Alex, the Hearth Fire
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That moment when “what are you?” becomes “an experience.” 🫶
That moment when “what are you?” becomes “an experience.” 🫶
Lisa Melton
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My biggest transition advice is do it *now*.
Every legal/medical process takes 10x longer than you're thinking, 99% of it is reversible and all the irreversible stuff takes months and your doctor/etc will likely fight tooth and nail to not let you.
Get the new name, swap the pronouns, buy some clothes. There is no reason to delay if it is safe for you.
My biggest transition advice is do it *now*.
Every legal/medical process takes 10x longer than you're thinking, 99% of it is reversible and all the irreversible stuff takes months and your doctor/etc will likely fight tooth and nail to not let you.
Get the new name, swap the pronouns, buy some clothes. There is no reason to delay if it is safe for you.
Alex, the Hearth Fire
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Angel Maxine Opoku is a Ghanaian musician and a trans woman. She uses her music to speak out against anti-LGBTQ+ attitudes and laws.
#Trans #Transgender #NonBinary #Positivity #TransJoy #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #LGBTQI #LGBTQ #LGBTI #LGBT
Angel Maxine Opoku is a Ghanaian musician and a trans woman. She uses her music to speak out against anti-LGBTQ+ attitudes and laws.
#Trans #Transgender #NonBinary #Positivity #TransJoy #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #LGBTQI #LGBTQ #LGBTI #LGBT
Roland
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Alex Akselrod
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Thoughts I’ve been sitting with...
Death shaped my summer i.e. losing a family member and a close friend unexpectedly.
I still showed up with care, even without being on an “official” volunteer list.
Recently, I was quietly removed from a WhatsApp group chat I’d been contributing to.
No heads-up. No conversation. Just gone.
It stung. Not because I need titles—
but because I believe in #RelationalTech, in showing up with softness, and in honouring grief as part of leadership.
So I’m choosing to go where I’m wanted,
not where I’m merely tolerated.
Where grief isn’t punished.
Where care is reciprocal.
Where soft leadership is seen as strength.
If you’re in Metro Vancouver building spaces like that (or want to), let’s connect 🐾
I’m here for federated futures and the people who make tech feel like a hug.
Thanks for your inclusiveness and #HumanKindness.
Thoughts I’ve been sitting with...
Death shaped my summer i.e. losing a family member and a close friend unexpectedly.
I still showed up with care, even without being on an “official” volunteer list.
Recently, I was quietly removed from a WhatsApp group chat I’d been contributing to.
No heads-up. No conversation. Just gone.
It stung. Not because I need titles—
but because I believe in #RelationalTech, in showing up with softness, and in honouring grief as part of leadership.
So I’m choosing to go where I’m wanted,
not where I’m merely tolerated.
Where grief isn’t punished.
Where care is reciprocal.
Where soft leadership is seen as strength.
If you’re in Metro Vancouver building spaces like that (or want to), let’s connect 🐾
I’m here for federated futures and the people who make tech feel like a hug.
Thanks for your inclusiveness and #HumanKindness.
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Alex, the Hearth Fire
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Today is a very important day to me. I came to realization of my sexuality and gender in May 2017. I came out of the closet in that June. But at the time I went by they/them pronouns and an agender identity so I wasn't sure if I would change my name. I had a friend who was curious if I would. I worked full-time/overtime in Culinary and was processing a divorce so to get her off my back I told her.
"Yeah, sure write me a list and I will tell you what I think"
I did not expect her to succeed. She sat down with pictures and a nonbinary friend and they came up with a list. On it was my name. When I read it I blacked out for a moment. I tried deadnaming myself afterwards and it caused great discomfort. I went to therapy and work the next day and changed my name to "Taylor".
October 11th is more important than when I came out because changing my name gave me space and permission to dwell on my personality seperate from who I used to be. I learned I was shamed out of feminity so I avoided it. I came out again a few months later as a trans woman. Had my first boyfriend a few months after that.
I've had friends start to tell me they love me more now than they ever did before. That I have become a more enjoyable person and that was not just because I let these people feel my blossoming trans titties, but because I had changed. Changed into a playful but brave woman that they really enjoyed. The core parts of me stayed but a lot of me shone through with a radiance my best friends of 20 years admired and loved.
A name is very important to us within the community. It gives us permission to be what we hid, and a place to leave all that closeted garbage behind. When my parents finally came around they told me that Taylor Lilian was a beautiful name and one they could have seen themselves naming me if they had known.
Today is a day of personal celebration because, as much as knowing my sexuality isn't straight and my gender isn't cis-oriented is important, it is not nearly as important as who I am and what I stand for. It's why it's so important to respect a trans person's name because I am absolutely not that sad, fedora-loving, depressed, dysphoric, piece of shit. I am Taylor and you can take that from my cold dead queer hands.
#transjoy #nameversary #lgbt
Today is a very important day to me. I came to realization of my sexuality and gender in May 2017. I came out of the closet in that June. But at the time I went by they/them pronouns and an agender identity so I wasn't sure if I would change my name. I had a friend who was curious if I would. I worked full-time/overtime in Culinary and was processing a divorce so to get her off my back I told her.
"Yeah, sure write me a list and I will tell you what I think"
I did not expect her to succeed. She sat down with pictures and a nonbinary friend and they came up with a list. On it was my name. When I read it I blacked out for a moment. I tried deadnaming myself afterwards and it caused great discomfort. I went to therapy and work the next day and changed my name to "Taylor".
October 11th is more important than when I came out because changing my name gave me space and permission to dwell on my personality seperate from who I used to be. I learned I was shamed out of feminity so I avoided it. I came out again a few months later as a trans woman. Had my first boyfriend a few months after that.
I've had friends start to tell me they love me more now than they ever did before. That I have become a more enjoyable person and that was not just because I let these people feel my blossoming trans titties, but because I had changed. Changed into a playful but brave woman that they really enjoyed. The core parts of me stayed but a lot of me shone through with a radiance my best friends of 20 years admired and loved.
A name is very important to us within the community. It gives us permission to be what we hid, and a place to leave all that closeted garbage behind. When my parents finally came around they told me that Taylor Lilian was a beautiful name and one they could have seen themselves naming me if they had known.
Today is a day of personal celebration because, as much as knowing my sexuality isn't straight and my gender isn't cis-oriented is important, it is not nearly as important as who I am and what I stand for. It's why it's so important to respect a trans person's name because I am absolutely not that sad, fedora-loving, depressed, dysphoric, piece of shit. I am Taylor and you can take that from my cold dead queer hands.
#transjoy #nameversary #lgbt
Alex, the Hearth Fire
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On National Coming Out Day we celebrate LGBTQ+ people who live their lives out and proud and those who made the coming out process easier for us. We also remember that coming out may not be safe for everyone and they are no less valid.
On National Coming Out Day we celebrate LGBTQ+ people who live their lives out and proud and those who made the coming out process easier for us. We also remember that coming out may not be safe for everyone and they are no less valid.
ghouls for commensality 🧿
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Listen to my interview on CBC's Daybreak on my community quilt project that I organized and facilitated this year with engAGE (Concordia University) and Gay & Grey Montreal.
The reporter, Dionne Codrington, did an amazing job reporting on this and I'm super happy with how the segment turned out!