Poems

Poem: What is PRIDE?

PRIDE Learning to love ourselves, when you wanted us to bleed to death. Love wins and love conquers all. PRIDE Standing up, over and over again, after you nock us down. Showing up to educate this prejudice world. PRIDE Knowing that we are not invisible, even if you try to erase us! Existing even when… Continue reading Poem: What is PRIDE?

Bridge Building, Freedom, Hope, Human Rights, Poems, Prejudice

Poem: Don’t Let Them Divide Us!

They know what they are doing They have done it ALL before History repeats Don't let them divide us! Black, Brown, Indigenous, LGBTQIAPNDX+, Women, and Disabled People Don't let them divide us! Good has to win and we will not let them destroy us Democracy Will Not Die. So Keep your HOPE So Keep your… Continue reading Poem: Don’t Let Them Divide Us!

Bridge Building, Civil Rights, Critical Race Theory, Cultural Dysphoria, Hate Crimes, Human Rights, Intersex Activist

Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) and Intersex People: How the Invention of Two Binary Systems Do Harm

I wrote this term paper for my Critical Race Theory Class, which I took this summer, 2024, at Meadville Lombard Theological School while working on my Master of Divinity. My professor was Dr. Barbara Fears, a Black woman from Howard University School of Divinity, an accomplished religious educator, Chaplain, Scholar, and Professor. I proudly received… Continue reading Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) and Intersex People: How the Invention of Two Binary Systems Do Harm

My Intersex Story, Poems, Prejudice

Poem: This is not my world!

This is not my world. How could it be? You abort us, sterilize us, and destroy our genital integrity. You raise us the wrong gender with your "expertise" and "science." All without our consent as children. This is not my world. How could it be? You erased us from information technology, forms, and pretty much… Continue reading Poem: This is not my world!

Intersex Phobia, Poems, Relationships, Transphobia

Poem: Alone

A ll on my own. Abandoned by too many. Shame on all of you and your prejudice. L onely in a way that makes my heart ache for you, why did you have to die so young? O ptimism means nothing to prejudiced men who will not give my love a chance. N obody wants to take the time to… Continue reading Poem: Alone

Poems

Poem: You Hypocrites, he loved me more, a man!

I was loved deeply I was loved whole He loved me more than for my spirit He loved me for more than my soul. Now you praise him for having such beautiful love Now he is gone, in heaven above. You hypocrites! Because when I changed, you said he would leave me You even said… Continue reading Poem: You Hypocrites, he loved me more, a man!

Hate Crimes, Intersex People, Intersex Phobia, Transgender

Things Endosex/Cisgender/Heterosexual people don’t have to worry about.

By talking to other intersex and/or transgender people on social media, I have created this list of things Endosex/Cisgender/Heterosexual people do NOT have to worry about daily. Note: you are born with endosex physiology if you are not born with intersex physiology. Cisgender means you agree with your birth assignment. Heterosexual means you are "straight".… Continue reading Things Endosex/Cisgender/Heterosexual people don’t have to worry about.

Hate Crimes, Homophobia, Intersex Phobia, Poems, Prejudice, Relationships, Transphobia

Poem: Hater – The way of love

You say you are a Christian but you sit in judgement over my "life style" when it is not a life style at all I live the way I was born to live and God says it is good You say you are a Christian but you lie, betray abandoned, and deceive me and then… Continue reading Poem: Hater – The way of love