Surviving To The Big Four-Oh
On January 9, I will be 40. For some people, they view their 40th birthday with some sort of displeasure. I’ve always looked forward to my 40th. For me, it’s a milestone that I cannot wait to celebrate...
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After 1.5 Years of Really Hard Work, I’m On a Trauma Therapy Maintenance...
It was difficult, to say the least. And now that I’m finally in a place where I don’t have to see my trauma therapist every two weeks, the future is both scary and exciting. It started of as gender...
View ArticleOn Surviving Trauma and How Things That Make Me Happy Kept/Keep Me Alive in a...
This post is going to be rather personal. It may be triggering to other trauma survivors. It’s also going to be a stream of consciousness, truly brain vomit post because, ever since the release of...
View ArticleLet’s Talk: Health Care, Reproductive Health Care, and Assigned Female Bodied...
We need to have an honest talk about health care and what happens when you are born with a vagina. This issue can no longer be ignored. Trans people who had female on their original birth — this...
View ArticleThe Violent History of ‘Tomboy’ and Assigned Female-Bodied Trans People
Warning: If you were assigned female-bodied and are anywhere on the trans spectrum, this post could be triggering to you for everything from trans-antagonism to all forms of overt violence. In this...
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Coded Language in the #ndpldr Debate and Why I’m Supporting Jagmeet Singh
Last night was the sixth debate in the NDP leadership race and wow, do we ever have a lot to unpack. It’s been nearly a full 24 hours since the debate took place, and I’m still sick to my stomach. For...
View ArticleWith #LoveAndCourage Is More Than a Slogan, It’s A Way of Living
This has been a difficult week, hasn’t it? It’s a struggle to not succumb to the horror of the events in Charlottesville, see how politicians are reacting, and think, “It’s never going to get better....
View ArticleHow Jagmeet Singh’s Proactive LGBTQI2S+ Platform Will Have Huge Impact #ndpldr
Today, Jagmeet Singh released his LGBTQI2S+ platform. There is a lot to unpack. You can tell by the initiatives in the platform that, when he’s told people he immediately went to Randall Garrison to...
View ArticleHow To Support People on National Coming Out Day and Every Day
Six years ago today, I publicly came out as trans in a pretty big way. I did it on Wired. Up until then, I had attempted to come out multiple times. Each time was unsuccessful, resulting in either...
View ArticleRape and Sexual Assault – Before and After Coming Out as a Trans Man
I remember when I was in grade 11, I wrote a poem about being sexually abused as a child and raped by multiple people once I became sexually active just over a year before. My grade 11 English teacher...
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