Tag: community
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As a trans therapist, my trans clients teach me how to build a better future
I share my client’s fears and struggles; they help me as much as I help them. I am looking out the window on the train home from Philadelphia with Beverly Glenn-Copeland singing a love song in my headphones. The sun blinks from behind the trees as it is setting across this very Pennsylvania landscape: rolling…
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Whose Freedom? A Mental Health Lens on July 4th
July 4th is framed as a celebration of freedom: we got to cookouts, fireworks, parades, see flags waving proudly in red, white, and blue. It’s meant to symbolize independence, liberty, and a collective pride in our national identity. But for many of us, especially those of us who are queer, trans, disabled, Black, Indigenous, people…
