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MAIDEN, MOTHER, AND CRONE: FANTASTICAL TRANS FEMMES

by Gwen Benaway April 30, 2019.

A Body like a Home

a long form essay about my SRS surgery.

trans girls in love

a long form essay about sexual violence, abusive relationships, and being a trans girl in love.

dreaming of home

a short essay on losing my “virginity”.

What Junot Diaz Doesn’t Say

an essay on the price that women pay to further men’s self development.

No Contact Rule

an essay on why CanLit is a dumpster fire.

Decolonial Love Letters to Our Bodies

a collaboration with Anishinaabe artist Quill Christie-Peters where we write decolonial love letters to our bodies.

Pussy http://carte-blanche.org/pussy/

PHD student at university of Toronto

Social Media

Instagram: runawaysupernova

Twitter: @GwenBenaway

her person website where you can find all of her essays https://gwenbenaway.com/

Benaway, G. (2017, June 21). The power—and the violence—of being an Indigenous trans woman. Maclean’s. Retrieved December 4, 2018, from https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/the-power-and-the-violence-of-being-an-indigenous-trans-woman/

Benaway, G. (2018, October 25). Trans people cannot be erased. We have always existed, and will continue to live. Maclean's. Retrieved December 4, 2018, from https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/trans-people-cannot-be-erased-we-have-always-existed-and-will-continue-to-live/

Essays. (2018, June 27). Retrieved December 4, 2018, from https://gwenbenaway.com/essays/

I. (n.d.). Maiden, Mother, And Crone: Fantastical Trans Femmes. Retrieved December 4, 2018, from https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/maiden-mother-and-crone-fantastical/9781988715216-item.html?ikwsec=Books&ikwidx=1

Hey Brad - I really like that you're bringing more focus to her work and her social media platforms - I think that those will be a great boost to the context and scope of her activism. Any more info. on her early life for the page? That would be interesting too - great job!

-Jess