QUEERLY TRANS
Friday Highlights in Queerly Trans (May 13, 2022)
Reflections on trans happiness, sexuality, masculinity and abortion
This has been another week full of a wide range of insights at Queerly Trans. Thank you to everyone who keeps this publication growing through your support, writing, and reading!
💜 Victoria Quinn 💜 has given us a sometimes dark and steamy glimpse into her journey towards happiness and sexual satisfaction served with a side of impressive alliteration.
It seems a theme, my meticulous masturbatory memories, as I’ve continued to expound, in ever effusive earnest, explicit interest in exclusive elation. And so it should come as no shock that one obsessed with la petite mort should also devote to death.
Jymi Cliche delivered a raw and powerful trans man’s perspective on abortion that I wish I could assign as required reading to all Americans and especially all United States Supreme Court justices right now.
I did take Plan B once…I was close to forty years old, living as a male for about fifteen years, taking testosterone and a big pile of pills for arthritis and mental health symptoms. I’m in poor physical shape and am agoraphobic. I’m on limited income due to my disability and the person I had sex with was not someone who I could raise a child in a healthy environment with. Even if I gave up the child for adoption, they’d have all kinds of severe problems due to what I would be passing onto them…
Alistair J. Kraft shared some strangely validating experiences of masculinity felt through the words and presence of a group of women friends in this unique and entertaining piece.
But last night was the first time it really sank in that, though I -know- a fair bit about the experience of “being a woman,” it was all theoretical in the end. It was doing research for a big project, studying for a role that never quite touched me. I know about the experience, but I don’t -understand- it fully.
Don’t forget to check out our first Quintessentials Writer’s Showcase to see what our writers really want you to read!
Be sure to comment with what you would like to have featured next month as well.
Thank you KP_the_writer for this recognition and encouragement as I reached a special milestone of my own! I hope to use my growing platform to draw attention to important writings in our communities.
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For this week’s Reader’s Showcase of great writings about queer trans experience found on Medium, I would like to highlight this beautiful writing by Zulimar Ayur:
My body and spirit became a fighting ground where I desperately tried to put the fire out. I put myself through mental hell for a decade of my life as a child out of the fear of my transness. I had no vocabulary for how I was feeling, not in Arabic or in English. The only words I knew were Arabic slurs. They cut deep, deeper than I would have liked to admit at the time. I didn’t want to be burnt by the fire everyone was telling me I shouldn’t have had in the first place.
Sieran Lane has recommended this touching piece by Brandon about his experience as the cis partner of a trans boyfriend. It shows some of what he discovered about the queer trans experience by listening.
When my partner read my previous piece about dysphoria triggers, he was annoyed that he’d come across as a bit of a cry baby. As such, I promised that my next piece would show that cis men can be just as emotional. So, here we are: A post about the lump in my throat and the plummeting of my heart in emotional turmoil at something he once said to me.
Be sure to let us know in the comments what readings you have discovered around Medium that you would like us to share about queer trans experience! We’re always looking for new perspectives to share!
That’s it for this week! Don’t forget to follow and subscribe to Queerly Trans, so that you never miss any of our fantastic stories, poems, and artwork!
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
