I’m here. I’m Black. I’m queer. And it felt like time to come out officially to you all as trans.🏳️‍⚧️ Although I’ve been using the term nonbinary for myself, along with he/they pronouns, I’ve avoided using the term trans. The term nonbinary is under the umbrella term trans, yet I

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The outfit and pics from back in the day as I took back my sense of self. 🌙💖🐦‍🔥🦄🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🦸🏽‍♂️✊🏽

Two years ago, I entered my sixth episode of suicidality due to emotional abuse from a white intimate partner. I would enter a seventh episode when I saw the person around. I’m finally ready to more fully share what occurred, starting with gratitude for these friends and all of

Real talk on what it means to be visible as a Black, queer person in this world and living with a history of suicidality.🌙💖🐦‍🔥🦄🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🦸🏽‍♂️

@ChaseTMAnderson I'm a survivor of HPV related tonsil cancer and someone who made videos to my 3 kids saying goodbye 11 years ago when initially diagnosed and beginning 7 weeks of chemo, radiation and a feeding tube. Can we work together to share my story to increase HPV

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Best friends since the beginning of residency. Family for a lifetime, in every lifetime. Forever your LGBTQ+ child and adolescent psychiatrists. Celebrating one of our birthdays months later because someone was in D.C. for World Pride on the actual date. We both are here with

Good afternoon, Sailor Warriors. How beautiful of you all to be finding your voices and speaking out in your own unique ways after being silenced for so long.🌙🐦‍🔥💖🦄🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🦸🏽‍♂️✊🏽

To go from a white dean in medical school telling a mentee I worked with that he should “be careful about who he picked as mentors,” because I’d brought out her racism and biases, to being asked to be an official mentor at UCSF three years ago for these four absolutely phenomenal

Normalize becoming a society where every Black person lives happily ever after, one where there is no question if we will live until old age, one where we don’t grow up in constant fear of being murdered by police or people enacting white supremacy.

Good morning to everyone this morning, especially anyone living with suicidality. You are not alone. You are loved. We’re right here with you. I love you so much, Your Black, trans, child and adolescent psychiatrist with a history of depression and suicidality (in remission).

Good morning to everyone, except this current administration as they take away the rights of women, LGBTQ+ people, racially minoritized people, etc. (feel free to add your own group). Good gods, it feels great to be resurrecting this series. Love you all so much.💖

https://t.co/afxMHqMNRa Going from feeling utterly ashamed of - and hiding - my suicidality, from being told by constantly white classmates and administrators that I wasn't good enough, to writing an article for @medpagetoday about the four-part framework that we created and use

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Diving into the cool waters of six months with zero suicidal thoughts feels glorious. The swimsuit: Princess Leia, Return of the Jedi. The era: our softest, most loving, and most ruthless yet. What a gift, to truly be embracing my authority as a Black, trans child and

Going from my program directors in residency labeling me as unprofessional, rating my professionalism below my peers, and department faculty having meetings where they discussed my clothing and way of existing, to now being invited to be part of UCSF’s Clinical Educator Faculty

Trans joy and so glad to be walking along my unique (gender) journey with this amazing family and you all.🏳️‍⚧️ After celebrating, we proceeded to roast, betray, and murder the shit out of each other in Mafia.🌙💖🐦‍🔥🦄🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🦸🏽‍♂️✊🏽 Yours truly got to a stalemate with the last mafia