I first posted this to Facebook, but it seems to be algorithmically buried in a way that is preventing it from being seen in the common feed. It’s been fairly well documented that platforms do this to posts that address racism, sex worker stigma, and other elements explored here-in. Every once in a while when…
As spring is springing, you will find me emerging into this new world of public speaking, direct from my living room to yours! With Covid-19 event restrictions in place for a full year now, event organizers are moving towards ways to bring people together digitally and I have a couple of conference speaking gigs this…
As much as I wish that we could move forward with scientifically backed measures like bans to conversion therapy, allowing trans or gender questioning youth to access hormone blockers and medically assisted transitional puberty, or implementation of SOGI 123 diversity and inclusion curriculum, we are unfortunately in a time where many people are really adamantly…
This is an opportunity to acknowledge, respect and appreciate the wisdom and leadership of queer, trans, sex worker and drug user communities when it comes to public health, testing, harm reduction, and health advocacy.
Much of the content I originally compiled for the Resilience Building for Trans Folks and Our Allies course has become a bit stale dated over the past 4 years. In effort to make some of the content available so as to support my contribution to Trans Awareness Week, I have made a Notion board that…
This week is marked as Trans Awareness Week, and I have been unsure how exactly to observe. I am sharing an IG Live with fellow gender autonomy parent, Dr Kyl Myers on Tuesday evening, and I wanted to gather my thoughts a bit in preparation of that. She invited me to share her audience and…
This was originally written as a comment on the posting of an article on the facebook wall of my dear friend and collaborator barbara findlay. Being a generation or 2 older than me, and with a long history of involvement in legal activism on behalf of LGBTQ+ communities and individuals, her network includes individuals with…
I’ve grown these flowers, these vegetables, and this child, from tiny little seeds. While the seams of society are ripping open, and the horrors of systemic racism, police violence, predatory tendencies of capitalism all are cast into the bright summer solstice sun, we have spiritual and political garden work to tend to. We need to…
Open Letter to Speaker Anthony Rota and Deputy Speaker Carol Hughes When I heard the news this week that Jagmeet Singh had been ejected from the House of Commons, I was not shocked but I was dismayed at the blatant and violent double standards exercised by you in your roles as Deputy Speaker and Speaker…
Check out an article I interviewed for here: https://modernfertility.com/blog/transgender-fertility/ Thanks to English Taylor for a very supportive interview process and taking interest in the fertility of trans folks.
I haven’t written much about Searyl’s allergies, but yesterday we had a day out that reminded me that it was something I had been meaning to do. They are almost 11 months old now, and as kids are apt to do, they have been challenging me in some of the ways I perhaps most needed…
I have been puzzling over how to write more about my experiences and insights of pregnancy. Obviously I have stories to tell, but I was unsure how to approach it- and then I got a message from my cousin. There it was, the frame. This is the first of a series of letters to her…
People have been asking me, pretty much every time I go out in public, “So how’s the pregnancy going?”. I’ve discussed this with other parents before about how once we venture into this whole process, the ways that we are vessels trump everything else about who we may have been. Good friends have shared with…
Working in harm reduction I have heard people describe certain substances in a way that they “turn up the experience.” Some drugs will synergistically turn up the effects of others, while other substances have the ability to turn up the experience of the music, the lights, the emotions. Sometimes this amplification is a desired and…
A few months ago andi and I were having acid church in my bus house and started chatting about the topic of breeding. I had, since my miscarriage a couple of years ago mostly backed away from the plans and connections that I had had with that whole realm. I had at one time had a…
To those who identify as “Pre-everything”, I see this a lot, especially on trans groups and on tumblr. People who have not engaged in any medical interventions that they may be hoping to someday pursue. The implication is that they are in a stage where everything that will make them who they are is yet…
