Transnormativity can be loosely defined as the notion that a successful trans person is a person who does not appear to be trans. A transnormative person can “pass” in larger society as their preferred gender identity—and is able to do so because he or she so successfully embodies the norms of masculinity or femininity. Yet embodying those norms requires capital—both cultural and monetary. As a result, the “most” transnormative individuals are generally those who are white, able-bodied, and upper-middle-class […]

Officials know that if this year's budget is a bitter pill to swallow, next year's will be a bitter horse pill.

From 1916 to 1930, Fleischer would dress up as a Coney Island clown and have animators rotoscope films of him as Koko the Clown.

To octavate the number one hundred the reasoning is as follows. The square of eight goes into one hundred once with remainder thirty-six. This remainder contains eight to the first power four times with remainder four. Hence to express one hundred to the base 8 we write the digits 144 which in somewhat longer form may be put as 100 = 1×8² + 4×8 + 4.