Being civil to people who were complicit in what’s happening, who helped put the rope around my neck, is not on my to-do list.
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Terrified doesn’t begin to cover how I feel today. Day 1 is tomorrow. My whole-body shaking is worse today than the day after the election.
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This is the story of my three-year hell as a trans woman working for a NYT-owned company. I might be fired, but I can’t stay silent anymore.
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It’s a real thing that so many people think of themselves as the default for human being, for American, for a person.
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What does an image of a colorful butterfly and a human brain have to do with the 2012 Bourne movie? You’ll have to read to find out.
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Late in every year and early into the next are reminders or anniversaries of things previously unimaginable.
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Three years ago today, I came out as a transgender woman. The past year has been the hardest of the three.
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Published May 3, 2018
My desire to see “The Post” owed mostly to my long career in newspapers, but motivations are often complex, and that was true about my interest in this movie. A believer in the role that newspapers have as watchdog, I felt an extra pull to view Tom Hanks as Ben Bradlee and Meryl Streep as Katharine Graham. Those characters, the editor and the publisher of The Washington Post at the time of the controversial public disclosure of the Pentagon Papers, have been well known to me for decades.
Published October 23, 2017
I thought we were gonna get television. The truth is, television is gonna get us.
Over the weekend, I watched the 1994 film “Quiz Show” again. Like a lot of movies, books, short stories, TV shows, documentaries and news stories I’ve revisited in the past year or so, it unexpectedly spoke to the ugly realities of this point in time.
While Donald Trump is being inaugurated, I’ll be watching “Hidden Figures.” Here’s why.
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