One of the ways people survive the closet or the time before they figure themselves out is to go numb and not feel anything. Feeling all the feels is the only way to feel all the feels.
Pride is Community /
My favorite part of my city’s pride is seeing all the people I know and getting introduced to new people.
Existing in all its Nuance /
An incident in a local park where a white guy tried to beat me up thinking I was a guy, homeless, and queer combined with the rise in genocidal laws means just breathing can be really hard and also the last thing those who want us all dead want. In and out.
Dreaming Together /
I’ve been thinking a lot about self-regulation and co-regulation lately. We were not meant to do life alone, so teaming up and building futures in community is a huge way to counter the toxic individualism that contributes so heavily to the isolation and loneliness trans people experience. Here we go :)
See What? /
Even though gender is based on how one feels inside, it’s how one is perceived that dictates treatment by others. Lots to unpack and lots to undo.
Love is Delicious /
Dinosaurs experience glorification due to their size. Tyrannosaurus rex, one of the biggest land predators to ever exist! Awe! Exaltation! Tyrant Lizard King! Imagine if the biggest and fattest humans were treated with such respect. In the meantime, there’s always pancakes.
Hold Fast /
I’ve been reading a lot of Dean Spade, Mariame Kaba, and Andrea Ritchie lately and thinking about hope as an active thing one does. Play is something that figures into my practice of hope, joy in the hellscape as an act of pleasure and resistance.
Buds /
I like how there are so many ways to express love within friendships.