In Thebes, the origin story of Atum the Creator involved Earth and sky's division into Seth & Nephthys, a third gender; both non-binary, by nature. In Greek and Roman antiquity, there ruled a Goddess named Cybele, whose followers transitioned, famously, from male into females. Ugandans, once upon a time, raged against restrictive gender norms, as priests and Teso tribesmen preferred prints made for the women in their homes Adoration filled the eagle-eyed Indigenous tribes in pre-colonial times, as they celebrated sacred two-spirits who enhanced their lives. Hijras have existed, in India, for as long as the festival of lights, but it wasn't until this century that they earned economic rights. When Joyita Mondal was elected India's first transgender judge, bangles clinked in thunderous applause. Determined to aid her sisters, she abolished trans-exclusionary laws. Throughout the his and hers-tory of the world to date,...
Accident-prone yet bulletproof, resilience courses through my veins. After pulling shrapnel from my own hell-bent self-destruction, all I was left with was me. Through embracing my darkness, I found the light. Here lives a collection of poetry, prose, and reflections on trauma, survival, desire, and becoming.