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Published in Prism & Pen

·May 31

Why I Bought Myself Some Pepper Spray as a Trans Person

For whom does the cat call, if not for thee? — Ever since high school, I’ve hated teenage boys. That’s not exactly true given the number of times my cheeks would flush involuntarily around some of them, even if I found them just a tad insufferable. However, hearing about how they treated girls like meat and treated each other so roughly in the locker room made it much easier…

Feminism

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Why I Bought Myself Some Pepper Spray as a Trans Person
Why I Bought Myself Some Pepper Spray as a Trans Person

Published in Prism & Pen

·Mar 9

The Past and Desperation of Gender Transition: Break, Repair, Repeat

I’m Orpheus, trying to allure and convince — There’s a robin perched on the powerline outside my window. I only looked because light was painting itself across my walls like dusky ocean waves, and I wanted to catch a glimpse of the sunset. When I turned my head, I saw it sitting there, flitting its little gray wings…

Transgender

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The Past and Desperation of Gender Transition: Break, Repair, Repeat
The Past and Desperation of Gender Transition: Break, Repair, Repeat

Oct 26, 2021

The Ire of the Pushover

“You’re So Accommodating” Sweet, unassuming, passive, pushover, amicable, amiable, adaptable, compassionate, understanding — when anyone not too close to me describes my disposition, these are the words they’d probably use. That’s what’s best about me, my subdued chameleonic character that lets me slip into most situations. Awkward, but unassuming. Quiet and unobtrusive. Mild…

Self Improvement

6 min read

The Ire of the Pushover
The Ire of the Pushover

Published in Gender From The Trenches

·Aug 20, 2021

Yes, I Killed Him

I had constructed a life and lived it as someone else — a boy who was kind and sensitive to his friends, played sports, and was gay (at most). It was only a matter of time before my charade came crashing down. — I can picture it now — the rain dancing lightly on polished cherry wood, drumming to drown out the choked sobs of family and friends. The sky is cast a pale, flat gray. The air bites at everyone’s faces until they’re peony pink, on a late fall afternoon. I’ve imagined…

Mwc Death

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Yes, I Killed Him
Yes, I Killed Him

Published in Prism & Pen

·Jul 12, 2021

Being Trans Sucks Sometimes, but It’s Taught Me Lessons I Never Want to Give Up

I wouldn’t trade it for the world — Every time I’m confronted about being trans, I’m always asked why I would want to do something so drastic and taboo. Like many other queer individuals, it’s not something that I wanted to do at all. In fact, I tried everything in my power to avoid it for almost 5 years after my realization of not being cis. With every passing day, my head felt more and more like a pressure…

Transgender

6 min read

Being Trans Sucks Sometimes, but It’s Taught Me Lessons I Never Want to Give Up
Being Trans Sucks Sometimes, but It’s Taught Me Lessons I Never Want to Give Up

Published in Gender From The Trenches

·Jun 18, 2021

The Best Way to Deal With TERFs Online? Don’t!

Social media is meant to be social — with those you care about. Here’s why I don’t engage with people who don’t even think I exist. — Ever since I made the mistake of writing a somewhat controversial article, my notifications have been filled with transphobic pseudo-facts by people who apparently stopped going to school after 7th-grade biology. …

Transgender

7 min read

The Best Way to Deal With TERFs Online? Don’t!
The Best Way to Deal With TERFs Online? Don’t!

Published in Gender From The Trenches

·Apr 28, 2021

“Dating a Trans Woman Is Gay.”

What’s really gay about straight men dating trans women — I find this discourse to be a repugnant dismissal of the definition of woman. A real woman is biologically female, and anything otherwise would be a blatant transgression upon wombyns’ rights and the institution of heterosexuality, as well as other sexualities. I find it — — ok, now that the…

LGBTQ

5 min read

“Dating a Trans Woman is Gay.”
“Dating a Trans Woman is Gay.”

Apr 22, 2021

I kinda get it, even though I identify as a trans woman I don’t know what it feels like to be woman.
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Jas Martinez

Thanks for responding!!

Thanks for responding!! I completely get it- gender is both the biggest scam/lie there is and also one of the most internal and core feelings that there is... it's so weird. I hope you figure it out more if that's what you want, but there's nothing wrong with embracing masculinity as a trans woman! :)

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Thanks for responding!! I completely get it- gender is both the biggest scam/lie there is and also one of the most internal and core feelings that there is... it's so weird. I hope you figure it out more if that's what you want, but there's nothing wrong with embracing masculinity as a trans woman! :)

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Apr 22, 2021

I Am What I Am Not

Ramblings about Oppositional Self-definition as a Nonbinary Person — I know that I’m not a man. I know that I’m not a woman. But what am I? This is the question that often plagues people who come out as NB (nonbinary) at one time or another. It can barge in forcefully, shaking all the pictures and dirtying the floor…

LGBTQ

5 min read

I Am What I Am Not
I Am What I Am Not

Mar 30, 2021

Caricatures of Cis Roles or Gender Aberrations: We Can’t Win

Trans people are in a Catch-22. — I’m feeling argumentative today, so I wanted to talk about something that’s been on my mind recently. In my humble experience in the digital and real world, a complaint about trans people that I’ve seen is that we enforce harmful gender stereotypes by aspiring to embody the epitome of outdated…

Gender

5 min read

Caricatures of Cis Roles or Gender Aberrations: We Can’t Win
Caricatures of Cis Roles or Gender Aberrations: We Can’t Win
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