Trans Masculinity

Daniel M. Lavery uses faith, pop culture, and humor to unsettle the demand that trans lives follow a clear, uplifting narrative arc.

Using childhood journals and online community, Jackson Bird traces how language for a trans life emerges across family, school, and public storytelling.

Training for a bout at Madison Square Garden, Thomas Page McBee asks how violence, privilege, vulnerability, and care are made into masculinity.

Thomas Page McBee links childhood abuse, a near-fatal mugging and transition to ask how masculinity inherits violence - and how care, accountability and forgiveness might change it.