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Emma Holiday
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Prism & Pen
Sep 21
Can’t Wait To Get Rid of My Penis
Or: How do you know you are transgender?
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James Patrick Nelson
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Prism & Pen
Sep 8
Howling at the Lightning — My First Trip to the Gay Mecca Fire Island
A version of this story won the…
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Emma Holiday
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Prism & Pen
Sep 2
Transgender Compromise: Do I get to be me or the me I get to be?
Still lighting one candle at a time.
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Emma Holiday
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Prism & Pen
Sep 1
Transgender Reflections:
What others see of themselves in your mirror.
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7 responses
Jackie Duden
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Prism & Pen
Aug 27
How Safe Is Being Me? Being a Lesbian Slows Down How I Express Myself.
At the doctor’s office and at…
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Emma Holiday
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Prism & Pen
Aug 24
Freedom! How My Queerness Changed How I Express Myself
After overcoming a desperate need to just fit…
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Giulio Serafini
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Prism & Pen
Aug 23
How Queerness Gives Me Freedom To Express My Authentic Self
But is this a trapdoor to harmful…
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Nicole Anderson
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Prism & Pen
Aug 18
Trans with a Little Help from My Doctor
And yet still the path isn’t clear.
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James Patrick Nelson
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Prism & Pen
Aug 6
The Late-Onset Adolescence of a “Middle-Aged” Gay Millennial
Reframing our narratives of what it means…
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James Patrick Nelson
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Jul 23
When the Dead Don’t Rise — A Gay Man’s Night with a Ouija Board
Your life is the envy of a thousand…
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23 responses