As I’m writing this I’m sitting on an airplane headed to Austin, Texas, where I’ll do the workshop premiere of the opera ‘Good Country’. I’ll be performing as a transgender character for the first time, and it’s also the first new work I’ve collaborated with. As yesterday was Transgender Day of Visibility, I wanted to […]
I’ve gotten this question quite a few times. The short answer is yes, it has. The long answer is yes but it’s complicated. As a kid I was raised Catholic and sexuality wasn’t really even a thing, let alone queer sexuality. When I came out as a lesbian in college, I had already had the […]
If you haven’t been paying attention to the news (no judgement, I really get it), maybe you haven’t heard, but Trump’s Administration has been thinking of changing the legal definition of sex under Title IX — the federal civil rights law that bans discrimination in education on the basis of gender — that would render […]
When I was a kid, I never thought I was a boy, and never necessarily wanted to be a boy. I was very comfortable in ‘boys clothes’ and happy doing ‘boy things’ like play video games or run around in the woods climbing trees and building forts. I never felt like a boy though, I […]
If you are a cisgender person, it’s almost certainly crossed your mind: what was their name before? If you don’t know better, you’ve asked, and probably gotten a response ranging from uncomfortable to outright offended. This might have made you confused and probably also upset. You were just asking a question, how were you supposed […]