When I was younger, I remember taking pride in people’s well-meaning remarks: You’re so lucky that no one would ever know! or You don’t even look like a guy! or Wow! You’re prettier than most ‘natural...
When I think of identity, I think of our bodies and souls and the influences of family, culture, and community - the ingredients that make us. James Baldwin describes identity as the garment with whic...
Self-definition has been a responsibility I’ve wholeheartedly taken on as mine. It’s never a duty one should outsource. Of this responsibility, writer and poet Audre Lorde said, If I didn’t define mys...