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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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The Trans Body as a Work of Art
Burlesque is my loving manifestation of what all my ancestors deserved—not simply tolerance, but unbridled celebration.
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How To Choose A Halloween Costume
Halloween costumes are traditionally scary – ghosts, goblins, political figures. Look back at the last 20 years and realize … that you frequently went an entire year wearing a costume and only got a reprieve on that one glorious October day. Terrifying.
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For Trans Puerto Ricans, Passing Laws Is Only Part of the Battle for Liberation
Trans activists in Puerto Rico insist they are not a distraction, but central to the struggle for independence.
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How Louisiana’s Antiquated Laws Set Trans People Up for Violence
Louisiana is in the top three states for the highest amount of anti-trans violence. Remnants of laws from the 1800s continue to trap trans people in a cycle of abuse.
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The Complicated Nature of Sex for Asian Women
Our trans subject editor Xoai Pham speaks to Jayda Shuavarnnasri, Thai-American sexuality educator and resident #SexPositiveAsianAuntie, about sexual violence, myths about polyamory, and what it means to take up space as Asian women.
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10 Times Trans and Gender Nonconforming People Destroyed 2020
In a year of grief and turmoil, trans communities gave us a glimpse of a future we all deserve.
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Scenes from a Gender 04: Stories of Trans Love
Four submissions about trans people loving all up on another, in not just romantic ways! Illustrated by Bishakh Som.
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How Do You Plan for Transition in a Pandemic-Related Economic Depression? Financial Advisors Have Some Thoughts
The COVID-19 quarantine, which now, perhaps, connotes to be known as a period of extended doldrums for gender transitioning adults across America, has produced its share of coping mechanisms.Autostraddle caught up with two financial advisers who serve transgender clients, Timothy LaPean and Hans Heath.
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Tony Zosherafatain and Chella Man Discuss “Trans in Trumpland,” Collective Liberation, and Cool Moms
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.
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Trusting Abundance: A Conversation With Organizer, Sammie Ablaza Wills
“I’m not interested in creating comfortable spaces. I’m interested in safer spaces where people can be challenged.” Sammie Ablaza Wills gathers wisdom from their elders and fellow trans, queer community to lead the grassroots org, API Equality Northern California.
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Why Everything Transphobes Think About Detransition Is Wrong
Coverage of ‘detransitioners’ may claim it’s just asking questions, but it rarely asks the right ones.
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Extra! Extra!: On the State of Democracy, Flags and Statues as US’s Independence Day Approaches
On the eve of wealthy cis white men who made their money through slavery declaring independence for stolen land, this week’s Extra! Extra! takes a look at the state of democracy in the US and abroad. The news this week serves as a reminder of the ways that equality, freedom and the most basic of human rights remain out of reach for far too many people.
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Principles of Pride: Sex Work Is Real Work, Sex Workers Are Fucking Revolutionary
A free world for sex workers would be a free world for people’s bodies, desires, and pleasures — that is to say, a world worth fighting for.
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Black Trans People Have Been Modeling Mutual Aid Before It Became a Buzzword
For the Gworls is a prime example of how Black trans organizers have found ways to keep one another safe, housed, and healthy despite violence at every turn.
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The Time I Wanted to Hug a TERF
A middle-aged transmasculine butch person meets a trans-exclusionary radical feminist in the vast forest of Tumblr. What happens next is both predictable and unexpected.
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Fashioned with New Language: A Conversation on Bisexual & Trans Shared Experience & Solidarity
“At the cultural level, in the US at least, when you say someone is bisexual, the image that automatically generates is of a cis bisexual person. The double erasure of bi+ trans people is something that really hurts and also makes a lot of sense.”
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“Work in Progress” Is Too Much and So Am I
Throughout its eight episodes Work in Progress showed the value in being there for people even when it’s hard – and the importance of knowing when to walk away.
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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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Trans Love in Pandemic Times
Love without a blueprint leaves room for unknown possibilities. I spoke to seven trans people about how the pandemic has changed their relationships and how trans love has changed their lives.