Finn Schubert

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Essays

Ambivalence, Irreversibility, and Leaning Into the Wonky Parts

I gave birth eleven weeks ago, which means I now have the culturally fraught experience of living in a postpartum body, even if my postpartum body happens to be that of a man. And my body exists in a particular way in relation to my baby—I wake in the

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.

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?

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

Old photograph of a man standing alone on top of a large rock formation.

There Are No Rules for a Pregnant Trans Body

On learning to be a pregnant man in public.

In an old photo, a man shown upside-down on a bicycle as he rides through a loop-the-loop stunt course.

Against the Linear Narrative of Pregnancy

The shapes we give our stories matter.