Apr. 14th, 2013

[identity profile] glass-houses.livejournal.com
Hi all, after having serious surgery last month I immediately got my period, causing it to get out of wack. I was 6 days overdue this cycle before I finally initiated sex with bf yesterday morning because it always starts it. Late last night, I did get it but I forgot to start taking my new pill. I remembered this morning at 8 but does that make a difference in protection? It was less than 12 hours ago. Am I covered immediately now?
[identity profile] frolicnaked.livejournal.com
Hi and welcome to our latest edition of the Links Round Up!

Apologies for the unscheduled hiatus on this: It's just that time of the school year again.

For those who may not know, the LRU is a compilation of items from the past week that may be of interest to VPers and is intended to broaden the kinds of conversations we have here.

To submit articles for next week's round-up, e-mail frolicnaked@vaginapagina.com. If you have additional articles you'd like folks to know about this week, feel free to comment directly to this post.

As a reminder, in lieu of trigger warnings, I use keywords describing the themes of the piece. Please skim these before deciding to read the excerpt or click through for the full article. Outside sources are not safe spaces, and mainstream source's comments should almost always be avoided. The links I highlight don't necessarily reflect VP's views, or even my own, for that matter.

This week's round-up includes: transgender women and HIV, straw feminists, dealing with depression, and post-partum bodies.

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Thoughts on any of these stories? Also, what have you been reading (or writing!) this week?
[identity profile] shark-o-saurus.livejournal.com

EDITED: My post was originally a summarized version of this: I've noticed a lot of the people here introduce themselves and their partners as "cis-male" and "cis-female". I've done it too. When included and not medically necessary, could this be perceived as a way of identifying as a "real" man or woman, implying that people who aren't cis-male or cis-female aren't "real" men or women?

After reading the responses (this got a lot more responses than I was expecting, which is awesome!), my sense is that 1) in this community, that information is often appropriate to include, 2) that if that sort of thing might occur, it probably wouldn't be in this community, and 3) that including cis- or trans- in front of a word may have the effect of normalizing that being woman/man doesn't automatically mean you have a particular set of organs. My social circle is reasonably good about that already, but I realize a lot of the world isn't like that. So maybe I'll stick with either not identifying a gender or using cis.


Feel free to join the discussion if you'd like! I wanted to modify it up here to more accurately reflect what I'm thinking right now in case any new readers come along.

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