My Queer Reflections on Gender-Affirming Care for Cis, Straight Folx
You're probably already receiving gender-affirming care. You just call it healthcare.
Lasara Firefox Allen, MSW
A newsletter about my random and ranging thoughts as a writer, coach, and "them fatale." Welcome the the genderqueer side!
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Twelve Times Madonna Challenged and Changed Us All
Gender, Power, and Pit Hair
The Spirit of Christmas, Present
The Magic of Santa Claus When it comes to the delicate matter of belief, there are creative ways to answer our children’s questions without taking magic out of the equation. The winter holiday season provides ample opportunities to build magic up, or to tear it down.
Aging Parents, Invisible Labor, and the Infrastructure That Was Never Built
Aging Parents, Invisible Labor, and the Infrastructure That Was Never Built. As Boomers and the Silent Generation age, Gen X is absorbing the failures of America’s care infrastructure — exposing how inequity, unpaid labor, and policy neglect converge in our homes and health systems.
To Hell With the Devil You Know
My Queer Reflections on Risk Aversion: As folx who have experienced trauma, we love to stick to the known. But what of the moment when we realize that perhaps anything is better than the predictability of continued trauma?
It’s Not Radical—It’s Just What’s Right
Why the Left Should Embrace a Platform That Puts Disenfranchised People First
Tactical Gradations in Direct Action
Some considerations.
My Queer Reflections on the Fine Art of Diagnosis Collecting, aka, ADHD? In This Economy??
On ADHD, gender-expansiveness, and the queer art of diagnosis collecting—because sometimes the right name isn’t just a label, it’s a map.
My Queer Reflections on the Twisted Path: Birth, Death, and Transition
We are Monster, hear us roar.
A Response to the Inauguration, from The Desk of the Executive Director of a Queer Org
In my role as Executive Director of a queer mental health and peer support org, I have a few words: we will keep us safe.