Fuck Cancer: Help Kate Bornstein!

Kate Bornstein, awesome sexuality and gender activist, author, and anti-suicide advocate, is facing a huge uphill battle with her medical life. The good news is, people from all over the world are pouring in their support (financially and otherwise). You can find out all about it here. There's now just under $3,000 to go to reach the goal, but I'm certain more is appreciated and will be used wisely and to support others.

Thanks to Laura Vogel for getting this going. All the best to Auntie Kate!

Cheers!

Faith & Sexuality - Share Your Story!

Here's a message from one of my new favorite people on earth, Maria Burnham:

"Seeking Stories about Faith and Sexuality-share your experience!

Hi, all.  I am looking for your personal stories of faith, sexuality, reconciliations, struggles, and experiences.  Whether you have a message of hope to share, or you have lost your faith before or after coming out, I am interested in hearing your story.  I am compiling emails, letters, notes, and blogs from people from all over the world and from all different types of faith and religion. Be aware that I may use your experience in a future project, so indicate if you would like an alias.  If you do not want your story shared, but you still want to write it out and share with me, I will honor your privacy.  Send all emails to MariaComics@yahoo.com
1. When did you realize you were not heterosexual?
2. When you realized you were not heterosexual, were you attending a church or following a religion?
3. Were you raised in this religion or did you choose it later in life?
4. Did you ever feel like God (or whomever you follow) did not accept you? Did you feel like other members of the same faith did not accept you?  Did you have trouble accepting yourself?
5. Do you still follow the same faith?  Attend church?  Follow a different faith?  Or none at all?

Feel free to answer these questions indivually, or use them as a guideline in sharing your full experience.  I'd like to thank you in advance for taking the time to write your story out and share it with me.
If you are interested in my story at all, please see my comic at www.jesusloveslesbianstoo.com and read a brief intro on the Huffington Post at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maria-burnham/jesus-loves-lesbians-too_b_1132435.html"

Cheers!

Do You Label Yourself Like This?

If you thought sexuality, gender, and identity were pretty straightforward (no pun intended!), then check out this document thanks to gender outlaw Kate Bornstein.  185 identities and labels listed, and this certainly isn't the end either (P.S. Bisexual was number 1!).  I'll admit, I don't even know what some of them mean, but I'm glad Bornstein put this together to help us realize the world is all sorts of shades of grey and certainly not black and white only.

Do you prescribe to any of these identities?  Do you have others you would add?

Cheers!