The Sacred Act of Being Seen
A Letter from the Editor, Connor Wolfe on Trans Day of Visibility 2025
Dear Friends,
At Wayfarer Magazine, we know that visibility is not safe—but it is sacred.
Today, we honor the courage it takes for trans people to live, speak, create, and simply be in a world increasingly hostile to our existence. We are a Trans-owned publishing house, and we carry that truth not as a marketing note—but as a duty. A vow to protect, to uplift, to amplify, and to fight.
In this era of blatant fascism, where basic rights are stripped and lives are politicized, we stand firm: trans lives are not up for debate. We will not be erased, silenced, or sanitized to make others more comfortable. We exist in defiance. We exist in beauty. We exist in poetry, in wildness, and in joy.
Our stories are beacons—for each other, and for those still finding the shore.
To every trans poet, writer, artist, youth, elder, and survivor:
You are not alone.
You are not too much.
You are not a problem to be solved.
You are a gift.
Let this day be not just one of visibility, but of recognition—of the labor, brilliance, and revolutionary tenderness trans people bring to this world. Let it be a call to action, a reminder that showing up for trans lives is not a once-a-year performance but a daily practice.
We’ll keep writing.
We’ll keep fighting.
And we’ll keep lighting the way for one another.
In solidarity and in kinship,
— Connor Wolfe
Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Wayfarer Magazine
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Connor Wolfe (they/them) is a writer, publisher, and advocate whose work spans over two decades and fourteen titles, originally published under the pen name L.M. Browning. Their literary contributions have earned six Pushcart Prize nominations, the Gold Nautilus Medal for Poetry, multiple Foreword Review Book Awards, and the Nautilus Silver Medal in 2022. Their innovative approach to independent publishing led to two terms on the Board of Directors for the Independent Book Publishers Association, a TEDx talk at Yale University, and a degree at Harvard University through grant programs.
Wolfe is a lifelong advocate for mental health, trans rights, and radical authenticity—the act of breaking silence to reclaim power. After their TEDx Talk in 2018, they stepped into national conversations on mental illness, trauma, and the intersection of art and survival. Holding a degree in Abnormal Psychology, their work examines how creativity and mental illness shape one another. Their studies in Photojournalism under Samantha Appleton sharpened their ability to bear witness—to capture the unspoken, the unseen, the truths too often buried.
In 2024, Wolfe volunteered in the Collections Department of the Museum of Anthropology at Ghost Ranch, assisting in the preparation of sacred objects for repatriation under the newly updated Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. After wintering along the Rio Puerco on Cerro Pedernal, they are now traveling through the San Juan Mountains with their three-legged black cat, Momo—documenting, writing, and remaining in motion, as all revolutionaries must.