If you don’t follow me on Instagram (@maegoeswestblog), you may not know about the Pride Playlist I’ve been posting since the beginning of June. These are songs by queer artists that express how I feel about Pride and being in the queer community. I know a lot of Pride celebrations concluded this weekend, but my …
Today was the first day. The first day that a flame has been ignited somewhere in the region of my solar plexus. It's a familiar flame, burning white hot, just below the surface. It's a flame that I lost when I was sick. Another thing that cancer took from me. But friends, I didn't know …
Since I started volunteering at Inside Out Youth Services and then later worked there, I have connected with so many youth who don't identify with the sex they were assigned at birth. So many defeated youth whose identities are inadvertently or even directly disrespected on a daily basis. I sat with so many youth at …
Continue reading Cameron: An Ode to People Living in a Binary Gendered World
Did you hear/read that Sam Smith came out as non-binary yesterday? If not, I recommend stopping here to read this NBC article. This is such exciting news for many reasons, one of the main ones being that the more we shine a spotlight on "gender queer" "non-binary" "gender non-conforming (GNC)" the more our society can …
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1. Stuff you Missed in History Class: This is one of my favorite podcasts of all time. Tracy V. Wilson and Holly Frey explore people, places, or events that are either fudged over or bypassed altogether in history books. One of my favorite episodes is "The Tuskagee Syphillis Study" in which the hosts outline one …
When we went to Washington D.C., I couldn't pass up a visit to the Holocaust Museum. I've wanted to see the museum since I wrote a paper on Dr. Mengele in the sixth grade. Several of my friends have visited the one in Amsterdam and the one in D.C., and they warned me that I …
I have been talking, thinking, and dreaming about road trips a lot lately, if you haven't noticed (here, here, and here) in preparation for my road trip to the beach in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Now that I'm back, I have even more to say about road trips! This was a particularly challenging adventure because the …
Mae Goes West 