Results for: be the change
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I Don’t Have An Expiration Date and Neither Do You: How I Learned to Have the Best Day Ever
Though I lived my life truly believing I had an expiration date, I made the decision that I deserved one last day that would be the best day of my life. I figured I owed it to myself.
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A Prairie Homo Companion: Wanderlust and Lessons Learned
I like to think all of this travelling has taught me a few things, or else what would be the point? Here’s a list of 10 things I’ve learned as a prairie homo in the great wide world.
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Leaving a Mark on the American Heartland With My Solo Queer Trans* Woman Roadtrip
“This past year of my transition, 2012, has been one of road travel with many miles revisited across numerous American states… Not the least of my concerns was driving my friend Xene’s unfamiliar Prius. Yet, my larger concern was driving solo as a woman.”
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Clicks on a Keyboard: Dungeons, Dragons, and Trans-Feminism
This begins with me already being a feminist, but ends with me making peace with being a woman.
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Butch Please: Where Do We Go From Here
The most important question I can ask is what do you want from Butch Please? What do you want to see in this space?
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Trans and Schizophrenic: When Diagnosis Impacts Transition
If he had read my medical records he would have known that my first psychotic break was exacerbated by my fear that I would never be recognized as a woman.
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When Discrimination Is Up In The Air
On unchecked discrimination, privilege and ignorance. How do you begin to change a world that thinks it’s already changed?
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Ten Things I Wish I’d Known When I Started My Transition
Ten lessons I wish I’d known when I started hormones in February 2011, and why I’m taking an indefinite break from the internet.
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Race, Class and White People’s Beach Houses: On Talking to Privileged People About Privilege
“The observation of white people actually grappling with ideas of class amongst each other empowers me, but it empowers me even more when I know they’re having the same conversation even when I’m NOT in the room.”
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Homeward Bound: Searching for the Secret Island of Black Queer Mixed Femmes
“I have always been a traveler, particularly as an immigrant and as a person with family hailing from Venezuela to Dominica to South India, ‘home’, ‘family’ and ‘belonging’ have always been complicated concepts.”
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Westward Homo! The Road to Columbus and St Louis (and Intern Grace!)
“We kidnapped Intern Grace on our first snowy evening and took her to the Red Roof Inn where we forced her to eat pizza and watch the 30 Rock finale with us.”
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A Prairie Homo Companion: Idle No More and Protest On The Prairies
From free healthcare, to the suffragette movement, to Idle No More, the following list describes some of the best in radical prairie activism.
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Butch Please: Sticks and Stones
“So what do you do in bed, then?” they always ask, but what they mean is “I think I already know what you do in bed because you’re a butch who likes femmes, so I’ve made assumptions on your behalf.”
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Westward Homo! In Which We Pack It In, Load It Up, Party Down and Get Out Of Town
In the first of a series charting newlyweds Robin & Carly’s move from NYC to California, the ladies find a new place, pack and ponder leaving their world behind for a big bright temperate tomorrow!
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Questioning “Queer” Across Generations
“As a queer who spends a lot of time with other queers, rallying around our queerness, am I isolating those who have a more troubled history with the word?”
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Butch Please: Anxious Little Butch
Anxiety on a butch is no different than anxiety on anyone else, but somehow I feel an immense shame as a result of the two’s interactions.
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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.”
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A Prairie Homo Companion: Snow is a Gender-Neutral Pronoun
I started feeling cold around the time I started feeling self-conscious.
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On Sobriety, Recovery and the Art of Not Dating
“My sobriety buddies warned me that if I violated the ban on dating before I was ready, I might be pushed into a relapse. Instead, I’ve just been pushed into never wanting to date again.”
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Claudia Is Intersex, Let’s Talk About It
Hey there, Autostraddlers. I’m Claudia, and I’m intersex.