Daniel Allen Cox

Daniel Allen Cox is the author of I Felt the End Before It Came. His essays have appeared in The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, Literary Hub, and The Brooklyn Rail.

A protester wears a piece of fabric with the pronouns 'they/them' pinned to them as Minneasotans hold a rally to raise awareness of the increasing number of attacks on transgender children, at the Capitol in St Paul area of Minnesota, March 6, 2022.

My Years-Long Fight to Say “They” My Years-Long Fight to Say “They”

Over and over again, I would use the pronoun in my writing. Over and over again, editors would try to remove it.

Apr 1, 2026 / Daniel Allen Cox

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