My experience of my gender has felt consistent throughout my life, but how I label and understand it changes. I’ve changed a lot over the years. I’m going to continue changing. I’m a nerd. Gender Id/Pronoun : they/them
Chain / Nix
Asking me a question like “What are you, a boy or a girl?” is like asking a snake “What are you, a biped or a quadruped?” It is simply not a quality that applies to me. I identify with archetypes far more strongly than with any gender. My gender is poet, is storyteller, is self-confessed…
Dana Morrigan
I started calling myself a hippie pretty soon after thousands of them invaded my small town to attend the Woodstock Festival, when I was ten. They talked about peace and freedom, and they were peaceful and free! They did things in public that I was afraid to do even in private. They also lived in…
Mateó
I am an indigenous qtpoc from Colombia. I come from the Muisca people and we were known for offering our deities (the sun and the moon) art in return for their magic. Through visual art, I found an outlet to express myself authentically starting at a really young age. Film is my first love. I…
Constance
After decades of hating my body in particular and my life in general, I’m learning to love myself even as I strive to change my body. I can honestly say my depression and anxiety really got going at about the start of puberty. Well, the first time I went through puberty. I started hormone replacement…
River
Words are insufficient. They will always be. We are doing the best with what we have, but there are truths too deep, too sacred, too holy, too messy to describe, even as our vocabulary advances. I said to myself in a moment of epiphany at fourteen, “I can be a closeted gay man in a…