra tives of the Mind vs. Narratives of the Body: Queer vs. Medical Narratives of being trans
- Transhumanism as a predictably attractive mindset to bodily disassociated men and trans women
- Likely transhuman medical advances for transsexual bodies, body autonomy, the changing landscape of reproduction, and implications for gender abolition
- Socialization, and the neglected contributions to feminism that transgender people can offer
asked: Non-trans WoC here. First, I love your blog. Second, as for the 'Cotton Ceiling' thing, I can sympathize with transwomen. We black women get knocks to our 'woman-hood' all the damn time from every direction. But black people don't have the luxury of throwing tantrums over non-black people refusing to have sex with us. Does it hurt? Sure it does. But getting hung up over the few that won't be with us makes us overlook the many who will.
First, thanks!
Second, yes I get where you're coming from. I know from experience, it is very uncomfortable to feel in-between sexes, or to feel like the only people who are attracted to you are attracted to aspects of yourself that you feel bad about. But I think you also clearly articulated the difference, which is that instead of just accepting that not everyone is into trans people, trans women in particular have made sexual "rights" a major part of our political platform. It's incredibly self-centered.
Thanks for the note!
Duchesne County woman pleads guilty to child sex abuse committed while she was a manA Duchesne County woman has admitted she sexually abused a child in the early '90s while living as a man.
I am horrified by this man's crimes and I have a serious prob lem with the language here.
Not only is it a dangerous erasure of male violence to call this person a woman at all, but "a woman who was living as a man" is the furthest thing. "A woman living as a man" is how some might describe me when I was transitioning. "A woman living as a man" is a passing woman. This is not a woman who was "living as a man." This is a man who wants to "live as a woman," whatever that means in his twisted, sexual-violator schema.
He has at least three victims, one of whom was a 5-year-old girl at the time he attacked her. They know what he is.
If it weren't for the kind of Stockholm Syndrome present in some victimized women who continue to defend their attackers' precious "identities," I would say that the victims of sexual violator "transwomen" should be the gold standard for gatekeeping their attackers&rsqu o; "treatment" options. Forget the HBSOC, forget convincing a "gender therapist." The little girl you molested knows exactly what you are.
(Source: , via redressalert)
"You walked alone, full of laughter, you bathed bare-bellied. You say you have lost all recollection of it, remember … You say there are no words to describe this time, you say it does not exist. But remember. Make an effort to remember. Or, failing that, invent."
–Monique Wittig, from Les Guérillères
I've long harbored these suspicions that a lot of what I think of as "me" is a reaction to my conditions. As a trauma survivor, I have not only wondered at what I would be like without my damage, but have worked like hell to find out, as much as that's possible.
As a survivor, I am a huge success story. I was a dissociated, addicted, intimacy-avoidant self-harming agoraphobic with obsessive/compulsive behaviors and a messy interpersonal life, to put it kindly. For many years now I have been dramatically recovered—clean and sober, stopped self-harming, am able to travel widely and love hard, and am high-functioning with the exception of some anxiety.
All of the work I've done to get here has benefited me, of course—my life has been transformed by it. And yet, the knowledge of my own power had always remained hovering somewhere around me, nebulous, never quite touching my skin. While I had accomplished all of this healing and integration before I ever set foot at Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, I had not glimpsed the truth of who I really am and what I am truly capable of, until I got to the Land.
I was not crushed by my anxiety at the Festival. I did not feel awkward. I knew there was nothing wrong with me. Knew this.
On the Land, the power I've been cultivating for so long dropped down to reside within my body for the very first time. I glowed with it. It rose off of me like electricity.
In mensland, one of my worst anxiety triggers is public speaking. At Fest, I co-presented a workshop called Detransition Perspectives. I spoke to a larger-than-expected audience of women about some of the most intimate details of my life: words not easily spoken to the most trusted therapist, sponsor, lover, or friend. I heard myself projecting these words with casual authority to a crowd of women I'd never met before, in trust. And I could trust them. It was not that they all knew, from direct experience, what I was on about. It was that they were listening and empathizing so hard, with so much love, that their care was palpable. They were not an audience but witnesses. They spread their wings over me in she lter. They cried when I couldn't afford to. They held space for me. They cared.
In fact, they received my trust and accorded me respect and even a kind of status for having offered it. Status does not operate in a familiar way on the Land, but apparently one way it can be attained is by offering generously and intimately of yourself. Have you ever felt that your life was being wasted, sucked out of you? Have you felt that what is yours uniquely to contribute is wasted on the world at large? That you labor too long and for no real purpose? That what is true and beautiful in you is lost on the people you're surrounded by? At Fest, what you give is received so open-heartedly. What you are matters and is seen.
When Nedra Johnson sings in her brilliant new song, August Moon, "We know we are love," that is not a platitude. However it may sound to cynical ears outside the Land of the Living Matriarchy, this is the fundamental truth of Michigan: nothing I had ever experienced in my life prior to the Festival prepared me for the way that I was treated there. I have never in my life been so loved, respected, appreciated, cared for, listened to, and held—as a whole, complicated, messy, difficult, jagged Self. At Michigan, for the first time, I was not indigestible. I was not a contaminant. Nobody sought to "normalize" me in any way. I was held, as-is, without judgment or expectation of change. There was no sense that I was "too much," too intense, too dykey, too loud, too mouthy, too strange, too anything.
Norms don't function, at Michigan, the way they do in m ensland. I had assumed that at Michigan, norms might be reversed; i.e., where straight is the norm out here, lesbian would be the norm at Fest. It's true that there are far more lesbians than straight women at Fest; it is true that this culture is lesbian-feminist by origin; but it's not true that the norms are simply reversed. It's not a preservation of existing power structures with a simple exchange of nouns; it's an entirely different way of norming altogether. At Fest, the norm is multiplicity. The norm is that there are always more than two sides. The norm is that there is room for you, me, her, them, her, her, her, and her—to all be valid and real and respected. Contradiction and conflict are not a threat. There is no scarcity of legitimacy, so it's not made into a hierarchy where you have to fight each other to win it. There is a bedrock assumption that women will not throw each other away over their differences, even when they are painful to navigate. I would say that the bonds are more familial, but I have seen the nuclear kind of family explode over far less. On a related note, it generally sucks to be the "only" of something in a group, but I actually found even this type of experience to be palpably different and less hopelessly alienating at Fest.
Another critical difference between mensland and Michfest is the music. There is a reason womyn's music gets treated as a joke out here. Out here, music can be a lot of things: entertainment; an aesthetic badge of belonging within a subculture, where the aesthetics are supposed to convey a message about your identity; the sonic equivalent of art to match a sofa; the receptacle for your entire emotional experience which is disconnected from every other part of your life; or, rarely, something closer to religion. At Fest, that last meaning is brought into play in an expanded way, a way that is not divorced from the rest of the culture of the place, but that acts as its fully integrated, beating heart. The artists at Michigan are not "the entertainment;" they are something like Priestesses. Again, you are not engaged as a passive audience, but as witness and participant. These women are the soul of the Place, and some of its most powerful leaders. They create with each other in a way that conjures ideas of alchemy—they transmute reality. Simply, they are making magic and inviting you in. Across genre, the performers practice a deeply female art, and it is indescribable. Elemental. Outside of time, and resonant in a way that feels ancestral. This is more like what music was before it was ever recorded, before it was ever supposed to make money, before it was about ego in any way. It really doesn't matter if you think you "like this kind of music" or not. It is holy, and it changes you. It was so transformative that I now understand "the Land" in a different aspect, m ore of a verb—it is the ground that grounds us; the place where we can finally Land—into our individual and collective bodies.
