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…
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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…
Q
I was born and raised in Columbia, SC. That’s also where I was when I figured out that I was gay. Growing up, there were no gay people (that I knew of anyway) in my neighborhood. Growing up as a skinny, bookish, glasses-wearing kid in the projects didn’t give me a very wide, or hopeful,…
Teek
In 2022, I circled back to some of the participants of this series to ask them if they would like to update their profiles, or expand a little more on how the events of the last few years have affected them. Here is Teek’s response – In the four years since my photo appeared in…