We have to take care of our people. That's our work now. And it's going to be a lot harder than it would have been if Clinton was in the White House.….

According to the media, trans women were subject to pain and punch lines. Instead of proclaiming that I was not a plot device to be laughed at, I spe….

Be stingy with your time and spend it in spaces that fill you up..

Self-definition and self-determination is about the many varied decisions that we make to compose and journey toward ourselves, about the audacity an….

What keeps me going is that quest for just being able to be present and be myself. Not for people, but for me..

No matter how discouraged I get from the people who are being appointed in this next administration, how discouraged I feel to know that I will no lo….

Your disrespect for me is apparent. You never respected me when I think about it and you never liked me. But I’m the parent and you’re the child and ….

My hope is that feminist, racial justice, reproductive rights and LGBT movements build a coalition that centers on the lives of women who lead inters….

We have to organize. We have to build up coalitions across all of these people who are considered "the other." If we all banded together and built co….

Femininity in general is seen as frivolous. People often say feminine people are doing “the most”, meaning that to don a dress, heels, lipstick, and ….

We have different experiences, but trans women have experiences that do parallel with the whole fabric of what womanhood is. Embracing trans women, l….

I am a trans woman. My sisters are trans women. We are not secrets. We are not shameful. We are worthy of respect, desire, and love. As there are man….

This pervasive idea that trans women deserve violence needs to be abolished. It’s a socially sanctioned practice of blaming the victim. We must begin….

He's trying to do info-tainment. He doesn't really want to talk about trans issues, he wants to sensationalize my life and not really talk about the ….

My most prized possession was my lanyard of Lip Smackers I tore it out of the confines of the paper package, which read “all the flavor of being a gi….

I believe that telling our stories, first to ourselves and then to one another and the world, is a revolutionary act. It is an act that can be met wi….

Our visibility shouldn’t be subject to such extreme circumstances..

My first book was about grappling with my identity and transitioning medically and socially as a young person. At that point, it hadn't been told yet….

Trans women of color dangerously fall in between the cracks of racial justice, feminist and LGbt movements..

It is not a woman’s duty to disclose that she’s trans to every person she meets. This is not safe for a myriad of reasons. We must shift the burden o….

Anytime that we - and when I say "we," I mean feminine people, trans feminine folk, women - do anything that is centered on our own pleasure or desir….