Patrick Bryce Wright, author

Never target the people themselves. Go to the root of the problem: people's toxic belief systems.

If you are a member of Medium, please support me by reading this article here. A growing number of movies and novels love to portray...

I think one of the interesting things about being in a fandom is watching people argue about what is in-character or out-of-character for...

I have spent the entire last seven years on a journey to discover both my gender identity and my sexual orientation. And, man, has that...

There is really old writing advice that says, "Write what you know." I had always tried to follow it, although solid research can help...

As someone who would normally be called "hearing impaired"--or, rather, who has deaf gain--I often think about what will happen if I...

I can't top this one. When I was a child, I was proud of the U.S. for having freedom of religion. Now I understand we actually don't.

There are a ton of stupid myths about trans people. This shoots one down quite effectively:

As someone who was raised in a fundamentalist Christian denomination, I find this post really hits me hard. When I was a child, everyone...

My S.O. feels this post sums up their life history effectively. Just develop a medical condition that is less common, and apparently this...

The most important thing I learned during my recovery was not to blame myself. I think this post captures that well:

I know I really shouldn't be surprised he had a sense of humor, but his writing was just so bleak...

Here's a reality check about toddlers. Before you create a whole new generation of traumatized kids, stop and consider this:

Jeff Brown has some decent wisdom. Even if two people have the same type of trauma, their roads to recovery won't be the exact same.

It worries me how big the surge of religious intolerance has become lately. The U.S. was supposedly founded on religious freedom, but...

I'm both a writer and an English professor. Often the internet reminds me why I need to teach writing skills...

People can use the Bible to justify anything, and they always have.

Why do people find it so difficult to comprehend that true love is true love?

I don't spend a lot of time on Facebook. It cuts into my writing time too much. But sometimes I check it out, and sometimes it's gold....

Stop the victim-blaming.