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Why Is It Harder to Suspend Disbelief When We Watch Porn?

4/25/12 6:00pm by Rebecca Kling
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Going to a play or movie almost always involves some suspension of disbelief but the same is not true for porn. For whatever reason, audiences want to believe the people they're watching are attracted to each other (even if only on a physical level) and do truly orgasm. Why is that? It's not like people watch Dexter and say, "this sucks! He's not really killing people!"  Read more >

Transgender Response to Girl Scout Calling For Boycott

1/20/12 10:31am by Rebecca Kling
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A few days ago, news started making the blog rounds that a 14-year-old Girl Scout named Taylor was calling for a boycott of Girl Scout cookies due to the Scout's support of "transgender promotion." BlogHer posted about the issue, although the video has since been made private. I made transcript of the original video out of the worry that it would be taken down.  Read more >

It's a GOOD vampire novel, I promise!

6/21/11 1:30pm by Rebecca Kling
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I need to warn you up front: Deborah Harkness' novel, A Discovery of Witches is part one of a trilogy, and the second book isn't scheduled to come out until next year. I say "warn you" because I made it a third of the way through the book before I read the dust jacket and learned the tale of Dr. Diana Bishop wouldn't be complete for a few more years.  Read more >

I Was Fired For Being Trans

1/13/11 5:31pm by Rebecca Kling
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Being a victim of bigotry is never fun. Getting fired in a discriminatory fashion is never a good thing. I was fired from a teaching position at Neal Math and Science Academy in North Chicago due to my status as a trans woman, a clear case of bigoted discrimination. I felt humiliated. I felt like my value and skill as an educator was being called into question. I felt like less of a person.  Read more >

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Full Name
Rebecca Kling
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June 2010
About Me: 

Rebecca Kling is a Chicago-based artist interested in exploring the performance of identity. Her multi-media productions – composed of storytelling, video, movement, playful skips and jumps, enlightening self-discovery, accusatory glances, awkward pauses, and more – question gender, self-expression, and what it means to be at home in one’s own body.

 

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