Wasteland

As a trans manI often hear things likeYou’ll never be a real manIf with real manYou meanConform to toxic masculinityThat’s a good thingBecauseWho wants to resembleToxic waste?

trans* normal

Trans* normalGanz normalTrans* ist normalGanz normal Doch nicht in die Norm gepresstTrans* ist nicht abnormalDoch ab-seits von Normen Hin- und hergerissenZwischen den äusseren aufgezwungenenUnd inneren empfundenen SchliesslichFreiheit und Leben gewählt Trans* normalIst normal jenseits der NormTrans*parentTrans*zendent Die Norm des trans* seins Ist das Mensch sein

I’m not your Fetish.

I am unapologetically Tsalagi and Taino.I am Indigenous.I am Black.I am Jewish, too. I am Intersex.I am ftm.I am Asegi. I am a lot of things, and can be a lot of things.But I am nobody's fetish and refuse to be fetishized - be it for my race, skin color, for being trans or intersex … Weiterlesen I’m not your Fetish. →

Trans Day of Remembrance 2021

Transgender Day Of Remembrance 2021 -375 trans* people were murdered during the last year. Many more were hurt and violated, and so many more can't be themselves for reasons of safety and transphobia. But those are so much more than just numbers. Each is an individual, a human being, a story has had just begun … Weiterlesen Trans Day of Remembrance 2021 →

Sovereign

My body is mine – SovereignSovereign as Mother Earth But my body has been colonizedby strange ideasof what isand should be and how and whatand could and can and shouldand what and may and not Like a coyote after the rainI shake my furshaking them outthey don't belong to me I am my own expertand … Weiterlesen Sovereign →

Ella* in Berlin

Gasoline poured over living skinset ablaze in an act of desperationas silent screamsspeak of endless discriminationthat no-one wanted to seewhilst colleagues pass on nudesand laugh about her name Silently, in front of the warehousein an ultimate political actNot there in Iran,not there in Ukrainenot there somewhere far awaybut right here in Europeright here, in fucking … Weiterlesen Ella* in Berlin →

We are sacred

If you say that God did not create intersexlet me sayyour godis not mine If you say that Satan made intersexlet me say thatI don't believein your mighty Satan either If you say thatbeing trans is a disease to cureand that your God will take careof my problemlet me say that I'm perfectly fine If … Weiterlesen We are sacred →

Trans man, trans man…

I have a strong sense of self, of who I am - but I often lack the vocabulary to convey it to others who might ask. To make it easier, I simply say that I am a trans man. Yet I feel that this is not completely correct. Yes, I am ftm trans, my pronouns … Weiterlesen Trans man, trans man… →

To be Trans

to be transis to love myselfis to embrace myself whollyfully and completely- without an ounce of shame to be transis to know myselfis to know who I amnot ascribing to outside pressuresand views to be transis to be regarded criticallymisgenderedmockedbe called namesgetting gropedrisking getting beaten or killed- and getting up again to be transis to … Weiterlesen To be Trans →