LGBT+ History Month

In None of the Above, Travis Alabanza examines seven phrases people have directed at them about their gender identity. These phrases have stayed with them over the years. Some are deceptively innocuous, some deliberately loaded or offensive, some celebratory - sentences that have impacted them for better and for worse - sentences that speak to the broader issues raised by a world that insists that gender must be a binary. Through these seven phrases,...

Over the last five years, transgender people have seemed to burst into the public eye: Time declared 2014 a ?trans tipping point?, while American Vogue named 2015 ?the year of trans visibility?. From our television screens to the ballot box, transgender people have suddenly become part of the zeitgeist. This apparently overnight emergence, though, is just the latest stage in a long and varied history. The renown of Paris Lees and Hari Nef has its...