Author Archives: cosmicwyrmrat
Policing the Coronavirus Pandemic: Trans Sex Workers and the Movement Towards Decriminalization
Presentation from Policing the Pandemic on April 18th 2020 Hi everyone, My name is Estelle I’m really happy to be here with everyone having this critical discussion today. I want to acknowledge first of all that I am speaking from … Continue reading
The Power of Fashion
The power of Fashion When I was a teenager I was friends with a really bad kid who made me do really bad things all the time. His name was Kyle and he was kind of my hero. Not because … Continue reading
Dyke Drama
I recently read a thread on Facebook on Echange Q about LSD (a lesbian speed dating event) taking place in Montreal which spiraled into miscommunications, accusations of erasure, politically vapid queer semantics, and frankly, nonsense. I read this discussion as … Continue reading
Mind Your Own Fucking Jizz (or, the CUM Manifesto)
I have always felt a surprising connection to the the transmisogynist term “autogynephilia.” Not that I ever casually refer to myself as an autogynephile during any of my once every three year ALO’s that I go on, but more that I find a certain power in exploring its history of repression. Continue reading
KIMBERLY NIXON and the Canadian Legal Precedent of Transmisogyny In Canada there is a horrifying legal precedent that has almost embedded trans-misogyny into the law. It goes to back to Vancouver in 1995 when Kimberly Nixon, a transgender woman, attended … Continue reading
Conclusively Gay?
This month, I have decided to once again adorn my furred scarlet robe, attach my full bottom grey wig and dust off my centuries old hardwood Gavel in order to bring you, dear readers, another conclusive, 100% certified, official verdict … Continue reading
Don’t Shave My Rump
A PIECE OF RETRIBUTION I really don’t know a single frocking thing about Bruce LaBruce, acclaimed northern darling of the queercore movement except that he’s a creep fuck shitbag. As I’m sitting down to write what I feel like is … Continue reading