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2022

January

Voices in Time: Sylvia Rivera On Writing Distractions: FakeFriends Do the Work Before the Work Does You In On Being a Bad Writer Location Less Writing

2021

April

Unbearable Whiteness of Being

2019

December

Winging It Works?!?

November

Gender Confirming Gender Getting Nothing for That Deal Who Should STFU? On Regret

August

Body Words From the Past Curated Reading in Progressive Art & Culture ∙ No. 3

July

The Dildo Dilemma Curated Reading in Progressive Art & Culture • No. 2 Curated Reading in Progressive Art & Culture • No. 1 Just Red Vintage Ypsilanti Reflections Incense Hot Cross Buns on the Way Steampunk Spaceship Breckenridge Untitled Dvision Distortion

June

On Transsexual Metaphors At the Continental Club

April

Voices in Time: Sylvia Rivera Quote: Language Clouds with Power Tower

2018

November

How to Write 1.2 Million Words a Year Caveat Scriptor: Let the Writer Beware Scribler’s Paradise A Female to Male Transsexual Reflects on Gender and Biology Transsexual Intel on Wearing a Bow Tie Writing in and Out Images We, the Transsexuals Scribbler’s Paradise: 100% Effort You: A Transsexual Love Story Sincerely, Your Transgender Friend When a Beta Reader Says No

October

Do I Write What I Want to Read?

June

Wonderful, Radical Transsexual Acceptance

May

A Minimalist Guide to Gender - Transgender or Otherwise No One Talks About Murder Like They Talk About Transsexual Genitalia Call Me Enraged: Simplistic Transsexual Metaphors Be Daring: Love the Body You Have, Not the One You Want Off-Kilter Transsexuality: The Barrel of a Gun

2017

November

A Beautiful Form of Politeness

October

What’s up With Cisgender Anyway?

June

The Truth About Early Transgender Transition Transsexual Man Becomes the Subject of His Life Transgender and Bisexual Solidarity Transgender Gender Revolt (Nsfw Version) An Improved and Unusual Transsexual Origin Metaphor Transgender Super Hero/Ine Asks: What Do You Know About Gender? Transgender Short Story: The Sketchbook Project Transgender People: Your Unconditional Right to Creativity

May

In a Weird Way, Gender-Neutral Bathrooms Might Not Be Neutral Huge Gift for Transsexuals: Love

April

The Value of Unsurpassed Transgender Self-Love A Perspective on Transgender Memoir: Where to Start? The Bottom Line on Disclosing Our Transgender Histories Strange Bathroom Logic of Transgender Opponents The Secret to What Is Underneath (Transphobic) Shame Radical Acceptance: My Wonderful Transsexual Body Why I Might Not Tell You I’m Transsexual Simplistic Transsexual Transition Metaphors Breakthrough, Beautiful Transsexual Transition Metaphors Our Monumental Desire for the Binary Gender System Five Reasons Why You Should Write to Your Loved Ones

March

If You’re Transgender, Are You Unnatural?

February

A Fascinating Truth About Privilege Buddha Lives in Versailles & Dog Dung

2016

October

The Viewfinder Creativity Is a Marathon On Change and Self-Management Wanted: Intuition

2015

December

This One Trick Is at the Heart of Writing Verb Tense and Writing Fiction

November

One Cool Trick to Shift Points of View These 3 Words Will Improve Your Writing Guaranteed Writing Exercise, or Journalism

October

On Proper Word Choice We, the Narrators - Buddha in the Attic What Is Writing Practice? You, the Narrator and Participant - Sebastopol Sketches The Art of Revision Writing Exercise, or the Unreliable Third

September

You and She, the Narrators - a Hybrid Form The Big O: Mohsin Hamid Do This Exercise, or the Imperative You, the Narrator - Self-Help You, the Narrator - Bright Lights, Big City Point of View in Writing

August

Ursula Le Guin’s Advice: There Are No Recipes Reading Exercise: The How of Language How to Read Like a Writer Writing Exercise: The Reluctant I The Big O Is What It’s All About Are You Creating Easy or Creating Well?

