There has been a huge amount of discourse recently around respectability within the queer community, and the presence of police officers there. Many people, especially young queer people, do not know our history around this issue. …
I just had to spend my therapy session today explaining the horror and misery of the trans experience to my cis gay therapist. It isn’t his fault. It’s a cultural misconception. Cis people, ESPECIALLY cisqueer people — read this.
Cis people need to kill the idea that you can…
So many cis people have not taken the time to grapple with and truly sympathize with what the trans experience really means. The concept that it is a choice shields cis people from the reality that it could have been them. I know this because you can watch, in real…
The queer community at large overlooks the value of allyship within the community. Not allocishet allyship, but queer allyship.
The advice we give allocishet allies as to how to support us through their allyship can very easily be applied to subsects of the queer community that an individual does not…
I see this issue in a lot of trans spaces; many trans spaces also practice transmasculine erasure. When “trans” is taken to only equal “trans women”, the talk of vilification of masculinity and masculine features makes those spaces extremely hostile to me and other transmasculine people. As a transmasculine person…
It’s been a few weeks since I have posted an article to Medium. This is because on June 3rd, I got top surgery. Between healing and catching up on other work since then, it’s been very hectic. I’m very glad to be back to writing again.
Top surgery should be…
It seems to me that the fundamental miscommunication between these two clashing groups — those who support kink, queerness, and general unseemliness at Pride versus those campaigning to make Pride inclusive of children, police officers, and families — is that they fundamentally disagree on what the function of Pride is…
If you only support passing trans people, you don’t support trans people. The ONLY way to genuinely support trans people is by supporting our self-determination and autonomy. Only supporting trans people you “believe are trans” isn’t good enough, and excludes our most vulnerable.
There can be no arbitrator of who…
Florida has considered FOUR anti-trans bills. I’ll go through each of them here.
**This article is accurate as of 5/30/2021**
To find your Florida State House Representative, look here:
To find your Florida State Senate Representative, look here:
This bill has a great number of parts, but of interest to…
The Public Universal Friend, as was the Friend’s chosen name, was born a Quaker in the colony of Rhode Island in 1752. For the first 23 years of the Friend’s life, the Friend lived as a traditional woman, although without getting married. …
