Spirit Under Transsexual Cover: Recent Comments

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Meranda — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:09:51 GMT

Shameful!!! Just shamefull!!!

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Colin — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:12:03 GMT

Hi, Heather,
I would be happy to participate in your research. Thanks for asking. You can reach me directly at colin_pdx [at] yahoo.com. I popped into the website, and I appreciate what you are attempting. I've put it on my agenda to check it out now and then.
Best,
Colin

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Heather White — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:57:18 GMT

I happened upon your blog as I was looking for information about ILP. I'm working on a research project about LGBTQ spirituality (see the website for more information) and would love to interview you, if you'd be willing (you can participate anonymously, if you like).

Please get in touch if you're interested.

Heather White

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Paul Urban — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:54:56 GMT

Colin, I will be presenting a reading at our Sunday sundown service at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Winston Salem, NC. Any suggestions? This is Pride month and our focus this year is on transgender. I am a transman.

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Colin — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:03:19 GMT

Hey, cousin! Thanks for stopping by again. Yep, the audio diary of the voice changes is a little eerie. I appreciated your perspective, though: the girl was, for all important intents and purposes, an illusion. I tried, I really did! Turns out it wasn't so convincing after all. Colin, thankfully, is here to stay.

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rebecca marie — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:52:02 GMT

okay, i have to say this kinda freaked my freak out. that girl at the beginning of the podcast, i remember her. i really liked her (loved her). she was a cool chick. but hearing her voice reminds me that even then somehow i knew she was an illusion, and colin was in there. colin makes more sense than that girl. was she a dream or a real memory? either way, it's pleasant to revisit.

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Colin — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:43:11 GMT

Thanks, Chris!

Glad you're finding grad school rewarding. Mine will be as rewarding as I make it. I'm signing up for a whole experience, really, by moving back to SF. Queer mecca and so much more.

BTW: Loved your post How to succeed as a student; great tips!

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Chris — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:03:48 GMT

Congratulations!
I started following your blog last year when I was preparing to move to Oregon to start grad school, and I'm really pleased to read that you're doing the same! I hope it's as rewarding for you as it has been for me so far.

Comment on Collective Overwhelm

Stephen C. Rose — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:03:53 GMT

Agreed my "rational" thought dreams are a mite off the radar. However most of what I propose, I feel, is what needs to be done sooner than later in order to AVOID the dislocations and tensions (violence) that failure to act creates. I am schooled, as you might infer, in the prophetic tradition as I parse it -- that would begin with folk like the poet in Isaiah, Josea, Jeremiah, Amos and culminate and in and branch out from Jesus who also used the see and see bur do not understand sarcasm to show the difficulty of the project. I natter on, but I have also read your profile by now and listened to the lady's song and reflected a little in the musical gulf created somewhat by cultural styles and what I take to be my younger collo-quists tendency toward agony in all things. :) Anyway thank you for your comment as it continues to be on the mark. Someday I will insist that the paths we are on converge and that mine represents a somewhat quicker way (at least for me) than others I could name. Actually none of the above is what I intended to say. I wanted to say in relation to violence that it is conceivable that we could have a sea change owing to people becoming tired of it. This is aided by television and the internet and the lugubrious discourse that would seem to have some end somewhere. The end would be the sea change. Things are moving rapidly. Cheers, S in the heart of Manhattan.

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Colin — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:49:33 GMT

Hey Stephen,

Well, you're right about this being off-topic. I see that this is an issue that you are passionate about, though, and I appreciate that. Based on my experience, the biggest challenge we face is what you mentioned before: violence. And I'm talking about a violence that is pervasive, down to the level of road rage and treating your kid like shit after a bad day.

Sure, reorganization of societies and invention of sustainable ways to meet basic needs is a priority as well. Your vision isn't likely to materialize anytime in the next hundred years on even a modest scale, it seems, but if we don't get this violence issue resolved, we might not have a planet left to reorganize. Actually, the planet would survive; humanity wouldn't.