Everything I’ve Written On Medium (updated every Sunday except this one)
Come with me and we’ll be in a library of pure imagination
The easiest way to support me is to read as much of my stuff as possible. Fortunately, I’ve got it all collected and categorized for you in this digital library.
I won’t hate you if you skip to the memes at the end first. As long as you come back up top for my memoir shorts :)
TABLE OF CONTENTS WHAT’S NEW MEMOIR SHORTS SHORT STORIES INTERVIEWS TRANSGENDER SOAPBOX DEAR CISTERS TRANSITIONING WITH A QUEER TRANS MOM TRAUMA, HEALING, AND RECOVERY POP CULTURE, MOVIES, TV, COMIC BOOKS STORYTELLING HACKS TRUE CRIME IN PUBLISHING FUN AND GAMES MEMES, MEMESELF, AND MIMES THE END (DAMN GIRL, THAT’S DARK) How to Support Your Girl (that’s me)
WHAT’S NEW
How Sex Works For Boys In Mental Institutions
The Same Person Without Hormones Vs With Testosterone Vs With Estrogen
Gender Hacks: The Transition Toolkit
Requiring A Doctor’s Note For Gender-Affirming Medical Care Is Stupid
Dance Lessons — Part 1 Dance Lessons — Part 2
Two Classic Comic Strips Reimagined On The LGBTQ Spectrum
The Far Side (Of The LGBTQ Spectrum)
Christopher Nolan’s INCEPTION Wouldn’t Exist Without These Three Movies
Transgender Doctor Jekyll And Mr. Hyde Is Coming To A Theater Near You
Kiefer Sutherland Improvised Audition In Bar, Snatched Cult Classic Film Role
MEMOIR SHORTS
Dear Diary: I Am Trash (surviving trans conversion therapy)
Dear Diary: I am Trash (the video essay)
I Was Today Years Old When I Understood My Family Sent Me to Trans Conversion Therapy
My Daily Routine In Trans Conversion Therapy Saved My Life
What Do I Do Now That The World Didn’t End? (…yet)
What I Am Not Is Not What I Am
That One Time my Beard Saved my Life
The Book I Risked My Job To Publish
SHORT STORIES
Burned into the Night (Queerly Trans)
INTERVIEWS
My first featured article at Script Magazine!!
Who tf is Stephenie Magister? (that’s me! a transgender success…ish story)
TRANSGENDER SOAPBOX
**** YOU!! Five Love Letters to Five Hateful People
What Joe Rogan Got Wrong About Michael Jackson
DEAR CISTERS (an advice column more like Dear Abbey than the Savage Lovecast…except trans)
Dear Cisters: Why does everyone keep telling me to stop JAQing off?
Dear Cisters: I’ve never seen JK Rowling hurt anyone, so why won’t you shut up about it?
Dear Cisters fan mail (YAY!!) from JK Rowling fans (uh-oh…)
Dear Cisters: Why do trans people get upset about the wrong things?
Dear Cisters: Why did a trans person block me when I just wanted to discuss their rights and safety?
Dear Cisters: What’s the big deal about calling them trans women?
Dear Cisters: What if I just hate how men look in dresses?
Ten Extremely Bigoted Questions Most People Ask Anyway (including you)
Dear Cisters: How do I get past whether my kid can stop being trans?
Why people are losing their minds about Harry Potter and JK Rowling AGAIN
Dear Cisters: How do I tell my child that Harry Potter’s mom abuses women and children?
Dear Cisters: Resorting JK Rowling
Dear Cisters: Has every trans person shown signs since childhood?
Dear Cisters: Ask your cis-gender friends this question TODAY
Dear Cisters: How do I get past wishing I had transitioned at a younger age?
Dear Cisters: How to ignore losers and harassers while practicing your trans voice
Dear Cisters: Is it okay to laugh at a man dressed as a woman if they aren’t trans?
Dear Cisters: Should cis writers tell trans stories?
Dear Cisters, you (probably) transitioned too
TRANSITIONING WITH A QUEER TRANS MOM
Gender Hacks: How To FEEL Your Transition
Cool Trans Videos On YouTube to Fill Your Downtime (Vol 1)
Top Ten Vocal Feminization Videos
Claim Your Gender As Boldly (And Fluidly) As Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
May Your Journey With Gender & Pregnancy Be As Fluid As Arnold Schwarzenegger’s
Does Trans You Need a Trans Mom Today?
Seven Great Reads to Get You Through Today’s Dysphoria
Gender Hacks: the Cookbook Method
Jobs with Six-Figure Salaries for Trans Folks (according to Reddit)
Dear Cisters: Fun Trans Voice Feminization Exercise (two magic words)
You’ve Got Me Feeling EMOTIONS (fun trans voice exercise)
A message from a queer trans mom
TRAUMA, HEALING, AND RECOVERY
All of My Articles On Being Raised By Narcissists (and put through trans conversion therapy)
Seven Quotes About Narcissistic Abuse Everyone Should Memorize
Is Someone Hurting You?!? Fast Phrases for Easy Boundaries
Writers for Hope Donor Spotlight
POP CULTURE, MOVIES, TV, COMIC BOOKS
Watch This Movie If You Loved The Good Place
Let’s Rewatch Iron Man (2008) With Mario As The Main Character
How To Literally Defend Yourself With A Book (the Ancient Art of BookShido)
Why THE VILLAGE (2004) is M Night Shyamalan’s Only True Horror Movie
If You Were Confused By DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS…
Why did Sunny in Hulu’s THE DROPOUT seem so familiar?
