Trans Day of Visibility Vengeance, 2025
Visible
but not seen
Valid
but denied
Proud
but made to feel ashamed
Out of the closet
but into another one
Living my truth
but trying to hide it
Finding my voice
but dreading the sound of it
Loved
but on what condition
Here with you
a world away
This evening I attended a special meeting held by the Boulder County Commissioners regarding federal impacts to latino people here in our part of Colorado. The meeting was intended to bring together various leaders working to support Colorado latinos– non-profit organizers, legal experts, community advocates, etc.– to discuss the issues
Content warning: the following poem contains re-claimed slur words and may be uncomfortable for some readers.
The following was originally published by POWDER Magazine on 10/19/2023 and has been reprinted here as a backup When my friend Cadence Sweetser called me to tell me she reached out to the producers of Advice for Girls and got us both spots as athletes in the film,
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