New Wave of Nerd

An explanation about why I haven’t been updating:

See you all very soon!

1 Year anniversary video!

A collections of video clips from the last year to summarize my transition to date. Includes embarrassing childhood pictures too!

If you’ve never watched one of my videos before, this is the one to watch! Watch me change from Pre-Testosterone to 1 year on Testosterone in minutes.

Thank you so much for reading my blog.

Cheers to the next year of adventures with NewWaveNerd!

- Love,

Avery Eros Finley

It gets better, I promise.

Love,

Avery Eros Finley

Hey Champ!

Can you guess where I am? If you guessed in the library you are correct. The school year has started which means I forever have my nose in a book. This update is a ‘Thank you’ to the lovely people that contributed to taking away my social life and riding me of the burden of a full night sleep.

I was awarded the Regal Social Regina Bursary, which is a monetary bursary toward my university education. It was given to me by the Imperial and Sovereign Court of the Governing Body – Golden Wheat Sheaf Empire. That can be confusing, basically the Drag Queens of Saskatchewan helped a poor tranny out haha.
Drag Queens and their long titles and names, who does that? I mean is it really necessary to have two middle names…oh, wait.. Carry on, Sisters. Carry on!

I made the video a couple weeks ago, but I am just getting it up now. I am trying to organize my life before I actually take my nose out of a book and have fun.
It is my birthday this weekend, and I am going to Winnipeg to celebrate! It also happens to coincide with lesbian night at their gay bar. This is a combination that pretty much guarantees ridiculous adventures. And I am hoping some birthday kisses.
I am staying with Pocket for the couple nights I am there. There may or may not be some major spooning under her Toy Story blanket. I think kittens are born from that extreme level of cuteness.
I am not going to get too crazy though, I actually have Saturday afternoon booked off to study. I know, who studies on their birthday weekend while in a city full of babes? This kid.

Stay tuned for the details of my birthday adventures! If the saying about how you spend your birthday is how you are going to spend the rest of the year is true, then my year is going to be one hell of a sweaty, sexy lesbian packed dance party. Here’s to hoping it is true!

As promised here is one of the two videos I talked about! This video is about the physical changes from 6 months -- 9 months. Also, I flash my new trans related tattoo.

Thanks for watching! Please keep scrolling down to read the written entry I just put up with this video. Summer is coming to a close, but I am making the most of it till the very end. I went to see Lady GAGA in concert! Read more below!

- Peace,

Avery Eros Finley

Hey Lovely,

I hope your beautiful soul is doing well today. I am back with a T video update, and I really think you will enjoy it. In the video I list the top reasons to date an FTM. It is packed full of wit, charm, and crudeness -- Oh, and of course, a Lady Gaga reference.

Sorry about the quality I had to use the camera on my phone because I don’t have a camera anymore.

P.S. I  enjoy long walks along the river, poetry, and holding hands. Aww <3

Your Dreamboat,

Avery

Check out the FRONT PAGE of your newspaper for my cute face! My interview is in today’s StarPhoenix!

If you aren’t from Saskatchewan or you can’t pick up a copy have no fear the internet is here! Here is a link to the article!
StarPhoniex Interview!

Success For The Win, AKA Jeanette Stewart, did a phenomenal job on the article. On its own the fact that she got a positive article about local Trans guys on the FRONT PAGE of the newspaper is huge. But that combined with how much effort and research she put into the article is mind blowing. Not only did she interview me, but also my bro Eric Twa and a great person named Julie Richards. Success For The Win deserves major props! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! If you see her out buy her a drink, or thank her!

I knew the article was coming out today, but I had no idea it was going to be FRONT PAGE! I was thinking it would be tucked away in the Lifestyles section. Wow! Good Morning! Haha

A lot of people in Saskatchewan have never knowingly met a Trans person. I bet most of them had never given two thoughts about our presence in the city. This article is a really great way to introduce ourselves and our lives to the city of Saskatoon.
If you are visiting my blog for the first time because of the StarPhoenix interview I made a video to further introduce myself, and catch you up on what you have missed so far in my transition.  Take a look!

How much fun was that! Right, so much fun! Really though, this blog is my safe place. It is where I vent, ramble and share experiences of my life. I also subject you to hippy/nerd/queer/cute ramblings. As you noticed in the video I can get off topic and ramble about acceptance speeches or Lady Gaga. Welcome to NewWaveNerd!

