Category: Trans
‘Black Hole Science’ experiments to stay warm after snow
My second entry for the 2026 Trans Rights Readathon. A college course that excited me was on religious themes in literature. My favorite part of ‘Black Hole Science’ is called ‘Lives of the Saints.’
Thank you for the strange fiction of ‘Rainbear!!!!!!!!!’
My first entry for the 2026 Trans Rights Readathon. Living past hope, everything matters and nothing matters. This doesn’t make sense, so it’s tough to resolve it. But this book drills into it.
People need to be allowed to keep their ID cards
I hope everyone is aware of the threat to đłď¸â⧠ď¸trans Kansansâ IDs. If I had a Kansas ID, Kansas would ask me to surrender my ID. It’s nonsense. There’s never been a reckoning. Anti-trans moral panic is hotter than ever.
We need to talk about the Heritage Foundation âenchiladaâ
If youâre trans, lesbian, gay, bi, or a woman, youâre not safe from these people. The version of the USA that the Heritage Foundation wants is governed by whiteness and by Christian authority. Don’t let them do this to people of any age.
Beast, in or out of a net
Art by Tucker Lieberman. Everything moves in the twilight: the beast, the net, the Moon, the Earth it orbits, you. Nothing dances in the same place twice.
6 things mystified me in the trans film âI Saw the TV Glowâ
This 2024 movie is tough to crack, but finally I think I get it. In art, opaque describes a substance you expect to see through but can’t: paint, glass, a thin layer. Metaphorically, it’s something you can’t understand.
The freedom to be left alone
We should have the choice, but we donât always have it. In the past, when prompted to think about whether Iâm âoutâ or âqueer,â Iâve thought about the transgressive sense and about the meaning of visibility.
The system always leaves someone out
It doesnât mean the person is strange. Any time we make a system of classification, someone wonât fit. This exclusion might say more about our need to classify people than about them.
Baldness isnât just physical
Itâs also performative. Labels describe how we live. Even when they describe reality, theyâre about perceptions and performances. How we live interprets who we are.
When labels donât feel right
She had two moms, and she didnât like the word âstraightâ. If we have a stake in a shared outcome, we might avoid declaring how weâre different and separate from others, especially to imply our superiority.
People have been mad about âcisgenderâ since at least 2007
If someone wants a world where no one is marked as cis, they must simultaneously fight for a world where no one is marked as trans.
âCisâ or âbiologicalâ?
Theyâre both adjectives, but we have preferences. No, âcisâ doesnât imply that trans people are better. âCisâ implies that trans people are equal. People who object to this equalization are transphobes.