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Daria Phoebe Brashear

Daria Phoebe Brashear

Transition is a journey. Don’t go it alone.

It made for a rough evening, the night before New Years’ Eve 2014, as I read a story of a trans woman who took her own life. I couldn’t…

Dec 30, 2016

Dec 30, 2016

Daria Phoebe Brashear

Scanning for anomalous gender

I stripped away anything I thought might trigger an alert, including my boots. I fully expected the usual admonishment. But I had a…

Oct 11, 2016

Oct 11, 2016

Daria Phoebe Brashear

Pittsburgh, it’s not you, it’s me

The signs ahead of me presented a choice, as had the journey to this point. I paused and snapped a picture before heading under the sign…

Jul 20, 2016

Pittsburgh, it’s not you, it’s me

Jul 20, 2016

Daria Phoebe Brashear
in
Gender Shrug

The still-wrapped gift

The bicycle beckoned. “My body aches to be used,” I explained.

May 15, 2016

The still-wrapped gift

May 15, 2016

Daria Phoebe Brashear
in
Gender Shrug

Second-guessing my gender transition

It’s been nearly a year now since I marched out of the City-County Building in Pittsburgh, flush with a court order, around town to update…

May 10, 2016

Second-guessing my gender transition

May 10, 2016

Daria Phoebe Brashear
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Gender 2.0

Gender’s in my pants? What pants?

It was Mother’s Day, 2014. Everyone had just departed and I was now left to tidy up the house. I’d cooked for the family, as in years past…

Mar 31, 2016

Gender’s in my pants? What pants?

Mar 31, 2016

Daria Phoebe Brashear

The Value of Empowerment

“You are empowered,” she said. It was the second time in the last few sessions she’d said it to me. The context this time was a little…

Nov 4, 2015

Nov 4, 2015

Daria Phoebe Brashear

More than the sum of the parts

In spite of having a great day to that point, things went downhill over the course of my dinner, only to bottom out as the evening…

Oct 17, 2015

Oct 17, 2015

Daria Phoebe Brashear

Be true to yourself

Oct 11, 2015

Be true to yourself

Oct 11, 2015

Daria Phoebe Brashear

Daria Phoebe Brashear

Non-binary woman, feminist software developer from Providence and Oakland (Ex of Somerville, Massachusetts and Pittsburgh)

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