That grounding, rooted in deep self-knowledge of female realities, is born of the continuity of female knowledge and power built over the Festival's near-40-year history. It turns out that when you stop demonizing your elder women or patronizing them as ignorant dinosaurs, and you go hang out with them in the woods instead—they show up and mentor you in ways you thought only happened for boys in novels and movies. Real mentoring. How they managed to convey what they did over the course of a measly week is beyond me—but the Old Womyn of Fest went to bat for me, showed up for me, paid a higher quality of attention than I've ever known, and fed me—emotionally, spiritually, conversationally, with their creative offerings, and with steak cooked rare so that I was well nourished while doing heavy warrior work. And they did this not because it's old women's job to be caretakers, but because they were inviting us in, with pride, to take part in what they'd built—because they know that what they have fought to make is worth passing on, and they want to invite our hands to help carry it forward into the future. I used to dream about this kind of support and offer of legacy, but I'd met enough of my former heroes to consider it a pipe dream. Come to find out, sheroes are another matter entirely. I had so much support that it was hard to absorb. I can't overstate the impact of being surrounded by packs of wild, brilliant, gorgeous, Old women.
So much of female socialization is the kind of trauma that precludes any sense of a future. To see wild Old women in a state of matriarchal nature is a phenomenal antidote. They showed me a future worth having. They gave me so much to admire—the toughness born of their resilience; the way they've honed t heir skills at listening, thinking, loving, politics, life; the way they've deepened into themselves; the way they inhabit their bodies; their attunement to their strengths and limitations. All of it was beyond beautiful and it moved me somewhere entirely new.
When I was a teenage Leslie Feinberg fan"boy," I read that essay she wrote about Michigan. The language about border policing and wrong bodies made me feel so afraid. I believed what everyone in that scene said about Michfest—that they'd panty-check anyone who seemed "off" or "wrong"—and if there was one thing I dead knew about myself then, it was that I was the embodiment of "off" and "wrong."
Without getting too personal, I grew up with a significantly atypical female body. In my "queer" subculture, I was taught—and I believed—that I would not pass muster to enter the supposedly purist gates of the F est, on this basis. This is not to mention that with Leslie Feinberg making the critique, there was also the implication that if you didn't comply with directives on male-defined "femininity," you would not be welcome. I believed the lie that a gender-defined space was required for my liberation. But the fact is, where the focus is "gender" I will always be relegated to the position of human Rorschach blot. In fact, at Fest, where the boundary is sex-defined, I find the only possible space to be free of that burden.
This is the thing I have to say about what the Festival's Intention means to me: as a female outlier living in mensland, I learned over and over that I was Wrong, and that I could not belong. Not woman enough, not man either. Because men define these things a certain way. A woman is not just an adult human female—oh no. Men have a lot more parameters than that! And it's never enough to be a woman, you have to be the "right kind," too. The rules for what makes you "right" enough are always changing, of course—it's a moving goalpost on purpose to keep us all off balance, constantly checking ourselves. They are the ones running the world like a gauntlet of panty-checks and whole-body-checks, besides—let's be clear on that. They are the ones drawing borders and policing them. They are the ones leaving so many women out in so many kinds of cold.
At Fest, there is no wrong way to be a human female. The entire goddamn point is for as many human females to gather as possible so that we can see the richness of our diversity, all of the different ways that a woman can be. Because of this, Fest is the ultimate HAVEN for female outliers—physical outliers, "gender" outliers, dykes, and other Others—as much if not more than it's a haven for women who fall squarely into what mensland rec ognizes as such in an uncomplicated way.
Got a beard, a mustache? You're not alone at Fest—lots of women will be wearing theirs openly, and plenty more will admire you—not despite it, either. Pass as male without T and without even meaning to? Welcome home; nobody will question your belonging here. To the contrary of the "panty-check" rumor, Fest is one magical place on earth where you will not have that "restroom moment" ANYWHERE. You know, the moment where some freaked out lady tells you that you're in the wrong place and you feel you have to flash your boobs at her or talk so she hears your high voice or show her your ID so she knows you are not a man. For a detransitioned woman especially, NONE OF THE ABOVE MAY EVEN BE AVAILABLE OPTIONS ANYMORE in mensland, so it makes this Place absolutely unique in its ability to hold women of this experience.
It is possible to transition medically to the point wher e the general world will not ever recognize you as female anymore, or at least—not easily. At Fest, you can still be seen and recognized as a woman, if you just show up. In fact, contrary to the rumors, there are really only two laws of the Land—one, nobody can drive a vehicle over 5 miles per hour; and two, nobody can question anyone else's gender on the Land.
There is no "WHAT ARE YOU?" at Fest. Fest is The Place where your very presence answers that incessant, eternal question so you never have to.
Oh. Except for one thing: because I know that some males decide to deliberately violate the intention of the gathering, I looked with suspicion at some of the other women there. I scanned their bodies for signs of femaleness, to calm my nervous system. That is SUPREMELY messed up. That is exactly how I hoped nobody would regard me. But because some males insist on showing up at Fest in violation of the intention, they sow this seed of do ubt and fear. This hyper-vigilance that I could otherwise lay down actually went on overdrive—because if you are a male who deliberately violates female boundaries, then you are exactly who I am most afraid of, for very legitimate reason, regardless of your "gender identity." And I say this not out of ignorance, but direct experience, including being an erstwhile member of the trans community. Sex is real and it matters; all males who violate female boundaries scare me. I will never feel safe around that behavior; I do not want to be coerced to attempt it. In that attempt I lose my very breath. In the words of poet Dionne Brand, "If I am peaceful…is not peace,/is getting used to harm."
When I listened to Nedra Johnson sing, "First time I came to Festival, I learned I'd always been afraid/Finally laid that burden down; I could not believe the weight," I so wanted to experience that feeling. I know how heavy this one is for me . That fear has been with me for longer than I can remember. It is older than language, in my body. But that's not the burden I got relieved of; because I knew that there were some males present who clearly, demonstrably felt entitled to violate female boundaries. So I still carried that fear on the Land. Not as much as out here—I went for late night walks on the Land. But I didn't go alone and I didn't go unarmed. It made me sad that this felt necessary, but the violation itself is traumatic enough, regardless of any additional actions. That said, I took heart in knowing that I was surrounded by many women I would trust to respond appropriately if I needed help. That's worth a lot. It is a material difference.
And I did get to put something very heavy down on that Land. The burden I got relieved of was shame about my body. So when I sing along to Nedra's song in my T-scarred voice, I sing, "First time I came to Festival, I lear ned I'd always been ashamed." I hope Nedra doesn't mind the liberty I take with her lyric. I truly could not believe the weight of the shame I let go of There.
Being atypical, I really did not believe I belonged in the category of "female." I grew up thinking I was a monster. It is really hard for me to talk about my body anyway, but when males, on the basis of their trans identities, claim to have been female from birth; when they talk about their bodies as outlier female bodies (for example, when they say their dicks are "just very large clits," or when they say, "I am just a DIFFERENT KIND of female with a different KIND of female body,"), it actually becomes impossible for me to name my reality at all. They are using the only words I can use to explain my experience, and they are using them to mean the exact opposite of what I need them to mean, in order for me to be sayable, to even be thinkable. What they reser ve for metaphor makes my literal naming incomprehensible. Regardless of "gender identity," what they actually are is male; what I actually am is female. To deny this only makes any redress of our actual, specific grievances, impossible. And the distinction matters to me in large part because it was so brutally difficult for me to get to the point where I could know that I am female—that my differences may sometimes put me at a margin, but that I still belong in this word. That I am just as much a standard as any other female, in my way. I have known this intellectually but it is different to be at Michigan, mirrored by many other Selves who teach you by their Being. Now that I finally know this, not only in my mind but from within all the borders of my own body, I want to scream, "You cannot stand in the exact spot I am standing in without standing on me."
On the internet I don't bother too much with this be cause I can't prove I'm an atypical female rather than a male telling tall tales; on the Land it was different. Women saw me; they recognized me and they understood that what I said was true. They knew it was truth because truth Lands differently than bullshit. They heard my story and they knew I was talking about another variety of female socialization, not male projections, stories, lies, or narratives of any kind. There is a difference. The conflation of male trans experiences with the experiences of female outliers and with intersex people is erasure by appropriation. Many males with trans identities use intersex as a talking point for why they belong on the Land, but it really has jack-all to do with their argument and I suspect they know it. Women with AIS or CAH (for example) haven't been protesting for inclusion on that basis; such a protest would be incomprehensible, because these experiences are already inherently part and parcel of the Intent ion. The boundaries of Fest are not identity-based, but about material, sex-based reality; providing haven and healing on that basis. Understanding women with intersex traits/conditions/DSDs as belonging There—if they themselves see it that way—is a given. Like I said, if anything, atypical and outlier women of all kinds have an even greater degree of haven.
