Emotional Connections A Review of “Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience” Children are born with emotions, but we aren’t born with the ability to identify and talk about them. That’s something caregivers must do:...
Have you been a victim of gender-based violence? Many, if not most, trans and nonbinary individuals would say yes. Our lives are filled with prejudice, discrimination, and violence based on our variance from “traditional” unchangeable binary gender: of course we’ve...
Everything Leaves Its Wound A Review of Suture: Trauma and Trans Becoming I was in my 60s and doing long-distance caregiving for both my widowed father and my mentally ill younger sister before I finally, finally, finally gave up hope that my father would ever...
CW: Suicide Editor’s note: This blog post will likely be painful to read, since it discusses trans suicide and its aftermath. We encourage people to read it, however, because we want to introduce people to a really powerful tool for dealing with traumatic memories....
I’ve been investigated by Child Protective Services (CPS) twice. The first time we’d just returned from a queer parents’ conference at which our son became a toddler (he took his first solo steps in the crowded pre-2001 LAX terminal). The accusation came from a...
Did you know that 60% of teens report experiencing verbal, emotional, or physical abuse in a dating relationship? Start a conversation about teen dating violence today by wearing orange and sharing a photo with the hashtag #GoOrange. #teendatingviolence#TDVAM... See MoreSee Less