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Gabe Riggs

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Born

in Seattle, The United States

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https://www.gaberiggsblog.wordpress.com

Genre

Memoir, Transgender, Gay and Lesbian

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poverty and transgender rights

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I am twenty-seven years old, and I lived most of my life in a car or on a couch. I left home when I was fourteen, looked back often, but was always reminded of why I left in the first place. I struggled with finding a place in the world where I fit, and being transgender certainly narrowed the field. After getting to a place in my life where I was mentally stable and financially independent, I wrote a book called Punk Love Foucault. It's a very raw account of how to go from being and having nothing, to being self-loving and having the tools to create everything you need from scratch. I currently write for The Betty Pages, an LGBTQ magazine based in Bellingham, WA, and I also work on academic theory papers which I occasionally send to presti ...more

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The Shape of Sense and of Senses

My husband and I were marveling at the full moon last night. He said, “Someone posted something about how the full moon emits a greater gravitational pull which is why people go a bit more loony on these nights.” Of course, I replied with, “That sounds like a fart in the wind. You can’t just put facts together out of order. Moonlight and gravity are not connected.” Gavin agreed and we talked about