who only by moving can balance

• Richard O'Brien on being genderqueer (plus some less-than-stellar quotations from "experts"; via Practical Androgyny)
  
• a study/report on discrimination experienced by trans* and intersex people (published 2012, via a facebook community)
  
• a WhiteHouse.gov petition calling for legal recognition of third genders within the US (via alexseanchai
  
• Monday Meta: Transforming the Pearl Earring
  
• celebrating fandom: what it means, and has meant, to us
  
• rose_lemberg has been writing important and painful things on gaze, minimal pairs, and erasure

(Dear readership: what are your views on linkspams? I am working on some longer posts, but these are things that have cropped up for me recently, and. And so on.)