Mieke de Vries Wrote An Essay About Muscle Memory

For Psyche, Mieke de Vries wrote a personal essay about transitioning and Sensory Processing Disorder.

Vries told Study Hall about the essay: “[It’s about] how my medical transition has altered the way I experience my sensory disability (Sensory Processing Disorder), which has led me to develop new understandings of desirability and strength that aren’t limited by gender binaries.”

He writes, “Muscle memory is hard to forget, easy to fall back into – as are gender tropes. But I want to be intentional about what muscles I choose to engage, the movements I choose to make, what I take from my past to bring to my future. I want to combine an old muscle memory with a new one: the strength and flexibility of my yoga vinyasas with the simultaneous masculinity and femininity of my nonbinary transness.”