I smoked a jay and walked to the park a week or two ago, and while I've been making it a habit to write/journal while I'm there, this was the first time I decided use that time for writing poetry. In fact, it's the first time I've decided to write any poetry since middle school…I …
It looks like I will write two posts for this blog before the year is out. Good on me. I’m not sure at what point in my transition all my memories of “the beforetimes” were offloaded, taken from one box labeled “mine” and placed into another labeled “not mine.” I am fairly certain that that …
Continue reading "On Depression, pt. 7: Harry Potter Backroads"
Well, it’s been a while. Between becoming an officially-licensed Twitter tran, a low-rent YouTuber, and…oh yeah, running headlong into a global pandemic and moving back to the home state I frankly never intended to return to, this hoary old blog has remained every bit as neglected as I always knew it would eventually be. There …
Continue reading "On Transition, pt. 5 (and on Choice, pt. 4): Contrapoints and Surgical Dysphoria"
If I had more time in a day, a week, a month, I would be better about updating this blog concurrently with the video essays I've been working on. Sadly, between them and my teaching job (you know, the one that (mostly) pays the bills?), it's a pretty tough hat trick to pull off. I …
If you've ever gone back and read some of my old stuff, you know that I had a weird relationship with a particular episode of Ozzy & Drix. Back when I wrote that post, I knew that I had a ton more that I wanted to say, but I felt like I wasn't ready to say …
Continue reading "On Media, pt. 5: First YouTube Essay (Ozzy & Drix Revisited)"
I've been out and full-time for three months, and in that time I've almost completely stopped updating this blog. That happens sometimes, so nothing new there. The new semester started, which has largely eaten up my free time for writing, and moreover, I've picked my creative work back up, which basically chewed the rest. I …
Continue reading "On Renouncing Privilege, pt. 3 (and Politics, pt. 2): Rhetoric and Discourse"
I've mentioned before that I write fiction as a hobby. It's extremely, extremely rare that I ever share anything I have written. Actually, it's rare that I ever even finish anything. However, I recently came across an old writing backup from several hard drives ago, and since I have long since lost the inspiration to …
I've tried doing a few things to make it clear that this blog is a documentation of my personal growth, both generally as a person and specifically as a transwoman. I've added a disclaimer to the "about the blog" section, for example, and I once even had a front page that forced you to essentially …
Continue reading "On Hormones, pt. 10: Growth, or Why Transmedicalism is Mostly Bullshit"
This has already been shared on Facebook and Reddit, but I figured "hey, might as well save it to the blog." I'm sure I'll be glad I did one day. (Yes, I know I've already shared the above picture, but it's the one I used for the post--gotta be diligent in my self-archived history!) ___ …
The last post I made on this blog was written out of obligation. As I wrote there, "I honestly don’t have much to write about here. I know that I should, and that is why I am, but I really don’t." I have a few other, completely unrelated posts front-loaded that just need to be …
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