People
I Do Not Want to Write Today: A Comic
I don’t want to write today. I don’t want to write about violence today. I don’t want to write about honor or duty or respect today.
Building the Trans Gaze For Myself
Why does my assigned sex have to limit me at all?
The Silence of My White Friends After Atlanta
I wondered: Who was I when I first formed this friendship?
Sending My Son Out of America to Save Us Both
I didn’t want it to make sense—to send my children away for who knows how long—but I did need them to survive. I needed to survive.
Who Gets to Travel to “Find Themselves”?
The spirit of manifest destiny has been rebranded into the travelogue.
Every Immigrant Is in a Long-Distance Relationship
Distance, though it may be physically distancing, need not make a couple grow distant.
Moving Past Silence as One Relationship Ends and Another Begins
For a decade I’d tricked myself into believing I was happily married, never thinking there could come a time when the trick no longer worked.
The Life and Times of Bernice Bing
A lesbian Chinese American painter, she defied definition, which is why I was so fascinated by her.
Inheriting an Autoimmune Disease and an Instinct for Survival
Science provides me with a vocabulary of illness, confirming what my body already knows: that it will never be the same
The Climate of Gender
On climate change, transitioning, gender, and the vanishing sweetness of maple trees.