Results for: be the change
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“The L Word: Generation Q” Should Change Its Mind About Trans Actresses Playing Cis Characters
Gen Q has come the closest to featuring the kind of trans women representation I crave. All that needs to change is for the show to make the characters trans.
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Here’s to Another Year of Legally Being a Man
This year marks my fourth year of being a feminine catastrophe. Except my paperwork still claims that I’m some f*cking guy.
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4 Moments During My Transition When Womanhood ‘Clicked’ for Me
1. When targeted ads began spooning wedding crap onto my feed.
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How To Support Your Transitioning Partners and Friends
It can be helpful to see a transition as smaller, interlocked transitions.
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The History and Future of Trans Women in Action Movies
The Matrix blew open the doors for what action movies could accomplish — why hasn’t it led to more trans-focused action cinema?
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Brianna Ghey’s Murderers Have Received Life Sentences — Is That Justice?
The truest form of justice is prevention.
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“Clarice” Proves There’s No Such Thing As a Progressive Procedural
The Silence of the Lambs was right. Trans women and law enforcement are enemies. All it got wrong was the villain.
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Muffing 101
For trans women who experience genital dysphoria, being penetrated in the front can be really meaningful.
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You Need Help: How Do I Be a Good Partner to My Trans Girlfriend?
Being too eager or too worried about saying the right thing can be just as alienating as disapproval.
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Grace Lavery on Her New Memoir “Please Miss,” Sex Writing, and the Trans Glamour of Nicole Kidman
“When one is trying to write about sex, if you’re doing it right, something happens in the prose that is unpredictable and kind of wild.”
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This Is an Essay About Penises
“I spent years not thinking about my penis — or, at least, thinking about it as little as possible. After I transitioned, my penis became the most important part of my body — at least, to other people.”
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24 Actions You NEED to Take to Help Trans Women of Color Survive
This isn’t just exhausting. This is intergenerational trauma, oppression, and maybe even genocide. This violence is specifically targeted against black and brown women, gender non-conforming folks, and especially trans women of color.
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Scenes from a Gender 02: Illustrated Moments of Trans Womanhood
“I have a question!” she exclaims. Stepmom knows where this is going so she tries to head her off, but the child will not be dissuaded. “My question is,” — here it comes — “… are you transgender?” No one knows what to say, me included.
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Remaking Myself and My Desires on the Comics Page
An exploration of how this cartoonist came into her bisexuality by seeing her desires made manifest in others’ art and decided to make herself seen through her own art.
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15,000 Stand Up For Black Trans Lives in Brooklyn, Show Us What Pride Month Should Always Look Like
Over 15,000 people turned up for the Brooklyn Liberation Action for Black Trans Lives this past weekend and these are the best photographs I have ever seen.
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Shakina Nayfack on Her New Audible Play, NBC’s “Connecting…,” and Forming Trans Community Through Art
“I’m throwing them a few bones of facts and things to know. But I’m also calling them to a higher order. Luring them in with the pussy and then challenging them with postcolonial theory.”
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What Self-Quarantine is Teaching Me About Gender Dysphoria
Three weeks ago I began my Coronavirus self-quarantine. Faced with the reality that I wouldn’t see anyone, I started an experiment. I wasn’t going to shave, paint my nails, or put on makeup — until I wanted to, for myself.
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Angry Transgender Woman Writes Story About Texas Bathroom Bill, Changes the World
“I refuse to place myself in danger because it makes some fools at the Texas capital uncomfortable that girls like me exist publicly. I will not be limited to a sexual fantasy or some kind of untouchable position in society because I am a transgender woman.”
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I Tried New Trans Dating App Fiori and All I Got Was This Personal Essay
“She admired my tits like only someone else on estrogen could and then she grabbed them harder than anyone had before.”
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Going Outside with Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
Maybe if trans women can redefine what it means to be close to nature we can also redefine what it means to be close to each other.