So—outside of the mistrust and suspicion that is sown by males who deliberately violate the female boundaries set by Fest, there is no WHAT ARE YOU on the Land. What you are is a womon, and a sister, and the daughter of this Place. I say daughter because this Place acts like every idea you never let yourself have about a real Mother Goddess; every idea you never let yourself have because you needed Her too much to let yourself feel that when you didn't believe that need could ever be met in this life.
You know that old therapy joke, If it's not one thing, it's your mothe r? You know how the national pastime of the USA is mother-blaming? You know how you have this well of bottomless need that you want to put on your mom even though she's just one person doing the very best she can and it's never going to be good enough? You know the old saw about it taking a village to raise a child?
Can you imagine being held in the kind of security that comes from being mothered by something outside of the bounds of time and space that constrained your human mother? Can you imagine being mothered by something that isn't passing on patriarchal damage along with life-giving milk? Can you imagine being mothered by something that doesn't require you to cut off pieces of yourself in order to receive the care you need?
I don't have to imagine this anymore; I have known it. And because of this I can start to glimpse for the first time, flashes of an answer to questions like, "Who would I be if I had been raised with perfect love and support?" "Who would I be if I had not been harmed and twisted?" "Who would I be if I had never been measured against a toxic standard?" "Who would I be if I had not grown up fearing rape?" "Who would I be if I had not had to spend so many years on simply trying to survive, heal, and recover?" Those questions start to get a lot less rhetorical, in light of Fest. The nourishment seems to be unbound by space/time limitations—it seems to reach back to all of my past selves who most need to be fed.
What I am left with is this bitter question: "Who would I be if I had not been lied to and kept from this Place for all these years?"
I believe I would be speaking and singing in a voice nobody will ever hear again, a voice I altered with testosterone instead. I believe my body would be more typical for my chronological age, and not frequently disabled by chronic pain. I believe I would have ha d the chance to manage and learn the logic of the odd hormonal balance I carried before I disrupted and obscured it by adding T. I believe I would speak from the position of having recovered my sense of bodily integrity, instead of living with the knowledge that I colluded in my own erasure by medical "normalizing." I believe I would be a hell of a lot less alone.
It is not possible to really know how to love yourself with abandon and without condition—until you have been loved that way first. And I have been loved that way—courageously, with the imperfect but divinely-inflected human love of the womyn of Fest, but also—perfectly, by the Fest Herself. She is more than the sum of Her parts.
I was not a "woo" person before this experience. I thought it was creepy that people capitalized "the Land." I thought it was weird that people talked about Fest with female pronouns like a person. I thought it was all kind o f corny and embarrassing. But this isn't any sexy pagan/martyr mommy/flowy robes/demure white lady/Giving Tree/"holy tit"/pushover/has-a- male-consort Goddess I ever heard of before. This is the Lioness who eats the faces of her enemies; this is the All for whom we are never too much; this is the butch Goddess who only consorts with Us; the dyke Goddess who knows and needs our hearts; this is the best of us all, made electric by connection; the incredible gift woven of so many women's lives; this is, as Staceyann Chin put it, "our collective cunt."
This is finally Landing at Home, in Family, Tribe, Belonging, Self, Wholeness, Integrity, Truth and Trust. I don't care if I sound like Dr. Bronner. This is real.
And I don't care which dumb Gay, Inc. or sham "lesbian" organization (*cough* NCLR) tries to make it "wrong." I need Her. We need Her. And She will go on, powered by Us.
Anonymous asked: I was trying to ask if you would have considered that to be changing your sex.
If I could get an operation that allowed me to get pregnant, I would be psyched because then my bf and I could just pump out some kids, and it would save me a lot of heartache/headache/money etc over adoption. (Assuming this uterus operation wasn't insanely expensive, which of course it would be.)
In a practical sense, that would make my life easier. But tbh I still don't think I would have really changed sex, because I'm pretty sure my relationship with my body would be seriously different from basically any other woman ever, since I spent 30+ years not worrying about being raped and 40+ years not worrying about accidental pregnancy.
Anonymous asked: And how do feminists you know/have relationships with feel about calling yourself a feminist?
All of my irl feminist friends, including radical feminist friends, are fine with that. If they weren't, I would rethink it. (And I want to be clear: this includes radical feminist friends who are heavily involved in female-only spaces, where I would definitely not be welcome.) Other radical feminists who I am not friends with might be upset about it. That's something I live with.
I don't want to do anything that harms women but as I said I think that not publicly identifying as a feminist in my day-to-day life would be more harmful to women-as-a-class than referring to myself as feminist, even though I am male. I would be happy to have this convo irl, but not necessarily on the internet in relation to my anonymous blog, if that makes sense. Life is complicated.
I will say that sometimes I want to write "Male feminists lol" on my blog, and then I don't write that for obvious reasons. Except, again, life is complicated.
Anonymous asked: Hi, I'm a mtf and my experience is very unusual but I'll cut to the chase. I've been on HRT for a very long time because it alleviates some of the pain but I haven't transitioned because I'm certain that I would never pass. My dysphoria only gets stronger with time but I feel stuck, I want to transition but I'm afraid that I wouldn't feel any better about myself and my body, with the added benefit of being ostracized for being visibly trans. Can you offer any advice?
Hi anon, thanks for writing.
I think it is really normal and healthy that you are considering how passing or not passing would impact your life, if you decided to transition. This is a reality that all transitioning trans women have to deal with. It has the potential to be really upsetting if your transition doesn't meet your expectations, or if you begin to face undue amounts of harassment.
However, you may want to examine those two things car efully. What are your expectations in transition? If you don't think you'll be able to pass, then you will probably never blend in/be able to go stealth. However, there is a whole range of experiences of trans women who even though they are visibly trans, are accepted by other people as being sincere in their wish to live socially as women. I've known plenty of trans women who didn't pass but also didn't seem to have that many problems day-to-day - strangers would sort of note "Oh, she's different", and usually kind of leave it at that.
You may also want to think about how likely you are to face threats and harassment. Trans activist like Parker Molloy, Julia Serrano, and Janet Mock LOVE to overstate the amount of grief they get, because they think that being a victim "validates their womanhood". (Remember: Janet Mock said that when she was sexually molested as a child, she was being "treated like a girl". F ucking yikes!) The reality is that if you are white, college educated, and have a modicum of social skills, you are probably not going to have that hard of a time. Likewise, when I was younger I had a lot of black trans girl friends who were pretty well-known around their neighborhoods as being trans and also didn't have that many problems (in their own neighborhoods anyway - dealing with white cops and white johns was a different story).
Finally, you may want to think about expanding your gender presentation, rather than "transitioning" as if it is binary. The most important thing is to find a way of expressing yourself that feels comfortable and that helps you to be better socially integrated and more effective in life.
Good luck!
Anonymous asked: Hi Snowflake. I was wondering if ftm trans men were welcome to participate in New Narratives or if it's a trans woman only space? Either way, I wanted you to know I support the work you do. You're one of my role models. Thank you for everything!
Hi anon, thanks for your sweet note!
We wanted New Narratives to be a trans-woman only event (or hopefully series of events…), specifically because we felt like our house was super dirty and we needed to clean up our dirty laundry. And, knowing the fragility of male egos, it might be hard to do that in a mixed-sex setting! ;)
Personally, I would love it if there were more gender-critical discussion groups that were mixed sex. As different as the experiences of female and male trans people are, my discussions with ftm and female detransitioner friends have been HUGELY helpful in understanding my own life - both in terms of illuminating common experiences, and helpin g to understand how profound some of our differences are.
best wishes!
Anonymous asked: I don't know if I'm missing something where it's a term used when arguing about this stuff, but the "100% male rationalist idiocy" line stood out to me. Are they claiming that your position is rational, and also that only men can be rational, and therefore you're not a woman and also wrong about the thing you're being rational about?
