#ftm newsletter

[07170]

jaron kanegson for ftm newsletter, june 1998

#jaron kanegson #ftm newsletter #ftm #t slur #archives #uploaded #butch #q slur

[ankewehner]

FTM Newsletter, 1987-2008

Someone shared this link on another network, and I thought I'd spread it around.

The FTM Newsletter was published by FTM International (FTMI), the longest continuously running organization for the transmasculine community. The original group was founded in 1986 by Lou Sullivan, a gay trans man who convinced the medical establishment that trans men could be gay. The FTM Newsletter, first published in 1987, promoted understanding of transmasculine people and provided services to improve their lives. The newsletter became a lifeline by connecting transmasculine people worldwide. It became the most widely circulated and highly respected publication exploring transmasculine experience.

#queer history #queer #history #sources #trans men #transmasc #ftm #FTM Newsletter #trans #transgender

[paxamdayez]

https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22FTM+Newsletter%22

We’ve always existed.

#ftm #ftm newsletter #vintage queer #transgender #trans rights

[avo-kat]

"Why do we have to ask if you are a boy or girl?"

Interview with Leslie Feinberg from the FTM Newsletter #23 1993. Source: https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/0c483j59s

#ftm newsletter

[vlovelovette]

Did you know? Subscribing to The Lovette Journals, an informal digital commonplace journal centering the musings of life, art, experience and culture of a 20 something transsexual will earn you a black lipstick stamp right on that forehead?

Best Candidates: Transmascs, Queers, F@gs, sexual & political conversation havers, poets who get panic attacks daily, artists who are blood-pressure-concerning angry…. The works.

Consider subscribing for the new year. I promise you won’t regret it.

#newsletter #general note #journal #blog #philosophy #writeblr #writing #internet journal #reblog #art #wellness #poetryreblog #poets #ftm #queer #transsexual writer #transsexual #transmasc #transgender #trans pride

[starnosedmoles]

Occasional Trouble Passing…

“What do you mean I can’t go in there? You can just suck my sock, buddy!”

found in “FTM Newsletter”, 1990s

#ftm #ftm history #transgender #transgender history #trans #trans history #transmasc #trans man #pride #queer history #gay community #trans humor #queer humor #queer cartoons #lgbt comic #trans comic #inclus #inclusionist #90s #1990s #ftm newsletter

[kissycore]

i really love this more than anything

from FTM Newsletter. 1994.

#as i said last night. transfemmes i ❤️ you #t4t #transfemme #trans woman #transmasc #trans man #mtf #ftm #transgender #trans #trans history #lgbt history

[powerpuff2003]

T4T gay trans men love story. FtM Newsletter Issue 41.

#t4t #t4t mlm #trans history #queer history #lgbt history #gay history #mlm

[yaoiboypussy]

Hey other trans men (+ other trans people), FTM international and FTM newsletter publications are available online . This is stuff I urge people to read because people know nothing of trans man/FtM history, struggles, and activism.

Many things discussed in these are still things argued about today - because people refused to listen to trans men then and they are refusing to now.

#.txt #trans #transgender #trans man #lgbt #transmasc #lgbtq #trans history

[turing-tested]

"are you crying over ftm newsletters from the 80's again"

[queernewspaperarchive]

FTM Newsletter (1987)

#trans history #queer history #trans #queer #lgbt #history #1987

[draayder]

I really love reading old FTM Newsletters. there’s so much good stuff in them. like this New Balance store writing in during the 1990s

and this review of porn (which also had multiple ads in the newsletter)

perspectives on handling going on T

a zine from Japan’s FTM support group

ads for packers

and every kind of gender term you can imagine

here’s a bunch on the digital transgender archive and I also recommend reading the single existent issue of the TransFag Rag if only for the name

#long post #t

[transrevolutionaries]

FTM Newsletter, Issue 12, June 1990, Written by Christian CB David, Edited by Lou Sullivan. Page 3.

#trans history #communism #marxism #transgender #lgbt history #east germany #gdr

[multiplyqueer]

