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Is It Self-Care, or Is It Capitalism?

By Ijeoma Oluo — 2021

So many of the little rituals I have each day—like my makeup or skincare routine—do help soothe and/or rejuvenate me. For me, any type of solo practiced routine is good. But I’ve learned that self-care does not, and cannot, sustain me. And I believe that this may be the case for many of you.

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An Introduction to Transgender Well-Being

It is important to note that every person’s gender journey is unique.

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Christy Olezeski
2022
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What I should have done when my 12-year-old told me he was transgender

Now, five years later, this is blindingly obvious to me – and my son has become the happiest I’ve seen him since he was a child.

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Carolyn Tate
2022
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How Wrestler Mack Beggs Found a Higher Calling as a Trans Activist

In 2018, high school wrestler Mack Beggs made international headlines with a photograph showing him performing a winning move against an opponent in the Texas State girl’s wrestling tournament.

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Mack Beggs, as Told to Sydney Bauer
2021
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How Lorenza Bottner’s Prescient Art Created Space for Disabled and Trans People

At Documenta 14, the 2017 edition of the touted art festival that takes place once every five years in Kassel, it was an artist heretofore unknown to much of the art world who stole the show: Lorenza Böttner, a German painter, dancer, and performance artist who, in the ’80s and ’90s, began...

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Alex Greenberger
2021
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‘Perhaps Life Would Be Easier if I Shaved, But Why?’

When I told my family I was trans, one of their initial reactions was, “But you’re so hairy! It’s going to be so difficult to remove all your hair to be a woman, so you should just give up.” They were zeroing in on my body hair as the barrier for me to be seen as feminine.

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Alok Vaid-Menon
2019
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‘Are You Ready to Heal?’: Nonbinary Activist Alok Vaid-Menon Deconstructs Gender

In a viral clip from the podcast “Man Enough,” the nonbinary poet and speaker said the gender binary hurts everyone—not just trans people.

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Jo Yurcaba
2021
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The Renegades

Queer culture and the arts would be much poorer without the presence and contribution of butch and stud lesbians, whose identity is both its own aesthetic and a defiant repudiation of the male gaze.

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Kerry Manders
2020
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With ‘No Fats, No Femmes,’ Fatima Jamal Aims for More than Just Visibility and Representation

“Representation and visibility is given to us by larger power structures, but what do we give ourselves? I’m more interested in that. What questions are we asking ourselves to grow and heal? To challenge the ways this world constantly teaches us to hate ourselves?”

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Tre’vell Anderson
2020
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Opinion: Where in the Bible Does It Say You Can’t Be Transgender? Nowhere.

What’s behind this animus toward transgender people in the Christian community? As I see it, it’s not the Bible.

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Eliel Cruz
2016
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People of Faith Are Increasingly Vocal Supporters of Transgender Justice

For many people of faith, the motivation to fight against transgender discrimination in public policy comes from their religious identities, not despite them.

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Claire Markham, Tracy Wolf
2017
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