I've encountered this before, from someone who was unable to provide any evidence that cis women were in actual danger due to trans women in restrooms. When I pointed out that their concerns appeared to be completely baseless and thus irrelevant to policy, they then proposed a process of "building consensus" - which they told me was "often found in groups run by women", in which "people with concerns shar e them and solutions are found that everybody can live with". In other words, it's an arena of pure opinion where facts have no power to invalidate any "concern".
Such notions of "building consensus" and "male rationalist idiocy" accomplish two things:
1. Reinforcing gender essentialism and sexism by claiming that men and women are inherently predisposed to, and more skilled at, different kinds of cognition and behavior - 'men think like this, women think like that'.
2. Reinforcing misogyny by implying that women are averse to rationality, dismissive of reality, and interested solely in their own free-floating opinions.
None of this seems particularly radical, or feminist. It's just repackaged patriarchy.
Zinnia, you are so much stupider than you think you are, I honestly sometimes feel sorry for you.
It is a FACT that males (including trans women) commit violent crime at statistically significantly higher rates than females - including trans men. Over the last week on tumblr, we all saw Sylvia Rivera Law Project get in hot water for defending a trans woman who shoved a raped, murdered thirteen year old girl into a diaper box and then set it on fire. Actually, pretty sure you were defending this same sick fuck in your original asinine Hitler post!
However, you don't like it that women don't think your dick is female, so you ignore the FACT of male violence, and the FACT that you creep a lot of women out with your endless selfie ass pics that you jerk off to, so you instead adopt a "rationalist" mindset. If you weren't such an insufferable asshole, it would be super funny - because all your "rational" opinions are based on a highly edited version of reality, which always centers you and your wants and desires.
So let me break it down for you and your anon: as far as I can tell, "rationalism" on the internet means a dude endlessly mansplaining, who thinks he has all the facts but is actually hilariously out of touch. And yes, this tends to be a male thing - because women tend to listen to each other, and trust what other women say. That's kind of what the "building concensus" thing means - though I can't imagine you'd know that, because if I had to wager I'd say you've never hung out in a group of women where you weren't the focus. Probably, because you're incapable o f listening to women. (Maybe you'll listen to me, since I'm a trans woman, but I doubt it.)
Anyway, go ahead and say it's "patriarchy" when people point out that you are a gender-conforming male with a sexual fetish, who thinks and behaves like any other gender-conforming male with zero empathy. (Which is exactly what you are, except for the hormones.) And by all means, keep complaining about "silly women" and their consensus, like the nice guy you are. (btw - why don't you wear a fedora in your videos?) To be honest, everyone with half a brain is laughing at you.
of course the terfs have capitalised on the monetizeyourcat thing. of course they use it as evidence that if you are a "tumblr sj genderspecial male" you are probably an abuser, a coward and a hypocrite. i hate terfs so fucking much
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I don't know who the fuck those people are or what they have to do with "our lot", and it's not really relevant to issue here, which is that radical feminists, yourself included note, are exploiting trans victims of sexual abuse in order to attack them for being trans. this is textbook victim blaming but you've got your head rammed too far up your ideology to recognize it.
as I now have the unenviable distinction of having known two trans women with a history of sexual predation I can note that both favored other trans women as marks
presumably due to shared culture and intimate knowledge of our vulnerable, unprotected status
the trans community thanks the cracked-out cat ladies of feminism for their heartfelt concern for victims of intra-community violence. We are pleased with your totally genuine concern, which can't possibly be an exercise in distasteful straw-grabbing by people who to this day can't name a single documented incident of Bathroom Peril. Have a wonderful day.
Hey CS! I don't really understand your blog - because you say a lot of really smart things sometimes, but then when (female) women say things that you don't like, your comments basically read to me like "dumb bitches should shut up". Really?
You're a scientist, so listen to science: It's a fact that trans women commit violent crime at the same rate as all males - which as you know, is epidemic in proportion. It's also a fact that the list of trans woman
rapists, child murderers, child porn fans, child rapists, etc etc is so long we can't even keep an accurate list. (Here is a short one which is missing a lot of
our sisters seriously fucked up dudes who I personally have ZERO in common with except for taking hormones. Do you really feel like you have something in common with them? Yikes.)
I agree that there is an epidemic of trans women who are sexual predators on other trans women - and I'm not talking about "copping a feel while I was stoned and having a bad dysphoria day", I'm talking about sexually assaulting trans kids and teens, rape, and physical abuse.
But there is ALSO an epidemic of trans women raping and murdering women born female. Let's be real, ok? Thanks!!
Also: there are literally 1000 trans women/cross dressers on this list who got arrested for perving on women in the women's bathroom. So please stop saying "it never happens", ok? Thanks!!!
Whelp ok, so you're hypocritical and an asshole.
Thanks for your insightful commentary!
Anonymous asked: Do you think it would ever be possible to change your sex? I'm talking in a most likely hypothetical world. I realize most of the changes transitioning brings is aesthetic. But if we lived in a world where trans women could become pregnant, have periods, and naturally produce estrogen and trans men could produce sperm and testosterone, do you think that would count as changing your sex? Because I would.
If we lived in a world where people could change sex, then people could change sex.
How could I disagree? That's a tautology.
Anonymous asked: Males can't be feminists, I'm sure you realize that. Do you have anything to say about it?
I think men (meaning: males who live socially as men) can be allies to women, but not feminists. Most trans women seem to have more in common with men than with women and should not call themselves feminists. And some trans women fetishize women's oppression and should NEVER call themselves feminists, or even allies.
I am not a radical feminist and I would never claim that label, though radical feminism (and lesbian separatism) are probably my biggest influences in terms of how I think about feminism. I do refer to myself as a feminist in my day-to-day life; if I didn't refer to myself as a feminist, I would be really dropping the ball given that I work in a male-dominated field which is super sexist, and people usually assume I'm female. I also refer to myself as a feminist on my blog, because a lot of the issu es I write about are issues I face at the intersection of having been a gender non-conforming male who has now spent the majority of my life living as a girl/woman and generally being perceived female.
I'm not saying I'm special but on the other hand I named my blog what I named it for a reason.
Hope that answers your question?
Anonymous asked: Based on things you reblog, it's clear that you don't even think trans women are women so what's even the point then? Why should anyone call you by female pronouns if that's how you feel? Because you tell them to?
What are you talking about? I don't think you've taken the time to read many of my original posts - which I admit, I haven't been publishing as many of recently.
I think some trans women are women. I think most trans women probably aren't women. I acknowledge the fact that zero trans women are female. However, some trans women are assumed to be female by others - that's how they end up being "women" in a social sense.
I haven't told anyone to call me any pronoun in a very long time. People refer to me with female pronouns because they usually appear to think I am physically female, and because after living this way for 20+ years I have been (mostly) resoci alized as a woman. Meaning, even though I am gender non-conforming for a woman in certain ways, overall I fulfill the social role "woman". I don't know that I will pass for the rest of my life, and I don't know whether I will choose to stop living stealth at some point. But this is where I'm at right now.
I contrast my own life experience with trans activist like Parker Molloy and Zinnia Jones who have meltdowns when people "misgender" them, but simultaneously deny they are male (despite routinely posting dick pics, in ZJ's case) or that they were socialized male. Parker and Zinnia are always requesting to be referred to as female, and they will FLIP OUT if you don't go along with them. That's not me.
Actually, I'm fine admitting that I was socialized male! And even after the "sex change", my underlying physiology is male. Being able to say those things doesn't mean I hate myself: it means I am at peace with the world, and I have a grip on reality.
Best wishes, anon.


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"Traveling the world is one of the greatest things you can ever do for yourself. It will shatter all illusions, stereotypes, and notions you have of the world and the people in it. You will unlearn, learn, and relearn things you will never discover through a book, a classroom, or a degree. It will humble you, shake you, wake you up. It will seep into your pores and find its way to your heart, and it will find it fast. The veil over your vision will come off and you will experience things that fringe over magic. And you will never ever be the same again in the best way possible. So do yourself a favor, and just buy that d**n plane ticket." ~ Satori
By the age of 17, I had lived in five different countries and four different continents. Several words even though they sound the same mean two different things and invoke two different emotions. You know them?
