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arts+entertainment<br />
the<br />
no. 9<br />
The Trans Magical Girl Credo<br />
by Lena Chipman<br />
I am a Trans Magical Girl!<br />
I am chosen of the goddesses Cybele and Inanna, and<br />
beloved by the Many-Faced Moon. They smile upon me<br />
and imbue me with their power. I am blessed with their<br />
secrets and their strength! I come to share their wisdom<br />
and knowledge with the world!<br />
With my brilliant light, I defend and spread Truth, Beauty,<br />
Freedom, and Love! I am a voice for the voiceless and a<br />
beacon for the questioning and the lost.<br />
My challenges are many and my foes stronger and older.<br />
But I stand with other Magical People and together, we are<br />
the rainbow sword and shield that brings Hope to strike<br />
down despair!<br />
I am a Trans Magical Girl!<br />
for someone (luminé)<br />
by Lena Chipman<br />
I was a ball of wax<br />
In darkness, crystallized, smooth, untouched<br />
In the blacklight I’d shine for a moment<br />
Never warm, slowly fading<br />
An aging artifact behind dusty glass<br />
“Do not touch!” Each day another sign, a new barrier<br />
Razor spines pointed inward<br />
Then a spark burst on my glass<br />
Blazing fire, growing like a meteor fall<br />
Crashing through my transparent walls<br />
The heat of your truth and joy (even if you didn’t see it)<br />
Melting me<br />
Now my flesh is soft<br />
sculpture in motion<br />
Now my self is liquid<br />
raging rivers upon a cartography of broken glass<br />
Cutting a new landscape, snapping those spires<br />
Your light, your spark, your solar flame<br />
My voice – the thunder it calls<br />
That dusty glass shattered to glitterdust<br />
And now I, too, am a spark<br />
Set to ignite a fire.<br />
Lena Chipman (she/her/hers) is an out and proud transgender<br />
woman, technology executive, hacker, activist, and writer. She<br />
channels the joy and sorrow of being a lifelong queer in Memphis<br />
into bittersweet bites of text.<br />
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