Results for: a camp
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The Damage Fascism Has Done to Trans and Disability Research
Few know about the long-term effects that the Nazi Party had on present-day understandings of both autism and transgender identities.
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Change Is Magic: On Cooking and Bodies
Science fiction taught me that any sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic. In the kitchen, my girlfriend is a witch.
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Am I Bisexual? Is That The Word?
I will never again cultivate a romantic relationship with a cis person on purpose, not in this life. I have been hurt too badly, too often, by too many people. T4T only. Inscrutable genders from outer space to the front, those that can be best described as “smell of campfire” && “a great pink shape.” && those best described as “a single chandelier earring dragging across your chest while we fuck.”
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“Dispatches from Elsewhere” Includes a Complex Trans Character in Its Immersive Theatre Plot
Simone’s transness and need to transition is never doubted – it’s just not enough to rid her of all her problems.
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PHOTOESSAY: Taking My Chosen Body Outdoors
I decided to meet Syd in Oakland to celebrate my newly healed chest. We hiked out into the Happy Boulders, selected our first climb and immediately took off our shirts. It was glorious, but also terrifying and vulnerable.
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You’re Just You: An Accidental Love Letter to Los Angeles
“Towards the end of the night you fall and tear the skin on your knee. But you pop back up and keep skating. You’re relieved. Now that you’ve fallen once you know you’ll be okay.”
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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.
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A-Camp Spring 2017: We’ve Got Six Full Camperships for Trans Women To Give Away
I’m freaking serious, this is so worth it: we’ve got one full campership for a trans woman of color with full travel included, one campership for a trans woman without travel and four camperships for trans women of color with a $100 travel stipend.
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Shapeshifters: Bespoke Binders Put Fun on Your Chest
What Shapeshifters has done here is made binders where the point of them goes beyond the normal utilitarian point of a binder. And honestly? We deserve that!
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Sunday Funday Is Thinking About Mommi
This week: girls, girls, girls! Including Teddy Geiger looking like a snack, Nancy Drew’s gay best friend, some thoughts on motherhood, and lesbian Jesus delivering an iOS memo.
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Trans Day of Visibility Roundtable: Letters to the Trans People Who Shaped Us
“You make me proud to be Mexican, proud to be fat, proud to be queer and proud to be trans. You make me proud to be myself. I love you and thank you.”
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Still Reeling That I’ve Made It
“No one knows, including me, that my overindulgence and competitive drinking is an attempt to assert the only masculinity I know. Toxic.”
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Trans Day of Visibility: An Autostraddle Community Photo Gallery
Almost 100 amazing humans sent pictures for our #TransDayOfVisibility Community Gallery! Get in here and celebrate our lives!
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Mal Ortberg’s Creepy New Book Is Coming Out and Mal Is Too
If The Merry Spinster seems almost fixated on gender, it’s because Ortberg began participating in gender therapy and exploring identity while writing it, and “It turns out I’m trans!”
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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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Transparent Season Four Finds Its Heart by Keeping It in the Family
Transparent isn’t a show about any single person. It’s a show about family. That’s what it’s always been and when it focuses on that, it’s at its absolute best.
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Finding Hope on Trans Day of Visibility
“Trans Day of Visibility gives me hope. When I see trans people proudly being themselves in public I have hope. When I see allies retweeting links on how to support trans women I have hope. When I see brilliant selfies of trans people I have hope. When I see trans people celebrating a day that’s about us, I have hope.”
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The 10 Best Trans Women In Comics
The world of comics has changed dramatically for trans women over the past three years.
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Trans Asylee Sues Mike Pence Because Noncitizens Can’t Legally Change Their Names
A trans man from Mexico filed a lawsuit against an Indiana law that prevents noncitizens from legally changing their name, an El Paso man was arrested for the murder of trans woman Erykah Tijerina, a 13-year-old boy was shot and killed by Ohio police, Sandra Bland’s mother receives a million dollar settlement and more news.
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Pop Culture Fix: Laverne Cox, Angelica Ross, and Jen Richards Want To Be In The Room Where It Happens
Her Story didn’t win an Emmy, but it’s opening up doors. Laverne Cox is really excited about Rocky Horror. NYT is worried there’s not enough TV for white men. Ava DuVernay’s adaptation of A Wrinkle In Time gets its lead. And I don’t want to talk about Sue and Mel leaving Great British Bake Off.