July

How I Got More Out of My Writing Process A Confederate Flag Flew From a Northern House

May

Why You Should Copy Other Writers

March

I Got Hacked, Part 2 I Got Hacked Toni Morrison & Angela Davis - the Purpose of Freedom Twenty-Five Cent Words Toni Morrison & Alice Walker - There Are Only Black People The Duty of an Artist A FtM in a Pink-Ruffled Shirt Drives Into a Truck Stop Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea - Dunya Mikhail

January

Narcissism, Humility and Juiciness 3 A.M. Epiphany - a Great Writing Tool Are You a Book Marker? InTouch Magazine Is OutofTouch, and so Are We Duotrope for Better Writing Management Going Pro (Or I’m a Real Writer) The Right to Cause Offense Racial Sadist or Father of American Gynecology Read Better, Write Better

2014

September

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

June

Open City, by Teju Cole

February

The Forever Internet and Our Digital Identities

2013

September

Limits and Having a Thing for the Blue Suit

August

Terror Points the Way to Writing Fiction Transgender Memoir: The Ever-Present Memory Masculinity and the Feminism of Simplicity, Part Two Masculinity and the Feminism of Simplicty, Part One Fiction Friday: Rubyfruit Jungle Gratitude: Not Being Able to Write

July

Transsexual Stories: A Day in the Life of a Transsexual Transsexual Stories: You Can’t Have a Hysterectomy! Trans Publishing A Transsexual Man Dresses Himself Sex and Chronic Illness

June

It All Started With a Google Search Mastery Takes a Very Long Time There Is No Try Manners: Those Pesky Pronouns Memory and Imagination in Memoir A Day of Rest and Thanks Fun Friday - ? Me and the Rain A Me Beyond Me I Used to Give Up The Immorality of Messiness Washing by Hand and Other Vacation Adventures

May

Why Not Wash the House by Hand First Summer Pie Dis/Connected Relaxation The Plague of Plagiarism Cleaning Windows On Rejection and Moby-Dick, Expanded Pursuing Goals I’ve Created Gratitudes: Paella With Friends Radical Acceptance: The Universe Is in Us Intentional Practice: Creating a Framework for Good Habits Masculinity: What Does Self-Organizing Men Mean?

April

Gratitudes: The Value of Waiting If It Weren’t for the Last Minute Who Owns Social Justice? What’s My Gender Again, Part 3 What’s My Gender, Again? Part Two The Downsides of White Privilege Rules for Creatives Setting My Own Style Agenda I Suppose I Am a Grown-Up Man, Now Giving up Coffee, Almost What’s Underneath Everyone Was a Child Once How Can I Make Today the Best Day of My Life?

March

My First Year in Transition The Art of Doing Nothing Kids Mocking Adults The Aim of Life Dreams of a Life They Always Want the Writer to Work for Nothing (Nsfw) Time and Money Equals Why I Won’t Buy a $30,000 Car Limits Limit Me Today We Recycled the New Telephone Book It’s My Job to Pick up the Trash Random Acts of Kindness in a Pink, Ruffled Shirt The Adverb Is Not Your Friend Naps Are Fantastic On Disorganization, or When Things Get Away From Us Casey Legler - a Female Male Model Uncleared Curb Cuts

February

The Gym Terrified Me Parker Mill County Park Writing Historical Memory and Responsibility Who Decides Who Is Trans? Novel Writing - the Understory Gender Paradox, an Excerpt, Part 4 Gender Paradox: A Life, an Excerpt, Part 3 Gender Paradox: A Life, an Excerpt, Part 2 Gender Paradox: A Life, an Excerpt, Part 1 Gratitude As a Political Practice Our New Kitteh: Moxie Lessons Learned From a Bucket Rosanne Cash The R-Word Preparation Equals Safety

January

Perpetual Peak Experiences Hurt My Health The Day My Gender Failed Ypsilanti: A Winter’s Sunday Squash

2012

November

Radical Acceptance: Our Time Here on Earth Ypsilanti: Cbc Radio 2

October

Gratitudes: For Ms. H.

July

Intentional Practice: Focus on the Growing Heap An FtM Superhero Intentional Practice: What Roads Uplanned Await You?

June

Little Somethings: There Is No Age Limit for Riding After Transition: Hair Grows, Just Not Where I Wanted Gratitudes: I’m an Idiot Some of the Time After Transition: Shaving, or Drudgery Transition Is Hard It’s All About Me!

