Life’s Challenges: Presence, Not Permission with OnyxRose

Guest Bio: OnyxRose

OnyxRose writes OnyxRose9 – Presence Not Permission on Substack from Atlanta and hosts the podcast OnyxRose9 – A Trans Voice.

Black, trans, nonbinary, and femme, OnyxRose has been out and transitioning for more than a decade and writes openly about visibility, queer love, and building a good life when the world pushes back.

OnyxRose is a regular voice on Another Dry Run, the weekly Substack Live with Samantha Paige, goes live with fellow creators, and will soon be working with Trans Lifeline, a cause OnyxRose has supported from the start. The line OnyxRose lives by: “Transitioning did not solve all my problems; it made my problems worth solving though.”

OnyxRose on Substack: Quick Reference

• Publication: onyxrose9.substack.com. Profile: substack.com/@onyxrose9.

• Podcast: onyxrose9.substack.com/podcast. Other recent Lives: Sturg Writes It Down – Live at Five, and Tuesdays with Two Gays with Brandon Ellrich.

• Visibility Matters (Aug 19; expanded Sep 15): “Why being openly trans is fighting the good fight.” Source for sections 1–5.

• One Bad Day (Sep 30): source for sections 6 and 7.

Opening

Everyone carries a life challenge that the world didn’t make room for. Some of us spent years shrinking to fit. Today is about what happens when you stop asking permission to be in the room, and start being present in it.

OnyxRose said it best before we scheduled this: “We tend to circle the same drain.” Two different lives, the same fight to be fully seen.