As of today, Aug 26, 09…this is a Feminist group blog;
Two new authors have been added, Viktoria Whittaker, a WbW (for those who actually care about such things) Priestess of the Cybeline Revival and Maura Hennessey, Irish lesbian activist.
This blog was started to address feminist issues through the eyes of an horizontal-eco feminist, post trans/intersexed feminist woman. Our hidden strength as feminist women has been sidetracked by failing to see that the problems of modern feminist movements in the West spring from clinging to hierarchical models that simple continue oppressions within our ranks…no more. Our strength comes from being women in the best tradition of Luce Irigaray, the answer to all the problems we’ve recognized within feminism is to abandon those hierarchies altogether.
I first started this blog because my essays were gaining attention but also being censored off websites almost as fast as I wrote them. This blog was set up to give them a home free from that censorship. Born a hermaphrodite, correcting my birth assignment and a lifetime of feminist inclinations has led me to the place I find myself today, the primary force behind the Cybeline Revival of the ancient Goddess traditions. And the restoration of those traditions led me to the realization that the very models we were using were the answer to the traps of classism, racism and residual privilege in the modern Feminist movement. Our 150 year old Catskill Inn is the world home of the Cybeline revival and a growing and vibrant women’s spirituality centre. We are dedicated to charitable action, not just spiritual growth.
For those with reading comprehension problems or too darn lazy to read the entries, my basic positions are as follows:
1. Transgender identified people tend to be insane and pathologically insist on demonstrating it
a. Gender (the sense of one’s self as male or female or rarely neither) is fixed neurologically before birth and thus cannot be “trans-ed”
b. If you have a male body, wish to keep said male body and dressup as a woman you are a transvestite, that’s what the word means, that’s who you are.
c. People with penises (or if FtM wish to have one) absolutely do not belong in women only space.
2. Same sex marriage is an issue of basic fairness in civil rights
3. All too often people are seeing discrimination when it is simply a case of someone acting like an asshole and treated as such.
4. Just as nature’s default is female, so the Divine Principles of the Universe are feminine
5. Someone else’s sexual orientation or “gender identity” is not my concern unless they insist on making it so.
6. Employement should be based on ability to do the job…….period.
7. The Internut was a blessing and a curse
8. Torture is morally, ethically, totally wrong…no excuses.
9. It is perfectly fair to hold others to the standards they themselves set for others.
10. Yes, I am the incarnation of the Great Mother Goddess on earth…..but if you actually follow the theology I hold, so is everyone else and my cat.
11. I spent a lifetime and continue to challenge my own beliefs and opinions so simply saying “you’re wrong!” is not bloody likely to change my opinions.
catkisser
valkyrie712000
maurahennessey
January 30, 2009 at 11:24 pm
I spent some time at the gallae website and I really must thank you for providing the link. I have a deep interest in the mystical role of transsexual and transgender people in ancient cultures, and I think reviving the tradition of the Cybeline priestesses is much needed and awesome. Thank you.
Mina.
February 1, 2009 at 10:08 am
In ancient times the Cybeline priestesses were transsexual positive but not all about the trans. We strive for the same balance today but sometimes it’s hard. Several attempts to re-write my own research as all about the trans to the exclusion of the other women have already been attempted as was a total coup of the very tradition I founded. My renewed interest in this transgender other focus vs. woman focused is because of this and the horrific abuse I suffered at the hands of those who tried. They failed and we are back in control of our own faith and our own home.
February 1, 2009 at 5:40 pm
Have you written about that Cat? Some of these people are unbelievable bullies.
February 2, 2009 at 2:18 am
Cat,
I think your blog is wonderful. Please feel free to visit us at:
http://joanneproctor-hbs.blogspot.com/
anytime (if you haven’t already.)
Cheers
Jo.
May 9, 2010 at 6:13 am
Re: Aurora Lipscomb
Thank you. I owe you more than is ever repayable, Cathryn P.
May 9, 2010 at 1:15 pm
You owe me nothing. Aurora’s mom and I became very close friends, she is now one of my priestess sisters and Aurora probably will become one as well when she is older.
I’ve fought injustice my entire life, did it for trans people while they were vilifying me as evil incarnate and always will continue to do so for those who need it until I draw my last breath but I will never again advocate for the transgenders as a group.
October 27, 2010 at 3:01 am
Hey Catkisser & friends,
Just discovered your pages to my great relief. After being bullied on a list I thought I’d see if there were women questioning the apparent political hegemony of ‘trans 101′. After finding a bunch of gobbledegook concerning ‘cis’ people, etc, I found you. Whew. At last, someone who is not saying ‘up is down’ etc, and who seems to have a heart. Some of those 3rd wavers really got their ‘nasty as a prick’ lessons down pat. Whereas you and your friends seem to have an idea of sisterhood.
Blessings!
August 5, 2011 at 4:22 pm
Thank you for your time and passion on this issue.
Phyllis