For trans and non-binary people, self-care starts with finding your environment, your home. When it comes to self-care, finding sources online will often lead to blogs focused on cisgender people, and doesn’t provide anything for self-care techniques aimed at those within the transgender and gender non-conforming communities. Self-care is not easily accessed by communities where...
Author: Serena Sonoma (Serena Sonoma)
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Title IX is Harming Transgender Youth: Here’s What We Can Do
If our youth don’t feel safe in our society, then what kind of society are we? According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, suicide rates and tendencies for TGNC youth are at an all time high. When compared with the general population, risk for TGNC youth range higher, between 32%...
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30 Tips from Trans and Gender Nonconforming People on How Cisgender Folks Can Be Better Allies
In understanding the way power dynamics work in favor of cisgender people, those who are allies for the TGNC community should take care to better understand the ways in which they can support us. Navigating my trans identity isn’t an easy task. Our community is constantly under attack by legislators who are hell-bent on stripping...
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Five Non-Binary People On Their Favorite Parts of Transitioning
Even within the LGBTQIA community, non-binary issues are largely misunderstood, or ignored altogether. “There were days I felt like a girl and days I felt like a boy, and those days wouldn’t always correspond with the body I was in. I still believed everyone when they said I had to be one or the other....
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10 Perspectives on Advice for Trans Youth
Although visibility has come far in the trans and gender non-conforming community, it is important that we keep our youth in mind. Navigating my gender identity as a transgender woman has been an arduous yet fulfilling journey. I grew up during a time when trans visibility wasn’t gaining the traction that we see today. As...
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8 Non-Binary People on What Society Should Learn About Gender
We have to deconstruct what we have been taught about the gender binary, and that is why non-binary visibility is pivotal in the fight for both transgender and non-binary rights. In 2014, TIME magazine, dubbed the year, ‘The Transgender Tipping Point’. But what does that entail? Indeed, the focus on the transgender community has become...
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Keaton Jones, Ashawnty Davis and the White Supremacist Limits of Empathy
We live in a society where empathy and compassion is limited for Black, Indigenous, and children of color and it is instead reserved to white children, who only have agency due to their white privilege, period. It’s hard not to look at the viral video of Keaton Jones, an elementary school boy, looking straight into...
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6 Trans And Non-Binary Creatives Describe Their Paths To Success
Wear Your Voice interviewed 6 trans and non-binary (NB) artists, in hopes that others will gain the confidence to know that they are not alone. Navigating spaces has never been easy for transgender and non-binary people who have to go through the hurdles of various forms of discrimination in the workplace, finding romantic partners, using...
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Feminism 101: A Cheat Sheet on Sexism, Misogyny, Misogynoir and More
When it is all said and done, both male and female identified people need feminism. From ‘Ain’t I a Woman’ by Sojourner Truth to “Who Run the World” by Beyonce, feminism is a word that sparks contrasting feelings globally. And depending on which country you are living in, feminism can often be dangerous. Take Malala...
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Myth-Busting: Trans Women Aren’t Tricking Cis-Hetero Men Into Sex
“That moment is indicative to a lot of the street harassment that I have had to endure, and that street harassment started, first because these men found me attractive, because I’m a woman. And then they realized that I was trans and it became something else.” – Laverne Cox Whenever transgender women are discussed in...