Pink Hair & Pronouns May 2024
May 17 is International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia
Greetings to all you lovely Pink Hair & Pronouns peeps, and welcome to May! Yes, I realize I’m several days late with my welcome, but hey, sometimes that’s the way we busy parents roll, amirite?
Since I’m running behind on this newsletter — and seemingly everything else in my world — I’m gonna jump right in. Enjoy!
April writing prompt: What Went Right
To All the Mothers Who Raised Me
An open letter to all the women who showed me what family was when my own couldn’t.
By AND ALSO…
A Crush on a Lesbian Helped Me Come Out as Trans
The promise of love forced me to confront my authentic self.
By Simply Sophia
When Your Child Won’t Ever Be the Black Woman Holding Down the Family
Reconciling my child’s gender nonconformity with previously held beliefs
By 🧘🏾♀️The Black Yogini🫂
My Genderfluid Tween Tried to Explain Their Identity to My Dad
It went really well, though not in the way you might expect.
By Dana DuBois
More great April reads
Intersectional Identities: Trans and Hard of Hearing
And being told to hide both
By Dr. Patrick Bryce Wright
I Came Out in Sixth Grade. It Felt Amazing and Affirming.
It was my first time adopting my true gender in public, but not as I would have liked.
By Joanna Mills
5 Gifts from my Transgender Daughter
The beautiful surprises I hadn’t known I needed
By Lisa
Anxiety Burst Into My Eighth Grade Mind as I Watched My Body in Horror
It never left and it’s sucking me back, telling me I left something in my cart.
By Joanna Mills
The Beginning Of The End. Puberty Sprouted Chest Hair Instead Of Breasts
I got the wrong chest development for a transgender girl. Hair started sprouting instead of my nipples.
By Joanna Mills
May writing prompt: Family
May means Mother’s Day, so let’s hear it for the moms (and other family members) raising gender-nonconforming kids.
For May, our Pink Hair & Pronouns writing prompt is family.
We welcome you to interpret this theme as broadly as you wish. Stories need not be about motherhood or mothering, nor do they need to be about families of origin. Chosen families, neighborhood families, and of course, our own blood families, are all welcome topics. We know raising kids always takes a village, and that’s especially so with gender-nonconforming kids.
Feel free to take all the liberties as you craft your stories.
Please use the tag “Family” as one of your five tags so we can identify and share your story on our homepage and in next month’s newsletter.
If you’re not already a writer for Pink Hair & Pronouns and would like to join, please let us know in the comments and we’ll be sure to add you.
Thanks to our readers and especially our PHAP writers!
We couldn’t do this without all our amazing writers and readers. Thanks again for another amazing month!
Sending all the love to you and yours…
Melissa Corrigan |Simply Sophia | A Queer Guy in Seattle | Gülya Kerimoğlu | Carrie | Imaginary Liz | Arpad Nagy | Christopher Robin | KiKi Walter | Chris Thompson | Carol Lennox | Ossiana Tepfenhart | Sangeeta Kalsi | A.J. Cralle (she, her) | Brian Myers | C. E. Janecek | Daev Emruby | Doktor K | Edward Swafford | E. S. | Lost Layla | Jennifer Van Orman | Ibad Roshan🦋 | Janet Meisel | Sally Gallagher | Jo Lovatt — (KryptaKitty) | Miserable KANT ☢ | Tony Leo | Loan Nguyen | Martha Burger | MaryClare StFrancis, M.A. | Mary DeVries | Shauna Anderson | Michelle Marie Warner | Phoenix R. | Dr. Patrick Bryce Wright | Rachel Guthrie Priestley | Rae Lynn Sommers | Sasha Moods | Karen Marie Shelton | J Stier | 🇱🇰 Tania Mc Mullen |
XOXOXO,
Your Editrix,
Dana DuBois