Some bigender history

SPEAKING OF GENDER by Francis I would like to explore the concept of being "bi-gendered" as an FTM. My own definition of bi-gendered is someone who is comfortable with feeling both "male" and ''female," either coincidentally or at separate times. This is not necessarily the same as feeling "masculine" or "feminine," since there are masculine women who identify only as women, and feminine men who identify only as men. This definition excludes sexual orientation, as a separate though related issue. As we have taught the gender workers, there are many orientations, and they may change, so there are no set combinations. I know bi-gendered FTMs who feel more comfortable living as men than as women, and take hormones, or also have upper surgery, but still acknowledge and enjoy occasionally feeling like a woman. There are a few I've read about (and would like to meet!) who live part-time as each gender, holding part-time jobs as each. There are others like myself who occasionally crossdress fully as a man and feel like one, while living and feeling the rest of the time as a woman. Personally, I have never felt like a "masculine woman," but there has always been a "male" side of me. Sometimes I feel like a mixture of both genders, but when my feelings are more separate (and they often are) there is a definite difference in my basic energy vibration. Most of the time, my clothes and personal gender perception are in harmony, but I have occasionally found myself feeling like a "drag queen'' walking down the street in a dress, or feeling decidedly female after doing a complete cross (tm) dress transformation with mustache. This is usually more obvious to myself than to others, as I become more aware of how I project and how I feel inside. If you have read Carlos Castaneda's or Lynn Andrews' books, one could draw the conclusion that the concept of gender is personally constructed, and can be consciously changed if one has the ability and interest to do so. The Native Americans call this "shape shifting," and the Tibetans have a similar concept. Both cultures also entertain the possibility of changing to non-human (animal, bird) forms as well, and stories abound of shape shifters being perceived by others in those forms. This practice is based on thought and energy projections, but they can affect what others feel and see. This is an interesting concept, and may explain why some transsexuals who aren't yet cross-living cause confusion in others: they are projecting male vibrations while in female form. I think that being bi-gendered is a viable choice, perhaps a rough equivalent of the male-to-female "she-males," or "complete" crossdressers who switch into this other side of themselves, either for short times or to cross-live. To paraphrase what one FTM said in a meeting, we are the shamans in this age, building a bridge between the genders, and making our own new boxes and categories. Gender is surely the newest societal frontier, and we are the pioneers.

// FTM Newsletter #17 (1991) from Digital Transgender Archive

#bigender #queer history #trans history #multigender #lgbt history #lgbtq history #ftm #digital transgender archive #this is pretty cool! I'm happy that there's not only historical acknowledgement of bigender people #but also direct accounts from bigender people #m&f

[transsexual-menace]

hey, everyone! i've been working on curating some new stuff for my gender/queer studies folder! some of the new additions include every digitized issue of ftm international along with some other ftm newsletters that i thought were interesting. if you want to check them out, they're the folders that are colored red in the periodicals/magazines folder!

i am thinking about having a spreadsheet with all of the current books, magazines, zines, and periodicals that are in the folder and also adding a request form that people can fill out for me to add new books/topics. i truly want this to be a resource for everyone so i am definitely open to ideas/requests. until i get the spreadsheet/form set up, feel free to shoot me a dm or ask with any ideas or requests for my resource folder.

#queer history #lgbt history #queer studies #gender studies #queer theory #gender theory #queer resources #trans resources

[genderkoolaid]

In the workshop the Lesbian Avengers so eloquently held at Camp Trans, I was asked why I was there, since I was a man, and what did I care for womyn-only space? I told them that for forty-five years I lived as a lesbian. I went to jail countless times in the 60s and 70s for 'appearing in public disguised,' for wearing the clothes of the opposite sex, which all us dykes did back then. We were the ones along with the nellie fags getting our asses kicked and going to jail while all the white collar business and professional people who are here enjoying this festival were staying home and hiding behind a guise of heterosexuality. I was an activist in the lesbian community when we didn't like being called lesbian and everyone was 'gay' (such a nice word). I put out a newsletter in New Orleans, called AWARE, for women only. I was the first female co-chair of the Louisiana Gay Political Action Coalition (LAGPAC), which is still in existence and whose current Executive Director sits on the Board of Governors or Regents or Directors (whichever) of HRC. I was an openly gay student at Louisiana State Medical School in 1970 when that wasn't as easy thing to be. When I wasn't getting beaten up and thrown out of police cars I was helping my friend Pat, who later died of breast cancer, make dildoes on the black market because all the dykes were too scared to go into sex shops to buy them. Then, on to Europe, where I started another rendition of AWARE in three different languages and sent it all over the continent and Great Britain. I helped join the womyn's movement to the men's because I knew that united we stand and divided we fall, a realization we evidently still haven't come to here. I did radio and TV shows and talked to anyone who would listen. Amazingly people listened. I can tell you that Belgium and a lot of the places that weren't so tolerant before my lover BJ Scott and I got there will never be the same. And speaking of womyn's festivals, I played in an all-female band for years called Original Bleus, and we played Gay Prides all over the place. We played at the San Francisco Womyn's Center in 1980 in front of I can't remember how many beautiful womyn and then onto Market Street for about half a million. I marched in the first Gay Pride March in Washington, the first Womyn's March with NOW, and on and on. So please, please don't tell me I don't belong at the MWMF just because I had surgery on my body. I have paid my dues. I have gone to jail and paid with the same body I had surgery on and, by God, I have paid with my blood and my soul and with all too many friends who've been lost because womyn didn't have control over their bodies. Don't tell me I don't belong in a womyn's-only space. I lived the fear and the tragedy and the pain, the ecstasy, the joy, and the beauty of it all and you can never take that away from me.

— Tony Barreto-Neto, from "Statement from Tony Barreto-Neto, Camp Trans FTM or... THE SHOWERING PENIS S-P-E-A-K-S!!!"

Note: "womyn" here is the language of the festival, and it was used by trans people as well as cis people. In modern contexts it's almost entirely TERFs who use alternative versions of "women", but Tony is very clearly not a TERF and was targeted by lesbian separatists himself (which is what his statement is about).

#decided ykw im posting this as its own quote #bc i think its important #m.