Kay Ulanday Barrett

Sep 14, 2023 | them.us | Wren Sanders |Chala June |Kay Ulanday Barrett |Michael Love Michael |Jake Hall |James Factora | +2 more

When transgender people hatch out of our “eggs,” as we say in our in-group parlance, it’s tempting to never look back. There’s something seductive to the simplicity of metamorphosis, to a narrative of self that treats the construct of a “deadname” as more than mere metaphor. Our egg gets “cracked,” we shed the shell, and we’re suddenly new.

Sep 14, 2023 | yahoo.com | Wren Sanders |Chala June |Kay Ulanday Barrett |Michael Love Michael |Jake Hall |James Factora | +3 more

When transgender people hatch out of our “eggs,” as we say in our in-group parlance, it’s tempting to never look back. There’s something seductive to the simplicity of metamorphosis, to a narrative of self that treats the construct of a “deadname” as more than mere metaphor. Our egg gets “cracked,” we shed the shell, and we’re suddenly new.