Lela Smith May 4th, 2023 Understanding Through Art: Reframing the Transgender Experience When I first came out as transgender, the most common response I received from my cis-gendered friends and family was that they “didn’t get it.” It was baffling to them why I would want to change my gender. If I tried to explain…
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Lela Smith April 23rd, 2023 Profiting off of Protest: The Commodification of Queer Rights Though you’d have trouble finding her in most modern history books, Marsha P. Johnson is regarded as a legendary activist by many in the queer community. Best known for her involvement in the infamous Stonewall riots in June of 1969, a…
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By Lela Smith – Originally published in The Adirondack Trust’s Festival of Young Artists Literary Gallery It’ll be at least another 30 minutes before Conner comes to get me. An hour if Mom does. What can I do for an hour? It’s not like the guidance office has a tv… Sure are a lot of…
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By Lela Smith – Originally published in Queensbury High School’s Seeing Blue, 2022 “There’s something beautiful about this place in the spring.” She tilts her head up to the clouds and says a little thanks to the sun and the sky for these endless afternoons. This, the time in between two extremes, is her favorite…
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By Lela Smith – Originally published in Queensbury High School’s Seeing Blue, 2020. Dad, can you pick me up? Everyone’s loud, but altogether it’s too quiet. Everything’s blending together, but the boy right next to me is talking right in my ear, right to my brain, drilling a whole in my head painfully slowly. It…
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