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Thea Barnes
Thea Barnes

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Feb 15, 2019

Homesickness

I want to talk about what I call my “homesickness”. I have this lifelong, persistent feeling of being homesick. …

Life

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Homesickness
Homesickness
Life

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Feb 27, 2018

What took so long?

You know, there are a lot of trans people in their mid-thirties now who just came out in the past three or four years, and I don’t think a lot of people realize quite why that is. When I was growing up in the 80’s and 90’s in the middle…

Transgender

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What took so long?
What took so long?
Transgender

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Nov 18, 2017

What #MeToo Means To Me

What the movement means to me, and my personal story — The #MeToo movement has been a powerful force for awareness of sexual violence, and a movement that has meant a lot to me personally. …

LGBTQ

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What #MeToo Means To Me
What #MeToo Means To Me
LGBTQ

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Sep 26, 2017

Failed

I’ve been thinking lately about a girl I dated back when I was around 13 or 14. …

This Happened To Me

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This Happened To Me

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Jul 11, 2017

“… but you didn’t seem miserable.”

Imagine an animal that has grown up in a cage for its entire life. One day, it escapes, experiences freedom for the first time. If you throw it back in that cage, it’s going to be miserable. But it’s not that it wasn’t miserable in the cage before; it just…

Transgender

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Transgender

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Apr 4, 2017

Anti-trans is Anti-intellectual

“I don’t care if my opinion offends people when my opinion is based in reality.” I see that claim far too often, usually from people who are using “reality” as code for “nothing I haven’t​ personally experienced.” Usually when they’re saying something in direct opposition to what all scientific evidence suggests. Always as justification for remaining ignorant. Transgender people have existed since at least the beginnings of recorded history. The terminology may have changed, but the facts haven’t. Scientists are still figuring out exactly how it happens, but the fact that it exists is no more “opinion” or “up for debate” than evolution or gravity.

Transgender

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Transgender

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Mar 13, 2017

A Late Bloomer

It wasn’t until my mid-thirties that I accepted myself for who I am. Growing up, I’d always seen myself internally as a girl, and I made very little effort to hide it. I had to put up with being called a boy of course, and I didn’t have the words…

Transgender

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Transgender

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Jan 11, 2017

A Little Story About a Girl

I grew up being mocked for being a girl. I never felt attractive enough, I starved myself to try and be more attractive. I felt so disgusted with myself when I looked in the mirror because I’d never be as cute as the girls on TV. I hurt myself in…

Transgender

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Transgender

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Thea Barnes

Thea Barnes

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Queer coder mommy, social justice sorceress.

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