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The Top 5 Sheet Masks to Wear After Crying About Your Gender

I feel like I am not the only one here crying about my gender, and you should know a) that you’re not alone and b) sheet masks can help.

A.E. Osworth June 21, 2018 37 Comments
Gender

You Need Help: You’re Not Sure If You’re a Boy and Gender Is Hard

“A lot of the narrative about gender questioning at large is about tragedy, about what we lose. I encourage you (even though I know it’s challenging) to think about your gender from a different angle. What makes you feel affirmed?”

M June 18, 2018 22 Comments
Gender

You Need Help: Coming Out as Non-Binary in High School

“It’s common to want to tell everyone about your newfound realization about your identity, so that you can feel like you’re living authentically and with integrity. But you get to do whatever feels best to you!”

Abbie Jones April 3, 2018 5 Comments
Gender

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.”

the team March 31, 2018 8 Comments
Gender Politics + Activism

Not Just Murder Victims: A Plea on Trans Day of Visibility

“If we are going to mourn our lost trans siblings, family and community members publicly, we need to do right by our community and contextualize their deaths with accuracy and intention.”

Abbie Jones March 31, 2018 32 Comments
Gender

You Need Help: Reacting to Misgendering in Public

“Why can’t I just let it roll off me? And do you think there’s a way to react that might make the situation a little less miserable for me?”

Abbie Jones February 2, 2018 56 Comments
Gender

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!

Ari December 28, 2017 56 Comments
Gender Music

Teddy Geiger is Trans and I’ve Never Loved a Pop Singer More

Acclaimed pop singer and songwriter Teddy Geiger came out as trans on her Instagram and Twitter.

Mey November 30, 2017 5 Comments
Gender

PHOTOESSAY: Transgender Day of Remembrance in West Hollywood

For Transgender Day of Remembrance, I went to the City of West Hollywood’s event and talked to some of the community and those elected to serve about what TDoR means to them, what they’re doing to fight for the living, and what we can do every day.

Molly November 21, 2017 5 Comments
Gender

Trans Day of Remembrance Roundtable: What Chosen Family Means To Us

“When I think about Trans Day of Remembrance and how I’ve survived to see another one, I know that it’s because of my family.”

Mey November 20, 2017 15 Comments
Gender Queer Fashion

You Want to Bind, But You Need Some Help

Binding for the first time can be exciting and confusing; here are some tips!

Ari October 5, 2017 33 Comments
Gender

Masculine-of-Center Roundtable: How We Do It and What It Means To Us

“To me, being masculine-of-center means boyishness, it means blurring gender lines, it means a more vulnerable and delicate form of masculinity. It gives me the freedom to not fulfill expectations based on my assigned gender and body.”

the team August 21, 2017 57 Comments
Gender

LCD Soundsystem Synth Player Gavin Russom is Trans and We’re So Happy For Her!

“Over the last year and a half, I went from my trans identity being something I was in touch with and worked through in one way or another, to suddenly this shift where it’s on the front burner. Now it’s time to become a whole person.”

Mey July 6, 2017 9 Comments
Gender

Sherrell Faulkner of NC 11th Trans Person of Color Murdered in the US This Year

Nearly all those murdered, including Faulkner, have been Black trans women.

Mey May 25, 2017 3 Comments
Gender

Kenneth Bostick, 59, is the Tenth Trans Person of Color Murdered in the US This Year [UPDATED]

Nine out of the ten trans people reported murdered this year have been Black; the tenth was a Native American woman.

Mey May 8, 2017 13 Comments
Gender

You Need Help: My Mom Supports My Bisexuality, but Not My Butchness

Kristin of Everyone Is Gay and My Kid Is Gay gives advice for a 16-year-old and her mom trying to deal with coming out as bisexual and gender nonconforming!

Kristin April 20, 2017 25 Comments
Gender

Here are Some Ways to Give Black Trans People Money

Across the country, Black TGNC people are performing serious emotional labor as organizers, healers, artists, sexual liberationists, and advocates. It’s time to give back.

Venus Selenite March 31, 2017 5 Comments
Gender

38-Year-Old Black Trans Woman Alphonza Watson Is 8th TWoC Murdered This Year

Police don’t have a lot of information, other than that there was an argument and then two men sped away in a car. They are offering a reward for more information.

Mey March 22, 2017 8 Comments
Gender

This Is a Nightmare and a Genocide: Jaquarrius Holland is the Seventh Black Trans Woman Murdered This Year

Holland, who is the 7th trans person reported murdered this year, was just 18 years old. A teenager. A child.

Mey February 28, 2017 26 Comments
Gender

Ciara McElveen is the 6th Trans Woman of Color Murdered This Year, Third Black Trans Woman in the Last Week

She was 21 years old.

Mey February 27, 2017 18 Comments
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