I hope this article was a source of hope to someone who was feeling alone and lost the way I did before I found other Trans guys videos. Or maybe a parent, sibling, or friend of someone who is transitioning found this blog and it helped them better understand that person. I definitely trust that there will be a few more kind smiles and understanding people out on the prairies of Saskatchewan because of this article. Thank you again, Success For The Win.

Please, look around the blog. Look back at past videos to learn more about me and my transition.
Check back here in a few days I am going to be updating the blog a ton this week. I already have a typed update about my personal life and Pride Week written and ready to go, so that should be posted in the next day or so. Then later this week the 6 month testosterone anniversary video will be up.

Thank you for checking out my blog!

- Love and Peace

Your Dreamboat,
Avery Eros Finley

Hello Beautiful People! 
 
I have 3 days off work! 3 whole days! AH! I plan on using this time to ease myself into party mode for the up incoming Saskatoon Pride Week. Don’t be mistaken, Pride Week isn’t something you can just jump into willy nilly. No, you must train hard in the arts of drinking and late night debauchery to persevere to the very end of Pride week.
*Cue Rocky Music. Cut to scene of Avery leading a parade of glittery, chiseled men who are wearing 50 dollar underwear and feather boas up a set of stairs* 
 
I would like to address a comment that was sent to about last week’s video. The comment was not about an area someone wanted me to talk more about, it was not about any physical or social changes I have experience. In fact, it had nothing to do with my transition whatsoever. 
This was the comment: “you are fat phobic and it’s offensive. i hope you never become a lawyer under the guise of being a human rights advocate. shame on you!!!” 
Hmm… really? Really? Me, a “fat phobic”. That makes so much sense, because it wouldn’t be hypocritical of me at all to discriminate against people who do not live up to the unattainable and idealized bodies that society prescribes to us. Really. As someone who has never, and never will, meet the expectations of what a ‘beautiful’ body is I would never turn around and treat someone the way I have been treated. I am sorry if it came across that way in the video.  
The reason I get a bit snippy with this comment is because of the second half of it. You guys are open to criticize or comment on my videos, but do not attack me. I want to become a human rights lawyer because I want to make a positive difference for the people I care about. This person apparently thinks this is a “guise”, I am assuming that means they think I want to be a lawyer for the money… again, with the really? Do you know how much 7-8 years of school is going to cost? Lawyers who deal with human rights don’t make a lot of money. If I was going to become a lawyer to work for McDonald’s I would set myself up as a target for you to throw McNuggets and ‘special sauce’ at for all eternity. But I think you should be a bit more careful when you attack someone, because I am not a “fat phobic”. I understand what it is like to go against body image scripts better than most people. Don’t attack your own. 
Jeez. 
Okay. 
Moving on. 
 
I met with Success For The Win from the Saskatoon Star Phoenix on Friday. The paper is running an article about this blog, my transition and Saskatoon Pride. I know Success For The Win through the Saskatoon music scene, and through some friends. I met with Success For The Win (SFTW) for the first time about this article a few months ago during the school year. When we met back then she expressed interest in having a code name for the blog, so I finally thought one up for her. I choose Success For The Win because of something I heard recently, “the best revenge is success.” We talked about some of her experiences growing up in a small town as a talented, artistic, and cultured woman. All of those things are hard to find in small town Saskatchewan and, as you all know, different is not often met with kindness. She was picked on a lot growing up in her small town, and is still considered eccentric there. But here in Saskatoon she is a hit -- she is a successful musician and writer, and she is packed full of adorably awkward charm. I am really happy she finds this blog interesting enough write an article about. 
I think the interview went well. You have all watched my videos and have seen that I am not the most articulate person. When I get nervous I tend to stutter more and ramble in incoherent sentences, so I hope that I don’t come across too stupid in the article. But I trust SFTW to make me, and the blog, look good. She said that she is going to take quotes from the blog, which is a good because I am a bit more relax and articulate here. 
I will consider the article a success if it is clear that I started this blog as a way to repay all the Trans guys who have made videos before me and helped me when I felt alone. Also, as a way for me to record all the changes I have and will experience. And it wouldn’t hurt if in the article I seem witty, and charming. If a descriptor along the lines of “studly and cute awkward nerd” is used I wouldn’t complain. Just saying. I guess we will all see how it turns out. 
The interview should be out sometime during the first week of June, I will get back to you with an exact date. I will also post a link to the Star Phoenix website for those of you who do not live in Saskatchewan. 
 
