When we’re born, we’ve got a daunting amount of growing and learning to do. Inevitably, we’ll miss some steps along the way. One step many of us miss is learning emotional regulation. The thing about this lesson is, we don’t learn it cognitively. Our bodies have to...
This blog post is part of a series of posts on trans survivors’ experiences of the pandemic. Aurora (they/them) is a trans femme, genderqueer survivor punk living in the PNW, struggling towards collective liberation and creating joyous beauty. Please describe...
“Be present in your body.” It’s the opening to every yoga class and every mindfulness exercise. But for trans people and survivors of sexual or intimate partner violence, it can be a monumental ask and sometimes an impossible one. Sometimes I...
Recent research found that trans people are more likely to have synesthesia, a condition where, according to Psychology Today “one sensory or cognitive pathway (for example, hearing) leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive...
My identities as an agender survivor of polyvictimization working in anti-violence settles a lot more comfortably onto my awkward bones when I return again and again to asking what consent means to me and my partners. I never assume the answer is static or as frozen...
Summer’s scorch was stunning. Nationwide, we saw protests ignite to honor the lives of George Floyd, Tony McDade, Toyin Salau, and the hundreds of thousands of other Black people who have been killed by police in American history. An energy emerged to not just defund...
