This week has been, for me, incredibly intense. For the first time, during Carnival, my wife explicitly allowed me to go out in plain daylight to visit a friend; a few weeks later — now completely outside the Carnival season — also for the first time, she also let me […]
Sandra M. Lopes
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Carnival. That’s the season in the year where anybody can dress as they wish and nobody will even look twice at you. It is the equivalent of Halloween in the Anglo-Saxonic world, without the gothic overtones.
Imagine that we turn back the clock to, say, 1995. The World-Wide Web already existed twenty years ago, but it had little information. However, on the other hand, it also had a higher signal-to-noise ration: the little information that existed was rather good.
After a couple of blog articles in Portuguese, I felt that I shouldn’t neglect my English-speaking readers, and dedicate an article to them as well 🙂 My Buddhist teacher tends to greet the new year with ‘one year less’. That seems terribly morbid, but the actual reason is to remember […]
Depression. Something that hits at least a tenth of the world population, but, in some Western countries, it can be as high as a third. That means that it’s one of the most-researched diseases, with over 30 different kinds of medicine ready to attack depression, as well as a plethora […]
Wednesday I went to do my feet. I have been doing some physiotherapy (some hip and leg pain from carrying too heavy bags of clothes when going to the laundromat) which required me to undress to my undies, so I didn’t have my toenails painted — just some base and […]
Today I tried to ‘save’ an old wig, which I particularly liked, because of its straight hair and natural weight… I did my usual routine of soaking in special shampoo, do some conditioning, and use a new high-tech ‘dry conditioner’, plus some rolls at the end… but I really think […]
This is the age of the ‘nerd’ and the ‘geek’ — most probably thanks to Bill Gates, the Ultimate Geek, becoming the richest man in the world. Suddenly, ‘being geek’ started to make sense. For some, at least. Geekiness was, for most of the past 4 decades, a strictly male […]
I’ve re-read Male Femaling: A grounded theory approach to cross-dressing and sex-changing (Routledge, 2002. ISBN 0-203-42645-2 [eBook]) by sociologist Richard Ekins (I got a PDF somewhere). It’s not light reading, and probably the longest academic study I have read about the whole subject. Some things will be familiar to all kinds […]
A friend who is in transition and who just got her legal right to change her name and gender on her ID card told me about this site: http://www.virtualffs.co.uk/ It is both a site with a wealth of information on Facial Feminisation Surgery (FFS) but also provides an interesting service: […]