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”
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”
Spaces Between Us
(Pictured: Isaiah Tanenbaum, Corey Allen, Anna Rahn. Photo by Justin Hoch. From Kevin R. Free’s AM I DEAD? The Untrue Narrative of Anatomical Lewis, The Slave.) “Because the cultural identity formation of most Oceanic people is relational rather than individualistic, it follows that the spaces or vā between and among persons, or between a person andContinue reading “Spaces Between Us”
Corinna Schulenburg 