My point is I'm a minority everywhere I go even in my passport country but when faced with the option of celebrating my difference or conforming to what was considered the norm, I chose to celebrate my difference and I haven't looked back since.
You see growing up everywhere the way I did, I initially had an identity crisis. You know. Who am I?
Why am I not like them?
Why is my accent different?
But I came to realize that there is true beauty in our world. I also came to realize that even though the world is full of differences, many of us use these differences to drive people apart. With this realization, all of a sudden I had a sense of purpose. I saw my identity crisis as a gift. I saw my difference as an opportunity to show the world that there is beauty in having the mindset of a nomad. Not only in the way it opens our minds but also in the perspectives it gives us.
Many of today's world's problems today are caused because of people's unwillingness to accept change whether it's race, religion or ethnic background. Why can't we use OUR DIFFERENCES to make a DIFFERENCE."
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Finding Your Customers in Social Media
Social media has complicated the lives of web marketers because customer demographics shift constantly. Currently, search engine results are still more important than social networking sites when it comes to driving traffic to websites, especially among older users. For younger Internet users, social media are much more popular.
However, some studies show rapid growth in the use of social media by older adults and an increasing number of women using Facebook. It's almost impossible to keep up with these trends, especially as new social channels evolve continuously.
Your best bet is to use Quantcast or Alexa to obtain current demographic data for any social media site that you plan to use.
To organize your findings, build a spreadsheet with rows for each of the marketing methods selected on your checklist. Then create columns for audience, impressions (the number of times an ad is seen), cost per month, venues, and delivery schedule. You can incorporate offline marketing in this spreadsheet or duplicate this arrangement for offline expenses and then add the two together.
The combination of marketing methods you decide to implement is called your marketing mix. When completed, this spreadsheet encapsulates your marketing plan, showing how your marketing mix will achieve the objectives you've already established.
If you lose direction, you'll end up wasting money. After several months, discard the methods that don't work and put more money into the ones that are successful — or add another method or two. Over time, you'll develop an optimized, online marketing program that you can monitor and tweak as needed.


text: Close to or during the 2.0.0 string freeze (don't remember which), support for translation of .schemas files was added to intltool. If this should be adopted gnome-wide this unfortunately meant that several hundreds of new messages would be added for the translators to translate in the middle of the string freeze, and after discussion we agreed upon that this could wait until after the freeze. Unfortunately, this was forgotten, and here we are again, in the middle of the next string freeze. Damien Donlon was kind enough to add bug reports so we'll not forget it again (thanks!): http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89354 (gnome-media) http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89361 (gnome-control-center) http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89362 (nautilus) http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89363 (gnome-applets) http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89364 (libgnome) http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89365 (eog) http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89366 (gnome-games) However, the question remains whether this breaks string freeze and/or should be fixed now. Regarding the string freeze, it can be argued that these are all just bug fixes and not adds new messages per se (it just appears that way to translators). In any case, my personal opinion is that the fixes for these bugs should wait until after this string freeze anyway(*), unless there will be additional time given to translators to translate these messages. The rationale behind that is that it's a lot of additional messages (110 for gnome-games alone) and since they are only displayed in schemas, they are probably not as important as many other messages to the end-users localization experience. Also, there isn't much difference in the end result between these bugs being fixed now and no extra time given to translators, and this being punted for later. The end result will be close to the same. :-( But the main reason is that adding these messages now will result in the translation status report (http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gtp/status/) to become close to useless for translators. The translation status report only displays the percentage and number of untranslated messages, it doesn't rank them after importance. So anyone wanting to make sure all important messages are translated in time for 2.0.1 will have big trouble. Important messages that are highly visible in the user interface will be indistinguishable in the stats from schemas messages that are not that important, and this in the most critical time when we are trying to make sure that all important messages are translated for 2.0.1. Of course, everyone's opinion may be different... Christian (*) Naturally, there's nothing that I know of stopping this from being fixed in HEAD right away for those modules that have a gnome-2-0 branch.


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Jackson Dean of Operations (2020-21) Featured
What You'll Do Overview At RePublic, our school-based operations teams exist to block and tackle for staff to ensure that they can focus on what matters most each day - teaching and learning. Equal parts data mastermind, systems tuner, community builder, and leader in training, the Dean of Operations reports directly to the school-based Director of Operations. He/she works to implement and maintain crucial systems that enable our schools to run like clockwork to create an academic environment in which instruction is top priority - and does whatever it takes in service of this goal. Strong operations allow our schools to be more academically successful - and our Ops teams do whatever it takes in service of this goal. Masterminds behind the scenes, the scene is better planned, organized, executed, documented, and communicated because of each school's Operations Team. Key Responsibilities Student Recruitment + Enrollment Lead the school-based team in all year-round student enrollment initiatives and activities including, but not limited to, phone banking, canvassing, visibility campaign planning, community event participation, and strategic social media marketing Manage the student enrollment process and drive enrollment results by converting potential applicants to fully enrolled scholars through phone calls, in-person meetings, and other strategic methods that build family investment in the school and RePublic model. Plan and host major enrollment milestone events and assist families in completing enrollment paperwork, including, but not limited to, Lottery Events, New Student Orientation, and School Information Sessions. Manage student retention risks. Collect, organize, and analyze data to determine school-wide trends and to identify individual students who are at risk of unenrolling from RePublic's schools. Use data to lead and drive daily student risk meetings with the school-based leadership team. Invest leaders and manage action around attrition risks daily. Build strong intentional relationships with new and returning scholars and families to ensure they persist year to year within the RePublic Schools network, through middle and high school. School Culture + Community Building Develop a strong school community and identity by planning and owning the execution of school-wide and off-site events (ex. field trips, Family Nights, Spirit Weeks, school dances, and Parent Involvement Committee meetings), student athletic programs, and extracurricular activities and clubs. Increase agency and access for families- produce high-quality written communication on the behalf of the school (family newsletters, flyers, school marketing materials, etc.). Cultivate strong relationships with community partners, advocate for students and their parents; help provide access to multiple types of resources for our families. Build and execute social media strategy. Generate, edit, publish and share on-brand content weekly (original text, images, and video) with the intent of showcasing the school's greatest assets and to clearly communicate with families about upcoming events, calendar changes, and updates. Student Data + Compliance Serve as resident expert on and key manager of the district and school-facing student information management systems, and ensure accuracy of these systems. Manage accurate submission of student attendance, grades, and behavior. Ensure school is adhering to all local/state compliance and reporting requirements. School Operations Support + Professional Development Support the school-based operations team to ensure seamless execution of all operational systems each day, including, but not limited to, food provision, transportation (arrival and dismissal), emergency plans, facility maintenance and upkeep, school decor and beautification, supply and asset inventory and maintenance (technology, books, classroom supplies, etc.). Work with the school operations team to manage logistical elements of major student assessments; collect and track important school paperwork from scholars and teachers. Continuously seeks feedback for improvement with the ultimate intent of taking on increased operations leadership responsibilities in the future. Who You Are Our ideal Dean of Operations has an unwavering belief that our students can achieve at an exceptionally high level. Beyond that, he/she is: Deeply committed to serving our kids. You have elected to work with historically underserved students, and do this work because you believe that all students, regardless of background, are capable of excellence - and that it's on us as adults to get our kids there. You can speak knowledgeably about our mission, and demonstrate a commitment to our educational model. You understand that educational inequity is more pronounced in the South than anywhere else in the nation, and you want to work with RePublic in part because of our commitment to this region. Knowledgeable about the inner workings of schools and school-based Operations. Ideally, you've got at least 2 years of experience teaching or working in operations in schools like ours - or in schools where you felt operational systems kept teachers from teaching and kids from learning. A laser-focused systems builder who designs airtight systems and processes that endure over time and maximize efficiency. You anticipate where a system will break down before it ever stands a chance, and nothing makes you happier than when you see others implement this system like clockwork. A detail maven and masterful executor. Your personal organization system ensures you get things done. You sweat the smallest of stuff, communicate effectively in all forms, and plan fervently backwards to meet timelines, achieve big goals, and manage complex projects with many moving pieces (and lots of involved stakeholders) across a finish line. A gritty problem-solver. You keep it cool when things are crazy, approach problems with viable solutions, and know when you need to roll up your sleeves to support your team. Customer service oriented. You want to be a servant leader, and are comfortable in leadership roles where your job is to make it easier for others to do theirs at an exceptionally high level. A quick and humble learner . You want to move from good to great when it comes to operations execution and the coaching and management of other people. You're a sponge and you take every opportunity to learn and grow. A serial optimist. You bring a positivity to our scholars, their families, and this work that is unparalleled. You believe great things are possible! Other qualifications: A bachelor's degree At least 2 years of teaching experience in K-12 with a track record of impressive student achievement results and/or other experience working in K-12 schools strongly preferred. Familiarity/proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Google Office required. Strong preference for candidates with proficiency / experience in: Budget management and oversight Phone banking, canvassing, campaign strategy Experience with Hootsuite or other social media marketing tools Student information systems such as Infinite Campus, School Runner, PowerSchool, and BrightArrow Salary is competitive and commensurate based on experience. 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YouTube comedic sensation Rob Paravonian guest starred on our April 12, 2015 concert. Having mutually followed each other on Twitter, we asked if he'd play a movement from a Corelli trio sonata, which had the same bass line as the Pachelbel Canon in D Major (subject of Rob's "Pachelbel Rant")
Rob agreed to play, but I kept it from our other members.
