Not everything is strength training
Keep pushing. Just push through. Fake it til you make it. No pain, no gain. Phew. There are a lot of messages I’ve gotten throughout my life that have tried to tell me that the only way to learn, to grow, and quite frankly to exist, is to always be striving, trying...
Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse: Video Games and Trans Survival
Quiet moments with food sizzling on the stove. Reading a book to learn carpentry. Tailoring clothes. This is how I spend most of my time while playing Project Zomboid, a post-apocalyptic survival game, whenever I’m not frantically fighting off the mob. Unless I’m...
Image-Based Abuse and Trans Communities
What is image-based abuse? A recent study from the American Sunlight Project found that about 1 in 6 congresswomen have been the victims of sexually explicit “deepfakes.” Deepfakes are AI-generated images that appear real, and are often difficult to differentiate...
A short guide to feeling your feelings by someone who is not always good at feeling their feelings
At least once a day I tell someone that rumor has it feeling your feelings is good for you. I’ve read probably hundreds of books that assert that fact. I’ve experienced it myself. And yet, actually feeling my feelings is hard. Often it sucks. Sometimes it’s absolutely...
The power of writing shit down
“It is so important and necessary to document, period. If we don’t know where we’ve come from, we won’t have the full knowledge to take us where we need to go." - Qween Jean, in conversation with Raquel Willis (Revolution is Love: A Year of Black Trans Liberation). ...
Speculative Fiction as Medicine
Post election all I wanted to do was read and sleep. Not news reading or nonfiction reading or anything like that. At a minimum I wanted to escape and at best I hoped for medicine. I asked AI to recommend speculative fiction with LGBTQ themes. The first one I picked...