Tell Us As You Write Your Story: What’s Been Standing in Your Way?
I’ve learned so much from writing about transphobia
6 min readAug 10, 2023
When writers don’t know how to continue an essay, we often use the metaphor of a roadblock, as if something stood between us and our goal and we didn’t detect any path to circumvent it. Or we use the metaphor of stuckness, as if our feet were trapped in mud.