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A selection of nine apps for you today:
Scramble With Friends
Zynga has launched the latest in its With Friends franchise, following the ongoing popularity of Words With Friends. The new title is Scramble With Friends, and is a Boggle-esque game that involves finding words in a jumbled grid of letters. The idea is playing against friends or strangers over two-minute rounds.
Beyoncé Live at Roseland
Beyoncé's four-night run of gigs at the Roseland Ballroom in New York? There's an app for that, from Sony Music. It includes videos of performances from the concerts, weighing in at a hefty 676.6MB for the privilege. At £5.99, though, it's cheaper than the DVD.
iPhone / iPad
DK Dinosaur Stickers
Dorling Kindersley's latest iPad book-app is a virtual dinosaur sticker book, with 64 stickers and 14 backdrops for children to create prehistoric collages on. The resulting images can be saved and shared.
Cisco Connect Express
Cisco has launched a useful app to help people manage their home Wi-Fi networks, adding devices, handling guest access and tweaking Wi-Fi and router information. The link above is for Android, but you can find the iPhone version here.
Android / iPhone
American Revolution Interactive Timeline
A spot of tablet history for you here, with an app from non-profit organisation The American Revolution Center in the US. The app explores the American Revolution with images, manuscripts, videos and other content, arranged around a zoomable timeline.
Farm Frenzy 3
Alawar Entertainment's Farm Frenzy franchise gets its third game on Android, with levels set across Africa, Russia, the Wild West and the jungle. That means lions, jaguars and bears are trying to run rampage on your virtual farm – not a problem seen in games like FarmVille.
App developer Algorhyt.hm is getting some buzz around its #politics app for iPad, which tracks news and analysis on the US political scene. That involves scanning news, blogs and video sources.
Angry Birds
Yes, surprisingly there are still a fair few platforms where Rovio's Angry Birds haven't yet flown. Samsung's Bada smartphones have joined the flock though, with a version of the hugely popular game.
This is the latest game designed to be played with Parrot's AR.Drone remote-controlled helicopter. This one blends augmented reality, space rockets and aggressive aliens.
iPhone / iPad
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We currently have an opportunity for a Buyer working for a client within the defence industry who are based in Bristol. The role is working in the Marine Sector and will be working on a range of exciting design, manufacture and support projects. This part of the business works with a number of key clients domestically and internationally and is based at a number of sites in the UK and overseas. The business continues to win new work and grow at a significant pace, as a result we are recruiting for talented, enthusiastic and driven people.
The role will involve providing support to the Marine and Technology Supply Chain within their capability and/or level of experience complying with corporate, and regulatory and legislative requirements.
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- Monitor the performance of suppliers relevant to their transactional activity or as directed by the Senior Buyer or appropriate responsible manager, ensuring Contract terms are monitored and performance is communicated to suppliers as necessary to ensure continued or improved satisfactory performance levels are achieved, as part of the continuous improvement of vendors.
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Dan Dupee spoke at Jubilee Professional 2016. See what thoughtful and challenging speakers will be at Jubilee Professional 2018 HERE.
About 60% of kids raised in the church leave during the college years. Father of four and author Dan Dupee explores this phenomena in his book "It's Not Too Late: The Essential Part You Play In Shaping Your Teen's Faith." He looks at three opportunities that can help parents continue to be influential to their teen's faith.
Confront Myths
Teens tend to give off the "I need you but I don't want to need you" or "I love you but sort of hate you" attitude. In reality, Dan reminds parents that kids are always looking towards their guardians, even during college. Just as Jesus looked to his father, parents matter.
Create Opportunities
Parents make mistakes. Everybody makes mistakes. Dan created a list of way to create opportunities for your children within the messes and mistakes parents make. Even with imperfections that lead to suffering, we experience God's true and beautiful grace.
Stay With It
Entrepreneurs constantly experience triumphs and trials, they experiences periods of anger and periods of love for their program, business, or organization. Likewise, a parent's relationship with their child will go through highs and lows. Even when they make choices that can't be taken back, they can be forgiven.
Lastly, Dan reminds us that, "Our kids needs us to hang in there with them and invite others into the fray."
Dan's book is available at Hearts and Minds Books. Order a copy today!


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Reflecting United Nude's flare for innovation, the store is a hallmark to the brand's conceptual approach. The entire store encased in darkness where the products alone are highlighted in the exclusive computer controlled Wall of Light TM installation, presenting each shoe as a work of art encapsulated in its own geometric frame, while mirrored walls create the sensation of vastness and grandeur.
United Nude takes every detail seriously, from designing our products with cutting edge materials and technologies to their final presentation; enhancing the customer's experience.
United Nude's Creative Director Rem D said of the new Vienna concept store: "This store is actually the celebration of our success in Vienna, as we've simply moved a few doors down from where we had a store for nearly 3 years. The new location is much bigger then the previous and the shop interior now includes the Wall of Light for the complete theatrical United Nude shopping experience.


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Garner, Wake County
Garner Criminal Defense
If you live in Garner and are charged with a criminal, you will likely appear at some point at the Wake County Justice Center in Raleigh.
Justice Center offices are open Monday through Friday from 8:30 to 5:00 (except court holidays)
The morning session begins at 9:00 am; the afternoon session of District Court begins at 2:00 pm.
If you get to the courtroom late, simply approach a bailiff who does not look busy, and let him know that you have arrived in the courtroom.
Criminal Court Address
North Carolina's unified court system is county-based, with each county having its own courthouse. Wake County criminal courthouse is located at:
Wake County Justice Center
300 S. Salisbury St.
Raleigh, NC 27601
Phone: (919) 792-4000
Justice Center Parking
You can enter the Wake County Justice Center on Salisbury Street. There is limited street parking around the courthouse, usually for not longer than two hours. There are a number of nearby parking garages that take credit cards or cash.
For more information on the Wake County Justice Center, visit NCCourts.org or Wake County's government page.


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Who doesnt like blooming dandelions?
To me, they are like smiling mini suns. Full of buzzing bumble bees, cheers my day every time I look at them. I collect many dandelion leaves and love them fresh for salads, stuffings or spreads; or dried for teas, but dandelion blossoms are tricky to preserve. If, you want to dry them they become puffs and would fly away.
Sometimes i make sun-dandelion water like this, pull out yellow petals from the flower, pour water over and leave them in sunlight for a couple hours
but my favorite way to eat dandelion blossoms is to make dandelion butter
As usual, i collect blossoms in full bloom
then, i separate petals from sepals (the green leaves under)
then, those yellow petals i mix with butter, coconut oil, and honey, equal parts of each, 100g/about 3oz.
