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Transmissions: Trans for the holidays
We're in that time of year, post-Thanksgiving but not yet Yule, when you cannot breathe without being bombarded by messages of family get-togethers for the holidays.
Transmissions: In difficult times
It was 1998 when Rita Hester, a young Black trans woman, was found dead in Alston, Massachusetts.
Transmissions: Forgotten histories
It should come as no surprise to anyone that I feel that the trans community often fails to grasp its own history. That focus is, after all, part of my own history.
Transmissions: In God's image
Longtime readers will note that I don't often discuss matters of religion. It's not a topic I am comfortable with. I am predominantly agnostic, with a very strong pagan bent to my spirituality.
Transmissions: Ghosts, specters, and very old bones
It's frightfully common for anti-transgender activists to rely on old tropes in place of actual arguments, and one of the favorites in their arsenal nowadays seems simple on the surface, but gets crueler the deeper you dig.
Transmissions: Very personal questions
My partner was usually by my side when I was in the long process of coming out to our friends and family.
Transmissions: The world has changed
I had the best of intentions. I had planned to focus purely on a quartet of aging rock stars, and their anti-trans statements, made all the odder by the gender-transgressive history of many of them.
Transmissions: Checkmate
As we've all seen, the last few years have been chock full of attacks on transgender rights.
Transmissions: Barbie, through a trans eye
In the early 1970s, Mattel partnered with United Airlines to enter Barbie into one of her many careers.
Transmissions: Take a mile
You really don't need me to tell you that 2023 has been a challenging one for those of us who are transgender.
Transmissions: Casa Susanna and the mists of time
The trans community has a long history, but all too often, the archives are buried, hidden behind the firmest of closet doors, and under threat of being forever lost.
Transmissions: Shooting off one's mouth
In British Columbia recently, an elementary school track meet became something very different.
Transmissions: Stand in joy and Pride
Pride, in 2023, feels a bit surreal. For months, we have heard the worst people on the right relentlessly labeling LGBTQ people – and in particular transgender people – as groomers, preying on the nation's children.
Transmissions: In the company of Pride
June is upon us, and with that Pride season.
Transmissions: The trans body
As overplayed a term as it is, we are living in what amounts to a modern day witch-hunt, with transgender people replacing women in pointy hats.
Transmissions: Silenced
At the Montana Statehouse in Helena, history is being made.
Transmissions: Under the influence
It sounds positively cynical to say this, but we live in an era of spectacle and circus, provided to us hour by hour via social media.
Transmissions: Weapons
On March 27, a gunman used an AR-15 military-style weapon to shoot open a lock to a door at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee.
Transmissions: Lies and deceptions
There are many who want to claim that transgender lives are built on falsehoods, that everything about us is a lie.
Transmissions: An alchemist's passing
In 1994, when dinosaurs still roamed the Cretaceous Earth, I was but a budding trans woman. I was still largely trying to find where I fit in this thing called "transgender," and fighting through a mountain full of shame and guilt over who I was.