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…

“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…

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…

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…

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. …

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…

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…

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…