I am a transgender special education teacher and I started drawing these doodles for students that were bullied, friendless, or in some way out on the fringe. The initial concept was about finding happiness, but as the country has grown more hostile to me and people like me it has become more political. It is…
“I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter” is a military science fiction short story by Isabel Fall, published on 1 January 2020 in Clarkesworld Magazine. The story relates the experience of Barb, a woman whose gender has been reassigned to “attack helicopter” so as to make her a better pilot. It was a finalist for…
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…
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.…
T! is a zine about testosterone – endogenous, exogenous, loved, hated, complicated. T! Volume 1 Issue 2 features new and returning contributors bringing you poetry, personal essay, block print, collage, digital drawing and even a kind of study. It is the result of our mission to create something that reflects our real experiences with testosterone…
Here, we share portraits and interview excerpts with participants from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, South Carolina, Virginia, and Washington D.C., to highlight the ways in which transgender people are aging in the South. Our participants’ experiences reflect the complex intersections of gender identity, age, race, ethnicity, sexuality, socioeconomic status, and geographic place. Their…
A demon escapes a prison with friends, and they all work together to defeat his dad. https://www.deceptioncomic.com/ < main webcomic site 🙂 https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/deception/list?title_no=315238 < webtoon 🙂
In The Queer Art of History Jennifer V. Evans examines postwar and contemporary German history to broadly argue for a practice of queer history that moves beyond bounded concepts and narratives of identity. Drawing on Black feminism, queer of color critique, and trans studies, Evans points out that although many rights for LGBTQI people have…
Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits is a unique and extraordinary photographic collection by artist Loren Cameron. Body Alchemy is Loren Cameron’s intensely personal photo documentary of female-to-male transsexuals (FTMs). A transsexual himself, Cameron brings a sensitive, sophisticated insider’s eye to his subject matter. Using documentary style, a series of before-and-after photographs documenting the transformation of a…