• We Aren’t Failures: Naming What Was Lost as an Agender Person

    “Other people built a gender for me and trusted that I would defend what they built. But what I was handed never made sense.”

  • Where Intersex Meets Lesbian

    “Not all of my experiences as an intersex person inform my being gay, and vice versa, but the overlap is there and it affects things in ways that are both good and complicated at a time in history when homophobia and intersexphobia are alive and kicking.”

  • Graduation to Womanhood: Navigating Trans Identity at a Southern College

    It’s as if I had just discovered a new color and now had this entirely new dimension to my life. I was able to paint a holistic portrait of what I wanted the rest of my life to look like.

  • A Queer African Tale: On Trauma, Gender Transitions and Acceptance

    “Dating broken white women became a way to reprise a powerlessness that years of sexual abuse and generations of blackphobia had tricked me into believing in. I drowned this feeling of powerlessness in weed and seeking out relationships in which I could engage in yet remain completely hidden from view.”

  • It’s A Boy*!

    It’s a boy, until and unless he tells us otherwise, I thought. It’s a boy who will be raised without gender roles. It’s a boy who will be defined by their heart and mind, not by the organs that happen to be between their legs. It’s a boy who will be loved wholly, deeply, and completely by the two women who created him.

  • Butch Please: A Butch By Any Other Name

    “There are so many terms for what I am – genderqueer, genderfluid, agender, pangender, neutrois – but none of them feel quite right. So Kade takes the place of that descriptor, and Kade feels right.”