Time for the video! Excited? Yeah? Yeah! You better be. I am not wearing plaid, or a ball tee in this one. I had to dig through my clothes to find a shirt that wasn’t either of those. I thought only wearing ball tees might confuse people looking at my Youtube channel. 
 

 
P.S. GLEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Oh, Lady Gaga! How I love thee. Your expressive and scary claw will now be my go-to pose in all pictures. This week has been packed full of Lady Gaga. Here in Saskatoon there was a Lady Gaga drag show. It was AMAZING! The best drag show I have ever been too. 
Lady Gaga really is the new Madonna. The Queer community is completely obsessed with her. She is so creative and pushes many boundaries. I really respect her for the way she has dealt with the rumours of her being Trans. She was respectful and chill. She didn’t freak out, and act like being called Trans was the worst insult anyone could say to her. She makes the general public think about what gender is, and that is a huge achievement. A lot of people never think about that stuff. 
Okay, I need to stop rambling about Lady Gaga. I could go on forever. My new motto in life is now “WWLGD? -- What Would Lady Gaga Do?” Yes. That is all I need in life to be successful. 
 
That is it for this week, Lovely. I will see you all next week for another update, tell your friends! 
Okay, I am going to go practice waving my Pride flag while not spilling my beer. 
 
- Avery Eros Finley

Hey Champs!

I’m back! Finally!
Sorry, it took so long for an update. I was finishing up my university finals, and then my laptop was stolen. So that put a huge bump in the road of updating this blog. But yeah, I have successfully finished my first year of university. I have also made some decisions about what I plan to do. I am going to get an Honours Degree in Sociology, and then go on to law school. I know, I must be a masochist to put myself through that much school. But this is something I can be passionate about. I want deal with human rights, specifically Queer equality. I am an activist now, and with a law degree in my pocket I know I will be able to make a bigger difference. Queer rights is what I am passionate about.

I have been on T for over 5 months now! 5 MONTHS! I can’t believe that much time has passed already. The physical changes in the last 5 months have been unbelievable, and they will only continue to happen. In the video I give a quick run down of the physical changes. In the next couple weeks I will go into more detail on specific areas. If you have any questions or suggests about where I should focus, just comment!

Cliff Hanger! Hahaha! Come back next week! I will talk about the cause of my blush at the end of the video, my girlfriend, and about the Pride interview in the StarPhoenix. Exciting news! Next week’s video will focus on the social aspects of my transition the last couple months.

Also, I plan on bring back my typed ramblings that focus more on the adventures from my personal life. I am going to have lots of random adventures this summer. Pride week is coming up in Saskatoon. The crazy drunken adventure that is Ness Creek is a go again this summer. You can check back to July for my posts about Ness Creek, I think I am still recovering from it. I plan on taking my little silver Neon, Dexter, on road trips this summer. So that will proved tons of material to write about.

See you next week!

Love you all!
- Avery Eros Finley

Champ! Hey, how are you?
See, I told you I wouldn’t leave you hanging. I am back with an update! And it is a really fun update. I am in a fantastic mood this Sunday afternoon. The weather is beautiful, the sun is shining, and it is causing my inner nerd to bloom.

I had a ton of fun making this video. The topic wasn’t very serious, so I could let my goofy nerd side shine. This video is on the physical changes I have had recently, but mostly it is me rambling in a fashion true to myself. I revel my mad ’study’ skillZ. I have no idea how I got a scholarship into university. I capture myself on camera National Geographic style. Avery in his natural habitat, behaving in true nerd fashion. I am really happy with the video. Watch it!

Yeah. I fell down. It wasn’t planned at all. I wasn’t even going to include that clip in the final video. I was going to record another one were I didn’t fall. But I decided that the one of me falling is the most truthful representation of who I am. I am that awkward on a regular basis.

I have decided to continue with the theme of wearing ball tees in the videos. I never purposely planned to only wear ball tees, but now that that pattern has started I am just going to go with it. I have A TON of those shirts and they make me feel handsome, so it works out well.

I hope you enjoyed the ‘dash away’ style of the video. Thanks for watching!

Your Dreamboat -

Aves