Luke A.B.'s Blogging

An update to the Transmasculine Suicide Remembrance blog-  Data Reality of the community in 2022 (content warning: discussion of suicide, transphobia) Almost a year ago, I published the first edition of my blog in remembrance of the transmasculine people that we have unfortunately lost to suicide . It's a vigil that I keep now by updating the blog with the names of people who have passed since I last updated it- though it is a strange thing to do, it's something very close to my heart as a trans man who has survived suicidality myself.  The transmasculine community is comprised of trans men and nonbinary people who self-define their genders (and transitions if applicable) as masculine. This blog focuses on them as neither group really enjoys much visibility in society. As such, our deaths (and especially our suicides) are very important to be aware of so that we can help to prevent more of them from happening in the community.  As a result of trawling the records of ...

  Essay on Transmasculine Suicides: Faces and Names Began on the 14th of September 2021 Cw: Suicide I’m a transgender man who has struggled with both mental health and suicidality in my past. I’m several years free of life-ending thoughts, but I know for a lot of my trans brothers, things aren’t quite so easy to escape.  I’m lucky enough to have survived. I’m lucky enough to have not gone through with it. But there are thousands of u out there (or were out there) who aren’t. This essay is for them. Dually to remember their lives and to ensure that more people know, so this epidemic of suicidality can become a thing of the past. Equal measure and dignity is not being afforded to the transmasculine community and our dead who have passed away as a result of suicide.  I recognise my own story in the lives of some of these men listed in this essay. I recognise their struggles with substances, their struggles in education, their struggles in work and in housing. In them I reco...