Pristine Angie’s Good Homemaker Adventures at www.d332.com

Imagine someone telling you:

“Hi, I’m with the A/ABiCgGfGqIsLGTQPsPoly3rdg2sK of New York? We were wondering if you support the A/ABiCgGfGqIsLGTQPsPoly3rdg2s’s of our society?”

Once upon a time, there used to be a LGBT community. Then someone discovered male enhancement pills, took some, and found he couldn’t afford a Hummer.

And now: A/ABiCgGfGqIsLGTQPsPoly3rdg2s (Androngyne/Ambigender/Bisexual/Cisgendered/Genderf**k/Genderqueer/Intersex/Lesbian/gay/transgendered/Pansexual/Poly/Third gender/Two spirit)

I think diversity is a great idea, but continously segregating, sectioning and diluting already small groups into microscopic levels, like the concept of political correctness, is just playing into the hands of the powers that be.

Think of a Yahoo Group. If there’s four large groups, and they mobilized with each other and put their differences aside, they could get quite a few things accomplished.

But many insist on having their own identity (consumerism having been blurred into individualism), and so, instead of coming together, you have a thousand Yahoo Groups with 2-3 members each that nobody reads.

Now go out to the midwest, where the LGBT is a small group in a local town. Does anyone have the luxury to enter a war of words just to declare their two-spirit identity?

Ironically, the very people who fight for diversity and argue against being labeled are turning into the people who want to label themselves to specificity ad nauseum. Instead of combining our minds to think of bold new solutions, we’re fighting amongst ourselves over mere letters.

In the time it takes for me to argue whether I’m A/ABiCgGfGqIsLGTQPsPoly3rdg2s, I’d already have been able to tell you I’m a human being.

I have been wanting to get to re-writing my Introduction Page to this site for over a year. I’ve always shied away from paying too much attention to my website, as those of you who know me have already discovered. Any mention of any pictures will bring me here to look up, since I don’t remember which is being referred to.

While attending to my Introduction Page, I noticed many hyperlinks that go in all direction. That’s because this website is 11 years old this August. It has gone through a multitude of changes.

One of the things I promise myself to do more is to bring a camera with me when I do go out with friends. I hate for anyone to think that this girl sits at home and snaps pictures all day. I do go out often, but I never tote a camera along. I also promise to smile in more of my pictures.

Here is the new Introduction to this website (which can also be found on the upper corner side bar of every page entitled Introduction)

Eleven years after the debut of my first website at Yahoo Geocities in 1997, the mere six page Transvestite Freedom Fighter has morphed into a veritable beast in a labyrinthine maze of links. Although all the original pages can be found archived here, the original concept of the website rests on one fundamental idea: “Never apologize for who you are, or what your website is about.” I never understood why transgendered people continually prefaced their webpages with an adult warning content. Transvestite Freedom Fighter was a call to stop associating one’s identity in the same category as explicit adult content.

Eventually, the page changed into The Art of Not Passing. This theme inspected the whole importance many transgendered people put on passing. As a person who is on the fringe even within the transgender community, I saw passing as a curious metaphor for conforming. It wasn’t that I had any problems with the notion of passing. After all, one must pass to experience as little friction in our non-accepting culture, seeing that transgender people are the final frontier for prejudiced treatment in modern day. I simply chose to inspect the idea of passing as a way to illustrate how everyone needs to “pass” according to their environment, in order to survive and function.

I believe the day everyone passes will be the day the label “transgender” gets retired. Much like a global economy and a global culture, indigenous societies and unique voices are quickly being swallowed up, losing their identities.

The Art of Not Passing then became The Solitary Arc, which was just a collection of my writings and pictures. In a way,The Solitary Arc paved the way for the self-identifying d332.com. I’ve always felt that with all the transgender websites detailing every aspect of SRS and transitioning, the collective perception of trans* people is that SRS and transitioning is all we talk about. So I thought I’d reveal instead, the other things that occupy this transgender person’s mind.