Which Character Did You Relate To Most In These 18 Movies?
Five TV/Movie Posters You’ll Wish Were Real (And Five You’ll Be Glad Aren’t)
Let the movie JUNO speak for trans men and non-binary people
CW (almost) SOLD! Superman and Lois could undergo potentially dramatic reimagining
I can’t believe ScreenRant let me publish these…
Did David Lynch secretly make a Superman movie?
Movies that make you go WTF?! (repeat viewings of Primer rewarded)
And the Oscar goes to…Benevolent Chauvinism
Three Stories about Ten Queer Girls (and two queer boys) Discovering Their True Power
Superman and Lois just gave a HUGE nod to Superman ’78 (and a bunch of other cool easter eggs)
The Greatest Anime Bible Story Ever Told (Superbook Classic Anime S1E3 “The Flood”)
The most offensive moment in THE BATMAN (2022)
The Movie that Sabotaged Sister Act 3
Additional Reading for Sister Act 3/Theodore Rex
The only reason you’re not watching IS IT CAKE?! is because you think it’s easy to tell if it’s cake
Superman said WHAT about Mental Health?!
The unproduced sequel to THE ROCK we’ll unfortunately never see
HEAT and the baked goods of a good genre mashup (AKA the last good movie Michael Mann ever made)
Brightburn does what the Snyderverse couldn’t (how to make sure your genre mashup doesn’t suck)
Is THE WHITE LOTUS a comedy or a tragedy?
THE (thematic) PLOT OF THE MATRIX 4 REVEALED!
COMMENTARY ON COMMENTARY: The Invisible Man (2020)
QUEER/TRANS RETELLINGS OF POPULAR CHARACTERS
Avengers: gEnderGame (Phase 1)
Wait…the Little Mermaid was trans?
Wait…Doctor Strange is non-binary?? (SPECIAL GUEST: non-binary literary agent Naomi Davis)
Wait…the Ancient One was trans? (MCU: Doctor Strange)
If you think Loki is evil, wait until you meet this guy
Wait…Batman is trans?? (the video)
Wait…Batman is trans?? (the article)
Elseworlds: What if Superman were trans?
STORYTELLING HACKS
Eight Things to Listen to When Writing (other than music and TV)
Buy This Book TODAY (So You Can Read It Tomorrow)
Six books you need to read NOW! (the seventh one isn’t mine)
The book I risked my job to publish
Dear Writers: Why you should rewrite your synopsis TODAY (it’s your most important selling tool)
Dear Writers (and haters): The Last Jedi is a masterclass on goals/motivations/conflicts
Dear Writers: How to grab your reader by the gut
Dear Writers: Just the Questions from the sci-fi/fantasy course
Dear Sci-fi/Fantasy Writers: Don’t write your book until you answer these questions
Dear Writers: Representation Matters More Than Whether A Story Is Good
Dear Writers: Unlock Your Book’s Secret Synopsis
Dear Writers: How to Write the Perfect Meet-cute
Dear Writers: How to Write (good) Character Conflict
Dear Writers: You 100% don’t understand your genre
Dear Writers: Why Genre Fiction is More Important Than Ever
Dear Writers: MINARI and the Break into Act II
Dear Writers: Three Tips to Write BCCs/Blurbs for Best-selling Books
Visceral Reaction Progressions: the secret to perfect pacing and deep POV
Dear Writers: Twelve Tough Storytelling Truths from Stephen King’s ON WRITING
Dear Writers: What makes a story feel true?
TRUE CRIME IN PUBLISHING
Does it matter whether Stephen King is a goddamn liar?
Does it matter whether your favorite writer is a goddamn liar?
How to fraudulently sue your publisher for millions (and win!!)
FUN AND GAMES
The Best Possible Video Game For THE FLASH Already Hit The Indie Best-Seller List
Super Mario Bros: What Does Your Favorite Power Up Say About Your Personality Type?
How To Win Monopoly Every Time (and lose your friends…every time)
Remember that stupid $#@!ing mobile game Flappy Bird? This other game is just like that!
MEMES, MEMESELF, AND MIMES
Ten New Trans Memes to Brighten Your Day
Ten More New Extremely Queer Memes
Twelve Extremely Confusing Gifs
Wait…Thanos invested in Theranos?
Wait…Thanos is running for President?
THE END (DAMN GIRL, THAT’S DARK)
Stephenie Magister is a transgender author, teacher, writing coach, business owner, and mother of one daughter in college (with three fur babies at home). Her work has been featured in Writer’s Digest, Script Magazine, and ScreenRant (offsite links). She uses her ten plus years of experience to empower diversity throughout media. She has served as a managing editor for magazines, an acquiring and developmental editor for USA Today best-selling and award-winning authors, and as a general media consultant helping storytellers in all formats find their voice and monetize their brand. She continues to run Stephenie Edits, serves as an editor for Impacting Millions and Inkers Con, and manages her Medium columns for Transgender Soapbox, Dear Cisters, and random quizzes to tell you what your favorite Mario Power Up says about your personality type.
