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Am I not cis-gendered? This is very weird for me to own up to. I… do? identify as genderqueer? Usually I just like to go with “queer” and have that count for everything. “I am not cis-gendered,” seems weird because I identity with women;…

I think I accidentally came out as masculine-leaning genderqueer to my mom yesterday, and it went really well!

Some background: I'm home for a couple days for jury duty and am staying at my mom's place. We got called for jury duty at the same…

The culture would have us believe that gender comes naturally for some people. I have my doubts, but it’s possible that my own struggle has just made me cynical. What I do know is that gender and its cousin sexuality have been a source of…

You wake up and open your eyes. It's a new day. When you get up and go to the bathroom sink, you feel something against your leg. Looking down, it confirms it, you're a man. You're not sure what to do-you remember just yesterday being a woman. You…

This was written for the HackGender project, which is still accepting submissions until midnight tonight!

I had another one of those conversations last week; after work, over a few glasses of wine with the cast and crew, a guy turned to me and…

This year has been such a tremendous time of self discovery for me, and I wanted to write this post on how I came to the identity that most fits for me, that of a genderqueer “boy.”

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This time last year most people would have seen…