The Latest from CSE

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

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

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. 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

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

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

I am no stranger to grief – after all I have known love. Just like the birch or magnolia I grow around the dead branch full of knots, my grain consists of dark patches where …  Read More

Little one, I see you.   Knees pulled tight to your chest, eyes locked on a mirror that feels more like a prison door. You keep knocking but no answer comes.   I am you. …  Read More

4/5/23 Dear Evie, I needed to talk to you, like you’re owed a little explanation. To be honest, we were never great at being a girl unless we were pretending to be one. I still …  Read More