I share real world examples of why I believe the trans community uses empathy as a powerful tool to combat transphobia and promote self-love.
This is a piece I wrote in desperation after being confronted with the failures of the foster system in the United States today.
Ethology is a highly fictionalized ethnographic account of my travels around Tanzania, East Africa during my teens.
"I’m Pinkie, the brash I don’t give a fuck alter ego of Renata Ferdinand. I am emerging from the shadows, and blissfully, with my own column."
This article is a prequel to ongoing research into DIY Healing Within Ancestral Lands. A project born of growing up in a family system that was not kind, welcoming or loving.
This work is part of a larger ethnography of scars, one that addresses the intersection medicine, religion, and body politics in (among other places) Nebraska.
On Emerging Liberated of the Glass Box Author’s Memo Like many others in the American South, I began my teens...
Written by a white, cisgender, male yoga practitioner and newly qualified teacher from a working-class, Northern English background, this account seeks to elucidate upon how the issues noted may manifest.
Within the context of this poem, I tried to explain what was happening to my body because of SLE and what I was thinking.
My essay tells my life story in relation to a specific moment in the history of American women’s access to abortion and reproductive justice.
In my short story, “Cubicle,” a student filmmaker discovers loneliness, absurdity, and cruelty in the halls of Corporate America—but also finds his artistic voice.
The Resistant Analysand: A Memoir Author’s Memo My memoir is about my growing up as the daughter of a Freudian...