I had the honour of being invited to write about my research and art practice, including Intrapology, for Henry Jenkins's PopMatters blog. In particular, I consider how multiverse stories can play a role in making life more bearable for one another, and how we practice shared worlding when modernist grand narratives can no longer be relied upon to shape social consensus.

I came to understand what it means to be a genderqueer person and a transgender man because I encountered the stories of other transgender people, through meeting people in LGBTQ+ community spaces, watching documentaries made by other trans people such as Fox Fisher’s My Genderation project, exploring trans people’s blogs and video-blogs, and playing indie games in the early years of the queer games movement. Each individual story contributes to a larger reality—a world in which gender identity exists independently of sex assigned at birth, gender dysphoria causes significant distress that one might only recognise after unlearning lifelong dissociative habits, and gender euphoria can be experienced by trans and cis people alike. Each testimony adds to my own internal database of things it is possible to feel, be, see and do.

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This is part of a series written by contributors to Imagining Transmedia, a new book of essays published by the MIT Press. The book explores how transmedia techniques are being used in a wide range of settings, from entertainment and education to health care, journalism, politics, urban planning, and more. I have a chapter in that book about Cis Penance, as well as a discussion with Kristen Ostherr about the use of transmedia methods in medical practice. It's the biggest book I've contributed to, and it came out of a fascinating workshopping process that had a big impact on how I think about creative collaborations.