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Twenty-fifth Column
Tonight my twenty-fifth column was broadcast in Gendertalk #534.You can find the complete program in the Gendertalk archive.Or you can find just my column at:http://eveliensnel.nl/audio/MAKING12.mp3A full transcript of the text is below: Making or Breaking? As I told you four weeks ago I have applied for a new job. And guess what? I’ve got the [...]
Contract
Here I am, holding my new contract of employment! Shall I sign it? Yesterday I suddenly started to feel doubts again. This is a one-year contract. Of course that is secretly a probationary period! That means a lot of uncertainty. But on the other hand: How much certainty do I have now? I do have [...]
So You Want to be a T-Girl
F. is an American transsexual woman. At thirs I thought she had made up that name, but it turns out to be her real name. Under that name she had published an article about transsexuality, while she was trying to live in “stealth mode”, that means that everybody now thinks she was born as a [...]
Theme From Mahogany
Do you know where you’re going to?Do you like the things that life is showing youWhere are you going to?Do you know…? Do you getWhat you’re hoping forWhen you look behind youThere’s no open doorWhat are you hoping for?Do you know…? Once we were standing still in timeChasing the fantasiesThat filled our mindsYou knew how [...]
Both extremes
One moment I am chatting with two female colleagues about a project one of them is working on: It is a device for making mammograms. (The technical details are secret of course, but I can assure you this procedure will be a lot less intrusive than the current way of making mammograms, where your breasts [...]
Twenty-Fourth Column
Tonight my twenty-fourth column was broadcast in Gendertalk #532.You can find the complete program in the Gendertalk archive.Or you can find just my column at:http://eveliensnel.nl/audio/SPLIT01.mp3A full transcript of the text is below: Splitting UpIt was difficult to come up with a new column this week, because my life is in turmoil at the moment. There [...]
Electronic Building Blocks
Today the November issue of Elektor Electronics has been published. In it: My very first publication in print!The editors have sent me samples of the November issue in each of the four languages in which Elektor is published with my article in it.The original article is in the Dutch-language “Elektuur“, there is also a German [...]
145 Hertz
Julia and I went to the VU for my usual 3 month check-up. Planned are visits with the psychologist, the endocrinologist (=hormone doctor), a bone-scan and the speech therapist. The talk with the psychologist was quite heavy; I want to fully experience life as a woman, but I feel hampered in that in our marriage. [...]
Twenty-Third Column
Tonight my twenty-third column was broadcast in Gendertalk #530.You can find the complete program in the Gendertalk archive.Or you can find just my column at:http://eveliensnel.nl/audio/INTER12.mp3A full transcript of the text is below: Job interviewFor a long time I thought applying for a new job was out of the question for me. Everywhere I went, people [...]
Skirt Suit
“Evelientje, wake up! You have to be at the hairdresser’s in thirty minutes!“ Huh? What? Ow, no! My alarm clock hasn’t worked!I take a quick shower and put some clothes o in a hurry. Eat? — No time! Make-up? — Forget it! Money? — I grab some Euro notes and put them in the pocket [...]