May

Tactics Versus Strategy

April

No Hope, No Fear: On Radical Acceptance On Radical Acceptance: We Waste Our Existence Growing Is Forever, and Thank the Goddess for That

January

Radical Acceptance: The Worst Betrayal Gratitudes: Snow Storming, Julie London and Perfidia Intentional Practice: Regret Analysis Ypsilanti: Archictectural Ruins at Gault Village Shopping Center

2011

November

Novel Writing: Completion Novel Writing: Hard Focus Intentional Practice: Constrained Choices, or the Work Uniform Novel Writing: The Novel Outline Radical Acceptance: With the Power Out, a Pencil Is In

October

Radical Acceptance: What to Do When the Me That I Was Isn’t the Me I Am, Anymore, or Regeneration Intentional Practice: Personal Guidelines International Practice: Large Cash Purchases and Final Choices Radical Acceptance: My Fear of Hunger Gratitudes: Confessions of a Feminist Nutritionist Gratitudes: A Glorious Fall Day Why I Write Radical Acceptance: My Work - Novel Writing Bad Weather Is Bad Preparation Web Realignment: Then and Now Web Realignment: (Re)Writing My About Page, a Stub, Part 2 Intentional Practice: Goodbye to All That iPhone Email Web Realignment: Feeling Naked or the Beginner’s Mind Web Realignment: (Re)Writing My About Page, a Stub Radical Acceptance: Being Here Now, the Hater Edition Gratitudes: F.R. Catalogues: Assets Death Is Very Likely the Single Best Invention of Life A Transsexual Death Gratitudes: Ms. H. Little Somethings: The Lost Kingdoms of Africa Gratitudes: Hugh McLeod Website Realignment: What the Heck Are These Transgender Cartoons Doing in My Life, Part 2

September

Website Realignment: What the Heck Are These Transgender Cartoons Doing in My Life?, Part 1 Radical Acceptance: Clothing Creativity: My First Story Book Intentional Practice: Nothing to Say About Anything Gratitudes: Writing Everyday Early Morning Ritual If You Accept Death, Fear Disappears Radical Acceptance: Embrace Actions Not Expectations My Eulogy Making Myself Irrelevant On Excavating My Own Heart The Odds of Being Human, on Gratitude This Breath, or Why Change Is Hard Finding Peace Within On Saying Nothing Managing the Irrelevant

2010

June

The FtM Thinks He Can Buy His Masculinity

March

Do You Make This Mistake As an FtM? Visit the Doctor Like a World-Class Trannie

2009

December

An FtM’s Dilemma

November

The Control Issue

October

Side Effects Include: Enhanced White Privilege

September

The FtM Butt Do You Like My Bulge?

June

The Real Reason Trannies Transition The Real Reason Gays Want Marriage

May

The FtM Gets No Satisfaction The FtM Is Shocked Radical Cootiest Feminist The FtM Makes a Declaration The FtM Receives a Compliment Queerspawn

April

It Take a Village Privacy Gender Is Theater Worship Me! My Body Is Wrong Hormones Can Save You The Tao of the Transition Story The FtM Plays God FtM Bromance The FtM Asks a Trick Question Which Came First The FtM Can’t Be Sexist

March

The FtM Loses His Gender The FtM Learns Something Shocking The FtM Keeps His Tools of the Patriarchy FtMs Find Meaning The FtM Lets You Know the Deal FtM Post-Phalloplasty Surgery Feel Free to Worship Me Mr Asshat Transsexual

February

The Final Femmethology Cartoons So What?

January

Back to life.

2008

June

Why I Became a Man

May

Gender: Drop Dead!

April

The Quantum Mechanics of a Pregnant Transman

2007

December

Unto Us a Son Is Born

November

Archives I Forgot

October

The Origin of His Problem A Short To-Do List

September

The Not Special Penis

July

You Know Your Wife Is Devoted When…

May

Where’s the Privilege? 20 Years on Testosterone post

April

post Imagine That Too Small Heteroflexible Pain

March

The Back of the Bus How Come Nobody Told Me Bottom Surgery I.D. Checker But I’m Trans Bow Tie or Balls? Something’s Wrong D.w.t.

February

What Happens Next

2006

November

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh….?

October

Is You a Feminist? It’s a Bird, a Plane….

September

Very Important Transgenders The Big Scary What Are the Questions?

April

Against Heteronormativity Trannier Than Thou

March

The Zen of Gender Getting What We Need Bothand

February

The Natural Arc of My Life Subsets of Transphobes Rights Answers to the Wrong Body Question My Squishy Brain Wishful Thinking Hormones Made Me Homophobic

January

Becoming a White Dude Arselicking Redux Barbie Made Me Do It! Privacy and Going Against Genre

2005

December

FtM on an Lgbt Panel Gender As Branding As Label Gender, Physical Movement, Permission and Waiting The Most Important Thing You Need to Know About Transgender

November

Using Gender to Get Into Our Bodies Of Man Pies, Anatomy and Identity The Number 1 Reason I Became a Man All Progress Depends on Transcatual! More FtM Blues

October

Performativity Schnormativity Conformity and Transsexualism Get It Right Future Artefact FtM Blues More on EDCs

August

Self-Publishing - Part 3