Happy Pride! It’s such a lovely day to be queer. It’s hard to celebrate with pure enthusiasm this year, given the slew of anti-trans bills being passed across the country (more on that soon). Trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive people are facing a fresh wave of violence, and most of our
Read MoreMy [male] friends keep telling me “it’s better now.” Still, I have to take that with a grain of salt. Ultimately, they’re not the ones to make that call.
Read MoreI am sitting onstage with the Nash Composers Coalition—either at our inaugural concert or second; I can’t remember which—and we are almost through our set. It gets worse from there.
Read MoreHow do you go about prepping for the next Big One when you’re on a super-tight budget? Well, friends, I’ve got some ideas.
Read MoreTW: sexual assault. There are some policy things and some society things you should know about if you’re going to help victims of sexual assault (even just casually). This is week 4 of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, so let’s talk about some of them.
Read MoreTW: sexual assault. How do you make sure you’re not someone who’s threatening or making assault victims uncomfortable? I try to give you some semblance of an answer.
Read MoreTW: sexual assault. I didn’t mean to write a piece about Schrödinger’s rapist. But then I did, so let’s talk about it.
Read MoreTW: sexual assault. My brothers and sisters and siblings and I, we have been violated. And we don’t report.
Read More[TW: sexual assault.] I have carried the weight of my own existence for a long time….
Read MoreTW: sexual assault. Dance taught me a lot about how I should treat my body. It also taught me how others should.
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