Anne Thériault

The deaths of trans women like Dalmar constitute an emergency; there's no other word for it.

We live in a culture that simultaneously claims to embrace the equality of men and women and at the same time seriously devalues femininity.

Spoiler alert: they look like bodies that have been recently been filled with a quart of amniotic fluid, two pounds of placenta plus a kid. This is not a bad thing.

Of course, Pa wasn't perfect. He had a definite libertarian/white supremacist/manifest destiny streak.

Was Tommy from Third Rock From The Sun a slimy old alien dude or a 12-year-old boy? In retrospect, it doesn't matter.

Find Valentine's day too emotionally fraught and filled with tons of heteronormative/patriarchal assumptions? You might be ready to take a break from it.

It's possible to mourn and celebrate, to be with someone you can't see or feel, and to find some kind of joy even when you're mired in loss.