Jalia Maléy Brodie
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enigmatic, subversive fool • @headfirst4art via Twitter
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The Dangers of Non-Transgender Affirming Health Care: A Microcosm of a Culturally Incompetent System
NOTE: The following information will be updated as more information presents itself. Additionally, the text below utilizes a slur that has been reclaimed by the LGBTQ+ community. With this publication, it my intention to elucidate the conversation of transgender welfare and the painful realities that persist within today's medical and political climates.
By Jalia Maléy Brodie4 years ago in Pride
The Corkscrew Spine
I’ve gone irretrievably out of my head, they say. But it was I, and not them, who passed through corridors of well-wrought horrors, silently cursing the hands that bore them. These horrors—portraits of my ancestors—vilified me in confidence, watching every fiber of my being. The dead were not alone in their scrutiny, for at the end of the hall hung a monstrosity borne from my own hand, a token of drunken stupor.
By Jalia Maléy Brodie4 years ago in Horror
You Won't Find Us Here
“We’ve been in the wind too long,” he says, through gritted teeth. His hair is funny, the way it pokes out from the sides of his head. I would laugh, but there is nothing lyrical left within me. I’ve forfeited pieces of myself for capsules in orange bottles. These I carry, in white-knuckled fists, as a chalky powder dissolves in my bloodstream. He knows, and my explanations (a myriad of excuses) cause him to deflate, teary-eyed. Perhaps I’ve broken him—it seems he’s given up searching for sunshine in dark places.
By Jalia Maléy Brodie4 years ago in Fiction
