writing this is an act of getting to know myself

on putting words with my gender

This week I read an essay by A.E. Osworth at Autostraddle that was so beautiful I read it four times in one day. It is a marvel of prose and craft and descriptions of gender and sexuality and identity that I want to swim in forever. I can’t wait to teach it in one of my writing classes, I love it so much.

Inscrutable genders from outer space to the front…