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Red Somos float truck at Pride parade with a large heart on the truck's grill: LEY INTEGRAL TRANS YA (comprehensive trans law now)

Colombia: 40 years of LGBTQ Pride

Fundraising for a trans community organizing space in Bogotá. Besides seeking a comprehensive trans law, La Red Comunitaria Trans plans to build a trans house for organizing and support. Fundraising goal: US $100,000.

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holding a paperback of Mars and Her Children by Marge Piercy

New dogs, now, in my own poems

Rereading ‘Mars and Her Children’ by Marge Piercy. Marge Piercy’s poems in ‘Mars and Her Children’, I decided early on, are what I want to sound like when I wrote a poem. I’ve found my voice.

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Detail of book cover: Summer Fun

Darned if I can tell you how magic works

But this award-winning novel can: Summer Fun by Jeanne Thornton. How do we create our realities? How are you magic? If you haven’t yet read trans literature, I am giving you sage advice: Trans people’s books are magic.

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person comes to a fork in the road. street sign has a red arrow pointing one way into darkness and a green arrow pointing the other way into blue sky.

‘Gender-critical’ ideology is just dualism

The ‘GC’ worldview is a split between good and evil, physical and mental. It incredibly claims to vaporize all gender roles despite working to uphold gender. It focuses on what people can or can’t be, do, or have due to their sex.

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Jen the Gelfling plays the flute while Kira the Gelfling rows their river boat

The Gelflings are trans

And trans people are Gelflings. ‘Now, we leave you the Crystal of Truth,’ the Beings tell the Gelflings who are no longer Gelflings — because they are finally being left alone.

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An impressionistic photo collage of a person who appears to be stuck inside a large soap bubble.

Empathy for cis people

Trans people have it because we don’t live in a trans bubble. My jaw hit the floor. I picked it up and put it back in. It fell out again. It rolled under the sofa and I have spent the last two weeks looking for it.

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