Tris Mamone

When I look up at the stars at night, I feel such a deep connection that I want to know more about where I came from. This is spirituality!

It’s both comforting and disturbing knowing that my experiences navigating as a non-binary person are not unique. This is non-binary invisibility.

When marginalized people respond to hateful speech with more speech, they often risk their physical safety — not just their comfort. Free speech is complex.

Growing up I thought autism was just for folks like Rain Man, but my friends helped me realize that autism is a spectrum.

Alcohol was the antidepressant I felt I always wanted. There was no need to step back, breathe, count to ten, or do any other self-soothing techniques.

Masculinity always felt like a pair of shoes that didn’t fit quite right.

There was no room for fallibility or even a gray scale of good and bad — perfection was the only option. Dogmatic perfectionism nearly killed me!

Let’s face it: call outs sucks, no matter what it's about. It doesn’t help if you are in any way either mentally ill or neurodivergent.

It got to the incredibly toxic point, with my activist community, where I seriously considered walking away from activism for good.