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MxNillin’s Crash Pad Series Site Review

January 19, 2017January 10, 2017 — MxNillinLeave a comment

Navigating adult entertainment as a gender diverse individual, either online or offline, can be a pretty dehumanizing and disheartening experience much of the time. While I can find a lot of content featuring trans women performers with ease, unfortunately, practically

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Dear, Canadian Blood Services: Your Donor Policies are Transphobic, Homophobic, and Inhumane

June 23, 2016 — MxNillinLeave a comment

I am impure. I am tainted. I am dangerous. At least according to Canadian Blood Services, I am. Over the course of this past week, they have excitedly announced “groundbreaking” changes to their intake of blood from gay men; which

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Queer & Trans

Bathrooms and Being Non-Binary

April 26, 2016August 10, 2017 — MxNillin1 Comment

Here I am on an average Monday. My hair is all messy, pulled back into pigtails, and I have visible stubble on my face because I haven’t shaved for 2-days. I am well aware that I do not “pass”. Even

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Queer & Trans

Walking on Eggshells: How Trans People are Gaslighted and Denied Their Anger

April 14, 2016August 10, 2017 — MxNillinLeave a comment

Anger. It’s an emotion. People get angry all of the time and, like every other emotion, anger is valid, right? You are free to feel what you feel, vent about things, be mad about the shitty stuff going on, and

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