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AH-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 […]

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The 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 […]

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The Problem With Cis-to-Trans Fan Art and Headcanons

By Artist Levi van Wyk:
I feel that if a transgender person states that they do not agree with something transgender-related, which was created by someone outside of the transgender community, they should be respected, instead of attacked. A lot of transgender individuals on these groups mentioned that they usually get attacked by cisgender individuals, and told that they house “internalized transphobia”.

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Toward 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, […]

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Lessons of Leadership: A Review of TRANS/ACTIVE

Lynnea Urania Stuart   Committees are already gathering worldwide.  Their members, planning the next International Transgender Day of Remembrance (ITDOR, or simply, TDOR), take various approaches to what has become the international trans community’s most sacred event.  For planners and speakers, the new paperback, TRANS/ACTIVE: A Biography of Gwendolyn Ann Smith should be required reading. […]

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