Asexuality, Aromanticism, and Introspection: Learning by questioning
I asked my team to switch the day we posted this, so it’d be around Valentine’s Day, which I think is hilarious. (Of course, they agreed – both to the change and that it’s funny.) It’s nice to laugh about something that used to stress me the eff out. On this blog, we...
Talking about Teen Dating Violence with Providers
As a trans teenager, a lot of my experiences with trying to advocate for myself—which was often a necessity as I tried to access gender-affirming care—were difficult, and sometimes traumatic. I still remember how it felt not to be respected or believed by providers I...
Stalking and Harassment of Trans People
January is Stalking Awareness Month. Trans people not only face high rates of stalking from people in our lives; we are also subject to increasing amounts of online harassment and hate, doxing, swatting, and other forms of life invasion from both people we know and...
Barriers to Services: another form of Gender-Based Violence
“It also started to feel like my inability to access resources for gender-based violence was more gender-based violence.” -Quote from a survivor during one listening sessions to inform the Trans/Nonbinary Victims of Crime Toolkit Trans people are frequently turned...
Lessons from History
Content note: racism, sexism, transphobia, violence When President Biden was safely inaugurated in 2021, I breathed a huge sigh of relief. The four years of checking my phone before getting out of bed to find out if Trump had done another horrible thing to the trans...
Pressure points for healing and anxiety
During the holidays, it can always be helpful to have different coping skills in your toolkit for dealing with stress and anxiety. We may already have some strategies we’ve developed (for more ideas, check out last year’s blog post on coping skills). But trying...