It's a Living
Transfeminine nightmare, the need to fight, and the screaming earth in Aoife Josie Clements' "Persona"
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The Comfort In Being Sad
Could Kurt Cobain have been a trans woman? The question probably matters more than the answer.
Everything Is Liv Agar
A poetic inquiry into an enigma
Exile in Guyville
On the brainworm called misandry, transfeminine contempt for cis women, and the greatest repper essay ever written.
Samus Being a Woman Isn't Even the Most Trans Thing About Metroid
It's everything
TFW You Want Him to Love You
On liking men and Natalia Catalan's album "Die Without Makeup"
The Million Moving Shapes and Cul-De-Sacs of Shadow
On the other side of New England gothic and Pia-Paulina Guilmoth's photography collection "flowers drink the river".
A Fucked Concept
Emily Zhou's debut short story collection demystifies life among the overeducated, underpaid NYC trans women you envy online.
Bad Influences
Neil Gaiman, Amanda Palmer, and the seductive nihilism of the gothic feminine aesthetic
A Bushwick Version of The Divine Comedy
For the third chapter of Castration Movie, Louise Weard relocates to New York and doubles down on her painfully necessary satire of 21st century transfeminine life.
Revenge of the Repressed
Paul Reubens and the queer romance of the "false self".
On Wanting to Be Killed
A journey into Alex Walton's fevered and brilliant indie rock imagination.
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Lost in Space
On fifth grade, youthful cross-dressing, uncontrollable tween anxiety, inspiring female villains, and the time my body tried to destroy itself.
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Deadbeats and Dropouts
Canadian filmmaker Louise Weard's slow-burning "Castration Movie" is already a masterful work of trans cinema, and it's only half done.
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I Saw the TV Glow... and All I Got Were These Bad Vibes
Jane Shoenbrun's trans-coded psychedelic psychodrama is a masterpiece of atmosphere, but it's also a solipsistic bummer.
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This Unique Trans Loneliness Eats Away at Me... and I Love It
A bit of memoir, followed by a book report on Jennifer Espinoza's "I Don't Want to Be Understood"