BlogHer - podcast - Comments

Thanks for sharing your favorite podcasts Kia and Tracy

Britt Bravo — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:20:36 -0500

Tracy - Do you mean that you get updates of new podcasts in Google Reader, or that you have them show up on your iGoogle page--or both!

Top 5 Podcasts

Kia — Sat, 16 May 2009 08:45:36 -0500

The Sound of Young America

The Splendid Table

Sound Opinions

Democracy Now!

Tell Me More

And there are tons more...

My husband had an ipod years before I did because I was a happy dinosaur with my music cds and ratty cassette tapes. Once I finally wised up, I couldn't believe the number of fantastic shows that were now available to me.

Kia

http://theseagreenhouse.blogspot.com

My favorites

TracyD — Sat, 16 May 2009 08:11:38 -0500

I love pod casts. Sometimes I cannot work without listening to my favorite local radio program. Sometimes it is an hour old, other times it can be a week old, but I don’t care since I have my buddies in my ear.

My favorite podcast is The Wallstreet Journal This Morning. This is up to date information regarding business and trends. The hosts are fun to listen to and give their funny sidebar comments. You can find these free podcasts in Google Reader gadget and on iTunes. I have it on my Google page where I can get to it immediately and I also download all my favorites into my iTunes where I can carry all of them with me while traveling and working out. (Ok, I am a talk show junkie!).

Thanks for the article.

-Tracy

Good for "Recycling" Content

judyweitz — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:13:15 -0500

When you write a great blog post, it usually just stays in that one form, and you miss out on all the possible uses for it. Well, a podcast is a great way to recycle the content: it allows a broader range of users to hear your message, and it also can be used to gain traffic to your blog due to the fact that if you upload your podcast to a podcast directory there's a whole new potential group of searchers who can find it.

As the owner of a network of New Orleans sites, I am always looking for new ways to gain visitors and creative ways to keep my sites "sticky". Podcasts are one of the BEST we've found recently. This is a right-on-target article. The subject is so big though, you could say a lot more if you wanted. ;)

Podcasting is great!

AngieLaa — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:12:42 -0500

I think this was so good. I love podcasting. I currently produce a Gossip Girl podcast, but I would like to get together with some bloggers and do one that would be a supplement to our blogs. If anyone is interested, contact me. It's a really fun thing and you can make some good friends through the process.

I thank you Melanie for posting this because most people are oblivious to podcasting and how it is an informative source...and fun too.

Angela

www.moving-along.com - My personal blog

www.talking-gossip.com - Talking Gossip After Dark - A Gossip Girl Podcast

What are the Home Decor Trends?

Condo Blues — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:47:56 -0500

Sadly, I'm not going to BlogHer. If I could, I'd ask," What does the Home Decorating/DIY deomographic want - posts about where or what to buy outright to create a well-decorated home or posts about here's how to make an item instead of buying it to create a well-deocrated home?"

I ask because I read that several home improvement/decor shows say that their auidneces are trending away from wanting to know how to make/DIY the items that decorate their homes. Now auidiences are more interested in how to get the look they want by buying the items from a big box store. With the economy the way that it is I thought auidences would be more inclined to seek out more DIY blogs than DI-buy blogs.

Why don't decorating and DIY projects always work out like they do on TV? Condo Blues http://condo-blues.blogspot.com/

What are the Home Decor Trends?

Condo Blues — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:47:49 -0500

Why don't decorating and DIY projects always work out like they do on TV? Condo Blues http://condo-blues.blogspot.com/

Fantastic questions!

Suzanne Reisman — Sun, 18 May 2008 08:20:21 -0500

Thanks everyone for these excellent questions and comments! I am very much looking forward to presenting them to Calpernia and hearing her answers, too.

I am also adding two of my own here: Piggybacking on Denise's initial question, I am very interested in talking more about how we form gender identity in general. Also, given the tremendous social pressure that women face to have the perfect body, how does this affect transgendered women (and men) as they undergo various procedures to match their bodies and their gender identities?

Suzanne Reisman, Contributing Editor - Feminism & Gender
Campaign for Unshaved Snatch (CUSS) & Other Rants

Thanks...

nelle2nelle — Sat, 17 May 2008 22:26:42 -0500

I recall a time when you believed I'd never transition.

A time when you believed I lacked the courage to fully involve with confident, mature, dykes.

A time when I'd never have engaged in this discussion, or if so, from a rather benign place.

Yet I did these things - and more - because some cared enough to push my buttons, to challenge me to face what was within and not make excuses for it all.

