CW: sexual violence, explicit sexual content
If you want to get to know me you need to know how I flow,
there’s more to me than looking pretty and the way my hips sway to and fro.
If you want to get to know me, then you need to know…
By: Patricia Trimble
I am often accused of having an ‘OpEd’ style of writing. I am working on that, and in doing so, I would like to update you on the past year.
I was so moved, so overjoyed by those of you who responded to my story. Your words…
In 1965 I was six years old and unceremoniously informed that I was in fact ‘Not’ a girl. The next 53 years were filled with deep depression, anger and extreme violence aimed at those who certainly did not deserve it. …
Prison Stories
I didn’t have a mentor. I’m not going to let that happen to other trans and LGBTQ prisoners.
Every morning, I try to wake up around 5 a.m. It may seem strange given the long day that lies ahead of me in prison. But I am a transgender woman assigned to a cell with a non-LGBTQ man and, thankfully, he sleeps until 7 a.m. or later. …
