With the unfolding of the horrific abortion ban in Texas, there has been immense discussion around reproductive rights and bodily autonomy. Two notable themes have emerged for me — both the paternal sense of ownership that leads to the desire to control female bodies, and the insistence that those female…

The tragedy of Thomasine Hall is primarily this — we know so, so little about them. In fact, the entirety of our knowledge of them comes from the proceedings of a single court case. What we know is this — in 1629, a person going by the name of Thomas…

This article comes with a trigger warning for the following: rape, sexual assault, discussion of genitalia, transphobia, transmisogyny, violence — This morning I awoke to find that Twitter was (rightfully) up in arms again about JK Rowling’s rampant transphobia. She had put out this tweet:

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…

Negativity around masculine traits legitimized my worst fears. — 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…

Queer struggles are not rooted firmly in the past — Those with even a tangential knowledge of the queer community are likely aware of the current discourse surrounding the future of Pride as an event. 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…