My relationship to gender is fluid — constantly evolving, shifting, and interacting with my environment. I’m lucky to have experienced relatively little body dysmorphia, so sometimes I think about how my decisions to alter my body and self are connected to how the world I’m in perceives me and treats me. I am in a…
Rose
These days I’ve been joking (not joking) That my gender is that of a 14 year old goth lost boy All awkwardness and new angles Somehow too big and too small and still too femme or not Fag enough It’s messy There never seem to be the “right words” And who I am gets caught…
Leu
A music lover and goatherd, tender of plants and compost, living on the Mendocino coast, in the ancestral lands of Northern Pomo and Coast Yuki peoples. Seeking connection with fellow rural queers in the area. Genderfluid they/them Age : 35 Mendocino Coast/Northern Pomo Territory
Jo-El
Having been raised mormon, my early life journey was incredibly limited to the gender binary. I am grateful to have broken out of that conservative box as a young adult “Who was I now—woman or man? That question could never be answered as long as those were the only choices; it could never be answered…
Rebel B/T
Gender play has long been part of my personal journey. It’s a way for me to increase empathy with other humans and expand possibilities for all of us outside of the binary boxes others may assume we must fit into. I value being visibly queer and gender non-conforming to help others feel less alone and…
S.E. Smith
My relationship with gender is in a state of constant evolution; just when I think I’ve got a handle on things, something upends my previous understanding of gender, of myself, of how I interact with gender as a cultural concept. We’re living in such an exciting time for conversations about these issues and it’s so…