Thank You The Forge Literary Magazine
They published my essay about gender euphoria and I am very grateful
Here is an excerpt from the piece:
Much has been said—& rightly so—of dysphoria: how it hangs, leaden, from the bone; how it threatens to swell us beyond the confines of our skin. When you are trans, the body is an argument that never ends. I spend much of my days arguing. It is tiring. It is ceaseless. I want something else instead. Let’s think of pleasure, then. One that cares not for rhetoric or logic or the hammers and wrenches of debate, that cares, instead, to grasp in the very real hand a very real hammer and find something euphoric in its weight. To drive a nail into a wall! A small gesture, one many might call futile. But, oh, how my blood cheers, a giddy chorus all belting Boy! when the scraps of metal and wood assemble into something that did not exist before.
Here is a link to the essay: https://forgelitmag.com/2020/09/28/gender-euphoria/
Here is a link to an interview they did with me, in which I mostly just talk about autism: https://forgelitmag.com/2020/09/28/uma-dwivedi/
Love to you all!