Category Archives for Gender

Cis People, What’s the Point of Your Gender?

Cis People, What’s the Point of Your Gender?

A recent conversation with a dear friend of mine elucidated a thought pattern I had long found myself trying to articulate. On the topic of gender as a social mechanism with several constituent parts, it…
An Ode to Where I First Found Home: On Black Lesbian Gender & Kinship

An Ode to Where I First Found Home: On Black Lesbian Gender & Kinship

In 1991, years before my birth,  the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival adopted a “womyn-born-womyn” policy which excluded all pre-op transgender women from the festival. The festival was loosely paradise, a space for predominantly lesbians built…