Selected Articles
Schools teach us that we are nothing if we are not committed to burning out. That there is something inherently wrong with us if we are not changing the world. That there is shame in doing what you love, falling in love. That guilt can become a way of life at the small cost of a lifetime of unlearning.
Rather than labelling someone’s identity as the problem, we need to address the environments that exacerbate the mental distress by imposing a binary worldview on trans and gender non-conforming children.
Ara Morgenstern understands that some people might not know how to refer to them on first glance. In fact, the confusion experienced by people who don’t know how to gender Morgenstern can even be liberating.
Jack Verzuh, a national-level ultimate frisbee player from Seattle, was drawn to sports from a young age — in athletics, they were judged on their skills rather than their gender identity. But in more recent years, as Verzuh came out as transgender, they found the sporting community they always loved to be pretty restrictive and exclusive.
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Aaron Fowler speaks art into existence at SAM
Using unconventional materials and discarded objects, such as broken mirrors, cotton balls, hair weaves and car parts sourced from his local surroundings, Aaron Fowler creates elaborate assemblage paintings of lived and imagined narratives from personal experiences and those of his loved ones.
Kelly MacWhorter’s first personal experience with grief occurred during her inpatient training at Harborview Medical Center. After her patient died, she didn’t get an opportunity to express herself and was expected to continue working. When MacWhorter broke down during her shift, she realized that she was ill-equipped to handle grief’s impact on her ability to work.