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From Tobi's Journal (2005)
My final year at college I became the target of a campus-wide debate about how to deal with transphobia. It was very difficult to have to explain it to a dozen more people each week, but I wanted people to know what was going on, so I wrote this piece using excerpts from my journal. It got printed in the Siren the campus Women's Center’s monthly publication. This takes place immediately after a budget hearing for the conservative paper that printed a depiction of the violent removal of my genitals. The budget hearing was the only forum on campus willing to take on the subject. However, as a funding body it had very little opportunity to discuss non-financial concerns, even when the behavior of a group goes against the group’s mission statement, is harmful, or is even illegal.
Stubble (2005)
I have had a very interesting relationship with body dysphoria. There have been various steps I've taken to try to deal with it, most notably through self-photography. This tells the story of the ongoing struggle I've had with one part of my self that I can't seem to love but am unwilling to hate.
Being Nameless (2003)
This was one of my first detailed explorations of the role of gender in my life. I tried to include all of the factors that were influencing my thoughts at the time, as well as create two different voices to represent both the experience of being in the moment and later reflects on the experience. That tended to make things confusing, a quality I appreciated as it reproduced the confusion I was facing at the time.