Leon TsaiSep 27, 20226 min readSort Of Softer: A Story with Bilal Baig"Season 2 is about love in all its forms so you will definitely see Sabi navigating some complicated dynamics and feelings all in the...
Leon TsaiAug 1, 20229 min readSeeds from The Buddhist "Nonself" to The Indigenous Wisdom that inspired Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs“I decided I was too soft to last, but then I decided to be even softer.” - Andrea Gibson (Art by Katsushika Hokusai: The Great Wave off...
Leon TsaiMay 25, 20227 min readHomecoming: The Phoenix Rising“It's not possible to constantly hold onto crisis. You have to have the love, you have to have the magic. That's also life..." - Toni...
Leon TsaiMay 18, 202212 min readCranes In The Sky"I am no longer accepting the things I can not change; I am changing the things I can not accept." - Angela Davis (Art by Mike Paget...
Leon TsaiMay 1, 20227 min readThe Swan Song: My Softness & Madness (Yin & Yang)"Love says 'I am everything'. Wisdom says 'I am nothing'. Between the two, my life flows..." - Nisargadatta Maharaj (1973) "One shot to...
Leon TsaiApr 26, 202212 min readTrying Softer: My Suicide Attempts & Surviving Homes"And just like that, the tides changed, but then you realize that the pain stays. Running away only works if you aren't running from your...
Leon TsaiMar 14, 20228 min readGrowing Pains & Grief Lessons: Loving/Living with Friends, Chosen Families & Community"Lets humble ourselves and get ready for that world, if the police stations and prisons are gone tomorrow, can we sustain that world ?” -...
Leon TsaiJan 30, 20224 min readStaying Soft: On Love, "Art" & Grief"Love will not heal me, but it will hold my hand if I ever heal myself, and maybe teach me a joke that I can stay alive long enough to...
Leon TsaiJan 21, 20226 min readStaying Soft: On Sex, "Work" & Survival"I am haunted. All trans women[/femmes] are. Behind me stretches a line of ghosts - trans women[/femmes], killed before their time by the...
Leon TsaiJan 16, 20226 min readStaying Soft: On Suicidality, "Community" & Empathy"If a trans girl decides to die, that is her decision, and I will not shame or pathologize it. But there is a big fucking difference...
Leon TsaiJan 10, 20223 min readEgo Death: A Safer Space to A Softer Placeas "the worst part[s] of [us] have always been trying to find their ways back to love." - Kai Chen Thom (2021) (Photography by Justin...