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For as long as I have been alive, I have been aware that my body is more important to most people than my mind.
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Blake Planty reflects on his journey of having a trans body within the complicated world of medical jargon, procedures, and health insurance.
Read MoreFrom narrative arc to real life, a personal essay on finding and exploring one’s own character over role playing games.
Read MoreMy father had a daughter once, and now he does not anymore. I killed her first when I began to grow, and was no longer the child he could carry on his shoulders, and I killed her again when I began to think, and was no longer the child he could overrule, and most recently I killed her when I told my father that he had never had a daughter in the first place, but he could have a son, if he was willing.
Read MoreQueer Muslims are sometimes disavowed and shunned by other Muslims, whilst being simultaneously denied by the very LGBT+ communities they turn to for safety. To these individuals, religion and queerness cannot intersect.
Read MoreI wanted to be seen as a woman by everyone else, and a beautiful one at that, but referring to the aforementioned requirements, I was eventually ordered to “get the fuck out.”
Read MoreThe first time I introduced myself as Katrina was while volunteering at an event run by the Los Angeles LGBT Center. Surrounded by trans, non-binary, and queer people, all of us united to run a food festival, I felt unconditional love and a friendship that I hadn’t realized I had been longing for.
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