From: TheGreatPrinkOne | March 07, 2010 | 4,884 views ABC Family Secret's - When Dad Becomes Mom - The Chloe Prince Story Part 1 of 6
Chloe Prince of Canton Ohio, Founder of PINKessence.com shares her family's story of life POST surgical male-to-female transition. Chloe is a Post-op Transgender Woman who was also born with a condition called "Klinefelter's Syndrome", also know as XXY. Klinefelter's Syndrome is considered to be a sub category of being Intersexed per the AMA.
ABC's camera's follow Chloe and Family for 1 year recounting the steps from Male to female transition, the effect on her family, work and marriage.
Learn more about Chloe Prince and her family at ChloePrince.com ... (more info)
Nicole "Nicki" Stallard is a unique person, a publically open post-op MTF transexual gun rights activists. Nicki grew up in New York, served in the US Navy from 1978 thru 1985. Nicole has been involved in various Libertarian and Republican political activities since 1989. Nicole took over the San Jose Chapter of the Pink Pistols in 2006 as the coordinator. She has been Northern Ca Pink Pistols spokesperson and has testified for California CCW reform bills. She has represented the Pink Pistols at the SAF GRPC in 2007 and 2008 and is currently building bridges with both gun rights and gay rights organizations.
The Pink Pistols is a LBGT(Lesbain, Bisexual, Gay and Transgendered) rights group that advocates armed self defense to deal with hate crimes. The Pink Pistols views the individual right of armed self defense as a basic human right and looks forward to getting "shall issue" CCW laws in all 50 states.
Nicole Stallard is working to find common ground and build alliances in both the gun and gay community. She is a Ron Paul Republican and views herself as a pragmatic Libertarian Republican.
Armed and Gay at the Right to Bear Arms Rally in Washington, DC.
I got this email today. It was just another snub to the T of the LGBt community. Kind of sad it is still going on.
My reply is below the email.
======================================== On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Sarah Baillie wrote:
Hello,
The Social Identity Lab at the University of Washington would like to represent the lesbian, gay, and bisexual community in a study on cognition and social groups. We are conducting an anonymous, online study on cognitive processing about social groups. The study takes about 15-20 minutes to complete. For more information, please see the message below. Please forward this opportunity to your group and any friends you know that may be interested.
Best wishes,
Sarah Baillie Senior Honors Student Department of Psychology University of Washington sbaillie@u.washington.edu
We invite you to participate in a study on cognition and social groups. In this study, you will be asked to answer a variety of questions about yourself. You will also complete two timed categorization tasks. Participants will have the opportunity to enter a drawing for $50.
The purpose of this study is to gain a greater understanding of cognitive processing about social groups in the world.
This is an anonymous, web-based study run through the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington. For more information, please go to https://catalysttools.washington.edu/webq/survey/sbaillie/95609 , or contact the Social Identity Lab at silab@u.washington.edu or (206) 685-4229. Please remember that we cannot guarantee the confidentiality of any information sent by email.
This study has been approved by the University of Washington Institutional Review Board, Certification of Exemption #38239 under 45 CFR 46.101 (b)(2).
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I am a transwoman. I started doing your study, but it quickly became obvious, that it was not written to with transgender folks in mind. Actually I felt a bit left out.
There are a lot of MTF and FTM people, that would feel not be able to fill out the study, because the questions were not written with us in mind, but definitely conceder ourselves as part of the "community."
You even talked about the "lesbian, gay and bisexual community" in your email. I thought we were past leaving transgender out of the "community."
Hugs,
Vickie
Here is her lame response. I know our issues are different, but it is obvious we are not part of "her" community. Just seeing how she does not feel that transgender does not belong as part of the LGB community.
Hi Vickie,
Thank you for your interest in the study and your feedback.
You are correct, the study is not aimed at transgender people. I was referring to the community as LGB because I am not looking at transgender individuals specifically.
In research, trans individuals are usually not clumped with LGB people, because studying trans individuals is very different from studying LGB individuals. Keeping with this, I am not specifically looking at trans participants in my study. I believe that, given the unique experiences of trans individuals, trans and intersex people deserve their own study that is aimed specifically at them.
This is my honors thesis that I am working on now. However, I want to extend the scope of this research to include a study aimed specifically at trans people in the near future.
Thank you so much for your feedback. If you feel you would like to discuss this further, then I would love to hear more from you.
Someone wrote me at one of my Tvals email addresses to ask me if I knew of Jackie Shane. I guess he was born here in Nashville and was back here. Sad to say I had not seen him here.
