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TRANS – Transgender Life Stories from South Africa (Reviewed by Ulla Kelly, January 2010)

Posted by ulla on Wednesday, January 27, 2010, In : Transgender 


First, see the next person as a person, before you worry about the sexual part of it, whether it's a man, or whether it's a woman, or whether it's a drag queen.  Don't look at me as a trans man, don't even look at me as a man; think of me as a person, first and foremost, it's not about what's dangling or not dangling between my legs.” - Charl Marais

TRANS – Transgender Life Stories from South Africa (edited by Ruth Morgan, Charl Marais & Joy Rosemary Wellbeloved and published by Fanele, 20...

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Should Celebrities Come Out?

Posted by ulla on Sunday, February 22, 2009, In : Celebrities 

I suppose I keep on asking that question, because I have firm opinions about it and I wish everyone agreed with me.  Obviously they don’t – and why on earth should they?  After starting the Coming Out Stories project, I began to interview queer artists and celebrities and the above question is one I pretty much always include.  I also decided to ask the question on the coming out blog and also canvas a few hundred of my close personal Facebook contacts.  It’s not even a remotely r...


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