Category: citizen trans* {project}
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I want to reach deep inside myself and give you glitter. I want to give you love is love t-shirts and love wins enamel pins and glossy blue and yellow HRC bumper stickers. I want to give you bachelorette parties at Discovery. I want to give you rainbow floodlights painting the Broadway Bridge. I want…
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Hymn for 2025 Oh siren, whose blend was commenced on the day Of women nationwide, how you turn the tide With your one half female, one half fishtail form, You live as hybrid. Your likeness printed on espresso bean bags I slice open with stainless-steal shears and sift My human being through your sieving breaststrokes.…
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By “cope” I mean, we are wolves now. A shower is a cave is a den. I want to play pretend and not pretend.
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There I sat, On throne of decay, In castle of rot. My subjects stood before me, Epizootic gripped their shells, Fear, their hearts. They waited for me to say something, anything, To lessen their fear, Their pain. So I spoke. “I have lived since the seas spindled into waves, Since the first of us learned…
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You thumbed through the news as you waited for waffles to microwave. It was January 21st, 2025. You read that President Trump signed an executive action to recognize two sexes: Male and Female. The microwave rang three times. You read the executive action will require documentation to include birth sex, not gender. Last month, you…
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knowing it’s not safe i grew my hair back out to get here not knowing how to take a train alone with military time and until now not knowing that fog is water whether or not the train is on time i think he’s tap dancing a seagull luring worms who wiggled their ways home…
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Consistent with the military mission and longstanding DoD policy, expressing a false “gender identity” divergent from an individual’s sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service. Beyond the hormonal and surgical medical interventions involved, adoption of a gender identity inconsistent with an individual’s sex conflicts with a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful,…
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Uber rides have become a roll of six-sided dice. It’s as likely to roll a natural 20 as it is to have a normal driver. Some rides, you get quiet old men in faded baseball caps just trying to supplement their social security – uneventful, safe rides. Other rides, you get young guys who like…
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she hasn’t been here in a while. she thinks it might have snowed last week, but time doesn’t really make sense anymore and whatever snow was there melted anyhow. the only sign is the odd patch of freeze, crunching underfoot. she’s marching, a little soldier girl, marching forward with head tucked down. her spine’s gonna…
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You wish to squash our dreaming Dull the shine Shove the butterfly back into the cocoon, chase the chick back in the egg and the Crocus back into the cracked and frozen earth throw white paint on the print of the most beautiful sunrise Drone out freedom songs, joy ditties, love ballads, peace symphonies Tie…