What do you love now, that you hated when you were younger? “You act like a girl!” That used to hurt me and sting to my core when I was growing up as a boy. But now? It’s the ultimate form of validation!
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Girville Dispatches: Trading the Dashboard for the Dance Floor Part 3 — T Minus 24 Hours
Shedding the corporate armor, slipping through the back gate en femme, and surviving a 9-mile Chicago summer run. All to burn off the nervous energy for tomorrow’s date with Greg. Read the new Girlville Dispatches on Girlonawireless—where I’m practicing the exquisite torture of waiting. 💋👠 #TransBlog #Girlonawireless #ChicagoSummer
Anything by Franz Kafka
What’s a piece of media (book, movie, song) that changed how you see the world? In college, I took a 300 level German course that drilled grammar. These courses also focused on a particular subject of literature, but you learned what that subject was the first day of class. Kinda strange, but whatever. My courseContinue reading “Anything by Franz Kafka”
Girlville Dispatches: Trading the Dashboard for the Dance Floor Part 2: FaceTime Reality Check
My bestie doesn’t share my excitement about my planned date and accuses me of being easy.
Girlville Dispatches: Trading the Dashboard for the Dance Floor
There is a unique kind of magic in a Chicago summer night. The air is warm, the city hums with energy, and for me, the anticipation starts building the second the clock strikes five. This particular evening, the transition from a long workday to a fabulous night out required a little bit of automotive wizardry.Continue reading “Girlville Dispatches: Trading the Dashboard for the Dance Floor”
Girlville Dispatches: Running to Womanhood
There is a specific kind of magic in shedding what no longer fits. During the heavy, isolated days of the pandemic—just as I was taking my first steps into gender-affirming hormone therapy—I developed a secret ritual of transformation. It began in the quiet solitude of my office at the end of the workday. There, IContinue reading “Girlville Dispatches: Running to Womanhood”