Wednesday, July 24, 2019

“They” and “Cis/Trans” origins

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The singular gender-neutral ‘ they ’ first starts appearing in the 14th century, which makes it a fairly recent innovation in the English l...

Femme and Queer - A bit of a personal manifesto

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I stubbornly  refuse to meet the expectations of others. “Ah! Sorry… totally forgot to re-arrange my aesthetic markers today so you wou...
Sunday, July 7, 2019

Resilience - Sermon to Mt Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church

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Resilience Recently, I saw a hillside in the forest that had just endured a windstorm.  The direction the wind had blown was obvious,...
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Friday, June 14, 2019

Cited by the Gender Identity Police!

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I really wish we didn’t have so many Identity Police busily telling us what we REALLY are and citing us for Doing It Wrong! I am a strongl...
Sunday, March 31, 2019

Call To Worship - March 31, 2019 - "THE ADVENTURE OF GETTING OLDER" and Trans Day of Visibility

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Rev. Sammons will explore the adventure of getting older, both as a minister now retired and as a person who wants to remember the poets ad...
Saturday, March 2, 2019

Waiting for “a more convenient season”

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" First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate.   I have almost rea...
Friday, March 1, 2019

Surgery: Stage 2 revisions and breast augmentation

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I had a full depth Gender Confirmation Surgery (GCS) 16 months ago, done as a single-stage procedure, but unfortunately the clitoral hood a...