Echoes of Her
essays by Daphne Garrido
An End to the Age of Evil - on the much needed conclusion to societies built by and for sexual predators
Trans Women in Sports - on how nuance is dead and why that makes me sad
Her Journey to Now - on life as a transgender woman
I'm Just Projecting - on how we project ourselves onto each other and why
Portrait of an Artist - immortalizing Garett's most joyous filmmaking
The Addict, The Liar, The Coward - about me
What It Means to Love - on living from the heart and leading with love
The Nightmare of Summer 2024 - on how to learn your lessons the hard way
Touch - on the crucial thing missing from my life
Dancing Into Flow - on courage, sensuality, and boudoir-style pole dancing
The Fool I Am - on being wrong and addicted to love
Existing as a Form of Resistance - on cohabitating in a civilization with people who hate me
Seeds of Spring - on the importance of the changing seasons and my personal intentions for the Spring
Momma Me - on trans motherhood
The Price We Pay - on surviving a mental health crisis in the shadows of capitalism
How It Happens - on how the world changes for the better
The Unicorn - on transness, sexuality, our culture of sexual repression, and mistakes
Screaming Helps - on navigating trauma and grief
To Pretend it Isn’t Broken - on the toxic cultural expectation of pretending everything is fine
What Needs to be Said - on standing in the face of trans genocide
This Shit Hurts - on overcoming fear and building trust with your heart
A Game of Lies and Fear - on love
A Dance of Darkness and Light - on the kind of love I seek—for better and worse
Emotional Realities - on honoring different levels of emotional reality within myself and others
Listening to the Body - on finding inner harmony between body and mind through hearing it's traumas
Cracking Eggs, Taking Names - on being a closeted trans person and coming out to yourself
RIP | Garett Garrido (1987-2024) - a memorial to the false person I once was
And Daphne Was Born - on hormone replacement therapy, second puberty, and parenthood
A Trans Woman’s Privilege - on privilege in transness and gender nonconformity
Journeys In Dreams - on my interpretations of what happens when we dream
Our Friends in the Sky - on my experiences with the consciousness which appears as lights in the night's sky
