Gender Fluidity – Part 2

Here is a link to the second and final part of my TransEnough article series discussing how the stereotype of binary gender assumption is an [...]

Applications, Notifications, Withdrawals

Many of my friends know that I had applied for inter-school transfer and was accepted into the PsyD program at CIIS. I was scheduled to [...]

Cutting Away to Queer – Part 3

My Blood Sacrifice Immediately after gaining a new understanding of Kali’s purpose and power I visited my tattoo artist in order to reclaim her presence [...]

Gender Fluidity – Part 1

Here is a link to part one of my TransEnough article series discussing how the stereotype of binary gender assumption is an inherently flawed system. [...]

New Site: Following the Journey

I am excited to introduce my new site: Whole Person Counsel. This site will serve three primary functions: WPC will document my journey though my [...]

Cutting Away to Queer – Part 2

Cutting Away March 2008 marked the end of an almost six-year relationship with another transgender man who was closeted about having been born into a [...]

Cutting Away to Queer – Part 1

The following three-part series was created as a result of a class I took in Spring 2010 at CIIS called Queering the Sacred, which was taught by Dr. Randy Conner.

Body Beautiful

I love, love, love this song. I heard it again a few days ago as I was about to cross over the bay bridge. It [...]

Transgender or Transgendered?

TGQIGNC Finally there is an article that addresses the questions about the correct grammar when writing about transgender individuals and communities. Read the Article at [...]

Why I’m Tired of the Pregnant Man

Once again Thomas Beatie is all over the news. When the story first hit the news two years ago I cringed. People all around me [...]

Confessions of Self-Image

Self-image is a complex thing. I have spent enough time around others that are body positive to learn that any body is beautiful and your [...]

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thank you for having the courage to be revolutionary. “An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts [...]

On Being A Lifetime Student

I am a student. I have been a student as long as I remember. And it is a pleasure to be a student. It is [...]

Happy New Start . . . er . . . Year

New year’s resolutions are, culturally speaking, something that are made in earnest, but made with an almost expectation of failure. There are no pressures to [...]

In The Past Decade . . .

- lived (in order) in Pleasant Hill, CA, SE Portland, NE Portland, NW Portland, Twain Harte, CA, NE Portland, SE Portland, Twain Harte, CA, and [...]

Ch, Ch, Ch, Chia . . . Seeds

The following article has been moved from a former Raw blog of mine that is no longer active. The other day I was in the [...]

Trusting in the Looneyverse [Pt. 2]

Continued from a previous post – Last time I left off: October 26, 2009 – N’s phone rings and it is the soon to be [...]

It’s Alive

The following article has been moved from a former Raw blog of mine that is no longer active. Thanks to a dear friend of mine, [...]

Trusting The Looneyverse [Pt. 1]

Trust is something I do not come by easily. But over this last year I have begun to learn that I need to trust in [...]

Transgender Day of Remembrance

The Awakening

– Author unknown A time comes in your life when you finally get it – when, in the midst of all your fears and insanity, [...]

Needed: Rites of Passage

As part of a class assignment I recently wrote and delivered a rite of passage for transgender, genderqueer and gender non-conforming individuals. Read more about [...]

We Need Compassion NOW!

Just consider it. If you agree visit here to affirm this charter.

Hurry Up & Wait

I sit at the Toyota service customer waiting room as I type up this post. It is amazing to me what has become of customer [...]

Excellent Way To Treat Racism

Just got this from my school: Share a Smile – Exact Source Unknown This scene took place on a British Airways flight between Johannesburg, South [...]

Is There Such A Thing As Too Much Education?

Last week I had to file for an extension on my unemployment. Yep, that’s right, I have now been unemployed for seven months. I have [...]

Today Is: National Coming Out Day

“Coming Out Day is rooted in the 1987 March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights with its AIDS Quilt display. That event is widely [...]