Some of it i preserve for winter, i freeze it in little cubes using a silicon tray
or in small jars
Some of it, i eat right away, its good for a few days in the fridge.
Love it on toast with herbal teas
Whats your favorite way to enjoy dandelion blossoms?
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Misty Mount Diablo
So I'm packing my bags for the Misty Mountains
Where the spirits go now,
Over the hills where the spirits fly, ooh.
- Led Zeppelin, IV "Misty Mountain Hop"
I took this photo a week ago on Labor Day, while time lapsing the Carquinez Bridge. Now Mount Diablo is on fire.


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Although each build seems to have a distinctive app name ("NetBeans 6.5", "NetBeans Dev $Timestamp", etc), the installer
seems to like creating first a folder into /Applications and then putting all the NetBeans versions in there
The vast majority of OSX applications *don't do this* nor do OSX users. All applications that are going to be used
generally sit under /Applications directly.
This also makes it easy to look for it via the "Applications" sidebar link in Finder or by using a "dock stack" for
Applications and just picking the app for the list/grid.
Since most NetBeans IDE users will generally have only 1 version of the IDE installed, maximum two, I'd say it makes
sense to put that at toplevel, under /Applications directly.
+1 - we could easily just create the appropriate directories in Applications/. This might get a little messy when the installer installs some other runtimes
(there's not much use to putting the Glassfish install into applications, since you can't launch it as a Mac OS app - though one suggestion would be to put it in
Applications/Utilities to get it out of the way more), but it's probably worth it - the NetBeans folder in Applications is an extra layer of navigation users have to
do to start NetBeans, which is not typical for other Mac apps, and I have never thought it was a good idea.
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INC Magazine
Thanks to Alli Webb, bad hair days are a thing of the past.
These days, there's seemingly a blowout salon on every metropolitan street corner. Its efficient offerings appeal to both busy moms and boardroom bosses: come, relax, breathe new life into your lackluster tresses (No cuts. No color. Just blowouts.) and feel good with bouncy, voluminous hair for the rest of the day. Webb, one of the first purveyors of this booming beauty business, calls Drybar her home...and some of her house guests include Cindy Crawford, Julia Roberts and Emma Roberts. In actuality, the co-owner and former hairstylist calls many Drybars home, celebrating her 100th location opening this month. Now the beauty mogul is dishing all about it as Inc. Magazine's latest cover girl.
"It's pretty surreal to be on the cover of such a respected business publication like Inc. Magazine. It's definitely a major pinch-me moment," Alli told E! News. "I would have never imagined when we started Drybar 8 years ago that I'd one day be on the cover. This is such amazing recognition and I'm so very proud."


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Soul Sisterhood
If you are a woman at Soul Sanctuary, then you are a part of Sisterhood. We are a gathering of everyday women who desire to make the world a better place. We want to inspire women that their contribution can, and will, make a difference.
The Soul Sisterhood will be starting a new ministry called PROPEL WOMEN in fall 2018. Propel Women is dedicated to activating women to fulfill their God-given destiny.
These monthly, two hour events will take place on a Saturday morning where we will enjoy fellowship, refreshments and a meaningful and enriching video teaching.
We can't wait to see you there!
The Annual Sisterhood Retreat took place June 1-3, 2018 at Camp Arnes.
We had an amazing weekend with the ladies that were able to join us! If you were unable to join us this year, stay tuned for the details about our next retreat.


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Buy groceries with a modern buddy and get their opinion on what you must wear. I exploit ebay myself here and there for on-line sales and alternate options are all the time an fascinating method to roll to try to see if there's other locations you possibly can go to, to attempt 'em out and see in the event that they work. You are certain to encounter less points with CQout than you'd with most different web sites which makes the experience more enjoyable. In some ways, I feel life begins at 50 (I have handed the half century mark) and it is good to have clothes that replicate that.
Improvements such because the purchase-it-now and retailer choices now make it the most popular on-line auction web site available, the place you will discover something from clothing to video games electronics and collectables. India's new on-line shopping website has been launched in Bangalore with the class client electronics, pc, servers and extra. Amazon is one of the most popular and well-known sites like eBay and serves as a fantastic various for consumers and companies seeking to develop their online presence. In the meantime buyers advantages from automated bid features and the flexibility to posted wished advertisements much like categorised ad websites the place sellers can fulfil your product requests. That is my favorite buying web site for its straightforward-to-use filters, quick shipping and costs proven in Australian dollars.
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Coldest temperature of the autumn seasonMonday and Tuesday, November 11-12, this week brought the coldest temperatures of the autumn season so far. Thief River Falls reported a low of just 0 degrees F on the 11th, while Fosston (Polk County), Lakefield, and Pipestone reported their first readings of 0 degrees F on the morning of the 12th (Tue). Windom reported the state low on Tuesday the 12th with -1 degrees F. Many other observers reported lows in the single digits F. On Monday, November 11th Fosston reported a daily maximum temperature of just 16 degrees F, while Bemidji reported a new cold maximum temperature record of just 14 degrees F. Fortunately, the arctic cold was short-lived and temperatures warmed by 35-40 degrees F by Wednesday (Nov 13), then moderated the rest of the week.
Lake ice forming, then thawingWith the colder than normal temperatures dominating from November 5-12 some observers were reporting surface ice on ponds and shallow lakes. Even the shallow bays of lakes like Vermilion and Mille Lacs were showing ice earlier this week. Water temperatures along the western shores of Lake Superior had fallen in the range of 34-36 degrees F. With a return of 40 degrees F air temperatures some of the ice in shallow lakes was melting or shrinking in coverage. Moderating temperatures near normal and above normal will probably keep ice cover from fully developing until much later this month, perhaps after the Thanksgiving holiday.
Weekly Weather potpourriSomalia was hit by a Tropical Cyclone last Sunday which brought high winds and heavy rains to many parts of the country. Some reports indicated rainfall amounts of 4-8 inches were common, and in a few cases rainfall may have approached 12 inches. Winds were also estimated to range from 30-60 mph. Flooding was widespread and reports indicated that the death toll from the storm may have been close to 300, with many thousands of people displaced by flooding waters. Several thousand livestock were lost in flood waters and a major highway bridge was washed away. This was only the 5th Tropical Cyclone to strike Somalia since 1966. On the heels of the Minnesota Climate Adaptation Conference held last week at the Science Museum in St Paul, an article appeared last week in the journal Science advocating for more attention to climate adaptation science and its practice. The article is based on a presentation made at the Aspen Institute last year and is written by Richard Moss of the DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He says "science for adaptation starts with understanding decision-making processes and information needs, determining where the vulnerabilities are, and then moves to climate modeling....[and] tracks whether adaptation is effective,"
A description of the article can be found here.
Remarks from USDA meteorologist Brad Rippey at this week's drought briefing:
-U.S. drought coverage continued its downward trend, with just 31.76% of the Lower 48 States in drought on November 12. This represents the lowest U.S. drought coverage since December 27, 2011.
-Based on the definitions of drought employed in the production the U.S. Drought Monitor, historical U.S. drought coverage should average near 20%. The last time contiguous U.S. drought coverage was below 20% was December 14, 2010.
-However, most of the eastern U.S. has trended dry during the last two to three months, allowing for recent development of abnormal dryness (D0) and some moderate drought (D1). By November 12, dryness (D0) had expanded to cover 38% of the Southeast and 30% of the Northeast...
-On November 10, USDA/NASS reported that 84% of the U.S. corn and 91% of the soybeans had been harvested. Lingering drought remains a concern in a few Midwestern States, including Iowa (54% in drought on November 12), Minnesota (25%), Illinois (25%), Missouri (24%), and Wisconsin (23%).
MPR listener questionI have heard you speak about the erratic precipitation pattern this year, wet to start the year, then dry in the summer, and finally wet again this fall. Which areas of the state have had the most and least precipitation this year?