I am driven by a sense of happiness that I derive from speaking to the people within the culture. I wanted to provide a modest but positive free website on the internet regarding the community, because we haven’t really been given a fair chance in the public’s eye. Most of what people get from search engine returns either adult sites or argumentative in-fighting within the t* discussion groups (and there’s a lot of that).

Certainly, the group that is closest to my heart, the brash, self-descriptive gay transvestites, have been disappointingly under-represented.

So here I am.

I have been transgender for over thirty years. I don’t plan to transition fully, but I’m going to get a few bumps put on here and a few bumps taken off from there. Anyway you cut it, both the male and female anatomy are gorgeously remarkable works of art. I am struck by wonder when I think about the beauty of the human body. I am not a hormone-taker, as I feel that sex drive is one of the critical lifeforce in sustaining the great human imagination.

My increasing preoccupation with the home-making Stepford Wife has made this website arrive at the point it is at today. Although I am a staunch advocate for women’s rights, equality, and feminism, I also believe that everyone should be able to live free and chose the life they want to lead. Stepford Wives, and more importantly for me, the docile Asian “Lotus Flower” are social constructs. The difference between the two is that one lives in comfort and modest luxury, while the other has to make do with bargain-hunting white males. For my personality type, the choice is clear.

Human beings are constantly in danger in their coexistence with viruses. But we shouldn’t flatter ourselves as superior beings. Instead, we should take the path of virus mutation as an ideal, and develop accordingly. I want to continuously, energetically, and joyfully change, morph, improve, learn, and absorb knowledge, wisdom, and humane lessons with each passing day.

This, for me, is the most important transition: to be a human being first, and a transgendered person second.

So relax, make yourself at home, and enjoy!

July 2007 Celebrating Ten full years online, www.d332.com - which formerly started out as the Transvestite Freedom Fighter, when Geocities was still a free homepage and everyone was just beginning to learn about WWW links - presents an anniversary edition picture of your humble author.I remembered announcing the debut of my website on many of the alt* newsgroups, and when it went on air, within the first hour, the counter read 43,124 hits. Now after ten years of photos, advice, transcription of speeches, social analyses, travel-logs, mp3’s more pictures, we are entering the 11th year still strong!I’d like to thank two people who have been online alongside my for the good part of the journey: My beloved online friend Richard Evans Lee and Tiffany Michelle of the now defunct TG Tower.

How apt it is to renew my webhost service and domain on the fourth of July? Be free and be who you want to be! love your wonderful life! and enjoy this small moment we each got on our short stay here.

Kisses!

Pristine.

Hello,

I have had to take on jobs and assignments to help keep this website alive. The annual fee is approaching, and I just realized I haven’t kept my donation page actively linked. I have noticed that it takes even more effort to keep d332.com running into it’s 8th year, now that I’m busy working.

If you have benefitted from any information or thoughts on this page; If something I have posted, said, remarked, or written about has changed the way you saw something in your life, please do consider making a donation to keep this site up and running. I would rather take it down than resort my space to adult sites throwing their junk all over my altruistic goals.

I have always told the story of an overheard conversation by a donation box at a small art gallery. The man says to his girl, “This place doesn’t need my donation, other people are donating, why should I?”

A year later, a Starbucks Coffee shop opened in the gallery’s place.

More on the Donation Page

Several people have asked me to post the partial transcript of the talk I gave on prejudism for the Rainbow Alliance on Coming Out Week at Long Island University CW Post. The following is an abridged version. I have removed my usual arsenal of comical asides and jokes to get to the meat of the matter. I considered it a “Lecture” because I was under the impression that I were to be a guest member in a panel of speakers discussing the topic of prejudism towards and within the LGBT community. When I arrived, I was told that I was the sole guest speaker for the entire evening. So a casual talk became some sort of presentation, that morphed into a lecture, given the weight of the topic, my somber writing style, and that gritty voice that taxed everyone’s genteel ears as if Lemmy and Joe Cocker had an illegitimate child and put him in a skirt so people would be so shocked, that they won’t even notice trannychasers turning a 100 meters under five seconds. Wait a minute, I just said that like I have it written on the back of my hand.

You didn’t hear that.

Click Here To Go To Current Writings 2006: Prejudism and the Trans* Identity