This is about more than my fertility journey. It's about revolution in the most intimate sense: refusing to let fear win, building community as a form of resistance, and choosing hope even when the future feels uncertain.

I address some questions I get the most: Why have a child during such uncertain times? How can a trans person carry a pregnancy? Why not "just adopt"? And most importantly, why stay and fight instead of leaving?

I weave together the personal and political to ask: What does it mean to insist on belonging in a place that's actively trying to erase you?

“So you have to shrink who is defined as an American, with trans people they are experimenting how to do that." - Imara Jones @imarajones.bsky.social

“And the only way they will sustain them over time is to remove people from public life that can have an influence in voting, protesting and making their voice heard over time.” - Imara Jones @imarajones.bsky.social

“So you can actually experiment on the cocktail of regulations and laws that you'll then expand to wider populations, because they fundamentally understand that their policies are unpopular.” - Imara Jones @imarajones.bsky.social

I embrace that I am emotionally connected to my partners and as a result, the choices I make can have an emotional impact on them. While I will not let my partners feelings govern my choices, I will let them inform my choices and I will consider them in my decision making.

There is such a thing as being careless and irresponsible with someone’s feelings. If I claim to care about someone, that means I care about the totality of the individual, and that includes their feelings. I desire to demonstrate to my partners that I am responsible WITH their feelings.

No, I’m not “responsible” for their feelings, but I understand that being with someone means that I’ll likely have an impact on their feelings & I desire to acknowledge & attempt to understand that impact. And I want that impact to be positive, as much as I’m capable of & willing to achieve.