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Your Greatest Protest is Living

Trump won. Hate won. This is always how this election was going to play out. To be clear, the hatred, racism, misogyny, transphobia, and…

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Your Greatest Protest is Living

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Rori Porter

Before I came out as trans, even before I fully understood my transness, I had a particular inner…

I lived in NYC at the time and immediately took note of how the general public started taking notice of me, touching me (like a man guiding…

Sep 28

Sep 28

Rori Porter

Don’t Get Scammed! Financial illiteracy is not a crime

(but the ramifications can make it feel like one)

Sep 16

Don’t Get Scammed! Financial illiteracy is not a crime

Sep 16

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Age of Awareness

Healing is not Linear

I am healing, and I love you

Jul 31

Healing is not Linear

Jul 31

Rori Porter

Should I scream into the anti-trans hurricane?

No :)

Jun 13, 2023

Should I scream into the anti-trans hurricane?

Jun 13, 2023

Rori Porter

If you think anybody in the context of this essay about a months-old and forgotten twitter hashtag…

If you didn’t realize that I never endorsed the hashtag, I merely referenced its existence in regard to Rowling’s ongoing controversies…

Apr 21, 2023

Apr 21, 2023

Rori Porter

“Getting older feels odd because I expected to be dead by now”

Later this year I will become 35 years old.

Feb 24, 2023

“Getting older feels odd because I expected to be dead by now”

Feb 24, 2023

Rori Porter

Why didn’t more of us see Rowling’s bigotry coming?

I recently had a commenter on one of my JK Rowling-related essays ask me:

Feb 13, 2023

Why didn’t more of us see Rowling’s bigotry coming?

Feb 13, 2023

Rori Porter

When I first encountered these terms, Assigned sex" applied more to intersex people, while…

I think that the conflation of these terms is down to the fact that male and female can refer to both sex characteristics AND gender…

Sep 29, 2022

Sep 29, 2022

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Drag was, in fact, created by trans women of color and continues to be an art form that features…

What you describe, however, does remind me of the depiction of characters like Noxeema, Vida, and Chi-Chi in To Wong Foo. These characters…

Jul 27, 2022

Jul 27, 2022

Rori Porter

Rori Porter

Queer Transfemme writer & designer based out of Los Angeles. She/Her/They/Their. Editor of TransFoc.us Anthology. RoriPorter.com

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