“Take a Breath, close your eyes…now feel”
I was very moved by Greta Gerwig’s writing in Barbie. I even made a TikTok about it! I wanted to use the quote in the title to tell you about how Barbie is 100% a trans movie.
When I took my first breath, I was 27 years old. It was so crazy because I always felt uncomfortable in my skin. I couldn’t name the feeling until I was around the community and figured out the words. One day in early…
What is music to me?
What is your favorite genre of music?
This prompt is a hard one but I’ll try to answer it. I love indie music. And I was a serious top 40 girl for close to a decade. Then I encountered bands like the mountain goats and Against me and then I started working at an Alternative radio station. My music taste has evolved over the years but the one genre thay I will continue to come back to is punk. I…
How a shell with shoes on was one of the best movies of 2022
In March I was really excited to watch a movie. It was the backstory of my favorite viral video from 12 years ago. “Marcel the shell with shoes on” I wrote this review on Letterboxd bc it was a life changing experience about community and grief and what it’s like to live on in the memory of someone rather than falling into your grief.
Why did I just cry so much at a movie about a shell with…
#30DaysofPride: Day 11- Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is a Trans activist who has been fighting alongside her sisters since the stonewall riots in 1969. She has fought for justice and currently helps fight for trans prisoners with the TGI Justice Project.
Born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, the trans activist came to know herself in the 1950s and 60s, when police raids of queer bars were rampant and the thought of…
#30DaysofPride: Day 21- Essex Hemphill
I wrote this post last year when I was interning at CLAGS and so it’s a little CLAGS-centered but I really like this one!!! So today I bring you an important person in the black gay community, Essex Hemphill.
Property of the estate of Robert Giard
Essex Hemphill was born in Chicago and grew up in Southeast Washington, DC. A poet and performer known for his political edge, he openly addressed…
#30DaysofPride: Day 20- Sarah McBride
Sarah McBride is the first transgender state legislator in the country. This position makes her the nation’s highest ranking transgender official. Serving her home state of Delaware, Sarah, has been advocating for trans people in her state and in Congress.
Sarah worked on the campaigns of Governor Jack Markell and Attorney general and son of the current president (then-vice president) Joe…
#30DaysofPride: Day 19- Marlon T Riggs
Today is Juneteenth. The commemoration of the day in 1866, that slaves in Galveston, Texas received news that they were emancipated. An important day in the history of America.
So I’m going to talk about a filmmaker whose films were revolutionary for the time discussing the plight of the black folks post reconstruction and how vaudeville and minstrel shows were a huge influence on the culture of…
#30DaysofPride: Day 14- Ceyenne Doroshow
Today’s profile is Ceyenne Doroshow. Ceyenne was on the streets at a young age after she came out to her parents. In a 2018 interview with Trans writer and member of Ceyenne’s Daughter, Zackary Drucker, she talks about how she was thrown out and struggled to find housing after graduating high school.
And, ending high school in that waffly area of being a young adult and wanting to go out and…
#30DaysofPride: Day 13- Chelsea Manning
The person who exposed the American Military industrial complex for the war crimes they have committed, is Chelsea Manning. She is a true hero of American democracy.
In 2008, a website known as Wikileaks was founded under the principle of radical transparency. During that time, Manning, in order to combat her crippling gender Dysphoria enlisted in the hyper masculine Marine corps.
At the time…
#30DaysofPride: Day 12- Pulse, the Shooting that radicalized me
TW: BLOOD, SHOOTING, HATE CRIMES
This is a repost of an essay I wrote back in 2018 for my blog. There’s a reason why I write these essays about famous people who have had an impact on the history of the LGBTQ equality movement. The reason is, when stuff like the pulse shooting happened, we are reminded that somebody has to tell their stories.
I’m going to share my thoughts on what happened 5…
