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trans

book features

The Trans Terror of Franz Kafka

For many trans readers, it’s easy to find a kinship with Kafka.

Willow Heath —

Oct 11, 2024

financial planning

trans

money + work

I’m Looking for a Trans in Finance

Some of these trans advisors, coaches, and planners operate outside the system, identifying as anti-capitalist and advocating for integrating social justice values into investing. Some exist inside bigger, more established…

Gabe Dunn —

Sep 23, 2024

country music

trans

music

Your Country Music Belongs to Me, a Trans Woman, It’s Mine Now

No matter what hateful things these artists tweet or transphobic politicians they endorse, I still know the words to “She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy.”

Lisa Laman —

Sep 17, 2024

for them

kink

A photo from the 90s of a man with a mustache reading a book with a baby on his chest.

gender

Always the Daddy, Never the Dad

It might seem ridiculous to you, reader, to hear a man compare queer kink to biological fatherhood, but I’m trepidatiously taking the stand in defense of duality.

Milo Longenecker —

Aug 22, 2024

featured

trans

issues

I’m Going To Keep On Cruising at the Men’s Only Club

I’ve always been struck by the mostly silent language of cruising.

Vera Blossom —

Aug 22, 2024

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gender affirming surgery

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issues

My Top Surgery Was Complicated. I Don’t Regret It

We rarely hear about how healing can be an iterative and potentially complicated process.

E. Goldblatt Hyatt —

Aug 19, 2024

featured

olympics

sports

The Olympics Have Always Been a Battleground for Gender Panic

Once again, the conversation on sex testing women’s sports has blasted back into our international consciousness, and people are debating everything from the efficacy to the necessity to the injustices…

Stef Rubino —

Aug 13, 2024

featured

trans

society + culture

Rio’s Runway, Reimagined: Transmasc and Nonbinary Performers Expand Brazil’s Ballroom Scene

Transmasc and nonbinary performers take the stage in Rio de Janeiro’s Ballroom scene, expanding interpretations of Ball culture and embodying new forms of gender play and expression. Serving as a…

Hannah McKenzie —

Apr 11, 2024

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

trans

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first person

Uncertainty and Disquiet: My Non-Consensual Childhood Circumcision as a Trans Woman

At the time, I didn’t know that I was experiencing a contentious procedure that would leave me physically scarred and emotionally wounded. I did it because I was told I…

Summer Tao —

Feb 20, 2024

featured

skincare

Pansy Esthetics: Leola Davis wearing a mask works on a client in orange light.

beauty

Leola Davis and Pansy Esthetics Are Here to Queer Skincare

“I wanted to create a space where the queer community could get care and treatments geared specifically toward them and their skin and body.”

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Jan 25, 2024

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gender affirming surgery

A trans masculine person showing their post-surgery scars.

health

Healing After Top Surgery: Expectation vs. Reality

What’s it like to walk down the stairs with nothing bouncing? What’s it like to feel a seatbelt flat against me? What’s it like when my girlfriend lays her head…

Max Gross —

Jan 11, 2024