Co-founder and Co-editor of Original Plumbing Magazine
Original Plumbing was a print magazine focusing on trans male culture, created through a trans lens. Founded in 2009 in San Francisco, it quickly expanded to include apparel and events for the trans community and beyond. OP always remained a small team consisting of two owners (editors/publishers) and a couple of much-loved volunteers. Over the span of 10 years, we published 20 issues, launched a highly trafficked website, held hundreds of parties and events around the globe, and became one of the most widely recognized and celebrated contributions to trans-masculine culture creation.
After 10 years of publishing, the best of Original Plumbing had been published as a coffee table book. Released on May 14th, 2019 on Feminist Press.
Author and editor of The Mindful Masculinity Workbook: A Practical Guide To Healthier Masculinity
This workbook provides an intensive and immersive step-by-step self-guided, solution-oriented tool bag for all men. This workbook includes dozens of writing prompts, meditations and reflections written by Rocco Kayiatos and a list of heavy-hitting activists, writers and advocates; including: Ashlee Marie Preston, Dr. Chris Donaghue, Jacob Tobia, Wade Davis, Kirsten King, Richie Reseda, Cleo Stiller, Marquise Vilson, Jamison Green, Mike Sagun, Trystan Reese, Andrew Gurza, Jayson Moton, Martin Vitorino . Designer Stephanie Sidjakov, co-editor Anastasia Kayiatos.
Along with the workbook, I launched a virtual community space for men and masculine folks of all experiences to gather in brotherhood and a shared desire to form a healthier relationship to masculinity.