Becoming Me - A Writer's Transition

Tamlyn Ailsa MacPherson is a transgender writer and digital artist -This is her life in blog form

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The T & Cake Podcast - Episode 3 : Playing The Cat Like A Harmonica

The T & Cake Podcast – Episode 3 : Playing The Cat Like A Harmonica

Here we go you gorgeous people!!!

https://soundcloud.com/tandcakepodcast/episode-3-playing-the-cat-like-a-harmonica

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Podcasting: Episode 2

Episode 2 is now available to listen to on Soundcloud and many other popular podcast feeds.

T & Cake: Episode 2: The Lost Jane Austen Novel

Also, for those of you interested in the terminology of Trans discourse, we put together a shorter episode…

T & Cake Presents: Trans 101/God-Flavoured Queer Jam

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Episode 2 - The Lost Jane Austen Novel

In the second episode, Tammy and Aimee talk to spoken word artist and blogger, Chris Swift, and Trans support activist Robin Edwards about various Trans issues

Here is the second Episode of out transgender based podcast. Do like, share and comment if you enjoy it.

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So I am a Podcaster now... #tandcakepodcast

So I am a Podcaster now… #tandcakepodcast

Yes people. I may have been quiet on here of late, but I certainly haven’t been quiet. Together with my friend Aimee Joesbury, and with help from some other friends, we have put together this, our first in what will be a series of podcasts on Trans issues, Trans experiences and Trans Lives in our modern world.

For the pilot, our guests are Transgender Novelist, Amanda McIntyre Ure, and Chris…

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Does Feminism Need a Rebrand?

Does Feminism Need a Rebrand?

Straight off the bat, fist in the air and hollering like a macaque, I am a feminist. Of course I am a feminist. Gender equality is something we should be ashamed that we haven’t reached. As a species we have put twelve men on the moon, observed distant galaxies, cured diseases that were once thought fatal, and created ABBA, yet equal pay, equal corporate and political representation, and even not…

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Boing Boing Boing

Hey everybody. First off… yeah, I haven’t blogged properly in ages. Sorry about that. My usual Winter funk started early, triggered by western society’s increasing resemblance to pretty much every dystopian science fiction future in every dystopian science fiction movie ever. As a result, I have been just drifting around in some kind of semi-fugue state, fueled by very strong painkillers and an…

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A New Way To Be #poetrybitchezzz

A New Way To Be by Tamlyn MacPherson I have learned, these past few years a better way to be. Where once was rage and anger rife, I try serenity. My patience, grown and evolved brings calm into my mind. When raging hard, my mental storm made answers hard to find. Compassion rules, it stays my hand and I know all life is sacred. Gays, the disabled… a refugee child… they suffer ‘coz they’re hated.…

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#Orlando – What the blithering fuck did people think was going to happen?

#Orlando – What the blithering fuck did people think was going to happen?

Yeah I’m swearier than usual because I am fucking angry.

Yeah, I am late to the opinion party as it has taken a few days for me to be able to articulate my sadness and rage. Anything posted beforehand would have merely been page upon page of gibberish, typed furiously with a lump hammer.

This atrocious act of sheer, blind, ignorant, fucking stupid hate is all the more tragic for its…

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A #TRANSGENDER POEM

Make Me New

by Tamlyn Ailsa MacPherson

Take my deformity, throw down the clay.

Push me and pinch me, and mould me this way.

Take what was unsightly and cast away;

Turn white to black and night to day.

For I am the living, I am the dead.

I am the spider and the fly.

I am the block and, upon it, the head.

I am the killer and I die.

Cut me up, a traitor’s fate;

so the poison will drain from me.

G…

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Retro Space Marine c.1990. Don't it just make you feel old?

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'The 12 Days of Tindmas' by Tamlyn Ailsa MacPherson

‘The 12 Days of Tindmas’ by Tamlyn Ailsa MacPherson

On the twelfth day of Christmas, a stranger gifted me;

Twelve crabs a-bitin’,

eleven lice a-crawlin’.

ten rectal fissures,

nine swollen lymph nodes,

eight smelly fingers,

seven ruined bed sheets,

six inserted objects,

FIVE WEEPING SORES!

Four hairy warts

three deep scars,

two broken teeth,

and a long wait in casualty

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#Paris - Why #bigotry, # Xenophobia and #ignorance are just as dangerous as #Terrorism

#Paris – Why #bigotry, # Xenophobia and #ignorance are just as dangerous as #Terrorism

You know, I spent the first half of my life being told by the media that my life was at risk from terrorists? There were IRA bombings all over the news, yet Unionist actions were played down or just unreported. Rubbish bins were removed from railway stations just in case anyone thought that bombing Knebworth would lead to Irish reunification. Any Ulster accent on the news was always shown to be…

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#LGBT – NATIONAL 'COMING OUT' DAY, AND WHY IT'S NOT ALL FARTING UNICORNS!!!

#LGBT – NATIONAL ‘COMING OUT’ DAY, AND WHY IT’S NOT ALL FARTING UNICORNS!!!

Yes, that is right. Yesterday (the 11th of October) was ‘National Coming Out Day’.

No, I didn’t see the greetings cards on the shelves in Tesco either. Just like ‘Transgender Day of Remembrance’ and ‘Hug a Stranger Day’, it seems to be lower in people’s perception than days celebrating ‘Steak & Blowjobs’ or just talking like a Pirate.

Thing is, I am not entirely sure what the day is meant to be.

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#Transgender - The story of how I died

#Transgender – The story of how I died

First off, many apologies for the long absence. I have had some pretty nasty health issues these past few weeks that have kept me free of the blogosphere, for want of a better buzzword (If you have ever prolapsed a disc in your back you will know my pain). I sit here, Handel’s Sarabande Suite playing, its melancholy tones fitting the reflective mood I am in. Of all the times to return to my blog,…

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No makeup but I brushed my hair. I am almost presentable.

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Why are the drugs always gone? #chemicalsanity

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The bitch is back!!!