Kelly

My name is Kelly. I'm a fierce, radical queer, trans woman. I started the organization Vermonters Ending Transgender Oppression (http://vtveto.wordpress.com). I do not enjoy writing about myself, but I really enjoy writing. I'm a musician, too, and play in the band Doll Fight! (http://dollfight.com).

Posts Written by Kelly
By Kelly • 12 years ago

Awful story from Afghanistan

*trigger warning for a story about rape and a tragic legal aftermath*

Has anyone else seen this horror story on the Huffington Post about a woman who was imprisoned in Afghanistan after being raped?

She has been in the news a few times now. The woman in the story was raped, then convicted and sentenced to 12 years in prison for “having sex outside of marriage.” Recently, she accepted a pardon from the prison sentence she was serving, but as part of the pardon deal she has to marry the man who raped her. She had refused this deal several times in the past, but is now raising a child in prison and said in an interview last month with the AP that she was losing hope and considering marrying the man who attacked her as a way out.

Everything about this story is absolutely awful. It made me feel sick to my stomach. This one doesn’t need any commentary. It’s just horrible.
By Kelly • 12 years ago

“Rock & Roll Isn’t a Boy’s Club Anymore…”

Or at least, that’s what I hear from a lot of the men I meet at shows as a lady in a punk rock band. The new Rolling Stone Top 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time demonstrates just how wrong their attitude is.

First off, let’s look at the voters who selected the players on the list. Out of the 58 voters Rolling Stone lists, only 4 are women (Melissa Etheridge, Marnie Stern, Susan Tedeschi, and Nancy Wilson). That is only around 7% of their voters.

Second is their list itself. Out of the 100 guitarists listed, only 2 of them are women. Even more astounding is that those women were both in ...

Or at least, that’s what I hear from a lot of the men I meet at shows as a lady in a punk rock band. The new Rolling ...
By Kelly • 12 years ago

Bachmann Sexism Watch: “Too Much Makeup”

Really HuffPo?

Now she’s wearing too much makeup? Eye makeup and some pink on her lips? That’s too much makeup? REALLY?

Please stop attacking Michele Bachmann, and all the other women in politics, just for being women, or for being feminine.

Seriously. This is ridiculous. We’re talking about someone who is a global warming skeptic, who is affiliated with gay reformation therapy, who has accused the President of the United States of being “Anti-American” many times, who has called AmeriCorps government “re-education camps” for young people, and a slew of other absurd politics, and you dig in and go after her for wearing makeup at an important public appearance. Makeup that looks good, to boot?

Let’s talk about something real, rather than shaming ...

Really HuffPo?

Now she’s wearing too much makeup? Eye makeup and some pink on her lips? That’s too much makeup? REALLY?

Please stop attacking Michele Bachmann, and all the other women in politics, just for being women, or ...
By Kelly • 13 years ago

Thinking about transphobic and transmisogyinistic violence (Serious Trigger Warning)

Before you read this, know that it is going to be a really triggering read, and that most of the links are to really triggering content.

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Yesterday, April 22, 2011, a video circulated around my circles on Facebook from the queer and feminist blogospheres of a trans woman being brutally beaten in a McDonald’s while the employees stand around and encourage the assailants to “go before the cops come.” This has yet to be reported on in any mainstream media outlets that I have seen, and I’ve been looking, and it started circulating after first being reported (as far as I am aware) by the Bilerco Project on April 22. It’s 9:30pm on April 23 and on ...

Before you read this, know that it is going to be a really triggering read, and that most of the links are to really triggering content.

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Yesterday, April 22, 2011, a video circulated around my circles on Facebook ...