Woodworking

by Emily St. James

She has herself, and she has the woman she loves, and she has a job she tolerates. What more does a girl need?

But a person’s life is their own. Few sins are greater than trying to squeeze someone else into the shape you require them to be.

began writing Woodworking in the fall of 2020. I set it during the election of 2016. As I did my best to re-create what it was like to be a trans woman in 2016, I realized all over again how much worse things had gotten for trans people in the four years since.