My first essay with Electric Literature is up! Enjoy it here!

Transgender mourning and transgender joy are two sides of the same coin. As a community, we suffer the depths of mourning for our lost transgender siblings when we recognize the joy they have been robbed of. So many of us already start living life as our true selves at a later age, taking on our true names and identities long after our cisgendered counterparts. Then violence continually cuts our lives even shorter.

We deserve so much more than to be censored, to be truncated, to be invisible. 

Thank you for reading! For more of my work, check out my portfolio or reach out at my email, kaiaballwrites@gmail.com. Next essay with Electric Literature is coming in June, so stay tuned!