Six years ago today I started taking T. In my moments of reflection on this date, certain things stand out to me. The anxiety leading up to the day, the
As you may have noticed, this blog hasn’t been as active as it could be. The reason has been grad school, and holy hell has it been tough! As of
I read a quote that really moved me. It said “self portraits (selfies) are often such an act of self preservation and resistance.” I take a lot of self portraits, and sometimes
Today, February 17, 2010, marks the 4 year Transiversary for o’l Midwest GenderQueer. It has been a long road, and will be longer still. I would like to take this
A voice answered. I dropped my voice to its lower octave and spoke. I overheard the man speaking to his supervisor. “She says….” She. It used to crush me. As
Remember that time I went to the gyno, and I looked like a man? My gynecologist’s office is out in the suburban area of Morrow and Montgomery, which is about
There is a parallel universe I live beside. It is so close that it surrounds me, and yet I am not inside it. I was looking through my spanish book,
When I was in high school I liked the rainbow. Having a sticker or two made me feel like I was included. I was a proud “ally” to the 2