This is me, a first grader, and I want to write about something very important ( Read more... )

So someone on Facebook posted the question WHICH CONSPIRACY WOKE YOU UP??

And people were replying with their initial confrontations with entrenched ideologies. Situations where the masks got ripped off and they saw things as they actually were and got radicalized over it.

For me, it was adulthood. I was a child. The ideology was that adults had ( Read more... )

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He never wears skirts or dresses to school because he says they aren't comfortable for dodgeball, which is another thing Birdie likes. Even still, most people do notice that Birdie doesn't dress like most boys. But his pink and purple shirts, rainbow shoes, and leggings covered in pink donuts, and everything else, have ( Read more... )

"Is it possible to raise your child entirely without gender from birth?"

The question is the title of an article by Alex Morris, a contributing editor for New York Magazine and Rolling Stone. It's not a question of his own posing, though; he's reporting on the fact that some parents have been contemplating that question, and how they're ( Read more... )

In my blog post of two weeks ago I wrote that I'd been mulling over the possibility of marketing my book as something akin to "Nice Guy Testifies & Tells His Side of the Story ( Read more... )

"I'm a girl, that's my gender; I'm male, that's my sex; I'm attracted to females, that's my orientation." That's the thumbnail version of me coming out, that's me doing it short 'n snappy ( Read more... )

There are two recurrent and interrelated comments or lines of thought that have cropped up quite often over the years in which I've been trying to do this:

• What is it that you hope to accomplish? What's your goal, your ideal outcome, if your efforts were to succeed?
• Why do we need to identify and "have liberation" for this or that specified ( Read more... )