Pregnancy Essays

My birth, whatever happens, will grow into many stories.
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Feeling unprepared is not a problem to be solved.
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I wasn’t the panicked part pretending to be the confident part anymore.
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As a pregnant trans man, I'm learning to find the stories that serve me, and to let go of the rest.
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It felt unbearable to think I might say yes and be wrong.
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Ever since I became a pregnant man, I have ceased to be believed about certain basic facts.
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“We are concerned that you are learning empowerment without self-preservation.” — from We Were Witches by Ariel Gore
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On learning to be a pregnant man in public.
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The shapes we give our stories matter.
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