A spectrum of color

Antonia D'orsay, a.k.a. Dyssonance, and several other writers have started something ambitious. Actually, Dyss started it a year ago, but recently it was relaunched in its current format. It's called The Spectrum Cafe, an all-trans news and comment blog. The writers of TSC are hoping to create a Pam's House Blend or Bilerico Project for trans issues. With Dyssonance at the helm, you can be sure this blog won't pull any punches, and it's bound to be thought-provoking.

Check out the most recent post (as of this writing) from Emelye Waldherr called ...really a man.

What colour is your blog?

In this case, it's chartreuse. Thanks to Picky Penelope, who writes Penny's Story, for bringing Chartreuse Flamethrower to my attention.

I have never gone through every single blog on the T-Central list, but I'm willing to bet that the vast majority of blogs are written from the male-to-female perspective (transsexual or otherwise). It's always nice to find a different perspective. The author of Chartreuse Flamethrower has undergone top surgery, but prefers the pronouns "they" and "them." They write about a lot of issues, but mostly they challenge those of us who fit at one end of the binary or the other. Check it out.

Aren't We All Out of Our Minds?

I don't always stick to Blogger to find interesting writers who have a story to tell. A lot of good writers can be found on Wordpress and LiveJournal, and I still have a few friends who never abandoned the nearly abandoned Yahoo 360.

One of those friends, Leslie Ann, still posts there for now, but she's also begun to post her crazed thoughts over on Blogger at my request. (Okay, I'll admit it, I'm lazy, and I like reading blogs on my mobile Google Reader in addition to here at T-Central. I can't reliably add 360 blogs to it.)

Leslie Ann, in my opinion, writes from the deep reserves of a passionate spirit longing to find her center in being transgender. What's more, she is one of many who may not or don't pursue transition, something we don't see many people willing to write and blog about. I think those who choose that path also deserve to be heard, and if you'd like to know what that's like, please check out Leslie's site and follow along with her. I know I'll be following closely. Very closely. That girl's out of her mind.
(Really, really, I don't think she's all that crazy.)

Teri, Debbie, Dee, and Allison

Today over on CommonTeri's blog, Teri opens up about her successful day performing at the recent Fresno talent show and the positive review she received from online Gay Fresno. Her point is that we should interact with the world and let them see our talents so that they come to know us for who we are.

Over on Debbie's Life, she ventures into the realm of podcasting as she prepares to travel for her own surgery. I haven't had a chance to give it a full listen, but give Deb your support as she documents one of the biggest moments in her life. She's got a great voice too! As Lucy heals from her own surgery, we wish you luck Debbie!

Dee of Dee's Tales continues to write about the vivid emotions she experiences about the necessity of blogging to help sort through her many thoughts. I like Dee's writing a lot, I think you will too.

And last but certainly not least, I found a new friend in the gorgeous Allison Mackenzie. After reading her most recent blogs, I found myself going back reading her previous writings, and I was hooked. Allison has done a marvelous job chronicling the highs and lows of transition, and I think her wordpress journal is as good as it gets. She faces FFS (pun intended) within a couple of weeks. Her page says "Just another Wordpress blog," but there's much more to it than that.

Too much to read and too little time to do it in. Toodles!