December 5, 2025, was a long-awaited moment of dream fulfillment for me. Six years of delay and interruption of my gender transition preceded it. And ten years of preparation and deliberation preceded that. And prior to that were six decades of concealment and mild-mannered deception. Of course I’m referring to a life of dissimulation, living as a man with a male mind but secretly guided by the heart of a woman. At age eleven I spent a night praying that I would wake as a girl. Despite the immediate disappointment of merciless postponement I lived long enough to experience its manifestation. Sixty-six years later my prayers would be answered on that December day at a Los Angeles hospital.
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Babara Johns
At the Gala Opening Event of the 2nd edition of Canada Literature Festival in Mississauga on 14th May, there was a discussion on USA-based Yakub Matthew’s newly published book Seeking the Infinite. It was convened by UK-based noted literary thinker Prabhu Guptara, where I found myself entering not merely a literary conversation, but a strangely layered inner journey. The subject itself, the infinite, already carries a destabilizing quality. It invites thought, yet resists containment within thought. And perhaps that was precisely what made the experience of the discussion both engaging and quietly unsettling.
