Tag: Glad

Even in normal times, Glad Day bookshop is an intensely creative and inclusive space. Part cafe, part bar, part event space, part oldest-queer-bookshop-in-the-world, the Church and Wellesley establishment is an important feature of Toronto’s LGBT+ community. On an average Sunday, it’s no...

When I was seven, my teacher put in a peculiar assignment in literature class. We had to create a poem explaining why it was better to be our gender. In the book, there were two examples. The boys' one and the girls' one. On the boys' side, there were hundreds of skills: “We are...

The fucked up part is that cis isn’t even intended as a slur. Cis is just the opposite of being trans. You identify as the gender you were assigned at birth. Most people don’t even encounter the word. It only gets brought up by trans people really. But even if it IS a slur, maybe you ...