I have learned that you are still incredibly brave, even if your voice quivers and your hands shake when you tell them who you are. I have learned that I deserve the same freedom, the same honesty, that I fight for others to have. I have learned valuable things from my loneliness, but taking the … More 08.23.2019
Even though many have told me that I needed to “break free” from who and how I love, breaking into freedom from those judging words and programs set out to change me is actually what I was made for. They broke me down and got me to stand in line, reciting what was “right” – … More be free
Even in the stillness there’s a stirring… internal noise… that cannot be ignored, and I’m not sure that it should be. I think I am allowed to cry when I listen to my trans friend talk about how people in power want to erase him from history, and how these powerful people are working hard … More existing
Suicide has often been a familiar concept to me. But even now, writing the word itself is hard, it feels raw and harsh, like I’m saying a dirty word. I remember being in middle school and feeling shaken by the fact that someone at my friend’s school had taken their own life. What is it … More what it’s like
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