3 reasons I won’t use the term ‘dead name’
A term has popped up on my radar. The use of “dead name” instead of “birth name” when someone is referring to their name before… Read More »3 reasons I won’t use the term ‘dead name’
A term has popped up on my radar. The use of “dead name” instead of “birth name” when someone is referring to their name before… Read More »3 reasons I won’t use the term ‘dead name’
Generally, I write my blogs and columns as a way to bridge the gap between people outside the gender binary and those living deeply within it.… Read More »3 Fuck Yous to anti-transgender bills
[readolog_dropcap ]I[/readolog_dropcap]n 2003 I searched online for other trans guys. I found a LiveJournal Community called FTMVanity. In the same vein (or should I say vain)… Read More »A request on the anniversary of my top surgery: Let’s be nicer
[readolog_first_paragraph]”For this reason illness disrupts the continuity of the biography, at times turning the self literally at the mercy of the body,” from Body/Embodiment: Symbolic… Read More »Gender Identity Dysphoria: Self at the mercy of the body
Judith Butler discusses what it means to be ‘human’ in her book Undoing Gender, “The category of the “human” retains within itself the workings of… Read More »Gender Cube: Visualizing the Multi-dimensions of Gender
Why I removed my blog I had this blog removed from the HuffPost but left it on my website. When I published it here… Read More »Why I removed my blog from the HuffPost: The fine line between creating change and creating walls
[readolog_dropcap ]I[/readolog_dropcap]t seems your message can get lost in the language of the world. Your own personal truth. The message that you wrote to yourself… Read More »Nomad on the gender spectrum
[readolog_dropcap ]I[/readolog_dropcap]n January of 2012, I increased the limit on a credit card to afford top surgery. I had the consent letter I received from… Read More »Enduring after top surgery
Disclaimer: This my experience alone. I don’t speak for any other transpeople or anyone else taking testosterone. [readolog_dropcap ]A[/readolog_dropcap] one and half inch long needle penetrates… Read More »5 things I learned taking testosterone
[readolog_dropcap ]G[/readolog_dropcap]ender is a social structure that shapes interactional expectations, institutions, and social groups (Risman 2004). Structuration theory argues that people act on social structures as… Read More »From a binary to a spectrum: Ending the violence against transgender people