Kai Newsome is a blogger and digital creator based in Toronto. Through her personal project, A Blog About a Trans Journey, she documents her experience of transitioning in her 30s, focusing on the thoughts, emotions, and everyday moments that are often difficult to articulate in casual conversation. The blog was created as a space where subjects that might otherwise remain unspoken, because they feel too personal, too complicated, or too emotionally charged, can be explored with honesty and care. Kai’s writing is deeply reflective, offering friends, family, and readers an opportunity to better understand her journey, not as a neatly packaged narrative, but as an evolving process. At the same time, the blog serves as a point of connection for others who may recognize pieces of their own experiences in her words. Whether someone is trans themselves, questioning, or simply trying to understand, Kai aims to make complex and emotional topics approachable without flattening them.
The project originally began as an interactive storytelling experiment. Its first ten entries were written in rapid succession over a single weekend as part of a game jam, using an experimental narrative format to explore themes of identity, transition, and self-discovery. What started as a creative exercise quickly grew into something more enduring, evolving into a long-term documentation of change, growth, and self-reflection. Kai strives to write for a broad audience, including readers who may not be deeply familiar with LGBTQ topics. She approaches her subjects with openness and accessibility, avoiding jargon when possible and grounding her reflections in lived experience. When she is not writing on the blog, she continues to share pieces of her story through Instagram, experimenting with vlogging and short-form content as another way of processing her life in real time and extending her voice beyond the written word. For this interview, I am meeting with Kai to talk through these experiences together, turning her reflections and thoughts into a more conversational space, one where her journey can unfold naturally through dialogue rather than monologue.
