Spring seems hushedthis year. I’ve becomejust another they’ve usedto grow silence.They point at us,we who are abandoned,they say, Lookwhat comes from speaking.Better keep quietif you want to live. The thing about rageis its autonomy.It climbs, a separate being,from rib to rib, cracksthe bone to enter my sternum.Even on my best days,I can feel it risingupContinue reading “Another Wave”
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I’m Still Trans
Even when you make it illegal for me to talk about being trans. Even when you criminalize or deny me healthcare. Even when you ban me from playing sports. Even when you force me to use the wrong restroom. Even when you push me out of spaces, orgs, and work places. Even when I’m theContinue reading “I’m Still Trans”
Seeds
The boxelder bugs skitterfrom their winter closetsas I resist being beatenback into mine. Despiteeach blow, this thought:what is life withoutblossoms flexingin the sun, all that rainbow? And always death, like a cat, waitson the other side of doors.In winter, in tight stale spaces,it pounces on anything that moves.In spring, it leaves behind scatteredblossoms to rubContinue reading “Seeds”
Unity, They Say
They say they votedfor all women,and I wonderif they did their homework because Amy Coney Barrett because 2 women who won locallywrote anti-trans billsmaking national headlines. They keep calling forUnity. They keep asking meto take my oppressors’ hands.Every electionthey hurry the cameras pastthose marching for justiceand take pictures of themselvessqueezing another chair inat their table,aContinue reading “Unity, They Say”
What Cancer Takes: A Trans Perspective
“when I introduce myselfI want to write in pauses with the momentsthat people see me and they see mewholethe moments they pause with mein unison, solidarityof my true identity…” – Fabian Romero, from “My Name,” Troubling the Line “you try to remember the first time you said i’m sorrywhen you should have said fuck you.Continue reading “What Cancer Takes: A Trans Perspective”
The Final Silence: Cancer Walks 