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Five Metaphors Activity

The "Five Whys" is an approach in which you ask and answer a "Why?" question five times to try to get at the root cause for a situation you'd like to address. It's used extensively in quality improvement in healthcare and other

I Do Not Wish to Become a Better Me

Feeling unprepared is not a problem to be solved.

Don't Get Invited Into Narratives That Don't Serve You

As a pregnant trans man, I'm learning to find the stories that serve me, and to let go of the rest.

"Everything extraneous has burned away": An Interview about Love Alone--A Solo Play for World AIDS Day

A conversation with the director and actor from Love Alone, a new staging of Paul Monette's 1988 poetry collection grieving the loss of his partner, Roger, to AIDS.

Old photograph of a man with glasses, a large hat, and a tie.

Trans Ancestor Frank Woodhull and the Stories That Come From Necessity

How do I make sure to separate the stories that I tell from necessity—for advocacy reasons, for example—from those that feel most personal, most true, most alive?

What will I tell my child about the AIDS crisis?

I would like to read my child a book about ACT UP. I would like to read my child a book about a community needle exchange.

A black and white drawing of 12 male nudes in different postures

Being Trans at Naked Night Taught Me About Belonging

I went to the naked party to see people’s dicks, not hear people’s stories. But sometimes things don’t turn out the way you’d expect. I can’t say what I was expecting when I saw that a gay bar I’d been to a few times