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What I learned at camp in the woods with 150 other trans men.

I recently attended a summer camp-style retreat for men of trans experience called Camp Lost Boys. How do I even describe it? All through…

May 20

A dirt path curving into the woods under a blue sky in Colorado.

May 20

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Jin Zeng (he/him)

I did not always know I was a boy: On not fitting neatly into normative narratives of trans…

So often, we think of, hear of, read about trans people who “just knew” about their gender since they were three years old, or five, or…

Jan 5

A dark masculine-presenting silhouette of someone sitting against a moody pink-purple sky.

Jan 5

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Jin Zeng (he/him)

Rescuing myself from the rubble.

On transition as archeology, a dysphoria of diaspora, and telling a less normative gender story.

Mar 31, 2022

A transmasc person hugging himself, wearing trans tape and color guard gloves. He has wings that are flags covered in gold and silver designs, and is encircled by a wreath of red leafy thorns. Above his head reads in cursive “when these things girdle your life, yet you rise above them naked and unbound” — kahlil gibran

Mar 31, 2022

Jin Zeng (he/him)

Thinking about writing, in early recovery and transition.

As I come back to remembering who I am, I want to, as adrienne maree brown puts it, romance my writing again. To renegotiate the shape of…

Mar 8, 2022

Mar 8, 2022

Jin Zeng (he/him)

How I am learning to be of service, by taking up space.

Unlearning what white supremacy and trauma taught me, as a Chinese-American immigrant, to become more me out loud and serve liberation.

Feb 12, 2019

Feb 12, 2019

Jin Zeng (he/him)

Jin Zeng (he/him)

trans & queer Chinese diasporic spoonie, comprehensivist, writer, artist… recovering from work addiction, passionate about creative futures // IG: @jinlikegold

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