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wood magic it can be done no i am not trans but my wife is so i cannot add much to hollywood lili s story but i absolutely can connect with hollywood gerda kind of but real ge rda is so much more complicated than dutiful confused wife hollywood gerda so actually i couldn t connect see this is what really bothered me the reinforcing of the narrative that when a spouse comes out as a trans woman the wife who is always straight btw is left sacrificing all she holds dear and ends up hurt frustrated and in need of a man who doesn t exist any more cries of but i miss my husband and your husband is dead now and all that tragedy it left me wondering is that how people think it happens that s not what happened to me and that s a horrible story why would you show people that where is my story but nobody else is going to tell my story and i realised last night that i ve never even told it myself i thought people would just know but maybe people don t maybe they assume that hollywood gerda s experience is my experience and i m just being brave about it so for anyone who wants or needs to hear it this is my story because i m through with everyone equating trans to tragedy i met my partner when i was 17 we married when i was 22 we have grown up together and always been the best of friends we have two children who are amazing we talk a lot and so her coming out as a woman was a gradual blossoming that took many months whenever i see onscreen couples that don t communicate properly i just want to knock their heads together and gerda and einar were an amazing couple so the non communication and subsequent on off breakdown just didn t ring true my partner has now changed her name and is in the process of accessing support from a gender identity clinic i don t want to say transitioning because that implies a start and an end point and a changing of who she is and the point i really really want to ram down hollywood s throat is that she is the same person she always was she has grown in ways i hope we all continue to grow as human beings throughout our lives but i have not lost my husband my husband is not a person who has died and been replaced with another my husband is exactly the same person except now i say wife when i talk about her she still likes mushrooms and fruitcake and cycling she is still an amazing musician and a terrible star wars geek i mean good she is a good star wars geek oops she steals my cool tights now is growing her hair long and wears skirts more than i do but as a person she has not changed i have been privileged to see the person i thought i knew blossom into someone neither i nor she ever realised was there she has always been a woman it is society that told her that because her body looked like a stereotypical male body thus she must be male she must dress in man clothes and do man things and pretend to be a man so deeply that she comes to believe it herself i love her with all my heart and maybe my feelings for her have become a bit more protective thanks established narrative for continuing to endanger trans women but really to be witness to the person i love stepping into their truth and letting me step with them through the fears the doubts the hurts and the joy who could not want that lili elbe and gerda gottlieb by gerda gottlieb i accept that my bisexual identity does mean that male female holds no issue for me whereas it may do for others but this is my story i ve heard enough sad stories and i wanted a counterpoint to them so none of the grieving for someone i ve lost no discomfort in the label of husband becoming wife because they re just different words applied the same person have i said that yet no shame no hiding no frustration i m not going to tell you about the sex because i need to keep some boundaries but please don t worry on my behalf oh and you know what the kids are completely unfazed by it too they don t care what gender or sexuality their parents identify as because we re say it with me still the same people so history and complicated ideas mangled in the name of ticket sales just like women just want to find their man men have to be muscled heroes add it to the list of stories we absorb yeah i know hollywood but it still grates no matter how often it happens please share my story not because it s mine but because it could be yours or your friend s or your co worker s yes i am white and privileged so my experience will not be everyone s but it is one more to add to your library don t assume that when someone comes out as trans male or female or neither or anything in between that the person they are will be lost forever or changed beyond recognition instead dare to assume that everything will be as it always was only more honest and more joyous because of that let s make the standard narrative not person is trans everything falls apart but person is trans wooo yay balloons because surely nothing is more worthy of celebration than finding your true self finding the courage to live it and loving supportive people to live it with those are the stories i want to hear 2 comments tags bisexual danish girl eddie redmayne hollywood life love sexuality trans transgender posted in disobedience january 14 2016 unconditional love by disobedient child i ve just read a blog post about snow which drops in the widely held according to this forecast that unless climate change can be halted there will be no snow in utah by the end of this century the author says my memories of thick winter snowclouds make it incredibly painful to imagine a utah without snow but this is the reality confronting us utah with snow on photo craig on flickr across the globe the impacts of climate change are painfully uprooting people s possibly nostalgia tinged memories of what a place is like should be like has always been like we humans are very clever and are more than capable of seeing the bigger picture but somewhere deep inside don t we hold what it was like when we were growing up as the yardstick to measure life by did you grow up with central heating and shudder at the idea of life without it did you grow up with an outside toilet and roll your eyes at people complaining their bathroom is too cold when i look back at my childhood winters they were filled like for weeks with snow sledging days off school and failed attempts at igloo building and this in gloucestershire so i remain perplexed when people in yorkshire get wiggy about a couple of days of snow in january but isn t this normal i ask but normal is what we grew up with nothing is normal any more like it or not believe the reasons or not the climate is changing every year we see new weather records hottest june wettest december highest monsoon most ice lost earliest melting flash floods in solomon islands photo nick hobgood so we are losing the things we love this earth we live on is changing and things are dying people species hope it s easy to read the statistics and despair and nothing i can say no wishful thinking or positive affirmations can change the facts so maybe your childhood was filled with snow and you have to face an adulthood without snow maybe the home where you grew up was filled with flocks of starlings chattering and murmurating across the evening skies and now there aren t any it hurts it s painful i hear you but i want to take your despair and kick its backside right out of the room let s ask another question maybe your partner is diagnosed with a degenerative disease