Oct
20
Does this count as a hate crime?
How are you supposed to react when someone calls you the t-slur on the tube platform?
8 min read
Quinn Rhodes
Sep
09
Sometimes I forget that my chest isn't flat
I tore off the shirt. It didn’t matter how soft it felt against my skin or how masc it made me feel, I couldn’t get over the horrific reality of how I would look to other people. I was grossed out by my own body.
7 min read
Aug
11
I didn't publish anything during Pride month
"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation and that is an act of political warfare." – Audre Lorde
7 min read
Jun
02
One year on testosterone
I don't know if cis people understand how serious trans people are being when we say that gender-affirming healthcare saves lives. I might still be alive today if I hadn't been able to start testosterone, but I don't think I'd want to be.
6 min read
May
05
The single letter that would erase my transness
If I die waiting for top surgery, forget burial – just drop my body on the steps of 10 Downing Street.
7 min read
Feb
25
Building self-compassion as I become a trans adult
My future self reminds me that I already have all of his strength and grace and courage within me. I just need to breathe and remember how fucking badass I already am.
6 min read
Feb
03
I'm not the only person in the room with pronouns
"I'm Quinn, my pronouns are he/him." I practice until it's second nature, until I can say it as though the idea that my transness might make people uncomfortable, angry, or even violent has never occurred to me.
6 min read
Jan
07
My biggest achievement in 2022 was surviving
It's cliché to say 'it gets better' - and twelve months ago I wouldn't have believed that if you said it to me. But if the biggest thing you did in 2022 was just surviving, I see you. Me too.
6 min read
Dec
09
Why do I write like I'm running out of time?
I worry that if I am not talking, tweeting, writing about what trans people are experiencing right now, there are cis people who won't know how bad it is.
4 min read
Nov
20
Happy International Men's Day: do I have to feel guilty now?
I don't get to just sit back and tell myself that my transness absolves me from working to dismantle the cisheteropatriarchy, but I also don't have to feel guilty about being a man.
7 min read