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…
E
My life thus far has been a process of learning who I am and where I come from. I came out as queer in college, after moving away from a transphobic and homophobic environment. I came out as trans and started hormones a couple years later. I did a lot of organizing around making sure…
Maude
I came out as queer a decade ago and realized through my sexual fluidity that my gender could be fluid too. My gender identity changes from day to day, sometimes moment to moment, and I finally feel at a place of not only acceptance of it, but also pride in it. Gender Expansive Queer Social…
Aerin Riegelsberger
My trans identity continues to be an evolution. A current goal of mine is to practice self care and acceptance at every step possible. Making myself visible is part of that radical self acceptance. Right now I’m really focusing on asserting and voicing myself, prioritizing my health and safety, doing work that other folk’s don’t…
Missy Anathema
I fought my whole childhood to prove that I was a woman who was just as smart, strong, and capable as a man. Through finding myself somewhere unexpected on the gender spectrum, I found a way to not only find confidence in myself outside of my birth assigned gender, but to help others love and…