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...
“Oprah says…” You may eagerly await what comes next, or you may immediately tune out. Even if you fall in the latter group, this time I urge you to pay attention. Oprah has co-authored, with neuroscientist and child psychiatrist Bruce D. Perry, a book currently on the...
