International Transgender Day of Visibility 2: Electric Boogayloo
Hazel Bloom of KCN reports on the United Nations’ Landmark proclamation of the first TDoV2
PLEASE watch ‘Good Luck Have Fun Don’t Die’
You know that feeling when you finish a really good book, or you walk out of a movie theatre and you feel like you see life slightly differently? I've had 2 films make me feel that way in the last year, Superman and Good Luck Have Fun Don't Die - for almost polar opposite but complementary reasons.
Frolicking through the Fear
A messy update about why I’ve been radio silent and the timely reminder that helped me break through my fears
The Resources that Helped me Bloom
This is a list of the different resources that I found really helpful as I was coming to terms with being transgender and neurodivergent, things I figured out around the same time which was TUMULTUOUS to say the least. The following resources helped me feel less alone, less alien, and more like I had really found my truth.
Insights from my First Year as a Trans Life Coach!
“One of the biggest surprises of the past year has been how little gender and sexuality have been a topic with my clients. They don't need someone to figure out that they're trans or queer, they just need someone who understands that context and sees them as people, not problems to be solved.”
How to Find Hope when Everything Feels Hopeless - from a Trans Immigrant
Current events have been horrifying as a transgender immigrant to America. Despite everything, I still maintain hope. Here’s how you can find your hope again.
My First Month on HRT - A Trial by Fantasmic Fire
My experience getting started with Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) and electrolysis, and then forcing myself to be extremely visibly trans at “The Happiest place on Earth”
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and start Loving Myself as a Trans Woman
Hazel shares her emotional journey with ‘Passing' culture and how it keeps the trans community trapped.
Good Grief
This is an article about grief and the loss of a pet, I highly recommend making sure you’re in a good headspace before reading. There are a lot of cute cat pictures and a celebration of our silly, silly boy.
How NOT to Come Out to your Wife as Transgender
Continuing on from my previous article, ‘Cracks’, which was about how I figured out I was trans; this article is about what happened next. It was tumultuous but the story does have a happy ending. I’m hoping this will help others who are in a ‘straight-passing’ relationship or marriage when they realize they aren’t cisgender.
Cracks - How I Figured out I was a Trans Woman
Among the trans community, there is a term that refers to the moment when you realize you are transgender as “your egg cracking”. For some of us there are splinters that appear in our eggshells, slowly spreading across the surface as we incubate, but not quite cracking open. Most of us don’t even know that we’re in an eggshell at all, until we’re blinded by the light of the outside world.
My egg cracked open before I was ready and I duct taped that shit shut, REAL FAST.