I am humbly four-hundred and thirty-seven days sober as of writing this essay, and I have learned a lot about what it means to be a sober trans person in that time. Meeting many wonderful sober queer people and finding sober spaces has been extremely healthy for me, and working…
A couple of points:
You seem to not be based in the United States. Where you live, justice may be more regularly served, when in the US, marginalized people rarely receive justice. This is why we protest so often. Police have qualified immunity and often murder unarmed people without consequence…
I was born a fucking baby.
What is the difference between cisgender people and transgender people? Well, cis people, for one, align with their gender assigned at birth. But what if we didn’t assign genders in the first place? What would the difference be then?
There wouldn’t be one. We’d…
I recently had a dear cousin come out as nonbinary, and it occurred to me that my previous articles on this topic may not be written in a way that helps cisgender people understand just what nonbinary means. I’ve never really written a “Nonbinary 101,” with most of my work…
Okay lol.
I get that you're trying to get a rise out of me using a vague transphobic jibe so you can gaslight me if I were to get offended, but that's not really going to happen. I'm mostly just curious about what this has to do with anything I wrote?
Let me know, bestie. Hope you have the day you deserve :)
In 2021, this may seem like a silly question. Nonbinary is to be not binary, but is it all it means? We could flesh it out in commonly phrased prescripts like, “nonbinary is to be something in between, outside of, or some combination of a man or a woman.” …
Transgenderism isn't a word, and its use tells me that you've not spoken with many trans people about the words we do use to describe our experiences.
The way you're using it takes a descriptive adjective and turns it into a condition, which many trans people (myself included) find dehumanizing…
When transphobes lost their safe space on Reddit, a new forum came out from the woodwork titled “Ovarit,” a website reserved largely for discussions of a trans-exclusionary nature. I was blissfully unaware of this forum until several months ago when I posted “Born in the Right Body,” in which I…
Today, Los Angeles City Council Members Gil Cedillo, Paul Krekorian, Bob Blumenfield, Paul Koretz, Nury Martinez, Monica Rodriguez, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Curren D. Price Jr., Mark Ridley-Thomas, John Lee, Mitch O’Farrel, Kevin De León, and Joe Buscaino voted to effectively criminalize poverty and homelessness in Los Angeles. …
That's a great question and it's one that my partner recently asked me, given that I am a voracious reader.
When I read, I don't necessarily see the scene depicted in whatever I'm reading, but I do understand what it "should" look like. …
