I’m out for dinner with a new friend. We met at the queer running group a couple weeks ago: he’s a cis gay man, partnered, new in town, roughly my own age. And despite having hung out together only a couple times, our conversations have had both breadth and depth, so there seems to beContinue reading “The lack of appreciation for my masculinity”
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Befriending my (new) body (again)
[Trigger warnings: dysphoria; scars & scar tissue.] I’m feeling tender. But more aligned with myself. The dysphoria is finally easing its grip on my mind. The surgical glue has fully come off from the three incisions on my lower abdomen: one right under my belly-button and one on each side, just above my hip bones.Continue reading “Befriending my (new) body (again)”
The Little Prince and the Fox 