By Lynnea Urania Stuart How did I survive all this? When I look back on all the times I could have died in obscurity, I can’t help but think that some uncanny intelligence intervened. Is it God? Is it the universe? Or does this intelligence even cater to individual understanding? I don’t think so. […]
Read MoreAH-CHOO! Interdict That Rhinovirus Before It Ruins Your Makeup
By Lynnea Urania Stuart Admit it. You’ve been held hostage. It can happen every year when chills remind you that it isn’t summer anymore, and especially when you have an upcoming gig in a drag show or a speaking engagement like the quintessentially cold and drippy International Transgender Day of Remembrance. Ignore it and you […]
Read MoreThe Machine and the Circus: Why Caitlyn’s Not Going Away
By Lynnea Urania Stuart It’s too easy to say she knows not what she does. Caitlyn Jenner has come to be known as much for a litany of missteps as her record of athletic heroism. She’s also terrified of them, as much a child of image as of privilege, evident in her confession that she […]
Read MoreToward a Global Trans-Spiritual Community: Remembering Historical Figure, Holly Boswell
By Lynnea Urania Stuart Fifteen… sixteen… seventeen… We’ve become accustomed to counting. We’ve come to expect the passing of the next transperson as a result of violence. But Holly Boswell passed differently this August. The cause of her death isn’t known to us. But for those of us who have watched her over the years, […]
Read MoreThe Inner Madness of Cookies and Milk: Learning from Baiting at Charlottesville
By Lynnea Urania Stuart There’s a silly but useful rhyme I think you’d enjoy. It’s easy to learn: Eanie Meanie Slimy Schmo, Catch a Nazi in his crow. If he hollers, make him grow; Eanie Meanie Slimy Schmo, I want you to learn this rhyme because I know you can’t say it […]
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