Great and Fiery Force
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What is it to be a trans daughter? What is it to be an angry queer? What is it to be a first-year college student? Do my friends only half-know me?
In a creative non-fiction essay about a memorable conversation with a new trans friend named Dinah, I explore these questions about transness, cisgender family, queer solidarity and rage.
"I am the great and fiery force that... awakens and supports life."
-Hildegard of Bingen
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