i had a whole big thing i was going to write up about transness and visibility and certain messily conflicted feelings of my own but the thing is i am Tired so instead i'm just going to say:
hi! i'm brin, and i've been Doing The Trans Thing for a while now (first came out in 2007, baybeeeeeeeeeeee). i write things, mainly music, sometimes words, and also Jewish liturgy
you can find my playful, dreamy clarinet sonata over on BandCamp, and i'm putting on a livestreamed reading of the first act of a new opera i'm working on in May. (if you have some extra money burning a hole in your pocket, you can also kick in to our crowdfunding campaign! we have some really fun rewards at various levels)
i have also written a trans, disability-centered, anti-Zionist siddur for Shabbat and Yom Tov. the digital versions are free, and all the text is in the public domain for you to reuse and rework to suit your needs. if you're sick of feeling like you have to choose between affirming Judaism and liturgical fullness, this may be a prayerbook for you! i'm deeply in love with the piyutim that get added to the Pésax liturgy, and they're coming up soon!
a whole bunch of people are spending a whole bunch of time, energy, and effort to try to erase people like me from any kind of life in this country as part of their broader annihilatory war on diversity of all kinds. i am not going to do their work for them. i'm still here. i'm still here. i'm still here