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Tales of Raising Gender-Creative Children

September 13, 2016

A long time ago, in a studio far away, on the old DNR (Derek and Romaine) Show, I heard an interview with Lori Duron; Mother of CJ and author of a blog (and book) about adventures in raising a fabulous, ‘gender-creative child‘. I immediately borrowed [read more]

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Looking For Input

September 1, 2016

So, just read another newspaper article announcing that nostalgia is good business. The piece was about Netflix, but it’s just one of a number of such articles of late. And not just the economics of re-hashing existing properties. I’m trying to understand how much (or [read more]

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Visibility, Invisibility

August 30, 2016

Yes, Matt Bomer is a fantastic piece of eye-candy, a big name (“draw”) and knows his way around a script. While I am not surprised that Hollywood has cast him to play a trans character (and this is not the place for a discussion on [read more]

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More Queer Progress Analysis

August 28, 2016

Some thoughts on the progress we have (or haven’t) made as queer folk, at least here in North America, measured by the Romanovsky & Phillips music catalog. With something like 50 songs on the still-available R&P titles, and dozens more on Ron’s solo albums, there [read more]

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Queer Progress

August 28, 2016

Some thoughts on the progress we have (and have not) made as queer folk, at least here in North America, measured by the Romanovsky & Phillips music catalog. This post is inspired by my listening to the R&P album Let’s Flaunt It (Live In Concert) [read more]

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Re-seeing

August 16, 2016

I learned photography by shooting black+white film; looking at a scene and re-seeing it in shades of grey. Highlights, shadows, contrast. Although I now shoot in full-colour with digital equipment, I still use the act of creating a photograph as a tool in re-seeing what [read more]