Articles About My Name Is Iden
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My Name Is Iden | Be visible, vocal — or be erased
“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.”
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My Name Is Iden | The quiet between
“People are complicated. We laugh, we love, we hope but, we also cry. We bleed, we despair. We scream. All of that is beautiful.”
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My Name Is Iden | Searching for stillness
“Now, I think about warmth because I know cold. Now, I think about quiet because I know noise. That is waking. That is living.”
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My Name Is Iden | Back up, one step at a time
“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.”
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My Name Is Iden | What’s in a dead name?
“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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My Name Is Iden | Sometimes, it’s enough
“Years of telling myself, every day, that I was a failure. That what I’d given of myself had made no difference. I hadn’t realized how badly I needed those words: ‘Baby, it was enough.'”
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My Name Is Iden | One inch at a time
Ask yourself, “Where is the fight?” It isn’t at the finish line. It is one step past the last.
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My Name Is Iden | Put aside your judgement
“Ignorance must be met with teaching, not preaching. Your right may be different from my right.”
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My Name Is Iden | The limits of metaphor
“We are not books, but we do have stories, and nothing ruins a story like certainty. I hope I am writing a good one.”
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My Name Is Iden | Happy Iden-pendence Day
This past July 5 was my three-year “traniversary,” the anniversary of my coming out as transgender and beginning my transition. A day I’ve dubbed “Iden’s Day.”
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