Context: The treatment for transsexualism is sex reassignment, including hormonal treatment and surgery aimed at making the person’s body as congruent with the opposite sex as possible. There is a dearth of long term, follow-up after sex reassignment. Objective: To estimate mortality, morbidity, and criminal rate after surgical sex reassignment of transsexual persons. Results: The…
Are you sick of buying clothes in a different size to represent your goal weight? Are you tired of choking down salads for every meal in the hopes of losing weight and loving yourself? What if I said that your weight isn’t the problem, it’s your mindset? Body positivity is a movement spreading far and…
In her New York Times opinion column, Jennifer Finney Boylan wrote about her relationship with her beloved dog Indigo, and her wise, funny, heartbreaking piece went viral. In Good Boy, Boylan explores what should be the simplest topic in the world, but never is: finding and giving love. Good Boy is a universal account of…
In this article from the journal “Feminist Formations,” Eden Kinkaid reviews the 2019 book “Queer Embodiment: Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience” by Hilary Malatino.
After Alex’s mother dies of an accidental overdose, Alex takes leave from her job as a writer for a lifestyle magazine to return home to Maryland and join her brother Owen, a study in failure to launch, in sorting out their mother’s whimsical, often self-destructive, life. While home, Alex plans to profile Juliette Sprigg, an…
La famille d’Obayda a subi des déboires et dû s’installer dans la campagne afghane. Mais une tante a une idée pour leur attirer la chance : faire d’Obayda, la plus jeune des quatre filles, une bacha posh, c’est-à-dire l’habiller en garçon. D’abord désemparée de renoncer à ses cheveux longs et à la danse, Obayda, désormais…
I argue that since two significant periods (that form part of what is called ‘Deuteronomistic history’) in the history of the Jews contributed to the development of the Biblical narrative in the format that we have it in today, it can be said that what we have in the Old Testament is really a Jewish…
The distribution and consumption of transgender time-lapse videos on YouTube have increased over the last few decades, providing trans communities with a valuable resource for self-making. On YouTube, vloggers can present images and videos of their bodies as they document their gender transitions through several practices that rely on temporality and time-space compression. As a…
The word “syzygy” refers at once to the alignment of celestial bodies in astronomy, repeating relationships in mathematics, and male/female pairings in Gnosticism. T Fleischmann’s Syzygy, Beauty, then, is an essay ordered by complimentary needs: art criticism, the narrator’s construction of a house, and the direct address of a lover. Playing with scale and repetition,…
“Some girls are not made,” torrin a. greathouse writes, “but spring from the dirt.” Guided by a devastatingly precise hand, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound—selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil as the winner of the 2020 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry—challenges a canon that decides what shades of beauty deserve to live in a poem.…