A Friend’s Journey

by Katherine Alford
Morningside Meeting

It was four days before our son, who is transgender, was to have gender affirming surgery, and my insurance company, Aetna, informed me that it would not be covered. This was a shock, as I lived and worked in New York, where such discrimination is illegal —but because the health insurance policy of the company I worked for, Scripps Networks, had been written in Texas, this could happen. 

Listen.

by Omen Weaver
Powell House

Multicolored

by Cai Quirk
Ithaca Meeting

they can try to

            erase our stories

            erase our multicolored identities

            erase our very bodies from this earth

but they cannot hide