Friday Highlights at Queerly Trans (June 10, 2022)

This week was short, but sweet!

If you haven’t had a chance to read all of these great pieces about queer trans representation already, be sure to check them out! We’ve got you covered for finding great reading for Pride Month!

“We asked out Queerly Trans writers to submit their favorite posts celebrating queerly trans representation so that we could gather them here in our first monthly WRITER’S SHOWCASE.”

…And for July, KP_the_writer is collecting your best fiction! If you don’t have a favorite fiction writing yet, now is the time to get your imagination flowing with Pride! Help us add more queerly trans representation to short story fiction, poetry, and more!

This week, Stephenie Magister zeroed in on things that can help trans people experience all of the more warm and fuzzy parts of our journeys, with a long list of great ideas in “Gender Hacks: How to FEEL Your Transition”!

“I’d like to offer you what I think are NINETEEN pretty cool ways that may help you feel Euphoria, but I feel it’s the final one that pulls it all together for a big transition finish…”

This week’s nominations for the Queerly Trans Reader’s Showcase

For my own Reading Showcase nomination, I wanted to nominate a heartfelt platonic love letter from F.B. Faery called “Things I’ve Learned From a T4T Friendship”. It is full of adoring protective energy that is incredibly sweet.

“In the mornings when I wake up I know that this level of self confidence is probably unachievable, but even then I cling to the comfort of knowing that in this moment she does like herself, and knows how much I like her. I take my feelings and cast them into bullets inside my heart ready to protect her from anything, anyone that might ever try to take that away.”

Sieran Lane nominated I. J.’s fascinating investigation into what makes us characterize ourselves as belonging to a specific gender(s): “Can You “Feel” a Gender?”. Is it really a “feeling” or something more than that? How do we explain this to cis people who have never shared our varied experiences as trans people?

But for a person who lives in the United States, for instance, feeling like a woman must mean that there is a distinct kind of immutable human nature that gets labeled as “woman” within our society. But what, precisely, does that immutable human nature consist of?

Do you have a reading that you’d like to nominate for next week’s Queerly Trans Reader’s Showcase? Be sure to share it in the comments section! We’re always looking for great writings to promote from around Medium.

Want to write for us?

Check out our guidelines here:

“Our writers are queerly trans and non-binary spectrum gender-fuckers who have a unique understanding of the experience of ‘coming out twice’ (or more). They want to uplift and help those on the cusp of self-discovery and acceptance. They share their own silenced voice and raise the voices of other queerly trans folx.”

That’s it for this week!

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Editors: KP_the_writer, Logan Silkwood

Writers: Ayven Alexander, Kai Arden, locke besse, Jymi Cliche, Justice Faye Dazzle, Nova Grace, Jaz Joyner, Emma Holiday, Alistair J. Kraft, Sieran Lane, Mx. Marie Chase Lewis (Fae/They), Stephenie Magister, Michelle Paquette, Amber Poe, Jenny Starr✨, Kai Stowers, 💜 Victoria Quinn 💚, Kristy Westaway, Anabelle Weissinger, Kitty Whitemore