Growing Up Queer or Trans

I found these and thought people would enjoy them:


A Beginner's Guide to Growing Up Queer and Invisible Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDyB76i9Jdw

Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GMF_vt7L9k

Part 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ou_Osm-uW4


And a search for growing up trans netted this:
http://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/trans-teen-took-1400-selfies-of-his-transition-2015-10

Creative Jam

The crowdfunding Creative Jam is now active with a theme of "growing up."  Come give us prompts or claim some for your own inspiration.


What I Have Written
"Experience Stinks" is today's freebie.


From My Prompts

 

Community Building Tip: Community Garden

In today's fragmented world, people can improve it by reaching out to each other. Here are some ideas for building community in your neighborhood.

Build a community garden. This is a time-tested way to promote community interaction in your neighborhood as well as share in a bounty of fresh veggies. Check out the American Community Gardening Association’s steps for getting started.

If you already have a community garden, then examine it to see if you could make any improvements.  Is it accessible to everyone?  If not, think about how you could add or change features to fix that.  You don't have to make the entire  space accessible as long as people can get into it easily and do all the things somewhere.  Alternatively, you could create a new community garden in another space that is fully accessible, which lets you do creative things -- such as putting roll-under beds above an abandoned parking lot -- that wouldn't be compatible with extant hardscaping. 

The same goes for other alternative or specialized approaches.  Organic gardens, vertical gardens, perennial gardens, and permaculture gardens, are all things that people sometimes squabble over in conventional community gardens.  Give them their own spot and you not only solve that problem, you also reduce crowding and create multiple locations to spread out the benefits of green space.  As with accessibility, some places unsuitable for ordinary gardens are preset for alternatives -- any sturdy old building becomes a frame for vertical garden, and so on.

Poem: "Experience Stinks"

This is the freebie for the February 2019 crowdfunding Creative Jam.  It was inspired by a prompt from zianuray.


"Experience Stinks"


Growing up
is learning that

not everything which
is black-and-white
and fuzzy is a kitten.

Sometimes,
experience stinks,

but it's still better
than ignorance.

* * * 

Notes:

This image was the other inspiration for the poem.