 On day 26 of #TransLoveNov, I send love to Trans*H4CK. Created by Dr. Kortney Ryan Ziegler, Trans*H4CK utilizes the creation of technologies to economically empower and improve the lives of trans and gender nonconforming people, while increasing the visibility of trans and gender nonconforming tech innovators and entrepreneurs. For example, from the Trans*H4CK that was hosted in Chicago, RAD Remedy was born, a resource dedicated to connecting trans, gender nonconforming, intersex, and queer folks to accurate, safe, respectful, and comprehensive care. Colleges and universities with resources and investments for queer and trans inclusion in STEM should seriously consider collaborating with Kortney to host a Trans*H4CK on their campus.
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On day 25 of #TransLoveNov, I send love to TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Providing "a high-profile venue for innovative research and scholarship that contest the objectification, pathologization, and exoticization of transgender lives," TSQ is an interdisciplinary journal that fills a massive gap in the academic world. The journal puts academia in conversation with artists, activists, scholars, and diverse trans communities around the world. Topics covered include decolonization, critiquing political economy, trans biopolitics, trans pedagogies, and more. The first issue has become my go-to for citing terminology that much of the cis academic world does not recognize, giving our evolving language legitimacy and historicity.
With love and in solidarity #TransLoveNov  On day 24, I send my love to Original Plumbing. OP was the first magazine I came across that focused on trans male people, views, and aesthetics. The brain child of photographer Amos Mac and performer Rocco Kayiatos, OP comes out quarterly and adds a dash of beauty and gentleness into the zine world, along with a few cute hats and shirts to sport in between issues. I have every single issue so far and am looking forward to getting the next one (#18 on bathrooms) in the mail soon.
With love and in solidarity #TransLoveNov  The final week of #TransLoveNov goes to all the amazing cultural artifacts and technologies that brilliant trans and gender nonconforming people are creating for ourselves and our kin. The first day of that week has to go to Her Story, the amazing and groundbreaking web series looking inside the dating lives of trans women - you can watch the first season for free on YouTube. They were nominated for this year's Emmy for Outstanding Short Form Drama or Comedy Series and won Best Drama at the New York TV Festival. Since then Angelica Ross has appeared on The Daily Show highlighting her creation of Trans Tech Social Enterprises and also won Best Actress (Drama) at the New York TV Festival. Both Angelica and Jen Richards will be appearing in Laverne Cox's new show Doubt, and Jen will also be joining Nashville when the new season starts up in 2017. I can't wait to see all the works-in-progress these two have going right now!
With love and in solidarity #TransLoveNov  On day 22 of #TransLoveNov, I send my love to Adam. Adam is one of those amazingly special individuals who loves deeply, gives great hugs, lets you crash on his couch on the regular, and makes the best chais. He's one of those people that doesn't befriend or defriend out of popularity, but out of care and self-care. Thank you for your friendship Adam. And the chais.
With love and in solidarity #TransLoveNov  On day 21 of #TransLoveNov, I send my love to S. Dr. S Simmons has been part of my Chicago and doctoral journey from the beginning. Actually, from right before it really started as S was assigned as my "buddy" during the application process. Since then we've written together, started the T*Circle Collective and organized our first convening this past March, and defended our dissertations. S's dissertation is the first study about the experiences of trans and gender nonconforming student affairs practitioners. S works at the University of Illinois Chicago's Gender and Sexuality Center and dappers up the world with bowtie tying workshops! S is my comrade, my brother, my friend.
With love and in solidarity #TransLoveNov  Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. Today I send my love to all my trans sisters of color, to #girlslikeus, to the sisters we've lost and the sisters we love, to the sisters we forget about and the sisters that lead us, the sisters that love us and the sisters who can't stand us. Bless each and every one of you for the blessings you bring into our lives, into the lives of your families and loves, into the lives of youth that may or may not know their futures are made better because you are here today.
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On day 19 of #TransLoveNov, I send my love to my brown bois. In March 2013, I got to be part of a cohort of brown bois participating in the Brown Boi Project's Leadership Retreat. My life was changed forever that week on. I found a space where for the first time in my almost-32-years-by-then life I felt whole and loved in that wholeness. I found another family. And I found purpose. That week is single-handedly responsible for me deciding to investigate transmasculine college students' conceptualizations of masculinity. Some days, being a brown boi and being a part of the Brown Boi Project is really hard for all kinds of reasons. But I am not alone in that hard place, I am among many committed to radically changing our worlds and our ways of being.
With love and in solidarity #TransLoveNov  On day 18 of #TransLoveNov, I send my love to Melvin Antoine Whitehead. Melvin and I were both in college at the same time in Michigan, but he went to the other school. Through mutual friends and mutual loves for brunch, books, and doing work with LGBTQ students on college campuses, our friendship has grown over the years. He just started his doctoral journey at the University of Georgia and I cannot wait for the groundbreaking research and advocacy he will be producing with and for LGBTQ community college students. Miss his face!
With love and in solidarity #TransLoveNov  On day 17 of #TransLoveNov I send my love to my boi Blue! I'm lucky that I met Blue almost as soon as I got to Chicago and we've been bois since. Blue has really been there for me through some pretty intense times lately and I'm not sure what I would have done without him. He is currently in his second year at the University of Chicago getting his MSW, and he's going to be an amazing asset for his current and future clients. Also, Pokemon GO-ing is a helluva lot more fun together!
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