Breaking Boundaries

tnr.com – Interviews conducted and compiled by Eliza Gray and Margy Slattery

This project began five months ago as a simple reporting assignment: investigate how people who were making the transition from one gender to another learned to alter their…

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Antonella loves to dance

xtra.ca – Katie Toth

Celebrity belly dancer Antonella will be swinging her hips into Toronto this June. Billed as the only out trans performer of the Arabic world, she spent years as a male with an intersexed body in Lebanon before finally discoveri…

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I Was Born a Boy

marieclaire.com – By Janet Mock as told to Kierna Mayo

The flight to Bangkok’s Don Muang Airport felt far longer than I’d imagined. It was Christmas break during my freshman year at the University of Hawaii, and I was 18, anxious, and alone. After …

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A Different Type of Woman

havanatimes.org – by Yusimi Rodriguez

Havana Times – I’ve been coming to the annual “Campaign against Homophobia” activities since its first edition here in Cuba in 2008. One of the things that always catch my attention is the number of very tall w…

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The Transitive Property: Led from behind

stanforddaily.com – By Cristopher Bautista

I have had a fraught relationship with religion. As a queer person, I’ve always felt that I had to choose one or the other, that either I could be religious or queer. I could never be both.

I grew up Cat…

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