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Why I’m Compiling Queer and Trans Goodbye Letters to Places We’ve Left Behind
I stand with the grief of maps and the ways I bittersweetly still carry the places I left.
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You Need Help: I’m 13 — How Do I Explore My Butch Identity?
Sometimes when you’re exploring a new aspect of your identity, you might feel like you have to emulate something specific. But there’s no one way to be butch. Go out there and live your best butch life!
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What Drag Has Taught Me
Every time I have gotten the opportunity to do mediocre drag as a beginner, I have had some of the most fun a person can have.
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To the Trans Kids Reading This – Keep Glowing
You are eons beyond what they will ever imagine being possible. You are glorious, abundant, light personified.
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What This Trans Survivor Wants J.K. Rowling to Know
Joanne Rowling and I might have more in common than she thinks.
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Gender Fluidity and the Black Atlantic
I always wonder what words my ancestors had for someone like me. In embracing my genderfluid identity, I’ve found great comfort in the deep and wide of the Atlantic — the way the water connects me to kin, named or unknown.
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The Night I Learned to Be In My Trans Body
My summer hookup with a rich businesswoman in Japan gave me something more valuable than even the room service wagyu steak.
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Elliot Page Movies Ranked By Transness
Hollywood’s transphobia is no match for the shot of adrenaline that is finally being out to yourself and the world.
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Respect Your Elders: Tea with Trans Playwright and Actress Christine Howey
“After I was about 20 years into my life as a trans woman, I was getting very frustrated by seeing that nothing much was changing. Transgender people were still being assaulted, killed, committing suicide. I felt that since I was a writer, I was a performer, I could put that together and maybe do a show and break down some barriers.”
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“If I Don’t Say Something, No One Will”: 6 TGNC+ Perspectives on Trans Visibility in the US South
“I know we everywhere, but Black SOUTHERN people are and will always be my heart. The way we love up on each other. Take care of each other. Check up on each other, sometimes a little too much. It’s the cadence of our little sayings, the burst out loud laughter. The dramatics in the everyday stories of nothing. I love Black southern people.”
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I Stopped Tweezing in Quarantine and Realized I’m Nonbinary
On the 24th day of quarantine, I turned on all of the lamps in my room and took off all my clothes. Then I stood in front of the mirror and stared.
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A Gender by Any Other Name: What Does the Term Genderqueer Mean to Us in 2021?
“I feel like people started enacting these borders around it and categorizing it, and that felt so bad and wrong, and the antithesis of everything that it should be. Then, some people also really conflated it with the idea of being genderless or agender, and I’m like, “No…” I feel a lot of gender feelings! I don’t know what they are, or what they mean, but they’re there.”
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When Other People Get to Give Away Their Binders
Getting top surgery with my butch identity is no longer some unattainable fantasy. Now the question firmly rests with me: do I want to go ahead with it or not?
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You Need Help: How To Be A Trans Lesbian
Make sure to be kind and generous to yourself, give yourself plenty of time to process all of these important feelings, and don’t rush it!
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You Need Help: How Do I Tell If I’m a Butch Cis Woman or a Trans Non-Binary Person?
If I could tell everyone how to differentiate between gender expression feels and gender feels, I’d be Sovereign Ruler of Gender and maybe things would be easier, but probably also a lot less fun.
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30 Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer Trans Women Who Make Our Worlds Turn
Queer, bisexual and lesbian trans women exist and thrive and belong here.
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The Top 5 Sheet Masks to Wear After Crying About Your Gender
I feel like I am not the only one here crying about my gender, and you should know a) that you’re not alone and b) sheet masks can help.
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Here are Some Ways to Give Black Trans People Money
Across the country, Black TGNC people are performing serious emotional labor as organizers, healers, artists, sexual liberationists, and advocates. It’s time to give back.
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What It Means To Call Ourselves Non-Binary: An Autostraddle Roundtable
Non-binary does not mean the same thing to a single one of us. We’re all super nervous to talk about it in public, though!
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You Need Help: My Mom Supports My Bisexuality, but Not My Butchness
Kristin of Everyone Is Gay and My Kid Is Gay gives advice for a 16-year-old and her mom trying to deal with coming out as bisexual and gender nonconforming!