It is possible to discuss - and to mentor - without being tethered to a term like transgendered. Yet we also have to be cognizant of the fact that we are rather mundane creatures of where gender can truly go. Some see no place in either traditional gender construct. Some wish to blow those old views all to heck. Some get very lost in believing they are fully boxed in by all of it, and the pain that can come from within and without. For those who feel this way, I have no desire to make my path the model for their path. It can be a lonely journey, because it can also be so uniquely our own.

Anyway, I'm not adverse to talking on my experiences, but hope at the end of the day I'm seen as woman first and foremost (and if you really know me... the other terms mentioned in another post.)

Now about your questions...

nelle

Bites on a bar of soap

nelle2nelle — Sat, 17 May 2008 22:15:36 -0500

Good questions - but then you know those are questions I personally love to chat on, right?

nelle

Love Koan's question and RE's response

Denise — Sat, 17 May 2008 19:42:12 -0500

Koan and Nelle, y'all are awesome.

I saw Koan's questions and cheered when I saw the second one.

Both of you know that I've asked that question before - of you and of others. I've also been a little pushy in suggestng TG women don't help their sisters by putting the trans label behind them and "just" living their lives as women, straight or gay... I understand the need for women to do this (or F2Ms) but it's frustrating for me, as an advocate for trans people when I lose those voices of experience.

I'm glad you asked the question, Koan and I'm glad RE jumped in here too. I respect you both, regardless of which labels you're actively embracing. And, I really appreciate that you've both shared your unique experiences with me and with various communities. We've learned a lot from you both and grown as people and communities because you've shared yourselves.

I also wonder if Calpernia will ever tire of being the poster girl and might some day want to move away from trans advocacy and just live her life.

~Denise
BlogHer Community Manager

Flamingo House Happenings

A new question...

nelle2nelle — Sat, 17 May 2008 11:36:03 -0500

based on what I've just stumbled upon.

The American Psychiatric Association has just formed a committee to review our supposed 'disorder.' Those named do not give a promising outlook for advancing tg rights and outlook. From the (oops, accidentally hit 'post' there...) petition site:

On the Task Force, named as Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders Chair, we find Dr. Kenneth Zucker, from Toronto infamous Centre for Addictions and Mental Health (CAMH, formerly the Clarke Institute). Dr. Zucker is infamous for utilizing reparative therapy to Ccure gender-variant children. Named to his work group, we find Zuckers mentor, Dr. Ray Blanchard, Head of Clinical Sexology Services at CAMH and creator of the theory of autogynephilia,
categorized as a paraphilia and defined as man paraphilic tendency to
be sexually aroused by the thought or image of himself as a woman.
Also Dr Ann Lawrence, a supporter of his JUNK SCIENCE.. is understood to be in consideration as an alternate member.

Would you care to comment on the formation of this committee? What is your view of autogynephilia?

nelle

Fair enough...

nelle2nelle — Sat, 17 May 2008 09:02:02 -0500

and thank you for clarifying!

nelle

No politics

Koan — Sat, 17 May 2008 08:51:57 -0500

nelle, I wasn't getting (or trying to get) "political", or judgmental, or anything. I don't think there's a "right" or "wrong" answer to the questions I asked - I asked them because I'm interested in *her* answers.

And that's all.

Ah, transgendered politics

nelle2nelle — Sat, 17 May 2008 08:43:31 -0500

Guess I'm going against protocol here by not directly asking questions, at least not yet.

I might actually have wondered on these things you ask on at one time. I don't wear being tg on my sleeve, either. I'll play with the term, laugh about it, etc... but in the end what matters to me in identification are two words: 'feminist' and 'dyke.'

That said, if someone can make a living off of the hellhole pathway of being transgendered, more power to them. a service is rendered, those buying can buy or not. There are many things in this life I can't afford at the moment, and so I don't buy them. And hell... I can't at this time afford srs, so that stays an arm's length away, or awaits more enlightened insurance carriers.

Visibility is another element of personal choice... as mentioned it isn't how I'll define, but I don't run from it, either.

We are all unique beings, my experience is not your experience is not her experience. We flow with our circumstance, we try to carve out a good place in life, we work with what we've got to get through.

So with that, I'll add questions...

'how do you relate and interact with the trans community? Do you feel an obligation to all those who are trans? Does any one trans person have a moral obligation to give of self back to the community? Do you view being trans as the journey to transition, and not a term to be self attached for life?'

nelle

BlogHer - podcast - Comments

Thanks for sharing your favorite podcasts Kia and Tracy

Top 5 Podcasts

My favorites

Good for "Recycling" Content

Podcasting is great!

What are the Home Decor Trends?

What are the Home Decor Trends?

Fantastic questions!

Thanks...

*Bites on a bar of soap*

Love Koan's question and RE's response

A new question...

Fair enough...

No politics

Ah, transgendered politics

Bites on a bar of soap