“It was only ever supposed to be a silly little stand alone zine.”

Even while it is a great time to be ace, anti-ace rhetoric continues to circulate in queer communities. 

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.

You can’t control other people’s reactions to your coming out. But you can create for yourself a network of people who unequivocally support your bisexuality/queerness and who understand the specific joys and challenges we face.

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!

Health conditions and disabilities are more than how many views a 20-second clip gets or the number of comments under a post. It’s real-life shit that can affect the core of who somebody is.

Growing up, I looked to Monae as a Black femme musician whose art and existence challenged traditional definitions of Black womanhood.

Looking back, I wish a company like Unclockable existed when I was starting my transfeminine journey through gender.

Less than a year after giving birth, I decided to medically transition. I wish I’d done it sooner.

There are so many things I may reach for to explain how I know I am a femme or an intersex non-binary woman but these words and concepts themselves are devised and constructed. Where do I anchor femmeness and how do I understand it?

Even with a new administration in office, we continue living in Trumpland. Tony Zosherafatain and Chella Man excavate what Trump has revealed about anti-trans violence in this country — and the future trans people deserve.

Body fat is central to how we perceive gender. So what does that mean if you’re a trans person?

“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.”

In a year of grief and turmoil, trans communities gave us a glimpse of a future we all deserve.

I am ready to be fearless. To dream beyond Black womanhood and know that I — Black, queer, and not-quite-sure — am worthy, so worthy of all of the love, affirmation, and power the universe can muster.

I believe my queerness makes my Asian-ness and my adoptee-ness stronger. I am more myself when I hold all these truths together than when I try to compartmentalize them.

Your annual report on how much closer we are to finding out that everyone is gay!

“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.”

I wonder why the story of a bisexual teenage boy is the one that allowed me to explicitly consider my identity as a bisexual adult woman for the first time.

“It’s precisely because Her Story is written and directed by trans women, starring trans women and featuring trans women on the crew that it’s able to be so authentic and so acutely focused on its trans characters.”