“I don’t want him in this house,” my mother said. It was within that month-long period after Thanksgiving and before Christmas, and she was talking about my boyfriend at the time.
Henry Giardina
Henry Giardina is a trans/nonbinary writer living in Los Angeles. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker.com, The Paris Review Daily, The Believer, The Atlantic, Gizmodo, and Film Comment, among other outlets. He is the recipient of fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, The Edward F. Albee Foundation, and The National Critics Institute. He co-hosts the podcast Totally Trans: Searching for the Trans Canon.