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Continue reading →: Humans of Butler and GoFundMe
So this is a bit of self-publicising… I was recently featured in Humans of Butler, a student run collection of stories and pictures from the Butler University community. Here is the link. I’m glad that this happened because the little interview brings more visibility to trans people, and the more…
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Continue reading →: Trans* Tuesday: Gender Dysphoria
Gender Dysphoria is the psychological term for when a person feels distressed by the societal expectations placed on them for being “Male” or “Female”, by the anatomical structure of their body not matching the chemical brain patterns, or both. Gender Dysphoria is what I was diagnosed with last September.
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Continue reading →: Two Weeks into Senior Year
So University has started up again. And while I may be taking the fewest credit hours I’ve ever taken in a semester, that being 12, I quickly realized that doesn’t mean I’m any less busy. This year I’m taking Voice for the Actor(again), Directing for the Stage, Senior in Theatre…
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Continue reading →: Trans* Tuesday! – “Queerness is the way, the truth and the life.”
I read this originally in a blog post by a Queer Pastor, and wanted to share. Personally, I see the story of Eden as myth, and the life of Jesus as Legend. Enjoy this wonderful article!
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Continue reading →: Here we are again.
A few weeks ago I made a post stating that I had changed my mind about voting for Bernie Sanders and was instead going to vote for Hillary Clinton. The reasons I gave for changing my mind are still entirely valid. But over the past few weeks, I’d had to…
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Continue reading →: Poverty and the 2016 Elections
There is a poverty epidemic in the U.S. It is ridiculous and huge. The U.S. is number 1 in the “developed” world for homelessness, hunger, etc… And it isn’t for lack of funds, if we were to cut military spending, not eliminate it from the budget, but drastically reduce it,…
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Continue reading →: Trans* Tuesday: 1 Year Transition Video
So it has been around a year since I came out as trans, so I created a video of pictures taken over the past year. Enjoy!
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Continue reading →: Trans* Tuesday: It’s My TRANSiversary!
(This is the first in a new blog series I’m starting called Trans* Tuesday. I plan to start a few other series as well, none of which will necessarily be weekly, though I try… I am weak) Around this time last year(late July/early August 2014) I really began thinking and…
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Continue reading →: I’m (Not) the same person I always was!
When I first was coming to terms with being “transgender” I spent a lot of time reading about ways to “come out” to family and friends. The dominant advice for dealing with problematic family was to make sure they knew that you were still the same person. I’ve seen this…
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Continue reading →: A Progressive Christian Defense of Planned Parenthood
I just want to endorse this message.