Has anyone seen her lately.
August 26, 2009
Jackie Shane
HOLY MUSICIAN, BATMAN… “Okay swingers, now that we’ve ditched the squares, hang on, ’cause Jackie’s gonna do it to you like you’ve never been done before!” -Jerry Lincoln, liner notes of Jackie Shane Live
I tend, in my writing about music, to focus on the vocalist and to delve into biography. I try to remind myself to conjure up the nuance of a drum brush or a chord struck on the Hammond organ at just the right moment, but it always comes back to the frontman. I like instrumental music, and a perfect hook or nasty bassline can drive me wild. It’s just that when someone has not only a unique sounding voice and interesting phrasing, but brings a wildly fascinating persona to their song, it becomes that much more relatable. It’s what I always loved about listening to cover after cover of the same old soul song, driven by the vocalists, each with their own inflection and character; each with their own lament. And it’s why I always figured that guts and attitude can translate into excellent musicianship: done right, they have the potential to push a piece of music or a whole body of work into the realm of mythology. And no one had guts and attitude like Jackie Shane.
As with many of life’s big discoveries, my unearthing of Jackie Shane’s music was a total accident. I was looking for video footage of William Bell’s “Any Other Way,” a sweet country-soul song that came out on Stax in 1962. In “Any Other Way,” Bell is singing to a friend who’s been sent by his ex-girlfriend to check on him after a breakup. “I think you better go now/or you might see me cry,” sobs Bell, “but when you see my baby/here is what you say/tell her I wouldn’t have it any other way.” His earnest, clear-voiced treatment of this poorly-disguised heartbreak made for just about the saddest song I’d heard in a while, but damn it, I couldn’t find any performance footage online. Instead I stumbled upon this haughty, sauntering version of “Any Other Way” by some draggy-looking Canadian with tadpole eyebrows and a bouffant hairdo. And then another version, recorded by the same guy at some Toronto nightclub called the Sapphire; eight minutes littered with sassy banter. “Diamonds on my finger/I can’t get no more on there!” This was far from the lovesickness I’d been drawn to on the original, but man, was Jackie Shane entrancing.
Jackie Shane was a cross-dressing Canadian soul singer who recorded a couple of 45s and one live LP, Jackie Shane Live in the early 1960’s. Breathy, dissolving into wisps beneath a languishing canopy of horns, Jackie’s voice on “Any Other Way” is a curl of smoke. He didn’t jump on a note. No, instead he’d come in late on a phrase and just hang there.With his feline looks and boisterous sensuality, Jackie was, as a fan once wrote, “Little Richard meets Prince meets Eartha Kitt!” He pushed the boundaries of what was sexually accepted at the time, and his Canadian audience loved him both for it and in spite it.
His versions of songs were often the opposite of what you’d expect: Rufus Thomas’s blaring “Walking The Dog” turned mincing, William Bell’s driving, tormented “Any Other Way” became almost celebratory. When Bell sang “Tell her that I’m happy/tell her that I’m gay,” he was covering up his hurt, but when bewigged, spangled Jackie sang it, especially with that added chuckle, suddenly the song became about something entirely different. His live album is full of spoken bravado and fast-talking riffs (”I get money…and I can sing sexy too!”), but behind them he often delivered a real message. “Because the mean things people say about you, baby/Can’t make you sad/cause Jackie’s never lost a friend that I’ve never had.”
Beyond his strong Toronto following – and a television appearance onSoul Train“Night Train,” which you can see below – Jackie never achieved commercial success. And though celebrated on a few websites dedicated to queer musicians, his music has, for the most part, been lost to time. In fact, Jackie disappeared in the late sixties, and while there’s been speculation about a violent death in Los Angeles, no one really knows what happened to Jackie Shane. Yet here he was, this brief spark, pushing limits way ahead of his time, and it’s this lost moment that makes his music seem all the more enchanting.
I recommend you look into Jackie Shane, and that you remember, if nothing else, his words: “I live the life I love and I love the life I live/And I hope you’ll do the same.”
by Erin Sheehy
PS: Besides the video, listen to his live and studio versions of “Any Other Way.”
A commercial for the Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel feature on Baseball Prospectus. Check the show out on March 16. BPers Christina Kahrl, Kevin Goldstein (beginning), Jay Jaffe (end, though I guess I cut him off a bit--sorry!) are in the clip. Sorry, got a bit shaky toward the end.
“Okay swingers, now that we’ve ditched the squares, hang on, ’cause Jackie’s gonna do it to you like you’ve never been done before!”