Hi, everyone. With everything going on in Texas and Ukraine right now, I haven’t been able to update as regularly. Sorry about that! (We’re also approaching midterms week, which means my life is messy currently.) Because I want to be able to come back to this in more depth later
Read MoreAs November 2021 rolled around, I had a hearing date. I had a list of documents I needed to submit prior to my hearing. I had a growing pile of scores with my new name on them, and I was drafting the email that would accompany them on their journeys
Read More[This post is the third in a multi-part series about the process of changing my name. Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here.] By the time I submitted my name change petition, it had only been two or three weeks since I realized I’d need to move on it quickly.
Read More[This post is the second in a multi-part series about the process of changing my name. Read Part 1 here.] When I decided to commit to publicly changing my name, I knew the right decision for me would be to legally change it as well. Not everyone who changes their
Read MoreOne of the unexpected side effects of government-imposed solitude and a new work-from-home life has been my willingness to get back into video games. (Cutting down on commute helps exponentially with freeing up time.) I’ve been P2 to my brother’s P1 my entire life, following along from one epic adventure to the
Read MoreUntouchable took me a month and a half to write, but I spent four years trying to articulate its content. As (the blessedly many of) y’all who read it probably saw, I referenced fifteen other pieces I’ve put out since early 2017. This morning, I piled all sixteen posts into
Read More[I wrote this post over the course of October and November and genuinely did not mean to put it up the night before my twenty-fourth birthday. Somewhere, the universe is laughing at me.] Last night (not actually last night), I lay in bed at 1am, clinging to my partner as
Read MoreOnce upon a time, I accidentally opened up a Title IX investigation. “Lead the change,” a professor told me. Hang onto your hats; it gets weirder.
Read MoreI talk a lot about my relationships with men. I don’t talk as much about my relationships with women, partly because some spring from coercive solidarity.
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