#summeroftrans

#Repost @wearetransilient ・・・ Alex, Birmingham, Alabama (@mcacbham ) "I really like - well right now I’m writing again, and I’m drawing again. I stopped for a while. A lot of my friends left. Well, to be specific, I left them. Because... I realized they were horrible people. So, for a while I stopped because I became really depressed and I didn’t really wanna do anything. And I just started up again. During that time, I spent a lot of time alone and taking long walks by myself and sort of, rediscovering myself. Right now, I’m just doing exercises. And then after I do drawing exercises I feel like I will finally find what I truly enjoy and my own style. There’s this one, well basically it’s a snake, but you draw circles. And each one has to be smaller than the one before it. And you connect them. And then you continue to make them farther apart, so you have to do curves and stuff. It’s a little hard. I would be invisible, (without Magic City Acceptance Center) since I have a lot of social anxiety and stuff. I don’t know, I guess I would sit back and observe people all the time. I know that sounds really creepy, but that’s what I would do. I came in here [MCAC] and I met a lot of great people. And then, with those great people some new people come in and I get to meet them as well. So, the whole time I’m just in this comfortable space with all of my friends." #transgender #transisbeautiful #lgbt #trans #SummerofTrans #MoreThanTrans #transyouth #Alabama #ftm #nonbinary #transisbeautiful (at Magic City Acceptance Center)

Thanks @wearetransilient for joining us to learn more about the youth we serve! ・・・ Eliot, Birmingham, Alabama “I went to a public magnet arts high school. I took an anatomy class that inspired me to want to get more involved with the medical field. I wanted to be a surgeon. The idea of going to school that long feels daunting. I am going back to school to be an EMT. I know I really want to work with kids. From what I understand, there is a specific nurse that gets to work with kids sometimes. I’m not sure how my career in medical work will look in the long run but that’s what school is for I guess. I also write a lot. Writing is the best way for me to communicate. I write mostly auto biographical poetry. It confronts some trauma and like mental stuff that I’ve dealt with. I wrote a poem not that long ago. At the moment, I want to organize all the stuff I have written and try to do something with it. The person who really inspired me to write and open up is Ruby Kaur through “Milk & Honey”. She’s written a lot about trauma and things that have happened to her. She’s formatted it in a way that also talks about healing too. I have a lot of trouble sometimes thinking about how everything is good and bad sometimes. She’s does that in a way that feels manageable to people, I think. I have written a piece recently that was hard for me to face and I am learning that if I can survive this thing that happened in the past, I can survive it now in whatever form it may come. “ #transgender #trans #ftm #mtf #lgbt #Alabama #transisbeautiful #MoreThanTrans #transyouth #poetry #poet #EMT #AL #SummerofTrans #youngin (at Magic City Acceptance Center)