Today I gave a talk at a career panel for people interested in LGBTQ advocacy. Afterward a young trans person came up to me and wanted to talk about what to do when you were the first trans person, how do you balance taking care of yourself and trying to
I’ve been wondering if there is a productivity book for those of us who spend all of our time chestfeeding, or, if away from our baby at work, stuck in the lactation room whenever we can find a moment between meetings. It turns out everything I thought I knew
Why did I never question my desire to "grow my newsletter"?
A conversation with Shea in the Catskills, creator of Tarot as Questions
I gave birth eleven weeks ago, which means I now have the culturally fraught experience of living in a postpartum body, even if my postpartum body happens to be that of a man. And my body exists in a particular way in relation to my baby—I wake in the
They say a manual pump will help me catch the letdown— the milk that seeps from the other breast when my baby suckles, milk I catch now in a blue cloth I drape over his body, then toss in the wash. They say if I catch the letdown, maybe I
The "Five Whys" is an approach in which you ask and answer a "Why?" question five times to try to get at the root cause for a situation you'd like to address. It's used extensively in quality improvement in healthcare and other
Feeling unprepared is not a problem to be solved.
As a pregnant trans man, I'm learning to find the stories that serve me, and to let go of the rest.
A conversation with the director and actor from Love Alone, a new staging of Paul Monette's 1988 poetry collection grieving the loss of his partner, Roger, to AIDS.