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Wedding

Posted onDecember 30, 20114 Comments

I was at an airport. I couldn’t find my ticket. I didn’t know my airline, let alone my confirmation code. I frantically looked at my clock but couldn’t make out the time. And I seemed to have misplaced my iPhone Read More …

CategoriesVignettesTagsairport, dream, short story, vignette, wedding

Confessions

Posted onAugust 22, 2011Leave a comment

“Stop being a monk and tell her. Nothing changes if you don’t tell her.” “No, if I do that, I lose a friend. And she loses a friend. I can’t do that to her.” I take a long swig of Read More …

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Gender Boundaries

Posted onAugust 20, 2011Leave a comment

When we allow women/queer organizers to leave activist spaces and protect people whose violence provoked their departure, we are saying we value these de facto state agents who disrupt the work more than we value people whose labor builds and Read More …

CategoriesLGBTQ, VignettesTagsAmerican Red Cross, blood, blood donation, gay, gender, transgender

Credentials

Posted onAugust 16, 2011Leave a comment

“Hi, do you have credentials to live here?” I looked up at him. Average-size, middle-aged, white male. Probably straight. “Excuse me?” Now women usually say “excuse me” not because we didn’t hear you correctly the first time. We say “excuse Read More …

CategoriesVignettesTagsallegro apartments, Racism

He was 17 when he was born

Posted onDecember 25, 2007Leave a comment

She sat there almost tranquilized fearing the consequences of her forthcoming actions, the path she had chosen to embark on. No doubt it was the road less traveled, it was harsh, an embattled life full of challenges, a thorny ride Read More …

CategoriesLGBTQ, VignettesTagscreative writing, hair, Homosexuality, narrative, Queer, transgender

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