My Teen Wants a Binder — And Not the Three-ring Kind
As a Gen-X, cis/het female, my relationship to my body has been one of learning to love and accept it…
Few other forms of gender expression are as powerful as the language of hair. Who…
My brain is tired. It’s tired in a way that feels familiar, but I can’t quite put my finger on it. Then I realize — It feels like the exhaustion of language immersion.
My enby teen, now 14, started binding earlier this year — March, 2020 — and then, The Pandemic. But I’m getting ahead of…
Like so many parents of a certain progressive bent, my spouse and I did our best to go gender…
“My therapist says I should be persistent! I will keep asking you until you hear me!”
We were driving to a school-sponsored beach cleanup, and my spirits were high. We’d been in a pandemic-length holding pattern during a long, lonely first year of online high school. It was late April…
“Mom. I need to talk with you.”
C. was more enthusiastic than I’d seen them in a long time. It was deep January, in the midst of a drab first year of…
