By Alex Myers

Alex Myers's debut novel, Revolutionary , was released by Simon & Schuster in January 2014. In addition to writing and teaching, he speaks frequently at schools and works as an educator and advocate around transgender identity.

  1. Once Again, Always

    By Alex Myers

    in The Butter

    When I was a girl, I dreamt, often, of putting my hand to my face and feeling the roughness of stubble. When I was an even younger girl, so young that I might have even been genderless, those years when all is permitted, no top at the beach, no difference between us (no, even then I was a girl), my father would let us shave with him. A puffy handful of Barbasol. My brother and…

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