Tag: trans
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February: Loss and Love in Community
It feels wrong to talk of loss this month, but it feels equally wrong to ignore it.
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2021 Reflections: Joy Amongst the Chaos
2021 was fairly quiet – I contemplated dubbing it the year of “waiting for the storm to pass”. It’s been a blur. But when I sat down to scroll back through my Facebook and Instagram to remind myself of the stuff I’d been involved in, I realised that actually, 2021 was completely batshit.
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November Reflections: Navigating Pain and Bitterness in a World Invested in Respectability
In last month’s blog I briefly mentioned an encounter with a transphobic doctor. I made a point not to talk about it much on social media, and not to divulge the details in that post either. But November has mostly been spent trying to process it and give myself space to heal. I took it…
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October Reflections: Community Spaces and Quitting Twitter
Being trans in this country is exhausting. There are two things I’ve been doing in the last month to deal with it.