We've Moved!

Welcome, ducks, to the blog relaunch! For those of you who followed this blog while it was (briefly) Cherchez La Chatte, what do you think of the new digs?

I decided to change the title of the blog because, while I adore French puns, the old name didn't really speak much about the subject of this blog. (Feminism and transness, and where they intersect, ducks.)

I spent the weekend wracking my brain for a new title--for a while, I thought about finding something that punned on "Cat on a hot tin roof" (since my nickname is Cat), but ultimately decided I liked neither that play nor Tennessee Williams in general enough to go with that name. (Plus, using a Tennessee Williams play for a blog about feminism? Um, no.)

That's when I got to thinking about The Awakening, Kate Chopin's 1899 proto-feminist novel. And while it's not everything I want--I mean, Edna ends up killing herself after her attempts to break society's constraints--it still captures something important for me.

Like Edna, I had a middle-of-life revelation about who I am and what I want; and if my feminist conversion in the days before my transition was my first awakening, then this is my Second--my transformation from gender ally to gender guerrilla.

I've woken up again.

Eager, this time, for the fight.