January 2012
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14 Reasons That Made 2011 Great for Trans People →
Anyone driving or riding in a car tonight?
corrupter-of-words:
AAA will take you and your car home FREE from 6pm-6am on New Year’s Eve/Day. This offer is available nationwide and you don’t have to be a AAA member. Save this number: 1 (800) 222-4357. Please re-post this. Have a safe and happy new year!
December 2011
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Ten Things Transgender Persons Should Discuss With... →
artoftransliness:
Many of these apply to ANYONE (STDs, health history, etc.). It’s important to remember, though, that even if you think it’s awkward that it is important to share these things with your doctor in order to ensure you receive proper medical care.
Submission: Point Foundation Scholarships: for... →
Description of purpose: “Point Foundation provides financial support, mentoring, leadership training and hope to meritorious students who are marginalized due to sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.” If you are a student in need of scholarship money for a 4-year college or grad school, check out Point Foundation. Applications are due February 10, 2012. More info...
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Rowan Collins
chknnoodlesoupforthetranssoul:
19, trans man
All my life I have had an image of myself as male, but I couldn’t totally see it – I saw it in fragmented thoughts and experiences that I assumed everyone had. I chose my name after a lot of debate and back and forth with my friends about other “Ro” names. Some fun names were thrown around but Rowan seemed to fit me best given my English family. It’s...
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New Tversary Postcard Registration Form →
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We've accomplished all our goals for 2011
During a business meeting last summer between Jason and local “gay godfather” David Yip of Rochester, NY three goals were made for The Self Made Men.
Purchase TheSelfMadeMen.com and have it up and running.
Produce our 2012 calendars.
Walk in the Rochester Pride parade and have a table at the festival.
Bam. We’ve nailed all of those goals and more! Not to brag of course, but...
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“The word “transgender” is an adjective, and a descriptive word; not a noun or a...”
– How to Respect a Transgender Person
A list of evidence of @BuckAngel putting down...
iragray:
Here he put someone down for being poor and insinuated it was some form of punishment since the OP doesn’t like that Buck is transmisogynistic or classist.
Here he posted a video of queer people of color as a token of his anti-racism?
[TW: CISSEXISM AND BODY SHAMING] Here is a screencap of a tweet he posted in response to someone who pointed out that his using someone’s personal...
30 Things to Stop Doing to Yourself →
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TVersary Postcards
It’s been about 6 months now that we’ve been doing the Tversary Postcards…
(For those of you that don’t know, we send you a free “happy T day” postcard on your Tversary every year when you sign up with your date and mailing address here)
It’s been awhile since we’ve done any type of drawing for a prize. Since the reblog and follow contest is about...
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We have a lot more matching of Pen Pals to do!
With the holidays coming up, matching pen pals has taken a slight back seat to wrapping presents. However, every day we’re working on getting through the list so stay patient!
If you’d like to sign up the link to do so is right here!
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Sell your fundraising products through us at pride...
The Self Made Men will have tables at 6 different pride events/conferences this coming summer. Albany, Rochester, Maryland, NYC, Philly and Boston. We have seen a lot of people selling cool things for their surgery funds and want to help out.
Since we can’t front the money to you to buy all your products, we CAN sell your products for you on our tables at the shows and give you the profits...
becomingaaronkai asked: Just got my self made men calender in the mail! You guys rock!
The Self Made Men on Facebook →
Ian Harvie tickets - Sold
Yes, by all means have two!
If you’re signed up as a big brother, email us at TheSelfMadeMen@gmail.com and we’ll set you up with another if you’d like.
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Ian Harvie (Transgender Comedian) Tickets & Self...
$35 - 2 tickets, 2 shirts, a calendar and ten stickers.
(tickets are $25 each on the site)
Get it here
king-of-the-freaks asked: How do we sign up for the pen pal program? The link in the post doesn't work. [Or maybe I'm just not looking hard enough?]
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that...”
– Robert Frost.
Based on recent events:
The Ian Harvie ticket package auction end date will now be December 18th, 9pm.
3 days, rather than 7.
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Anonymous asked: hiiiiiii i ordered a calendar and a shirt on the same day... i received my calendar 3 days ago but no shirt! are they slower to ship?
FACT: Transmen are born with 3 hearts which makes...
simplyalexandermason:
mismatchedkevin:
factsaboutqueers:
They are impervious to bullets where the scars remain.
Someone is letting out our secret.
*GASP* We’ve been discovered!
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The Self Made Men want to send you to see Ian... →
Package includes:
2 -Reserved seating tickets for January 7th, 2012 in Portland, ME
2 -Self Made Men Tshirts
1 -2012 Calendar
10 - “the T is not silent” Stickers
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Submission:
Hi just wanted to try again and reach out… there is a gathering of sorts that has been going on for a few years for ftm here in rochester and I was wondering if any of the creators of the SMM have any interest is attending?? Its just a very informal time to get together and talk with other local people. Its every third sat of the month (this coming sat) at equal grounds from 1pm until when...
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alexgonzo90 asked: so how woiuld one go about trying tp be in one of yalls yearly calendars?
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Anonymous asked: have you done the 'downstairs' transition? if not, are you planning to? [sorry if it's too personal, I'm just curious and you don't have to answer if it's uncomfortable]
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Like us on Facebook to play our Reblog and Follow contest this month.
Submission:
I kind of really hope you guys don’t mind, and I hate to do this, but, if anyone here follows FYFTMs, you might’ve seen someone by the name of Matt make a post about a thing called Chicken Noodle Soup for The Transgender Soul. It’s been up for about a week now, and only has a few followers. I have an idea for this if this gets big enough that I would love to have happen. So if...
Submission: I want to start a series of drawings...
Like a before you started transition and then after you started whatever your process is.
if you would like to be in my lil series send me some photos of yourself with details about when in your transition it is…
send an email to daviandestroys@gmail.com
-Davian
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