The Reality of Finding a Therapist When You Are Marginalized
While therapy can be helpful for some, for others it can be hard to find therapists that are safe to work with.
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Sticks and Stones May Break Your Bones, but Words Can Really Hurt
People say words don’t hurt, but some words can do a lot of damage.
Musings on Gender: I was a Little “Girl”
A look at how history and how I was raised impact my idea of gender, as well as my own personal gender identity.
Dear Pam – A Letter on Mother’s Day
Dear Pam, It’s Mother’s Day. This is a day I once felt great pain over, but now I feel indifference. When was the last time we talked on a Mother’s Day? 2003 perhaps? It’s been years. I should have written this letter years ago, but I am not sure I…
Fighting Just to Exist as a Disabled Trans Person
So often disabled kids and LGBTQ kids are tormented, teased, and excluded. Some of them kill themselves. What would have happened if others were there for them?
Not Accepting Us Kills the LGBTQ Community
Some of my thoughts on what happened in Orlando. We could have prevented this tragedy.
In 2014, President Obama Did Something for LGBT Disabled Americans
For the first time in American history, the president acknowledged that LGBT disabled people exist, and have unique needs and issues that need to be addressed.
Healthcare is Only Nice When it is Accessible to All
A recent article on Mic reminded me of something I have spoken about many times before, but never with consideration to actual policy. The article explores the lack of care that disabled women receive in relation to mammograms, and how this disproportionately affects the rate of women with disabilities who…
Understanding the Complexities of Marvilegization on Oppressed Individuals
For many of us privilege and oppression are not mutually exclusive. I face multiple intersections of oppression personally. I am oppressed for being disabled both with physical and invisible disabilities. I am oppressed for being transgender. I face discrimination for being a quip (a queer crip). I grew up in…
Not Quite Good Enough…How Movies Like The Danish Girl Use The Trans Community
Transgender people are expected to support films that minimally include them, often by using tactics that pretend to actually include the community, as a means of deceiving them into said support.