There are so many reactions to art that make sense to me - but 'ick' means something.

You’ve learned a new rule and it’s simple: don’t put yourself in situations you’d like to run away from. But when you run, run back to yourself, like that bunny in Runaway Bunny runs to its mother, but you are the mother and you’ll see that later and be very, very proud.

You don't need to be flamboyant in your life to be flamboyant in your work.

I am thinking particularly of a shower I took where the lower half of my body was under the running water and the upper half was laid out on the bath mat, eating a loaf of bread.

I think of my body as a tool to do the stuff I need to do, but not the be all end all of my existence.

I'm really lucky because my sister is a real activist soul and also hyper-intellectualized in this way that's really allowed me to wrap my mind around some of the bigger intellectual concepts and really understand the language around identity in the gender nonconforming community.

But I am a girl with a keen interest in having it all, and what follows are hopeful dispatches from the frontlines of that struggle.