cw: gender dysphoria

The doctor prods my broken foot and asks if it hurts. It does.

He tells me to decrease anxiety and stress and my feet will get better.

I tell him my foot is broken. He tells me about birth control.

The Space Inside a Shoebox

cw: gender dysphoria and transphobia.

Boys are less subtle and tell you you’re wearing the boys’ uniform. They tell you you’re so weird. They ask if you’re trying to be a boy. They ask if you know you’re not a boy.

Like Them

cw: body horror, vomiting, blood, misgendering, dysphoria, religious trauma.

Turning the frog over in his hands, he holds it still, belly-up. Its skin is translucent, and he can see outlines of its tiny organs through its abdomen.

Jesse Galea

Selected work