The following bloggers are the core blogging team at ENDAblog:
Kynn Bartlett is a journalist and web designer living in Tucson, Arizona. He is the editor of Colorez!, southern Arizona’s GLBTS newsmagazine, a former president of the HTML Writers Guild, and the author and editor of several books on web design. He has blogged before at the blogs “Shock and Awe” (an anti-war blog launched during the early days of the Iraq War) and “The Inland Anti-Empire” (chronicling progressive causes in Temecula Valley, California). While in southern California, he co-founded the area’s first peace group and was a founding member of Temecula’s PFLAG chapter.
Jessica Blank hasn’t yet written up her bio.
Katrina Rose hasn’t written her bio either. Here’s her web site, though!
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October 13, 2007 at 2:05 am |
Please feel free to include me on your list of inclusive sites.
Also, please feel free to reproduce any posts on the topic that I’ve made that you think would be worthwhile.
I have new comments up and a table, just recently, of those sponsoring HR 2015.
http://bootstrappingas.blogspot.com/2007/10/pelosi-abandons-principle-of-workplace.html
October 22, 2007 at 2:09 pm |
I am a transwoman. I begain living full time in June 07 and have been experiencing first hand the open job discrimination. I have been following ENDA and am learning the history of the LBGT community as I go. It has been a amazing experence. I would love to be linked to your blog.
October 22, 2007 at 2:11 pm |
My link is http://planetransgender.blogspot.com
March 22, 2008 at 3:06 pm |
Thanks for reading my posts. You rock!!
January 15, 2009 at 9:14 pm |
I just noticed your blog entry.
You can take it down, accusing me of lying in to instances that are blatantly false, one in the rio incident where wjla can confirm that I was there the day afterwards, and the other where a voice analysis can prove you are lying…..
or I can sue you for slander
which I will.
your choice.
theresa rickman
July 4, 2009 at 9:16 pm |
I read through much of this blog. The Colorez web domain has expired for Kynn Bartlett – you may want to remove it from your biography. Katrina Rose’s website is interesting. Leaving Teresa Rickman’s comment up does not increase credibility in your blog.
Reading this blog, I gain a sense of bitterness for wealthy white gays and lesbians interested in Marriage Equality and the repeal of DOMA and DADT – two issues near and dear to me though I will not benefit from either. I gain a sense of support for “T” inclusive ENDA which I strongly support – it is appalling that the decision to transition almost automatically includes automatic reduction to poverty.
I get some sense of wanting to make certain that history includes the role of transgender folks at Stonewall. I do not see mention of the 1966 transgender Compton Cafeteria Riots in San Francisco – brought on by organizing by Glide Memorial Methodist Church and the inability of transexual women to obtain employment – if they finally did obtain a decent job, someone would “out” them and they were soon back on the street. Hooking on Polk Street was the only economic option available to so many until medical options opened for them in the late ’60’s. I wish the entire LGBT community and the entire world had more appreciation of the brave women fighting the police at the 1966 Comptom Cafeteria Riots.
I also hear alot of bitterness at this and that … what I do NOT hear is what legislation the bloggers believe will benefit the transexuals in the USA. ENDA – yes … but what else? You discussed HRC in the State Department and lambasted her emphasis on partner benefits … marriage like benefits. What other benefits would specifically make life better for a transexual employee of the State Department that is not currently available?
I am ignorant. Can a heterosexual transexual person sponsor their married foreign partner into the USA and into US citizenship like a non-transexual married person? As I said, I am ignorant. I assume marriage is completely possible for a heterosexual transexual person.
I am assuming health insurance coverage for transitioning expenses is a huge issue … or is it? Have insurance companies been reasonable? Is Medicare and Medical reasonable? I (and most forks, I imagine) have no idea.
I bet you feel like you have no responsibility to educate fools like me. Actually you don’t. You really don’t. It is up to me to educate myself. But lets get real.
I have a blog that I write when I can – I am 100% disabled and most days cannot write in my blog ( I should be there now instead of here) Many straight folks who are my neighbors, family members, friends, and who are disabled like me read my blog. It for the straight people that I write my blog … and for my many gay friends who do not have the time to read up on LGBT USA and international news. So I repeat and repeat myself – I educate them over and over. Why?
Because I know that even though they have a responsibility to educate themselves, they won’t. There are way too many calls on their time to expect them to get on line and look up gay or lesbian issues and outlooks. They simply will not do it. It is my best interest for the straight folks to understand the gay and lesbian interests, politics, and outlooks. So I educate them over and over and over again.
I really think if you are serious in this blog, you may want to educate about you issues over and over again and again. So that idiot white gay men like me who come to you blog learn a thing or three – other than you are bitter about white gay men and Marriage Equality.
Goddess forbid I should tell you what to do!!! I am not doing that. I am sharing my experience with you. I am telling you in all candor that chances are real good that I am going to bed and will not look up Medicare’s policy on reimbursement for transitioning expenses to see if that is an issue or not. I just know myself. It would be useful if you would tell me what your issues are, that’s all. You can choose to do so or not – your choice entirely.
I enjoyed your blog … hope you add some about the brave folks at the Compton Cafeteria Riot – those Transgender folks deserve to be remembered as much as the Stonewall folk – and I do hope to learn here more about what the transexual brothers and sisters need politically.
Hang in there!
Richard