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IT’S FINALLY HERE!

ISSUE 04! OUT NOW!

Read the other issues, here:

Issue 01

Issue 02

Issue 03

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"The one thing that they always told me I could not have was to be trans. The one thing I was after — that killed me. But now I'm actually living it. It's tangible."

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Cross Your T & Dot Their Eyes: Singing on HRT

ISSUE 04

OUT FRIDAY!

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STAY TUNED!!

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transfemme and transmasc solidarity! (prints, stickers, digital download, and tattoo tickets available)

[Start ID/ Digital art of two hormone vials that have been repurposed as flower vases sit next to each other. On the left, there's lavender sprigs sprouting from the estradiol valerate vial and on the right, purple pansies sprout from the testosterone cypionate vial. /end ID]

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ISSUE 03!

I am not the artist of any of the images shown, except for the way they are collaged and remixed. I couldn’t source every artist but I have credited the ones I found below, in order of appearance, here:

A take on The Creation of Adam - Domenico Scalise

Ink art of human anatomy - @tangerineseed on tumblr and twitter

Pen & Ink Tentacle - Jen Borror

(5 of Cups) The Ritual Tarot - Tiera May

Acrylic Blueberry - Ellen Williamson

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This issue will focus on the religious guilt and marveling questions I’ve churned on within the journey of my transition. I’ve had to unpack many Christian ideologies because I grew up in a religious household. I often have had to define for myself what knowledge to honor and what knowledge to discredit, or what I may just have to accept that I’ll never arrive at a set answer.

Queerness is something that has been deeply ostracized, more critically when we engage Black queerness or transness. The epistemology, or knowledge system, is demoralized and seen to be primitive. Black transness is made up of most things white supremacist Christianity rejects. I internally battle with these facts every moment of my life and in a world like this, will that ever cease?

ISSUE 03 OUT FRIDAY MARCH 8, 2025!

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As a Black trans masc I often ask myself, and especially when I was reading this 5 minute article, what is masculinity? Contrary to popular belief, I don’t think of it as an opposite to femininity, but as something that coincides and harmonizes with feminine. Then again, binaries never made sense to me, especially as a Black person, because it is not how I experience the world, it is how I am taught, forced even, to experience the world.

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MORE TRANS ZINES! MORE TRANS ZINES! MORE TRANS ZINES!!!!!

new mini-zine I made at the pride event yesterday. it's therianthropy propaganda 🐶 it's not intended to be that serious. and the full file is on itch of course:

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Issue 03 COMING SOON! VERY SOON! THIS FRIDAY!

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‼️ long post alert OH BOY

Being transgender is hard, especially in countries like the US or in the Middle East, but I’m doing my best to look not at everything we risk by being transgender, openly or otherwise, but instead look at the wonderful experiences we gain. Here are some of my favorite things about being trans (I’m ftm, so some of these may be transmasc specific!):

Gender euphoria is an obvious one, but!! I’m so serious! Getting gender euphoria from tiny things especially. Taking my T shot and putting on ✨ dinosaur footprint bandaids ✨ (so boy core), my dad cutting my hair for me when it grows out too much, finding new and creative ways to bind more comfortably, and the realization that the dysphoria has finally begun to not get worse, and has instead begun to get better.

Having the experiences of two sexes! I am a man, I identify as male, but I’ve had the same experiences many young girls have all the same, and I don’t see that as a detriment! I feel like I can be so much more open minded, so much more understanding, and as someone who wants to be a therapist, being able to do that is monumental. It’s hard some days, but I like trying to embrace the “”girly”” parts of my childhood too, even though I was lucky enough to not be super confined to my past gender role as a kid by my family.

Doing things as a boy. Full stop. Baking, cooking, sewing, drawing. Doesn’t matter how simple. It is now my boy activity to do as boy. I’m not saying these are boy exclusive activities, but that they hit different when I participate in them as my preferred gender!! /pos

Being able to be gay in a relationship with men. I love my boyfriend so much, he is fantastic.

The bonus hole™️

Getting to truly own my body at the end of the day and really call it “home”. Getting to mold it to fit what I love and who I am. Understanding that my old body was not a bad one, but my new one is so much more me. And I did that. Maybe I won’t make the incision when I get top surgery, but I will guide the cut, and when it’s all said and done, my body will be really and truly mine.

The journey. I love the journey. It’s not easy. Sometimes it sucks. Sometimes I wish I was just cis. But I’ve met so many wonderful people through this journey, and formed bonds that would take the weight of mountains to shatter. I’ve experienced the joys of starting HRT. Of getting my name changed. Of getting “M” on my drivers license for the first time. So many things that cis people take for granted—a deep voice, matching genitals, etc—but also things that they will never get to experience, that are exclusive to trans people. I love that my experience is unique in that way.

Giving advice to other trans individuals. Being able to tell them it will be okay. Passing forward the knowledge that was passed down to me from so many trans people and allies before me. Protecting trans kids and giving them hope.

Comparing my experiences to trans people on the other end of the spectrum! I love it when trans mascs and trans fems trade experiences. When they help each other, and laugh together, and get along. I love my MTF friends and I love so much that the girlhood that didn’t suit me makes them so, so happy. Love the girlies out there and I wish you all the femininity you desire, or masculinity if that’s more your speed! Masc women are awesome too 😎👏

Being alive in a time when, even though things aren’t perfect, I still have spaces to be myself, and still have spaces where I know I am loved. That can’t be taken for granted and can’t be forgotten, especially today.

Never forget that you are loved, if not by anyone in your life, then by ME, goddamnit. And never forget that your experience is beautiful, worthwhile, and deserves to be listened to. Even the rough patches. Especially the rough patches. But for today, If anyone else wants to share their top five or top ten or even their one positive trans experience I would love to hear. I at least could use some more positivity right now!

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Happy Valentine's Day! Go Kiss a trans person today! ❤️🏳️‍⚧️

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Cross Your T & Dot Their Eyes Issue 02

Coming soon! VERY SOON! FEBRUARY 7TH!

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a brown-ish, beige-ish, black-ish siamese kitty with slate blue-gray eyes peers out a Los Angeles apartment window, making eye contact with a trans masc beauty (me).

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ISSUE 02 OUT NOW! You can read the Issue 01 here!

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Today is the Day!

Cross Your T & Dot Their Eyes Issue 02 is out later today at 12pm!

Photo Source: Cocoa Rodriguez & Queen Allyson

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Cross Your T & Dot Their Eyes Issue 02

Coming soon! VERY SOON! FEBRUARY 7TH!

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HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH! Let's celebrate and listen to Black Trans voices always but especially this month. A beautiful, succinct telling of Black transmasculine life