Healing is hard work. Sometimes a survivor just needs a little easy diversion; a book, maybe? Don’t make it Jen Manion’s new book, Female Husbands: A Trans History (Cambridge University Press, 2020); it isn’t an easy diversion. In fact, trans and non-binary readers...
As if being transgender or non-binary didn’t generate enough trauma on its own, we might be trying to cope with traumas that didn’t start with us. In the past few years, The 1619 Project, Tulsa Race Riot, and Black Lives Matter itself have all raised the public’s...
Fifteen minutes. That’s all the time John Gottman needs to observe a couple interact over a touchy subject. From that observation alone, Gottman has a 91% chance of correctly predicting whether the couple will end up staying together or divorcing. As we’ve said before...
I can’t tell you how many times my therapist would tell me that I needed to take care of my Inner Child. “I don’t understand what you mean,” I’d say. She’d retort, “Just like you did with your son!” (She thought I was an excellent parent. I wasn’t at all sure about...
As trans people, we are often hungry for the stories of other trans people, including those who came before us. We may be particularly attracted to stories of early resilience and successful living. It was those stories that I was hoping to find when I eagerly...
