[Image: Writer and academic Grace Lavery]
This week I attended and took photos at the Trans Negativity Symposium in Berkeley and San Francisco.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/funcrunch/albums/72177720336125034/
All photos licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Please credit me as Pax Ahimsa Gethen if you share any of them, thanks! Article to follow.
[Image: Pax attends a session at the 2026 NLGJA National Convention. Photo by Desmond Bracken.]
Following my attendance at the recent NLGJA National Convention for LGBTQ+ journalists, I reflect on the journalistic writing and photography I’ve done over the course of my life.
https://funcrunch.medium.com/am-i-a-journalist-yet-7ec21aaec592?sk=0b15959f4453081d69c76620f92aab1d
[Image: Cielo Sunsarae headshot by NeverStill Studio. The QT Project logo licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.]
Today in Assigned Media, I interview Cielo Sunsarae, founder and executive director of The Queer Trans Project, a nonprofit offering free trans-supportive assistance to folks in the US.
https://assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/interview-cielo-sunsaraes-nonprofit-t[Image: Afrika America, Sapphira Cristál, Nina Jones, and Katherine Goforth. Photo by Pax Ahimsa Gethen, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.]
This week I attended and took photos at the fifth annual Expansive showcase of trans and nonbinary classical artists, hosted in San Francisco by The Transgender District and Opera Parallèle.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/funcrunch/albums/72177720335356665/
All photos licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Please credit me as Pax Ahimsa Gethen if you share any of them, thanks!
[Image: Photo of Tavaria “Varia” Merritt and BTC logo courtesy of Be The Change LGBTQIA Community Inc.]
Today in Assigned Media, I interview Ms. Tavaria “Varia” Merritt, a Black trans woman who founded the Be the Change LGBTQ+ community support group while incarcerated.
https://assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/interview-advocacy-incarceration-varia-merritt
[Image: Brick houses in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Public domain photo.]
In today’s story on Medium, I reflect on friendship and loneliness as I contrast my childhood in Pittsburgh with my adult life in San Francisco.
In today’s story on Medium, I share thoughts on fair access to music and other media in the digital era.
https://medium.com/counterarts/you-own-nothing-02249a685bb6?sk=58a8ef7fa42ef40a9e606a108b806856
[Image: Pidgeon Pagonis (self photo), Krishna Istha (photo by Ceaseless Watcher), and madison moore (photo by Joe Mabel). All licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.]
In today’s story on Medium, I share biographies and photos of non-binary people that I’ve contributed to Wikipedia, in honor of International Non-Binary People’s Day.
Today on Medium I write about Snake.io, an arcade game I’m weirdly good at.
[Image: Left: Megan Rohrer and Pax present at Manny’s. Photo by Ziggy Tomcich. Right: Promo image for the event. Pax photo by Gwen Park.]
Today on Medium, I write about a panel on trans history I participated in last week at Manny’s, San Francisco.
