What is Stained Glass Woman?

It’s a collection of essays mostly about being trans, in one way or another. There’s science, there’s philosophy, and there’s bits and pieces of everything else. It’s the long-form stuff that doesn’t fit onto Mastodon and that I can’t find a home for on Reddit.

And yeah, it’s a little bit more personal.

Who are you, anyway?

My name is Zoe Ann Wendler, a professor of technical writing at Ferris State University. I’m also a binary trans woman (she/her, please), who is sapphic and demisexual, which is a very technical way to say that I’m wildly in love with my wife and partner of 19 years, and can’t imagine any other way of being. When I’m not hanging around other queer folks, I just use trans and queer.

I’m also the recipient of a lovely smattering of mental health diagnoses, the most prominent of which is C-PTSD. I’ve got a significant history of trauma, which I’ve done a lot of work on over the decades. I’m good now. Really good. Promise. That said, because of that history, I talk about these issues with some frequency, because I think that talking about them makes it easier for other people to talk about their own hurts—and, more importantly, get help for them.

If you’d like to get in touch, I’m Impossible_PhD@hachyderm.io on Mastodon, and /u/Impossible_PhD on Reddit. If you want to get in touch by email, send me a DM there first. I’m also technically @Impossible_PhD on Twitter, but because of how that website has deteriorated, I’ve moved away from it.

Updates

I’ll try to post something every week or two, but I don’t have a set schedule for updates. I don’t believe in publish-or-perish. I’d rather get something right and publish it later than push to hit a deadline.