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Barbara Marie Minney

Barbara Marie Minney is a transgender woman, poet, writer, speaker, and quiet activist. She is a retired attorney and originally from West Virginia. Now based in Tallmadge, Ohio, her first collection of poetry entitled “If There’s No Heaven” was the winner of the 2020 Poetry Is Life Book Award and the Akron Beacon Journal Best Northeast Ohio Books 2020.

Barbara Marie's Latest Articles

Thanks to Fox News, I now have a new queer reading list [COMMENTARY]

By Barbara Marie Minney ● Commentary ● September 26, 2022

How one LGBTQ+ Ohioan was inspired by a Fox News article…just maybe not in the way the network intended.

I am a transgender poet. Not just a poet. And that label is important.

By Barbara Marie Minney ● Commentary ● June 8, 2022

“Why do you identify yourself as a transgender poet? That is so limiting. Why not a woman poet or just a poet?” Let me tell you why.

“I Did Not Hate Being a Man, But I’m a Much Better Person as a Woman”

By Barbara Marie Minney ● Transgender ● July 29, 2021

“I have expanded my horizons and my social consciousness beyond anything that I envisioned as a man.”

The Inside Out Trans Art Project Is Bringing People Together Via Self-Portraiture

By Barbara Marie Minney ● Transgender ● December 3, 2020

Exploring a community-based art initiative celebrating the strength, beauty, and resiliency of transgender individuals.

Alone: Confessions of a Conservative, Christian Trans Woman [COMMENTARY]

By Barbara Marie Minney ● Transgender ● October 16, 2020

“Like a World War I soldier caught between the trenches in no man’s land, there is nowhere for me to go.”