14Apr

Pieces of April, I call them, in the most surreal of my surreal Aprils

Insomnia post: The only real news here is the gig bag I bought for my guitar, thanks to kind people. It has purple butterflies on it.

10Apr

My new religion, and an update on a few things

Bart Simpson is writing the same thing on a classroom chalkboard over and over again: I will de-escalate all conflict that isn't with the enemy.

De-escalate all conflict that isn’t with the enemy. De-escalate all conflict that isn’t with the enemy. De-escalate all conflict that …

31Mar

It’s Trans Day of Visibility, and I’m still here

A closeup of a calendar shows today's date, 31, inside a square of white with 31 in bold black type, and the words International Transgender Day of Visibility written in red. You can see a white person's hand using a red pen.

It’s International Trans Day of Visibility early in an already brutal Trump administration. Visibility is risky for us. Existing is risky.

24Mar

Some reading for you one week before an important day in my community

An illustration using pink blue and white colors of the transgender pride flag has a black area at the bottom. In white letters over it, it says: International Transgender Day of Visibility March 31.

Please call it by its name, Transgender Day of Visibility, not Transgender Visibility Day. If you click in, you’ll know why it matters to me.

22Feb

We’re being made the scapegoat for everything, still, 3 months after he WON

A drawing of people standing behind a long horizontal transgender pride flag.

I’ve tried to not repeat myself, but I’m all out of words. I’m out of ways to say this an ongoing nightmare you’ll never fully understand.

21Feb

You should read this Rebecca Traister story in New York Magazine

People are in the streets, one of whom is carrying a transgender pride flag of light blue, pink and white stripes.

“Woke Is Not to Blame for Trump: How a misdiagnosis of the 2024 election has calcified into self-defeating conventional wisdom.” Read it.

16Feb

I’m all tapped out. Here’s a list of people to follow and whose excellent work you should read

A pair of reading glasses next to a purple notebook.

If you’d like to stay updated, the people and their websites listed here will take care of you. Please support them if you can. Sending love.

10Feb

The New York Times really has some fucking nerve

You should read every word of the truth, no matter what it costs. Most cisgender people I know don’t have any idea about any of this.

31Jan

Historians have a word for it, and that word is: ‘Nazi’

Many people are in a cult right now, one that will do far worse damage than Jim Jones did in 1978. What will it take for them to wake up?

21Jan

If no one answers, it’s me

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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Tag: transgender

Pieces of April, I call them, in the most surreal of my surreal Aprils

My new religion, and an update on a few things

It’s Trans Day of Visibility, and I’m still here

Some reading for you one week before an important day in my community

We’re being made the scapegoat for everything, still, 3 months after he WON

You should read this Rebecca Traister story in New York Magazine

I’m all tapped out. Here’s a list of people to follow and whose excellent work you should read

The New York Times really has some fucking nerve

Historians have a word for it, and that word is: ‘Nazi’

If no one answers, it’s me