The Story Collider

THANK YOU to our five fantastic #ProtonProm storytellers: Erin Barker, Kimberly Chao, Steve Zimmer, Harvey Katz, and Saad Sarwana!

"I get misgendered a lot. People look at me and think that I'm a woman when in fact I am a swarm of bees. Really, I'm a non-binary trans person but it would honestly be a lot easier if I was a swarm of bees, because then people would be like, "Oh, Charlie's gender is on the endangered species list. Aww." Or, "Ah, I was stung by Charlie's gender once so now I give it a lot of space."Or, "Their gender is really scary to me but, I respect the importance to the ecological systems of our earth that this gender provides so I respect their ability to live freely in the world." Charlie Cook Listen to the complete story here: https://soundcloud.com/the-/charlie-cook-the-swarm-of-bees