Trans and LGBTQIA+

March 31st each year is a day to celebrate the contributions of trans people to our lives and to our culture. Trans women and femmes of color have made major contributions to the Gay Civil rights movement, playing a large part in the Stonewall uprising.…

Alright, a frequent question that I get from people is why I have my pronouns listed when I am not trans, or why I may use the term partner for my husband. So, lets tackle the pronouns question first. If we normalize giving pronouns at…

  Depersonalization is a form of dissociation. It is an experience of being detached or disconnected from one’s body. This may be feelings as though you are an outside observer of your thoughts and feelings. Feeling robotic. The experience of standing outside of yourself observing…

    Gender presentation is the way a person presents themselves to the world in a gendered fashion.  As noted above, this may include the type of clothes that they wear, how they wear their hair (style, color, length), how they talk (pitch of their…

If only this was a message more of us understood and took to heart I wish that more parents understood and could celebrate the differences between themselves and their kids. Too often kids are shamed, belittled, or punished because their way of being in the…

Erik Erikson was a German born psychologist who developed the popular idea of normative developmental stages that we go through as we age. Although, it should be noted that these stages were developed based on his experiences with White Euro-American theory and peoples and therefore…