The Maenad's Bone Garden

Please give this article a solid read.  The blog is a recent discovery and I have been reading it voraciously there is tremendous insight to be found here. (But then, if people listened to us, and valued our (authentic) voices over 'the familiar,' I think the world would not be in the situation it is today Content and Trigger Warnings for homophobia, transphobia, trauma, childhood abuse, shame, sex work, and (especially) our currently active culture of transphobia and anti-trans hatred. "The thing about this sort of propaganda is that even when we know it’s untrue, members of these demographics are still terrified of proving them right. One more individual who has been abused and is gay or trans or a sex worker is not evidence that childhood abuse is the cause, and yet the idea that people will say it is makes us terrified to discuss our own abuse histories openly lest they be used by bigots. This is compounded if our abusers were gay or trans or sex workers themselves, b...

  Stupid cool ideas New Gods – a Trans Bodies Calendar / picture book ...  A what?  they said .   This I said.  /Now that I have your attention.    Another of my naff ideas that will go to peat without outside involvement.  But no way am I going to even _attempt_ to describe a thing of such nuance on bloody twitter.  I have a notion as to who I might pitch this to but for the moment I just need to get the idea down and, well, assess any even vague interest.   Also ...if someone else is already doing this, I'm more than happy to signal boos them, and would rather not step on the toes of an existing project such as this.  TRANS BODIES A photo essay in long form. Volunteers are asked to fill out a questionnaire and from that 3-9 shots are taken, with consent from the volunteer/models.     Each is presented as their own chapter.   The first will be a dressed (presenting however) picture – with accompanyin...