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Voice
Without getting into too much detail, for me, religious practice is a little complicated. In part, it involves desperately avoiding any organized religous services (despite being fairly active members...
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Subtle shifts
I realized last week that I’d gone an entire day in which I was not gendered as female in any interaction (out loud anyway). Once I noticed that, I realized that I can’t exactly remember the last time...
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Strange moments of arrival
(1) I was traveling for a conference about a month ago, and as I walked to a city bus stop early on the morning of my departure, out of nowhere in an otherwise quiet city street a woman started to yell...
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Forgetting
Yesterday, after putting it off for about a year, my religious community held a sort of naming ceremony for me. Our congregation is a small Jewish Havurah, and friends had long ago offered to lead a...
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Gratitude
Gail and I have been writing here, about extremely personal matters, for over 6 years (off and on), in a highly public (if vaguely anonymous) way. But so much of what I’ve experienced as I’ve worked...
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Being the only mom vs. being one of a pair
I have been chewing on this post for a long time. I am a non-gestational parent to my youngest child, Ira. I didn’t give birth to him, my husband Ezekiel did. When Ira was born, Ezekiel and I were...
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Providing Surgery Support to a Partner
Since Ezekiel wrote a post about top surgery, I decided to write my own. Supporting Ezekiel through surgery was harder for me than I expected it to be, and that makes me reluctant to discuss it. But I...
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Belonging
As Ezekiel wrote, we’re heading to Family Week 2014 in Provincetown next week. I find that my thoughts in anticipation of the trip are a bit complicated. We first went to Family Week when our daughter,...
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COLAGE camp at Family Week, 2014
We’re back from Family Week 2014 in Provincetown, MA. There are any number of details I could tell you about the week (awesome: Leigh biking totally on her own all over town not awesome: mosquitos),...
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Call for Submissions: Essays by Transgender Parents
**CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS** Letters for our Children: Voices of Transgender Parents Edited by Jordan Rice and Nathan Ezekiel Due: January 20, 2015 We are seeking contributions for a book collection of...
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