Aug
31
No, I don't want to be 'positive' about my tits
If gender is a performance, why is the costume so uncomfortable?
7 min read
Quinn Rhodes
Aug
03
In search of: trans rest
Educating cis people at the expense of my own emotional wellbeing can wait.
9 min read
Jun
09
How to build a boy
I’m piecing myself together, unpicking the person everyone thought I was. I sometimes wonder if my 18-year-old self would recognise me now.
7 min read
Apr
23
Am I mentally ill *because* I'm queer?
Short answer: no. Long answer: kind of, maybe?
8 min read
Mar
24
Making my body more visibly queer
Trans people have always existed, even when people have tried to erase us from history.
8 min read
Feb
26
I think this is grief
How are we expected to keep going as though trans kids dying isn’t exactly what politicians and anti-trans campaigners wanted to achieve with these laws?
7 min read
Feb
11
If being trans was a choice, I'd still choose it
It’s existing in a transphobic society that is painful. Being trans itself is not. Being trans – to me at least – is joy.
7 min read
Jan
28
Cry like a boy
Cis men’s tears can cost them their admission to masculinity, and trans men face far more scrutiny over our gender than they do.
7 min read
Jan
14
Testosterone isn't why men are violent
I knew with absolute certainty that I wanted to start testosterone. But a small part of me was afraid that the hormones that could save my life would also turn me into someone my old self would have been scared of.
10 min read
Nov
18
Dear Quinn: why do you describe your sex as 'male'?
I call myself male because I am not interested in upholding the false binary of ‘biological sex’ that is used to oppress and discriminate against trans people.
9 min read