Posted on 12 June, 2008 by Tarald
I’m very excited! This weekend will be my first trip to London. I’m invited to keep a workshop (actually a speak and reading poetry) at this fabulous festival for transart. The title of my workshop is “My body is my logo”, a quotation from Framandkar.
I’ve worked on translating a lot of my poems the past [...]
Filed under: GLBT, My transition, Poems, Positive masculinity | Tagged: art, festival, ftm, invitation, performance, Poems, reading, transfabulous, translation, transmen, transsexual | 2 Comments »
Posted on 6 June, 2008 by Tarald
I got my prescription in the mail today. I went right to a pharmacy and picked up my box filled with small packages of testogel. I’m the happiest man in the world!
Pictures can be seen at my norwegian blog.
Filed under: Announcements, GLBT, My transition, Positive masculinity | Tagged: ftm, My transition, testogel, testosterone, transman | 16 Comments »
Posted on 17 May, 2008 by Tarald
I really thought I was going to be a feminine man. After all, I enjoy looking good, nice clothes, identify as queer and I’ve always been attracted to feminine men. It turns out I might be quite regular. And it bothers me.
Filed under: GLBT, My transition, Positive masculinity | Tagged: archeology, childhood, digging, feninine, ftm, G.I.D, masculine, MTF, normality, poetry, Recalled Childhood Gender Identity/Gender Role Question, transgender, transgirls, transman, transsexual, truth | 1 Comment »
Posted on 13 May, 2008 by Tarald
I found this over at Ryan’s blog and liked it so much that I’ll add it here too. Most of all for myself to see when my existence is being questioned.
If ever a real man existed
He was trans
You know why we rock YOUR world?
Because we’ve seen the best and worst of both
We are fighters.
Champions
Survivors
Lovers
Listeners
Boulders
Not just [...]
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Posted on 11 May, 2008 by Tarald
This is the moving story of the last months of Robert Eads’ life. He died of ovarian cancer because hospitals refused to treat him. Why? He was a transsexual, a FTM just like me. His story makes me very happy to live in Norway, where I don’t have to pay for my medical treatment and [...]
Filed under: GLBT, My transition, Positive masculinity | Tagged: Ali Farah, ftm, Norwegian racism, ovarian cancer, refused medical treatment, Robert Eads, Southern Comfort, transman | 4 Comments »
Posted on 10 April, 2008 by Tarald
Posted on 27 March, 2008 by Tarald
I’ve created a survey to collect words we use about our selves and our bodies. The questions are very private, but the survey is completely anonymous, so I hope you are willing to help anyway.
I’m going to use the results in an article I’m writing for my social anthropology class, and later plan on having [...]
Filed under: Announcements, GLBT, My transition, Positive masculinity | Tagged: academic, ftm, language, performativity, research, social anthropology, speach act, study, survey, transgender bodies, transman | 2 Comments »
Posted on 22 March, 2008 by Tarald
Cheerful Megalomaniac wrote earlier today: “I have to be honest, I wish with all my heart that I could have just been a normal guy, but I know that if I had been a normal guy, I probably would have been an entirely different person… and I kinda like me how I am.”
That reminded me [...]
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Posted on 20 March, 2008 by Tarald
I usually avoid reading stuff that I know I’ll find repulsive, sick and frightening. I don’t think that’s unusual for any person. To make this post I felt forced to do some research.
I started out googleing the phrase “God makes no mistakes”, because I’ve come across it several times in relation to transsexualism. I had [...]
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Posted on 8 March, 2008 by Tarald
This turned out to be the subject of a discussion with one of my mates the other day. He stated that many of the women he knows have negative responses to me being trans and “changing sex”. He found this strange, because it’s common to assume that women in general are more relaxed towards gays [...]
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