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2025

Articles by Iden Crockett

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  • My Name Is Iden | Celebrate what?

    My Name is Iden

    “The Fourth of July is a celebration of freedom — not a celebration of the hope of freedom, not the promise of freedom, and certainly not the illusion of freedom.”

  • My Name Is Iden | Live the riot

    My Name is Iden

    “On June 28, 1969, the police raided The Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village. It wasn’t the first time they had done this, but that night, the patrons stood up determined to make it the last.”

  • My Name Is Iden | Where Anne went

    My Name is Iden

    “The danger to transgender people in this country is real, and the need to stand up and fight alongside us is urgent. We are a small group. We need our allies.”

  • Creating Space | Dayton Poetry Slam welcomes all

    This is the first in a profile and interview series from the perspective of News columnist Iden Crockett that aims to highlight people who work in the arts in the Miami Valley, with a focus on those who create space for women, BIPOC and queer creatives.

  • My Name Is Iden | Be visible, vocal — or be erased

    My Name is Iden

    “No election will fix this for us. It is no longer an option to put our heads down and wait out the next four years. There will always be some sly carnival barker waiting to exploit people’s ignorance.”

  • My Name Is Iden | The quiet between

    My Name is Iden

    “People are complicated. We laugh, we love, we hope but, we also cry. We bleed, we despair. We scream. All of that is beautiful.”

  • My Name Is Iden | Searching for stillness

    My Name is Iden

    “Now, I think about warmth because I know cold. Now, I think about quiet because I know noise. That is waking. That is living.”

  • Ask a transperson | Reaching out

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    The tone of debate in our country seems to lean ever further toward pettiness and argument. It is more  important than ever that we continue to lean in the opposite  direction and facilitate open, honest and respectful conversation.

  • My Name Is Iden | Back up, one step at a time

    My Name is Iden

    “Friendships, romances, careers, children, writing and creating all take effort, and when you are depressed, that energy isn’t there, and that effort just doesn’t feel worth it.”

  • My Name Is Iden | What’s in a dead name?

    My Name is Iden

    “What would it be like to watch yourself die? To be at the bedside, holding your own hand for your final breath?”

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