Category: Gender Failure

  • It’s Pride Month Again, Or, There’s A Bluebird In My Heart

    I do not want the shame internalized in me for longer than it already has. I don’t want to be an activist, but I am not writing these words just for myself: after all, there were people who made me feel less alone on this journey of meaning, and ideas…

  • I Know Where Words Fail Us

    It is a heart-jumping, throat-strangling kind of fear. It makes me want to slam close my computer and smash the whole thing on the ground and to pretend, just for once, that I am what these terms say I am, that I fit perfectly into this definition, that I belong…