Build Your Own Survival
“Here they are, young brown queer crippled and in love holding hands in the co-op with an adaptive device like its nothing here I am a middle age young illder staring at them teary eyed in cripple parking I don’t…
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Chasing Uncertainty
Transfeminist Womanism Cento Arrangements from “All The Black Girls Are Activists” by ebonyjanice Cover art created by Kabang Lauron. You can find their work at This is dedicated to all the Black transfemmes that should still be with us,…
Weaving the Stories: Poetry as Spellcasting Arrangements
Introduction These are not my words in entirety. These simultaneously are and aren’t my stories. In this art of Arrangement—a Cento, not unlike Blackout poetry—I’m taking the elegant, crafted words of other people’s stories and hand-rearranging them to tell my…
For the Taken and the Remaining: DREAM
Yesterday I went to a vigil for yet another murdered Black trans woman here in Washington DC, victim of a hate crime. Dream Johnson should still be here, and her family shouldn’t be mourning her loss. Her family said they…
Black (Wo)(Man) In A White World: The Racialization of Gender
Introduction I want to start this off by saying that this is not fodder for “socialization” theory. Do not skim this and start linking it as “proof” that male/female socialization exists, it does not. I’m not here to talk about…
Revenge Is Something You Do With Your Teeth
Don’t look away from all this. It will hurt. It will be overwhelming. It’s a fraction of what I’ve gone through since February 2023, however long it takes you to read this instead of over a year. If you’re part…
Kink While Black
TWs; racism, gaslighting, abuse, transmisogynoir ~~~ Let’s talk Kink While Black. I joined my local kink community at 18. Trained under two different dom/mes in my home state, I started teaching basic sensory play, bloodless knife play, and other sensory…
Position of Guilt: Black Hot Allostatic Load
I’ve been trying to write these stories for two weeks. Despite the fact that I’ve told these stories so many times at this point, the act of committing them in this way, of trying to pull as much detail out…
The BIPOC Attention Tax: BIPOC Engagement Theory
The BIPOC Attention Tax is the penalty that non-white folks pay in engagement for being non-white on social media sites. This takes form in less shares and visibility on any post, streams, or similar content when people are able to…
When The Chips Are Down: When We Let Bigots Be Our Defenders
One of the most insidious side-effects I’ve witnessed repeatedly regarding transmisogyny, outside of the way it directly harms transfemmes, is the fact that because so few people are willing to stick up for transfemmes when the chips are down, we…