Trans Sonnet #1: The girl doesn’t live here…

The girl doesn’t live here but she knows the way To find what she needs when everyone’s gone. Clothes a woman wears on a sunny day; The girl who doesn’t live here puts them on. She puts them on, she tries them out, and sees A child who must be somebody’s daughter; All smiles, noContinue reading “Trans Sonnet #1: The girl doesn’t live here…”

Silence and Solidarity: My Fall Forum Coming Out

The following remarks were given at the 2018 Fall Forum on Governance: CultureMakers as part of my introduction of the new TCG Circle.  This is a cross-post from the TCG Circle. Photo above by Ryan Bourque // Instagram: @BourquePhoto So hi everyone. I’m Gus Schulenburg, director of communications at TCG, and I can’t tell you howContinue reading “Silence and Solidarity: My Fall Forum Coming Out”

I’m Back (but different then before)

For the past three years, this site has been silent. That silence mirrored the silence I experienced first as a playwright, then as a human being, as my repression reached its greatest depths and eventually became unbearable. At last I am out as a trans woman. Hearing my own voice for the first time, itContinue reading “I’m Back (but different then before)”