Becoming is the action that births our womanhood, rather than passive act of being born (an act none of us has a choice in). This short, powerful sta….

Desire, and the ways in which men perform their masculinity and feel as if they can take up space and say anything about your body, have always been ….

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.….

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

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….

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….

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….

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….

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….

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 ….

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

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….

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….

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..

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….