Pax Ahimsa Gethen | queer • black • trans • vegan • atheist | blogger • photographer | social justice • gender & animal liberation

My stories on Medium

As I’ve seen some other writers doing this — here is an archive of the stories I’ve published on Medium, which I will attempt to keep updated (newest on top). This list contains only stories I originated, with the exception of a few substantive replies to others. Prior to September 2017, many of my posts were imported from my blog, the funcrunch files. Most of my stories focus on social justice, particularly transgender issues.

November 2023

Thoughts on the Death of Kissinger

On Ad Blockers, Paywalls, and Entitlement

October 2023

House Speaker Election Continues America’s Slide Into Theocracy

Children and War Crimes

In Praise of Plain Food

August 2023

Bleeding Cows for Profit

Ten Years in Transition: Living Up to My Name

Visibility and Resistance on Wikipedia in Fifteen Photos

A Single Bullet

Honoring the Trans Legacy of San Francisco

July 2023

The Truth About Trans Women

American Apartheid

Agender Awareness

Frequent Frenching for Fun

America: Love It Or Leave It?

June 2023

Marching Against Rainbow Militarism

Cisgender Definitions

For Feathered Friends

May 2023

Cross Words for Trying Times

This Is The Face of a Sexual Predator.

Mass Shootings Might Be Beyond the Reach of the Law

When Will Black Lives Matter in America?

April 2023

Gun Control Will Not Fix Gun Culture

Guns, Racism, and Respectability Politics

Black Lives Do Not Matter to American Cops

A Trans Girl Playing Sports Is Not An “Emergency”

March 2023

Celebrate Trans Visibility at the TransTech Summit

Trans Takeover at Creating Change

Trans Athletes and Fairness to Women

Accessibility, Ableism, and Accommodations

Mixed-Race and Rootless

February 2023

Life Sucks, But At Least There's Tea

Police Are the Mass Killers We Should Be Worried About

Atheism Explained

January 2023

Is Pacifism a Privilege?

Gun Safety Is An Oxymoron

T+9: Are We Male Yet?

December 2022

I Mask When Asked

Attacking Drag Queens Will Not Save Your Children

November 2022

Yes, ALL White People

Even a Dead Democrat Beats a Green Candidate

October 2022

Why Your Next Event Should Be Vegan

September 2022

Christians and “Nones”: Action vs Affiliation

Killing Kiwi Farms Won’t Stop Transphobia

June 2022

Vegan for Their Health, Not Mine

Keep Police Out of Pride

May 2022

Progressive Catholics, Please Explain Yourselves

Pregnant People: A Trans View on Abortion Rights Messaging

Cisgender Affirming Surgeries

April 2022

Traveling While Trans: Does “X” Mark the Spot?

March 2022

My Sex Chromosomes are Irrelevant

The Attempted Genocide of Transgender Americans

October 2021

Yes, Gender is a Fact

September 2021

Does Bisexuality Exclude Trans People?

May 2021

Trans Girls are Girls, and Trans Women are Women. Period.

November 2020

My Vote of No Confidence

July 2020

Trans Visibility Exposes Cis Fragility

Resistance to Going Vegan: Excuses and Responses

June 2020

Don’t Defund, Dismantle.

Menstruation Does Not Define Me

May 2020

Two Months in Lockdown

April 2020

Stop Blaming the Victims of Zoombombing

Of gods, atheists, and comfort in crisis

February 2020

Celebrities, Cows, and Connecting Oppressions

December 2019

At Birth: Who I Was vs Who I Am

No, Trans People Are Not Normal

November 2019

Carrying Our Genders In Our Wallets

October 2019

Cis People Are Literally Dying To Reveal Babies’ Genitals

August 2019

Promoting broad disclosure of pronouns

July 2019

Grasping at Straws

June 2019

Trans Heat Wave Diary

On Animals, Gender, Race, and Optics

Queer Attraction

April 2019

Deadnaming and Reclaiming

Eyeballs Have No Gender

January 2019

Ally is a Verb

Running for the Birds

T+5

December 2018

Bandersnatch and the Paxman

San Francisco Is Failing Its Residents

November 2018

My Gender Is Not Binary, and Neither Are My Politics

October 2018

Want to Support Queer and Trans People? Fix Your Churches.

Transmasculine musings in the #MeToo era

September 2018

Let’s celebrate bisexuality, minus the identity policing

Of puppets, headcanons, and gay agendas

This 9/11, the terrorists I fear are at home

What it takes to be president

Radical empathy

August 2018

Ten years a Wikipedian

Back of the pack

Five years in transition

Pose: Thoughts on gender, race, and identity

Is protest photography endangering activists?

July 2018

Boy juice

Security theater in pink and blue

Humans belong together. Immigrants are not “aliens”.

June 2018

Pride, politics, and protest

May 2018

Breasts, beards, and binaries

Vegan activism: Confronting connections between human and animal oppression

April 2018

My adventures in animal rights activism

Becoming a black man in America

The music of the resistance

Trans life in 2018: Visibility into action

March 2018

Marching for (some) lives

Trans women of color speak on the politics of visibility

Reclaiming and remembering queer space

Vegan ruminations

Nation of immigrants

February 2018

Dare to disarm

Show up for black and brown trans women

Is there slavery in your vegan chocolate?

January 2018

Animals are not “meats”

Documenting the resistance

When a dog whistle becomes a siren

Dairy: White Lies

Fire and Fury: A review from the margins

Duolingo and my history of lazy Spanish practice

December 2017

So you’re going vegan for New Year’s

Sobering up to sexual harassment realities

November 2017

Conflicted thoughts on Thanksgiving

Trans resistance and resilience

To see and be seen clearly

System working as intended

October 2017

White House Arrest

Respecting trans lives on Wikipedia

Validation, not victory, for non-binary Californians

Assimilation or extermination

Celebrating our sisters

Victim and survivor

September 2017

Freedom to oppress: Berkeley’s civil war

This week in woke Wikipedia

Bigotry, not madness

June 2017

Bigoted vegans piss on Pride month

October 2016

Some good news for non-binary folks

July 2016

Dear Melania: Please don’t teach your kid to hit people

The LGBTQ and The Donald

June 2016

Gender and gaming: The Sims bulldozes binaries

April 2016

California voters: Check your affiliations

Not seeing eye to eye

Freedom to discriminate in Mississippi

March 2016

On “not seeing” race or gender

Non-binary erasure at the Oscars

February 2016

South Dakota’s fixation with children’s penises

January 2016

Men in skirts

Thoughts on copyright in the digital age

Black Vegans Rock is live!

December 2015

Be a Man

November 2015

Announcing Black Vegans Rock

Clothing has no gender.

Tolerance is not acceptance

We just need to pee

October 2015

Don’t know much biology

September 2015

A-gendering we will go

Our lives, our stories

Sometimes you’re just a jelly donut

What I wanted to wear: Performing masculinity

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