January is Stalking Awareness Month. Trans people not only face high rates of stalking from people in our lives; we are also subject to increasing amounts of online harassment and hate, doxing, swatting, and other forms of life invasion from both people we know and...
“It also started to feel like my inability to access resources for gender-based violence was more gender-based violence.” -Quote from a survivor during one listening sessions to inform the Trans/Nonbinary Victims of Crime Toolkit Trans people are frequently turned...
Content note: racism, sexism, transphobia, violence When President Biden was safely inaugurated in 2021, I breathed a huge sigh of relief. The four years of checking my phone before getting out of bed to find out if Trump had done another horrible thing to the trans...
During the holidays, it can always be helpful to have different coping skills in your toolkit for dealing with stress and anxiety. We may already have some strategies we’ve developed (for more ideas, check out last year’s blog post on coping skills). But trying...
I’ve been thinking a lot about how and when we talk to each other about relationships – dating, sex, break-ups, violence – the good, the hard, the scary, the beautiful stuff. What we say to each other and ourselves often reflects how we see the world and teaches...
Surviving Transphobia is a collection of stories from trans “celebrities and experts,” who share personal journeys of self-discovery and perseverance through hardship. While some of the writers focused on large-scale forms of systemic transphobia, I was surprised and...