Answer: By far the wettest area of the state has been the southeastern counties. Caledonia (Houston County), Grand Meadow (Mower County), and Ostrander (Fillmore County) have all reported over 46 inches of precipitation so far this year, about 30-35 percent above normal. The far northwest has been the driest for the year with places like Crookston, Hallock, and Roseau reporting less than 20 inches. Warren in Marshall County has reported less than 16 inches, less than 75 percent of normal. With 7 weeks left in the year some of these numbers could change considerably.
Twin Cities Almanac for November 15thThe average MSP high temperature for this date is 41 degrees F (plus or minus 11 degrees F standard deviation), while the average low is 27 degrees F (plus or minus 11 degrees F standard deviation).
MSP Local Records for November 15thMSP weather records for this date include: highest daily maximum temperature of 69 degrees F in 1953; lowest daily maximum temperature of 13 degrees F in 1932; lowest daily minimum temperature is 1 degrees F in 1940; highest daily minimum temperature of 55 F in 1930; record precipitation of 1.58 inches in 1996; and a record 5.1 inches of snow fell on this date in 1956.
Average dew point for November 15th is 29 degrees F, with a maximum of 54 degrees F in 2001 and a minimum of 0 degrees F in 1940.


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Quarter 5 - A retrospective
So far the fastest quarter in PGSEM. After a month's break, this quarter started in a very lazy mood; by the time I was active, it got over!
Struggling with four 3 credits course, with two demanding courses and one very demanding Professor, this quarter was a bullet train. The beginning of the quarter witnessed many crisis management, debates and altercations in the context of some events we organized, later a wonderful cultural night organized by the new batch.With this quarter, I am confident that I can read any case and make a presentation within 10 minutes! Irony was for a project in which we spent hour less nights, we got only a fair evaluation; while for a presentation we made within 1/2 hour @ 12AM because of other submissions, we got appreciation unimaginable! Strange world or is it the cliche 'only quality matters; not the quantity" :P
After lots of thoughts, I decided to contest in the elections for Students' Council and I am now the elected Secretary of PGSEM Students' Affairs Council! Its a huge responsibility and I believe it is a good opportunity to organize, plan and implement many of my ideas and improve my leadership skills ;)
Meanwhile results for 2 subjects are already out and the situation in this front are not improving :( Ironically in quarter 6 also I have four subjects!


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The lingering shirtless scene has become a trademark in Marvel's movies and TV shows, and why not? Their leading men sacrifice cream cakes and booze in favour of gruelling gym sessions and infinite ab crunches to gain Marvel's signature chiselled frames. But not all actors start out looking like a mythical god, so let's take a look back at Marvel's leading men before and after their magnificent makeovers.
1.Chris Pratt
In order to play Star Lord in 'Guardians of the Galaxy', Chris Pratt had to trade 60lbs of fat for pure muscle. His incredible transformation came through strict diet change, intense exercise, and some hardcore dedication.
2. Chris Hemsworth
Of all the Marvel transformations, Hemsworth's is perhaps the most impressive. After shaping up for 'Avengers', he had to drop 30lbs in 4 months to play James Hunt in 'Rush', only to pack it all back on again for 'Thor 2' just months later.
3. Chris Evans
Evans was already in great shape before he played Captain America, but he admits his training regime for 'The First Avenger' was punishing, saying, "These weren't normal gym sessions. I was puking at the gym. They were brutal, absolutely brutal."
4. Hugh Jackman
Hugh was 31 when he played Wolverine for the first time, but he admits he didn't prepare for 'X-Men' with the same enthusiasm he does now. He trained for 5 months solid to beef up for 'The Wolverine' after 'Les Miserables' and he's at it again for 'Wolverine 3′.
5. Aaron Taylor-Johnson
After playing the skinny wannabe hero Dave Lizewski in 'Kick-Ass' Aaron packed on 15lbs for the sequel, but his transformation for Marvel's 'Age of Ultron' makes him look twice the size he used to be.
6.Paul Rudd
The 46-year-old 'Anchorman' star got in the best shape of his life to play Scott Lang in 'Ant-Man'. His co-star Michael Douglas said "[Paul] was so cut, that they had to soften his costume up."
7.Anthony Mackie
The Falcon actor says the fear of looking puny next to Captain America inspired him to get in shape for 'The Winter Soldier'. He worked out twice day to achieve his target weight of 230lbs.
8. Mark Ruffalo
Although Ruffalo's alter ego the Hulk is a fully CGI creation, he's bulked up to play Bruce Banner, crediting yoga and a strict diet for his new buff body.
9. Robert Downey Jr.
The 'Iron Man' star trains every day using Bruce Lee's famous Wing Chun technique and has done for over a decade now. He packed on 25lbs of muscle to play Tony Stark through months of hard work, consuming around 5000 calories a day.
10. Don Cheadle
Even though War Machine is hidden underneath a metallic suit most of the time, the actor got stacked for 'Iron Man 3' through a strict diet and a lot of cardio.
11.Andrew Garfield
The naturally lean Brit worked out every day for three months while consuming 4000-5000 daily calories to pack on muscle for both 'Amazing Spider-Man' films.
12. Charlie Cox
Brit actor Cox says Marvel set him up with a "no-joke gym" to get in to shape for 'Daredevil'. To get his Bruce Lee-style lean physique he hit the gym hard, ate "tons of chicken", and drank "protein shakes with sweet potato in it". Gross.


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Even though my Brown Vegan podcast has been around since the end of 2013, I've never had a true format for the show until recently.
Why? Lack of consistency.
It's hard to nail down a format when you show up to work whenever the hell you want it. This has been my struggle for the longest.
In one of the recent episodes, I played around with a format that I like a lot but it took forever to do.
Here's what the current format looks like...
20-30 second snippet from the interview portion of the episode
Music playing for about 3 seconds
Intro about what to expect in the episode (who the guest is and topics we discuss)
Sponsored ad (if applicable)
Interview with guest (30-50 minutes)
30-second pre-reordered outro with music
I'm really enjoying this format! It allows me to edit and get out an episode without overthinking the process.
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Assassins' Creed Brotherhood takes gamers beyond the simple revenge plot of Ezio Auditore de Firenze and puts players into the action with its new multiplayer modes. While most would of course want to don the white robes of the brotherhood assassins, Ubisoft has put together a regular rogues gallery of enticing playable characters.
Two new trailers for the multiplayer show off the Officer and the Harlequin, each with their own unique weapons and methods of assassination.
As arguably the most interesting multiplayer character from a visual standpoint, the Harlequin is all about surgical precision when it comes to his assassinations. Using dual blades, the Harlequin can razzle and dazzle opponents before they even notice their life has been taken from them. His menacing yet playful mask hides beneath it a ruthless killer who will take you down in a carefully choreographed dance of death.
In stark contrast to the Harlequin, the Officer is the multiplayer character who may leave the most blood on the ground. His spear weapon is designed for the brutal kill that should be extremely satisfying to gamers who select him. While not as nimble as the Harlequin, the Officer has a wider variety of assassination tools to take enemies down in the multiplayer modes.
Going into next month, with so many hot titles to choose from for gamers, it will be a fight to the death in the multiplayer arena. Assassins' Creed Brotherhood has many things going for it: a unique multiplayer experience, a compelling storyline that many want to delve deeper into, and characters whom we are already familiar and wish to spend more time with. If any of what you see of Brotherhood's multiplayer looks enticing, hop onto your PlayStation Plus account and check out the Assassin's Creed Brotherhood beta. It's a worthwhile and fun experience.
Which of these two multiplayer characters would you rather play as: the Officer or the Harlequin?
Assassins' Creed Brotherhood releases November 16th for the PS3 and Xbox 360.
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'Flieger' ('Flyers') was the German entry for the 1989 Eurovision Song Contest, performed in German by Italian singer Nino de Angelo. Five years before, De Angelo had his breakthrough with 'Jenseits von Eden', a number 1 hit in Germany and Switzerland, and a top 10 hit most of Europe.
This Eurovision song was composed by Dieter Bohlen, internationally best known as one half of the very successful German Europop duo Modern Talking. The song finished 14th in a field of 22 competitors.
My collection: 7" single no. 4614
Found: Vinylroy.nl, received March 3, 2010
Cost: 2 euro
Tracks: 'Flieger' / 'Laureen'


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