Jan 18, 2023
Dear Academia, I Quit
Wait, everyone always implied. Wait till tenure, wait till menopause, then you will be free. I didn’t want to wait to be happy.
On Grifters
Everyone deserves to have a seat at the table, and that seat can’t be tricked away from us by some faithless cis white politician’s grift. At least it shouldn’t be.
Dec 22, 2022
What If We Dreamed of Shared Support Instead of Private Space?
It really was the house to end all houses: impossibly big, impossibly beautiful, and, ultimately, just impossible.
Dec 22, 2022
Labor Had a Pretty Good Year
Labor is at its best and most powerful when it’s at its most inclusive and radical.
Dec 21, 2022
No American School Can Promise Our Children’s Safety
Our future, the one we are living, was not inevitable. It was chosen. It is an ongoing choice.
Dec 20, 2022
There Is No Modern Love Without Legal Abortion
Instead, pregnant people’s bodies are being turned into crime sites.
Dec 20, 2022
Listening to Long Covid’s Lessons and Teachers—Today and Tomorrow
We will adapt. We will find new nesting places. But there will be no return to “before.” Not for the flock.
Dec 19, 2022
Why I Gave Up On England
Leaving began to feel like a comfort; if the country couldn’t get out of its rut, then at least I could get out of mine.
Nov 07, 2022
I Gave Up Free Shipping, Fast Fashion, and Being Pelit
I had so many clothes, none of them special. More than just a closet refresh, I needed to change my attitude toward clothing, money, and being pelit.
Oct 13, 2022
What Lies Behind the Words: On Translating While Trans
For me, the real litmus test of fluency has always been: Can I use this language to convince a native speaker that I exist?
Sep 29, 2022
Translating for My Friends Is My Love Language
Whenever I travel, I make a point to speak the local language as much as possible.
Sep 28, 2022
Beginning to Write in Wazhazhe ie
I dream of raising a child with Wazhazhe ie as their first language.
Sep 28, 2022
Becoming Fluent in Baby Talk
Parenting didn’t just change the way I talked and behaved, it changed the way I saw the world.
Sep 27, 2022
Writing to Preserve My Family on the Page
Family has blessed my life and trusted me to tell our stories for true. To render us on the page in recognizable ways. From the first word to the last.
Sep 26, 2022
Translating the Immigrant Experience Into Fiction
These stories are my inheritance, which is not the same as sole ownership.
Sep 26, 2022
RATIONING SWEETGRASS
a steadfast soul-birth, tried and true / this is where you sing creation into being
Sep 22, 2022
Quitting Beef
Yes, burgers rule. They’re one of America’s truly great exports. They’re also a symbol of ecological tone deafness.
Sep 12, 2022
GET FUCKED & DIE! Poetica
Though, no man can disappoint me / as much as the body I was / born into. Kidding, obvi. I’m Chilling!
Aug 30, 2022
