Would you call an effeminate man a fag? Would you call a woman with short hair a dyke? Of course you wouldn’t. So…
This is the text of a talk I gave to Bloomington High School South’s gay-straight alliance in Indiana on April 24, 2013. The talk was part of Live Out Loud’s Homecoming Project.
This is a combination of my prep notes and my own memory of what I said. It’s not a word-for-word…
The gradual push for marriage equality in the U.S. has created a lot of buzz around queer culture, specifically around gay, lesbian, and bisexual…
The image is seared into my mind: a man in a frumpy dress, poorly shaved beard, obnoxious wig, and equally obnoxious bangs. Oh God, the bangs.
Short, forehead-covering bangs are ruined for me because I am transphobic. I have this image of a man in…
All your life, nobody has seen you as you are. They’ve always put you in group A, but you’ve always belonged in group B.
For as long as I’ve been a visibly genderqueer person in New York, the start of…
