this post begins with a special shoutout to van morrison - everybody knows what this song is supposed to be about van no matter how much you try to deny it

ace ventura, silence of the lambs, family guy, south park, psycho... death spa? media is a hard time for people who were once men - off the top of my head i think the best movie about genderbending in any context is some like it hot

i think about the "i'm a man!" "nobody's perfect" line a lot when i'm feeling down and it never fails to cheer me up - i think it says something really important about the trans woman experience and if i was smarter i might be able to explain why

like a lot of generic sad teenagers i got really into the velvet underground and it blew my mind when i found out lou reed had a transgender girlfriend - apparently lester bangs called her "grotesque, abject… like something that might have grovellingly scampered in when Lou opened the door to get milk or papers in the morning" so such as it is i suppose

i read as much as i could find about her online and i was inspired to write this

for as much of a prick lou reed seemed to be he's the only person that has consistently written about trans women in his music in a loving, romantic way that i can think of and i think that's why i keep coming back to him because sometimes it feels like there's nothing in the world for us but porn stars and eddie redmayne to look up to and it's nice to have something that you don't need to blur your eyes to identify with

i guess what i'm trying to say is that at this point in time i think the culture war and trans rights thing is at the tipping point where maybe we don't have to educate nana about the plight of the tran because in a couple years she'll be dead, you know? i think often the people who are most focused on convincing each other of anything re: crocodile dundee type discrimination aren't trans people in the same way that it seems to be all honkies changing the name of aunt jemima syrup or whatever. there are more important things to worry about and there always have been, like canceling eazy-e

#CancelEazyE