Being Trans Enough
As we are all aware, the trans* population is fairly small. This has obviously made it hard for us to unite and gain ground as a community over the years. With the Internet, trans* people have found it...
View ArticleWhy Language Matters
I didn’t want to write this post. I have been trying to be less controversial and continue writing about pop culture. Unfortunately, something has been bothering me for months now. Language and word...
View ArticleTransgender Day of Remembrance Memorial 2014
Transgender Day of Remembrance is a day to remember my sisters and brothers killed in the past year for being trans or gender non-conforming. All but one name taken from TDOR. Jacqueline Cowdrey (50...
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Life in Transition: 18 Months
August 24th, 2013 marked the first day I went to work fully and wholly as myself. It has been 18 months since that fateful day. That day also marked the last time my parents saw me in person. To say...
View ArticleSomeone Teach Me How to Swim
[Content Warning: Discussion of suicide and self-harm, trans slurs] 23 was a terrible age in a lot of ways. I was drowning. I was struggling. My life was in shambles. I tried to end it and I ended up...
View ArticleUnwelcome Home
It just hit me. My grandpa’s 90th birthday is fast approaching. My mother has been doing her motherly things and has planned a grand escape for the family. She rented a whole section of cabins on Lake...
View ArticleYay Marriage! What’s Next?
Now that Notorious RBG and her crew used some jiggery-pokery, marriage equality is the law of the land. Everybody seems to be asking, what is next? Well, over here at Alyson’s research central, I have...
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It’s Bisexual Awareness Week, Y’All
I first came out as bisexual in high school in a scary wasteland called Montana in 1999. Now, I wasn’t out to everybody, but enough people guessed I was queer of some sort I routinely got called the f...
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Dear Caitlyn
Content Warning: Suicide Ideation, Transmisogyny Caitlyn, it’s been over six months since you announced who you really are. While the hoopla over a Olympic gold medalist coming out as trans has not...
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