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:...

Last year, during the summer of 2021, I experienced my first severe heat wave on the West Coast. With temperatures reaching up to 120°, I was one of the many Portland residents living without air conditioning in my apartment. I was fortunate enough to have support...

Ryan Sallans’s Transforming Manhood is a reflection on experiences of transitioning and its impacts later in life. Themes of mental health, coping with trauma, family relationships, love, and loss are woven together in this powerful narrative. Sallans explores the...

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...

You trust no one, see danger everywhere, and walk with a sense of powerlessness and worry even while at the same time you may develop an aggressiveness you don’t understand. Slowly you morph into a tight, controlled, rigid, restrictive, anxious, fearful, numb and...