Tucker Lieberman
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Dreaming Together, Waking Into a New World
Living real life with other beautiful and functional dreamers
You've likely heard the phrase "I think, therefore I am." It comes from the philosopher René Descartes who began using it in 1637. People tracing
When someone’s feminism doesn’t speak for you
A new book about anti-trans feminism
After reading (and writing about) Sophie Lewis’s article in the Fall 2024 issue of Lux Magazine, I got a hold, via NetGalley, of an
10 Points of Anti-Trans Bias You Can Call Out (More or Less Gently)
Philip N. Cohen calls out anti-trans bias in 10 different ways in his recent essay discussing public reaction to gender-affirming care for youth.
Philip N. Cohen, a sociologist at the University of Maryland, wrote a great essay several days ago. It's called "Are too many children transitioning? That’
And I am telling you: LGBTQ+ people are not going back
How's this for clear, brave, balanced authenticity: We won't support politicians who don't represent us.
When people praise us for being trans, they praise us for our authenticity: Our vision of who we truly are, our courage to live it
Pushing Through a Hard Time
When I think of my gender identity, I think of a Jell-O blob. It's a mass, so it exists, but it's not exactly a 'thing.'
We're pushing through some heavy space-time right now.
I take that metaphor from a new book by Kyla Wazana Tompkins called Deviant Matter: Ferment, Intoxicants,
Arachidi Girl: Trans Man Art
I'd like to share with you a couple visual patterns: Soft and textured, strong and fragile, someone who lives in threatened habitat and someone whom presidents oughtn't touch.
A humble attempt to share my latest artistic concept. It's a visual image and, when I explain it, a sort of poem. I'm still mulling
'What Makes You Different From Someone Who Thinks He's Napoleon?'
We can recognize the question as unanswerable — but that doesn't mean there's no possible retort.
About 20 years ago, a fellow trans man and I noted that sometimes people ask: “What makes you, a transsexual, different from someone who believes
Choosing What You Won't Regret
Ask 'Will I regret not taking this step?' and feel confident you're making the best choice for yourself.
Thirteen years ago, as entry #71 for The Rumpus's advice column "DEAR SUGAR," Cheryl Strayed wrote "The Ghost Ship That Didn’t Carry Us." That
People have been mad about 'cisgender' since at least 2007
If someone wants a world where no one is marked as cis, they must simultaneously fight for a world where no one is marked as trans.
The word transsexual first appeared in the 1920s in German, then the 1940s in English. It was coined by male sexologists who weren't themselves trans.
Trans Exiteration
I hear an -iteration with an ex- on it. I'm bad at moving forward. I'm a hanger-on to the past.
More than once, I've written my way through a narrow, thorny place.
I've narrated a life shift on the printed page. I continue to do
The Indispensable History of 'Sex Testing' in Sports
Waters keeps the book focused on the 1930s, with the history told in such a way that it's crystal clear how it's relevant today. The moral panic over trans people in sports continues not to be about sports.
Michael Waters has written this incredible book, The Other Olympians
There's a history book coming out very soon that I want to talk about all
Trans Volta
I didn't choose the word 'trans' to describe my unique life path, nor would I have chosen it, but these days, this word happens to be the umbrella that works in the rain. A word you can use alongside 'trans' is 'volta'.
A sonnet is a 14-line poem, traditionally with a rhyme scheme, that conveys a complex thought. It can pose a question and provide an answer,
A little autonomy diagram: Repro rights and gender
Bans on abortion and gender transition seem to me like arrows pointing in opposite directions: earlier and later. A ban on birth control, meanwhile, seems like an arrow that loops around from the middle of one human life to the beginning of a new one.
Reproductive rights, including birth control and abortion, are heavily grounded in the principle of autonomy over one's own body.
So is gender transition. That's a
I'm a Gender Autonomist
The term 'gender activist' is used to point at trans people living with dignity and solidarity, capable of saying 'no thank you' and daring to shrug at and disagree with someone who doesn't like them just because they're trans. 'Activist' is used as an insult for someone who believes in autonomy.
Bodily autonomy is important to everyone, though some don't feel its importance or can't explain why it's important until it's taken away or they realize
Geena Rocero's TED Talk Reveal
'Our spirits will always expand to fill whatever space we are given,' she says. She found her own face in the mirror, her own presence, emerging from nothingness.
In her memoir Horse Barbie, published earlier this year, model Geena Rocero tells us: “We are all of us works in progress, every draft of
Shaneel Lal's Fight Against Conversion Therapy
In 2022, powered by young activist Shaneel Lal, Aotearoa New Zealand banned conversion therapy. 'Stop congratulating me for being brave,' Lal says. Instead, 'annihilate the systems that force me to be brave.'
Recognizing you've always been 'One of Them'
Shaneel Lal, a 23-year-old activist, founded the Conversion Therapy Action Group which pushed to ban conversion therapy in
Introduction: Tucker Lieberman
Identities move together like ripples. They're ways of being.
Hi, I'm Tucker Lieberman. One cool thing about me is that when I'm asked to write about being trans, I write about something completely different,