The Trans Agenda Issue #123

The Trans Agenda Issue #123

The Trans Agenda Issue #123

Issue #123

The Trans Agenda

Happy Friday! 🌈 and welcome to...
The Trans Agenda.  🤫

 ::Secret handshake 🤝🙌::

The category isssssssss a suitcase full of memories.

I love Cyndi Lauper. She was right when she looked her fuzzy father in the eye and told him, “Girls just want to have fun.” She’s been an ally to the trans community for about 356 years. I’d like to send her a fruit basket or a sweet Pokémon card. Or invite her to a dance party where I can show her all my sweet moves (Note: I only have about two sweet moves.)

Recently, she’s organized an auction called “A Suitcase Full of Memories” where she will be selling assorted things from her life. The auction includes the leopard pajamas from the “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” music video and the lunch box from the “Time After Time” video. When asked by a reporter why she’s selling all these things, she responded by saying, “It’s only stuff.”

It’s only stuff!?! The iconic skirt made of newspaper that she wore on the “True Colors” album cover?? Yeah, I suppose so. Even if I were to buy the skirt, and keep it in my living room, it would just be a bunch of shredded paper. Maybe it would hold some sort of psychic energy signature of Ms. Lauper and “True Colors” would play in my mind every time I pass it. But it would still just be an object.

 Does this mean that all the old things I own and cherish are just things? Is she trying to tell us that objects are temporary and the experiences we create are the only things of true value in our lives? Maybe. Or maybe she’s just having a yard sale—celebrity style. Either way, I’m going to take this as a reminder of what’s important. Being true to myself, and creating authentic experiences with love and self-expression, for the rest of time. I hope you’ll join me—and Cyndi Lauper.

 

The Trans Agenda is JUST STUFF!


My name is Eir (she/they), and I'd like to wake up as either Princess Peach, a Pokemon photographer, or a rainbow.


Watch:  Meet the transgender woman who is a voice of NYC’s subway


🎬 Yes, the god of beauty WOULD be trans: Filmmaker Kimberly Reed discusses documentary ethics, transgender representation at ‘I’m Your Venus’ screening.

🌻 Ballot box = TRANS TAKEOVER: Transgender Kansans won’t let their mismatched IDs stop them from voting in the midterms.

⚖️ It's a constitutional right to be AMAZING: Transgender Knox County woman files suit, says Tennessee law limiting driver’s license gender changes unconstitutional.

🧙♀️ NGL, this is a compliment: As Republicans Face Scary Midterm Polls, Ted Cruz Blames "Transgender Witches".


"It became quite obvious that the feminine side of my nature, which all my life I had known of and severely repressed, was very much more fundamental and deep-rooted than I had supposed."

 

~Roberta Cowell

   Fighter Pilot & Race Car Driver


🌸 A PSA for all the house mothers: What Trans Women Over 50 Should Know About Their Sexual Health.

🕊️ "Shift the weight off our shoulders": OpEd - Shift the world’s weight off transgender people’s shoulders.

📺 A masterclass in disarming jerks: Trans voters cheer Dem candidate’s “effective” response ad against GOP anti-trans attacks.

🏛️ Rest in power: T. Kaori Kitao, Swarthmore professor emerita of art history and pioneering transgender scholar, has died at 93.


Until next time! 💜
Eir Gunn


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