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Contents:
1. Firsts - How I started crossdressing
2. Crossdressing in the News
Tacoma police seek crossdressing robber
http://mynorthwest.com/11/2329683/Tacoma-police-seek-crossdressing-bank-robber
How do people who change gender choose a name
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-23790148
3. Positive message in the world
The Awesome Foundation
Great video describing the organisation - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23469438
Website - http://www.awesomefoundation.org/
4. Fashion - ModCloth
http://www.modcloth.com/
Shiny bubbles dress - http://www.modcloth.com/shop/dresses/shiny-bubbles-dress
Opine and dine dress - http://www.modcloth.com/shop/dresses/opine-and-dine-dress
About the Artist Dress in Red - http://www.modcloth.com/shop/dresses/about-the-artist-dress-in-red
5. Male Suffragettes
Meghalaya India: Where women rule, and men are suffragettes - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16592633
First -- OH MY GLOB, my wife is out shopping and she told me that she found some hot pink heels but they're not in OUR sizes, because apparently she actually LOOKED TO SEE IF THEY HAD THEM IN MY SIZE. I can't tell you how that makes me feel. It's good! It's good.
ReplyDeleteAaaaaaaanyway. So! I warn-uuuuuhhhh, TOLD you I'd be back...and so I am.
Okay, first-point-one: I love the positivity angle that you take with your crossdressing -- and, apparently, with life itself. That's good. I concur. Yes. Nodding.
Second: How did I choose my femme name? Well...I actually use two, and I'm trying to figure out if the two are different aspects, or whatever, but that's for another time. When I was younger (around about 12 or 13, so Duran Duran were still awesome), a new girl about my age popped up in my neighborhood. Her name was (is, I guess -- she's probably still living) Melina. I don't think I'd ever met a Melina before, and I liked her name. I was friendly with her, and I thought she was pretty. She seemed rather mature for her -our- age, and she was very level-headed and steady. She stuck in my memory.
Many years, one country and much shitty Duran Duran later, when I started to ease into my femininity, I cast about for names and BANG! "Melina". It sounded elegant without being stuffy, exotic without being ostentatious, feminine without being twee and I've always liked women's names with "M"s and "L"s in them. Zing! I picked it.
Ironically, my (feminine) personality is not a whole lot like my namesake's: I'm flighty, weird, obtuse, spastic and...other stuff. Huh. Go figure.
So...in this episode you also asked about first introductions to crossdressing. This comment is getting SUPER DAMN LONG, so I'm just gonna e-mail you about that -- is that OK?
Thanks!