If you like short, critical essays on novels, films, poetry, music, critical theory, haircuts, people u don’t like, people u like 2 much, psychoanalysis, body parts, etc. I write those and post them here, so that could work. I’m also a trans woman, about eighteen months into a medical and social transition, and that’s an important part of my writing and my reading.

I use this newsletter to explore trans questions within a feminist frame, and often through various attempts to be funny. That means, for me:

• trans feminism shares goals with other kinds of feminism, and “trans women are women” is a descriptive statement about how we all relate to one another.

• I am not dogmatic about the nature of my transness (I barely understand it myself), and I welcome discussion and disagreement.

• trans experience and embodiment is neither new nor uniform - part of this work is to uncover historical expressions of transness in historical figures usually not associated with it. In that frame, I think about transness with a number of historical writers - Browning, Descartes, Eliot, Swinburne, Freud - as well as contemporary poets like Jos Charles,