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Hi I'm Sandy Ernest Allen (he/him), a trans journalist, essayist and the author of A KIND OF MIRRACULAS PARADISE. I write the newsletter What's Helping Today.
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I'm a journalist and the author of A KIND OF MIRRACULAS PARADISE (Scribner). I also write a self-care-focused newsletter called What's Helping Today. Thank you for your one-time or monthly contributio
More about my first book, AKOMP (Scribner)
More about my first book, AKOMP (Scribner)
Official site for author Sandy Allen's nonfiction book, "A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise: A True Story about Schizophrenia" (Scribner)
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Hire me to speak for your organization.
More about author and journalist Sandy Ernest Allen's speaking appearances and information about how to hire him to speak for your organization on topics related to gender and mental health ...
Consulting (for media & mental health professionals)
Consulting (for media & mental health professionals)
More on author and journalist Sandy Ernest Allen's consulting work, offered for media and mental health professionals related to mental health and gender. Learn more re: rates and free 15-minute consults, read many testimonials from patients and mental health providers and others ...
My website for my full bio, clips, press kit, etc.
My website for my full bio, clips, press kit, etc.
Official homepage for author and journalist Sandy Ernest Allen
Starter Packs of my works, by theme ... Or latest below ...
Starter Packs of my works, by theme ... Or latest below ...
Some roundups of Sandy Ernest Allen's previous published pieces according to theme, like mental health, self-care, gender, culture, food, gardening, music, and more ...
NEW! Feature on queer peer respite - Assigned Media
NEW! Feature on queer peer respite - Assigned Media
In Western Massachusetts, Anemoni House is a first-of-its-kind LGBTQ-centered safe house, one that could model a way for many more.
NEW! A Queer Accounting of the NYTRB - Lit Hub
NEW! A Queer Accounting of the NYTRB - Lit Hub
“Goodbye, Pamela Paul,” was the headline of Andrea Long Chu’s now-iconic, recently ASME-nominated New York Magazine farewell to the former NY Times Book Review editor, when Paul left the paper two …
Surviving the Holidays while Estranged - Assigned Media
Surviving the Holidays while Estranged - Assigned Media
You may struggle over the holidays if you’re estranged from your family, but you are not alone.
Reckoning with Harry Potter Fandom - Lit Hub
Reckoning with Harry Potter Fandom - Lit Hub
During the spring of 2020, as the world locked down and people were dead and dying and breaking apart and mourning and afraid and hiding, the British author J.K. Rowling decided to publish an open …
As a Brown Alumnus: Fuck This - Assigned Media
As a Brown Alumnus: Fuck This - Assigned Media
A Brown alumnus recalls his time at the ‘gayest’ university and calls for the Brown community to stand united against the Trump deal.
Op-ed on Brown University's "deal" - The Boston Globe
Op-ed on Brown University's "deal" - The Boston Globe
While nearly 40 percent of Brown students do not identify as straight, and in an era when transgender people already face disproportionate discrimination, the university has chosen to prioritize money over its own students and alumni, writes one member of the Class of 2009.
"Sandy and the Silence" - Proxy with Yowei Shaw
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Podcast
"Sandy and the Silence" - Proxy with Yowei Shaw
Podcast Episode · Proxy with Yowei Shaw · August 26, 2025 · Bonus · 32m
Discussion of transphobia at the NYT - Cancel Me, Daddy
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Podcast
Discussion of transphobia at the NYT - Cancel Me, Daddy
Essay on being a 'trad trans' guy - Eater
Essay on being a 'trad trans' guy - Eater
For a trans, queer and rural guy like me, growing my own food is part of how I stay alive
Essay on re-learning to pee at 37 - Cosmopolitan
Essay on re-learning to pee at 37 - Cosmopolitan
Inside the emotional and physical toll of holding it in.
Feature on ECT/electroshock - The Believer
Feature on ECT/electroshock - The Believer
A shock survivor I knew years ago—an activist I’d flown out West to meet because I was writing a profile of her—showed me a tattoo she had on the back of her neck. She turned away from me, on the bench where we were sitting, on the balcony of a tree house overlooking a river. […]
"Into the Woods with 150 Trans Men" - Esquire (free link)
"Into the Woods with 150 Trans Men" - Esquire (free link)
I spent three days at a sleepaway camp for grown-ups just like me. I was unprepared in more ways than one.
"How to Talk Like a Man" - Esquire (free link)
"How to Talk Like a Man" - Esquire (free link)
"Mourning the Trans Boyhood I Never Got" - Esquire
"Mourning the Trans Boyhood I Never Got" - Esquire
This American Life on me re-learning to sing, post-T
This American Life on me re-learning to sing, post-T
"It's Not Just Britney" - The Cut
"It's Not Just Britney" - The Cut
ep on public bathroom desegregation - 99% Invisible
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Podcast
ep on public bathroom desegregation - 99% Invisible
"Applied Bob Studies" - This American Life
"Applied Bob Studies" - This American Life
"The Kirkbride Plan" - 99% Invisible
"The Kirkbride Plan" - 99% Invisible
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For links to everything I've published ...
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