Mercena West Schulenburg doesn’t really need any other ways of being different. At her school, she’s the only kid with two female parents, the only one with a trans parent, and the only vegetarian, meaning she eats different food from her classmates almost every day. And so it would be entirely reasonable if she decidedContinue reading “Coloring Outside the Lines”
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A Trans Heart in Arya Stark’s Story
Game of Thrones was never must-see TV for me. I enjoyed it, but it was easy to forget after the episodes ended. Then Arya Stark traveled to the House of Black and White to join the Faceless Men and something changed. Now, I’m not saying Arya is a trans character. The language of our world doesn’tContinue reading “A Trans Heart in Arya Stark’s Story”
Facilitating Post-Reading Conversation of Rage Play
Tonight I’ll be facilitating a post-reading discussion of the themes of Rage Play by Nandita Shenoy along with the director Lori Elizabeth Parquet. In December of last year, I facilitated a similar post-workshop talkback, and I was moved and energized by the conversations we had about uprooting internalized patriarchy and then disrupting and dismantling itContinue reading “Facilitating Post-Reading Conversation of Rage Play“
A Girl Has Two Names
Most trans people, when they socially transition, change their first name. I didn’t. I had a first name that no one ever used and a nickname, Gus, from my middle name, August, that I loved. So many things about my male-presenting past gave me dysphoria, but not my name. Yet using it now does causeContinue reading “A Girl Has Two Names”
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