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Announcing “Reverb of Resistance”: A Night of Music and Art to Uplift LGBTQ+ Voices in the South

May 27, 2026 | Uncategorized

We are proud to present Reverb of Resistance, a powerful evening of live music, visual art, and community connection, taking place Thursday, June 25 at The Grey Eagle Music Hall. The event is produced by …  Read More

Introduction

May 24, 2026 | Uncategorized

  This collaged erasure, titled “introduction,” is part of a larger project I’m working on, As the Mobile Moves: a memoir in literary experiments. I envision this beetle poem as both an introduction and a …  Read More

Community Advisory: Transgender Adults in the South Face Intensifying Political Attacks That Increase Barriers to Accessing Gender-Affirming Care

May 19, 2026 | News

Nationwide, including all across the South – it is legal and possible for transgender adults to access gender-affirming care. However, anti-transgender organizations and political actors have made no secret of their agenda to restrict – …  Read More

To Little Me

May 18, 2026 | Uncategorized

I see you, and all I want to do is make you smile with a deep belly laugh that stretches from fingertips to the toes that wiggle in the sandbox trying to be free and …  Read More

LGBTQ+ Movement Leader Ian Palmquist Receives The Order of the Long Leaf Pine Award, One of the Highest Civilian Awards in NC

May 8, 2026 | News

Palmquist’s lifetime of service and leadership recognized by prestigious award from Governor Stein and the launch of the Ian Palmquist Leadership Fund. RALEIGH – This spring, Ian Palmquist, a leader in the LGBTQ+ equality movement …  Read More

Dear Younger Me

May 4, 2026 | Uncategorized

I love you, your shaggy Beatles haircut, Greenday t-shirts, bell bottoms, platform Sketchers, the way your violin sings and stirs others to do something about something that matters.   Feeling unloved, unseen, unimportant, misunderstood, abandoned, …  Read More

Having Learned to Hold Back Apologies

April 24, 2026 | Uncategorized

If home isn’t the place I grew up, and surely not the place I am now, where is my soul supposed to live? My childhood bedroom is scant now, last August I stripped its walls …  Read More

As A Child, I Was Convinced I Was An Alien

April 21, 2026 | Uncategorized

As a child I was convinced I was an alien. I had been transplanted onto this orbiting rock called Earth to collect data on human behavior that evaded my understanding. The family I was placed …  Read More

Patience

April 17, 2026 | Uncategorized

I’m sorry that I can’t give you an “it gets better” story. But what I can give to you, my younger self, is the most essential skill to endure what’s coming. Practice it. Hone it. …  Read More

Untitled

April 10, 2026 | Uncategorized

Five years ago, I was a closeted trans woman who didn’t feel like she fit in anywhere. I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life, and was content in getting an engineering …  Read More

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