It's, Pan Visibility Day, a day to celebrate... ME! So what does that mean? I'm pan in two ways: panromantic, meaning I can be in romantic relationships with a person regardless of their gender, and pansexual, meaning I can be sexually attracted to a person regardless of their gender. I'm also demisexual, meaning that intellectual and emotional connection is required for me to be sexually attracted. The pieces for this sacrament of naming nestled into place over the last few

Today is the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia, and it's producing mixed emotions for me. The graphic above looks so joyous; offering the wonderful premise of celebrating love for others and ourselves. But the reality of queerphobia in various forms is too prevalent to permit me to feel terribly celebratory. Over the past decade my spouse and I have realized many things about our sexual and gender identities which had been clamped down or mislabe

The following entry is a passage from Transfigured: A 40-day journey through scripture for gender-queer and transgender people. Thus says the Lord God: Because, yea, because they made you desolate, and crushed you from all sides, so that you became the possession of the rest of the nations, and you became the talk and evil gossip of the people; A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will take out of your flesh the heart of stone and give yo