Brooklyn Baggett

Zoë Dunning Trans Elder The average life expectancy For trans people is 35 Due to violence and suicide   My future vision is blurry I can see fuzzy outlines Shadows taking shape   I see a face crumpled in sorrow…

Trevor Rizor Trans Day of Remembrance I weep thinking of the loss. The loss of human life. Trans day of remembrance is a hard day. One that makes someone ponder.   These lives matter. These lives have meaning and deserve…

Gabriel Noel THE BODY AS A TOOL FOR VIOLENCE  each morning I wake up & wonder which part of  my body has become a land mine.   yesterday, my mouth. the taste of ash coated my tongue, eating holes through…

Hank Cunnington four score a deep sense of rage bubbles beneath the surface             not quite strong enough to spill over into clouds of steam and smog but enough to erupt at the slightest hiss…

C. Show State-Enforced Gender I.   friends are sharing DIY HRT posts typing out – Death before Detransition – wondering how quickly Huckabee Sanders will declare us trans teachers have to use words that align(according to the State)with our genitalia…

Aubry Threlkeld untitled For a month I avoided my father he called I called he called he called he called I called he called he called he called I called I called he called   as we shouted at each…

Liam Strong cryptozoological evidence bears witness to wounded enbie, reports say it’s easier if i disclose what i am up front, easiest if you do the work for both of us to decide for yourself. transparency isn’t key, but wants…

Adrian Parrish They debate our existence on political talk shows, in congressional bills, they try to regulate  where we can piss, what kind of medical assistance  we are allowed to receive,  they silence our stories, hoping we will disappear.   …

Morgan Jenson Not My Amerikkka

Ran Brady 11.06.24 We do not sleep.   She keeps up with the polls; I smoke until I’m on the couch.   She lets me pretend until 1am, when the votes seem sure, then we begin our planning.   Where…