About My Words:
Are you interested in the unchanging change we are all experiencing? Through the broad lenses of environmental humanities and queer theory, I want to tease through the experience of transitioning. Transitions for trans* people often focus on physical changes, but as a trans* person who is currently not pursuing a medical transition, I feel compelled to examine the changes I am embodying and seeing. The act of transition is imbued with potential and speculation, alongside a reckoning of embodied pasts. I am working for it to be an act of generative hope and healing.
This newsletter will include essays, interviews, and musings about the world in transition from your virtual-neighborhood trans-boy-gardener. Basically, it is the love story of boy and world: facing a second puberty, together. Potential topics range from transmale reckonings with masculinity to plant adaptations to Climate Change. It will all make sense conceptually together, I promise!
Everything will be spiced with a hearty dash of queer theory, a lot of love, and the fruits of school-free gap-semester time.
About Me:
I’m Hen! I am an on-pause junior at Williams College, spending time reading books, making fancy food, and gardening. Two out of three of those I get paid for, guess which? I study bodies, environments, justice, poetry, and storytelling. I’m currently thinking a lot about collectivity in aid and storytelling, fluid futures, and decolonizing the archive. I am always trying to practice mindfulness, intention, and compassion. I identify as neurodivergent and (gender)queer and always feel that I am in transition.
