Cailyn Hansen

Select Writings

Below is a selection of my writings over the years. It's a combination of personal essays related to gender and mental health and a series of academic and political texts.

- breathe.: An essay on my relationship to panic attacks through the lens of a particular panic attack.

cw: mentions of sexual violence

- With Weight Removed: An essay on exploring the urge to share about oneself, to use emotions as provocation, and the function of social media thereof

cw: transphobia, suicide

- Name Announcement: The essay I wrote announcing I changed my named.

cw: transphobia

- white man angry: A poem about making pain legible to dominance and perhaps a futility of incrementalism.