August 9, 2013 by Kandace Mavrick
I’m going to a concert this afternoon. It’s a super secret concert for super secret bands (at least, I assume that’s why I haven’t heard of them, it could just be due to that whole not-an-American thing). This song has nothing to do with that. It’s just next up in the playlist. A girl can […]
July 30, 2013 by Kandace Mavrick
I want to ask your opinion on something: What freight, if any, do the words ‘girl’, ‘young woman’ and ‘woman’ have for you — in relation to both the person referred to and the person speaking? For instance, if someone (say a person in their early twenties) referred to a person whose name they didn’t […]
June 20, 2013 by Kandace Mavrick
So now you can be an unspecified gender on some Qantas forms. Which is lovely. Because you couldn’t do that last time I flew. Also, on the ESTA* website there’s a section that says, If you obtain a new passport or change your name, gender or country of citizenship, you will be required to apply […]
August 22, 2012 by Kandace Mavrick
I’m sort of a disaster at writing girls. Not that I can’t write them, I just… don’t. I think the default character in my head is male. It’s weird actually, because my head certainly doesn’t default when it comes to race* or sexuality**. Anyway. Boys. Maybe it’s because in my formative years (well, formative writing […]
October 3, 2013 by Kandace Mavrick
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