Tobi Hill-Meyer
At a Glance:
Tobi Hill-Meyer has been a Project Contributor since September 2008, has written 69 entries and currently lives in Eugene, OR.
Bio
Tobi Hill-Meyer is just about your average multiracial, pansexual, transracially inseminated queerspawn, genderqueer, transdyke, colonized mestiza, pornographer, activist, writer.
Having first gotten involved in politics at the age of 9 defending her parents' right to be her parents (Oregon's Measure 9 [the first one]), she never stopped contemplating the role of sexuality and gender in social politics.
Ze spent her teenage years creating her own model for understanding attraction and gender and working on a pro-con chart about whether or not to transition, as well as getting involved in the youth rights movement.
After ze spent several years exclusively genderqueer identified, she transitioned to her current gender identity and began applying hir feminist background and women studies degree through her trans woman's lens. Ze then began unlearning her internalized transmisogyny and illuminating the ways in which the impact of misogyny on trans women has been left invisible to, and sometimes even perpetrated by, cisgender (non-trans) feminists.
She also engages in queer family work as a board member of COLAGE, a national movement of children, youth, and adults with one or more lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/or queer parents. And while writing a zine series of erotic fiction available at Handbasket Productions, ze still finds time to do the grunt work of phone banks, canvassing, and lobby visits that keeps the political branch of the LGBTQ movement, well, moving.
Tobi Hill-Meyer: Recently Filed
Anti-Trans Policies at Gay/Lesbian Newspaper 'Xtra'
Filed by Tobi Hill-Meyer | January 12, 2012 5:00 PM | 4 commentsXtra, Canada's gay and lesbian newspaper, has been creating a stir with ethical concerns over the treatment of trans people interviewed for their paper. Read More
Stuff Cis People Say to Trans People
Filed by Tobi Hill-Meyer | January 11, 2012 11:00 AM | 6 commentsIn response to the "Shit ____ People Say" internet meme, "Stuff ____ People Say to ____" has been a great way to explore the different common types on prejudice and assumptions being made about marginalized groups.Read More
Queer Families: Poignant Holiday Letter
Filed by Tobi Hill-Meyer | December 26, 2011 12:30 PM | 2 commentsThe holiday season can be very difficult for queer people who have strained or non-existent relationships with their families. I grew up in a queer family and have been lucky enough that being trans was only an issue for a couple of years.Read More
A Response to Dan Savage's Statement on Glitterings
Filed by Tobi Hill-Meyer | November 15, 2011 7:00 PM | 162 commentsThis morning Dan Savage put out his own statement regarding the recent glitterings he has been the target of. He shares the transcript and some of the details that my source apparently got wrong.Read More
Sidetrack: Use of the Term 'Cis'
Filed by Tobi Hill-Meyer | November 14, 2011 6:00 PM | 171 commentsOver at my post "Dan Savage Glittered Again, Student Arrested," a side discussion has come up deserving it's own thread over whether or not the term "cis" in reference to non-trans people is offensive.Read More






