Phaylen Fairchild

Throughout the years-long course of these missives about cultural and social conflict keeping minorities in the crosshairs of an increasingly tumultuous era, a simple visit to the hospital nearly landed me in a mental institution last night. Here’s how it went down. A little background for new readers: I’m an out and very proud intersex trans woman whose appearance manifests as distinctly female, but whose body presented as male at birth.

You can’t make this up. What’s disturbing is that mainstream media reports stories like this so straightforwardly, with barely a critique or even a flicker of shock. It’s exactly why mainstream news is dying: apathy. Apparently, headlines reading “Trump Robs the Working Class to Funnel Tax Dollars to the Wealthy” were considered a little too on-the-nose.

Everyone knows Enya, one part of the lush trio; a layered, new age vocalist who captured a global audience first with her crossover hit “Orinoco Flow” and later, the album “A Day Without Rain” featuring the track “Only Time” that cradled a mourning country through the tragedy of 9/11.