or maybe your parent succumbs to dementia that person you love you ve know for so long is changing and there is nothing you can do do you despair or do you love them anyway do you love them as much when they cannot speak to you as you did when they could will you love them when the chemo steals their hair will you love your home even when it loses its snow if we love this world this earth then we must love it unconditionally if utah loses its snow it will not cease to be utah it will be a different utah and we can mourn the change but we must continue to fight for its survival i think this for me is the essence of climbing the dark mountain earth is still earth whatever state it is in we must love it and fight for it and protect it but we must never let change be perceived as failure and an excuse to give up change is constant and so must we be and yeah i can see how this might be hard to hold in your head the seeming dichotomy of we must fight to prevent change and we must accept change but come on there are plenty of lessons out there from people who are doing this already we re clever we can do this we can love leave a comment tags climate change dark mountain earth love random thought snow posted in fun uncategorized january 11 2016 you are so very beautiful a craftivist project by disobedient child reblogged from pickymiss com the photo above is one of the pieces of encouragement i ve been leaving around the place for a few months now not all at once just one at a time when i can if you follow me on instagram you might have seen them but now i find something similar you might want to be a part of because that amazing betsy greer is at it again stitching things to make the world a brighter place and she wants you points finger to get involved stitching positive affirmations no bigger than the palm of your hand and putting them out there for people to find like these the you are so very beautiful guerilla art drop is happening in baltimore and london on 7th february so if you d like to stitch something for it or get involved in some other way get in touch for details including posting addresses of how to send sunshine and happiness to baltimore and or london look at craftivism com please make sure your stitchings will arrive by february 4th these three are en route to the maryland as i type i ll leave you with betsy s words about why she started this because craftivism is as much about fighting the bad things of this world as it is about fighting the bad things we tell ourselves we live in a world where the media constantly tries to tell us what is in out cool passé every day we have to fight to remember that we are enough just as we are we are beautiful just as we are some days though we forget and those days can drag on into weeks and months leaving our souls sucked and dry leave us husks of what we were as children back when we knew we were amazing it s time to remind both ourselves and others of just how wonderful we are just as we are it s time to let our acts of stitching go by leaving them in places for someone to find someone who needs to hear those words just as you do if not more as craftivism is about healing ourselves as we make and then healing the world with our products let s get to it leave a comment tags yasvb affirmation craftivism encouragement stitching youaresoverybeautiful posted in disobedience fun december 3 2015 democracy isn t picking the nicest guy by disobedient child you know what d be good and i accept this might be a radical and naive idea would be if instead of mps we had elected representatives not people we voted in because we liked their opinions but people chosen to listen to the people in their area and represent those views before the current government in charge i d like to sit nick clegg down and say listen you spineless weasel which essentially makes him a small and ineffective draught excluder but that s another story for another time i don t give a shit what you think it s not your job to have an opinion it s your job to represent the opinions of your constituents you are not a leader you are messenger to whom we have given power and authority to effect change but not your change so do your fucking job and then i d punch him in the face and fly home on my unicorn sigh 1 comment posted in uncategorized october 20 2015 rise and root a rune for the revolution by disobedient child a few years ago a wonderful creative wild woman called rima staines posted on her blog a vision for subverting the blandness of the rat race we inhabit she crafted this beautiful image for all of us to share to draw and paste and print and stick and share as widely and as brilliantly as possible i suppose i wanted to plant my revolution seed in the dirt in the cracks of the pavements in the dirt between the formica and polyester in the dirt pushed to the edges of millions of touchscreens in the dirt underneath escalator rails and hygienic hand dryers like the gargoyles and marginal grotesques of the middle ages i wanted to coax beauty in once more like a stranger to the citadels of public ugliness we all have become so used to i wanted to surprise and unnerve and delight and disedge all the lovely human beings who have grown so unseeing in the unbeautiful subway of their daily rush through these places i think we can all plant seeds like this it s what draws me to craftivism and leaving my own art for people to find it s what keeps me looking up when all around me hurry along with heads bowed against the wind and the dirt and the heaviness of surviving just seeing just slowing down and looking around is a radical act of dissent in this world of instant gratification and relentless productivity rima also gives us a rune which came she says through a dream and via birch trees and sketchbook became this take this rima says as a symbol we ll all recognise when it s chalked on our doorsteps and tattooed on our foreheads you can must read her blog post here and check in the comments for links to the full size images as well as wonderful discussion as to the etymology for want of a better word of this rune these images are a gift for the revolution take them she says take them and run leave a comment tags craftivism revolution rima staines rise and root runes posted in disobedience september 15 2015 checking in and checking out by disobedient child gotta love a smartphone it s like i open my eyes and the first thing on my mind is i wonder what s going on in the world what are the media saying about jeremy corbyn today have there been any terrible disasters in the last seven hours who s died who s been saved who s been taking cool photos who s liked that witty remark i made on facebook last night what s happening in the arctic in syria in australia in somewhere random i just spotted a mildly interesting article about i tried that this morning and it was surprisingly boring so i think i m done checking in with the world outside it ll still be there later i m going to start my days checking in with where i am with who i am i sat in bed this morning and ran a quick diagnostic how s my back feeling this morning how is my stiff shoulder any better hey brain how are you it s grey outside the window that s going to have an effect think you can cope with that today i checked in with my heart asked how it was feeling what it wanted to do today aside there is a reason the heart is associated with love with emotion and it s probably more amazing than 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