Monthly Archives: August 2012

The Secret History of Jaime (Part 10): The Beginning

Posted on August 28, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

I told Nominatissima first, on the grounds that she had the most vested interest in my gender identity. As I expected, she was understanding. “What are you going to do? Are you going to transition?” “I don’t know,” I replied. … Continue reading →

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Let Them Die

Posted on August 27, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

I remember when I first heard that the western world’s print media was dying. It seems that, with the rise of the Internet, the market share of the common newspaper is shrinking precipitously*, to the point that the ground is … Continue reading →

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The Secret History of Jaime (Part 9): Breakthroughs

Posted on August 27, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

By the time that I finished my undergraduate degrees, the label that I was applying to myself was that of a “transvestite-plus.” What I meant by this was that I liked to wear female clothing, plus…other stuff. The story that … Continue reading →

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The Secret History of Jaime (Part 8): Fumbling Towards Womanhood

Posted on August 25, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

I had meant to tell Nominatissima about my transgender feelings for months before we even started dating, but it had been such an enormous secret that I had kept buried for so long that I just simply couldn’t force the … Continue reading →

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The Secret History of Jaime (Part 7): Humanity Amongst the Machines

Posted on August 25, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

In some ways, my life improved dramatically after high school. On the gender front, though, I was still to be caught-up in that same static tug-of-war between my dreams and my fears for a few years to come.             I … Continue reading →

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Who Is This Mysterious Canadian?

Posted on August 25, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

Every so often, I will notice a massive spike on my hit counter, only to find, upon investigation, that some mysterious reader in Canada is making their way through my archives, reading dozens or even hundreds of posts at a … Continue reading →

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The Secret History of Jaime (Part 6): Arrested Development

Posted on August 25, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

Unfortunately, we’ve now reached the tedious part of the narrative, wherein I spend ten years sitting around on my ass doing nothing, at least insofar as  my gender issues were concerned. I, by this point, knew that I was a … Continue reading →

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Parsing Through Spam

Posted on August 24, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

So I’ve just gotten three identical spam messages, all of which consist of saying: Warning ! STOP what ever you are making right now ! Blogging will never make you serous money , watch this video [url censored because the … Continue reading →

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On Being a Statistical Outlier

Posted on August 23, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

I never know what to make of the field of political psychology; there just seems to be something so indefinably wrong about it. Maybe it’s just because the results (or at least their publication in the media) always seem to … Continue reading →

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The Secret History of Jaime (Part 5): Crossdressing

Posted on August 23, 2012 by thevenerablecorvex

I first tried cross-dressing about a week after my eleventh birthday. I can’t recall precisely what motivated it: probably my growing fixation on the physical manifestations of femininity, though some of it was a form of private rebellion. I recall … Continue reading →

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