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Sometimes I feel my feelings so hard it makes me want to stir up prolific thoughts and document it with hopes of channeling poetic grace...

**Content Warning: self-harm, suicidal ideation** “The other side of grief is gratitude. The other side of grief is joy. The deeper the...

**TW: The following contains language regarding sexual violence and sexual assault directed towards women and people who experience...

a year into the pandemic, i have finally moved out of my parent's house to find some type of agency. yet all i can think about is how i’m...

Author's Note: This project started in isolation, with a need to be moved, to move on, to change. Expressing that need, throughout the...

I remember the first time a white girl stole from me. It was the first grade and I remember thriving on spelling tests being rewarded...

Growing up in a relatively conservative town, queerness and transness were one of many things that was often met with an intolerable...

Ever since I was young, I always seemed to have a knack at being an effective communicator within my relationships; friends, family,...

"Do you compete?" Though I did not know it at the time, that question would be a difficult and important one to answer. As a nonbinary...

*Author's Note: This essay is a reflection on my work, on its many layers of intimacy, of what’s physical and what goes beyond it,...

I am writing this on the international coming out day, and as I look back, perfectly aware that I have been out of the closet for over a...

When my wife and I first began planning to have kids, I couldn’t envision what being a parent would look or feel like. I knew I wanted to...

Being assigned a gender at birth forces upon you a lifetime of stigmas, pressures, expectations, and duties in various aspects of living....

Sensitivity is usually associated with frailty, powerlessness, femininity. This is especially true if you grow up in a Mexican boy’s...

there is a strength we rarely talk about, the kind that rouses a body out of bed each morning, a strength that reminds my body to open a...

When I first started my medical transition by taking testosterone, I didn’t want to be labelled as transgender. I felt like this label...

I no longer enjoy going out in public. When I do go out, I prefer to be alone or with a single trusted companion - but for clarity: I’m...

Born and raised in Mitchell’s plain Cape Town South Africa, born 7th June 1996 (Grootus schuur hospital) on a cold rainy Friday, my mom...

Preeminently, I’ve discovered in recent years that my various traumas do not dictate my path. My conscious, active choice to hold myself...

Note to self #32: “Fuck a little black dress. Get the red one.” On January 21, 2017, I learned about the power of a red dress. It did...