Lexie Bean, Author at Autostraddle

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book features

Why I’m Compiling Queer and Trans
Goodbye Letters to Places We’ve Left Behind

Lexie Bean

Apr 3, 2024
AF Advice Box

How Art Modeling Carried
Me Through an Abusive Relationship

Lexie Bean

Nov 10, 2022
film

What Will I Become? Tackling
Trans Masculinities and Nuances of Misogyny

Lexie Bean

Apr 1, 2021
first person

When Restorative Justice Language, Instead
of Action, Perpetuates Sexual Abuse

Lexie Bean

Mar 26, 2021

book features

Why I’m Compiling Queer and Trans
Goodbye Letters to Places We’ve Left Behind

Lexie Bean

Apr 3, 2024
AF Advice Box

How Art Modeling Carried
Me Through an Abusive Relationship

Lexie Bean

Nov 10, 2022
film

What Will I Become? Tackling
Trans Masculinities and Nuances of Misogyny

Lexie Bean

Apr 1, 2021
first person

When Restorative Justice Language, Instead
of Action, Perpetuates Sexual Abuse

Lexie Bean

Mar 26, 2021

trans

book features

Why I’m Compiling Queer and Trans Goodbye Letters to Places We’ve Left Behind

I stand with the grief of maps and the ways I bittersweetly still carry the places I left.

Lexie Bean —

Apr 3, 2024

af+ personal essay

a charcoal life drawing of a pair of human legs, the torso is just out of frame. behind the legs is a blackened expanse of charcoal. the drawing is dark and moody

af+

How Art Modeling Carried Me Through an Abusive Relationship

“I wanted to be a landscape or a place that couldn’t be contained.”

Lexie Bean —

Nov 10, 2022

documentaries

trans media representation

A crop of a black&white hand-drawn comic panel; a dialogue panel reads "As I navigate elements of transition which are coded as masculine, I wonder and worry over what kind of masculinity can even exist without toxicity," and two drawings of two different faces, both looking tired and concerned, facing in opposing directions

film

What Will I Become? Tackling Trans Masculinities and Nuances of Misogyny

WHAT WILL I BECOME? is a documentary in pre-production on trans masculinities, mental health, and imagining a way forward. We are examining the community’s unique challenges of visibility and nuanced…

Lexie Bean —

Apr 1, 2021

personal essay

sexual assault

A collage-style visual of a small, simplistic yellow house on a hilly foreground of textured red; behind it is a background of a dark sky with hand-drawn stars

first person

When Restorative Justice Language, Instead of Action, Perpetuates Sexual Abuse

I tried to lead restorative justice in my own sexually abusive (former) t4t relationship. I did this because I am an abolitionist and know people are more than the worst…

Lexie Bean —

Mar 26, 2021