Like many Americans, I look towards spring and summer, a magical time of renewal that here in 2021 presents an opportunity to look back at the deathly hellscape that was…
Bethany Grace Howe
Bethany Grace Howe is a transgender woman, who upon completing her transition as a doctoral student now finds herself up to her ears in debt, misogyny, and people who think she’s pushy for daring to use the prefix “Dr.” before her name. A freelance writer, she actively embraces the desire to “lance” transphobia, ignorance, and those have no ability to escape their own cisnormativity and adherence to gender stereotypes. (She is less committed to the “free” part of her writing career, though that, too, seems fairly active in her life.) In her free time, she’s intentionally raising her daughter to be a social justice warrior who thinks calling her daddy “she” is perfectly normal, even when in a public restroom in Mississippi.
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As we welcome Pride Month – kicking ass and gaying rainbows since 1970 – I sometimes think I’m a lousy Pride celebrant. Topically I’m the ideal LGBTQ person: I’m romantically…
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I heard that a Utah middle school has a policy that forbids kids from saying “no” when asked to dance and I’d like to address this from the standpoint of…
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As a former dude, it is not lost on me the privilege I used to have. I got paid more for doing the same amount of work as a woman.…
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Image source: USA Today Sports I’d like to whine for a little bit, if I may. Coronavirus took something from someone I care about, and it’s just not fair. Now,…
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Out on the road the other day, I found the traffic quite light (amazing what a pandemic of congested lungs can do for congested traffic). Within moments I was cruising…
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I am not, by nature, an angry woman. Like ice without the cold, steam without the heat, both of which find their natural status to be water, my personal equilibrium is…
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The clock is ticking down. The month will soon be over and corporate America can put away their brightly-hued products created to trumpet their support of LGBTQ Pride month for…
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I have been looking forward to today, National Masturbation Day, for a while. Like Arbor Day, Columbus Day, or Drink Wine with No Pants on Day, it’s one of those special…
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As is the tradition in many divorced households with small, tax-deductible humans, my daughter was with her mother last Mother’s Day. Not wanting to miss out on the fun, however,…
