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Zenaida Peterson is a spoken word poet and community organizer based out of Boston. She has represented Simmons College at the College Union Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI) both in 2015 as a performer and in 2017 as the team’s coach. She is the…

"The Humiliating Practice of Sex-Testing Female Athletes," written by Ruth Padawer, was published by the New York Times Magazine on June 28, 2016. Ruth Padawer is, notably, a cis woman. However, the article focuses largely on an interview with Dutee…

Ingrid Matison identifies as a white, nonbinary artist who currently resides in Providence. They grew up in a working class family in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Ingrid is currently a student at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) where their primary…

Ely Shipley is a trans author and activist. He worked at CUNY in NYC and taught as an assistant professor of English at Baruch College, where he taught courses on gay and lesbian literature, poetry, and identity writing. He is currently a professor…

Originally published in 2011, Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex is an anthology of interviews, stories, essays, and manuals compiled and edited by Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith. The second and expanded edition was…

Chella Man is a nineteen-year-old artist and YouTuber who has risen to popularity on Instagram, where he has over twenty thousand followers. He describes his gender as being “genderqueer mentally, and FTM physically”, and he is currently taking…

Freakboy is a novel written in verse meant to engage with young adult readers. The format works to highlight the differences between the three characters as well as to convey tone and inner thought processes. For example, at times when Brendan’s…

“Kumu Hina” is a documentary film that tells the story of Hina Wong-Kalu, a native Hawaiian mahu, or third gender person. This documentary came out in 2014 and was co-directed by Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson, two cis white Americans. While the directors…

Nancy is a seasonal, weekly podcast that started in April 2017 and is ongoing. It is co-hosted and co-managed/edited by Kathy Tu and Tobin Low, and is produced by Matt Collette. All three of these main production team members identify as queer,…

Imogen Binnie’s 2013 novel, Nevada, is a dark comedy that follows Maria Griffiths, a 29 year old transwoman living in New York who begrudgingly navigates the impending doom of her relationship, unemployment, identity politics and queerness. Binnie…