My Sharing Story
A little zine I made about my previous experiences sharing my work on Substack, for Kening Zhu's Sharing Space Camp class.
At the intersection of systems, strategy, and story
My essay collection, There Are No Rules for a Pregnant Trans Body, is available! I've started Better Metaphors Studio as a place for writers to finish (& sell) small things. I'm working at the Transgender Strategy Center and available for projects through my little consultancy, Succinct Strategies.
There Are No Rules for a Pregnant Trans Body: Collected Essays
New book out now! More than a trans pregnancy memoir, this essay collection is the story of a writer trying to puzzle out, in real time, just what the narrative of a pregnancy is or could become.
Friends of Fledgling Podcast
I spoke with Sammi LaBue of Fledgling Writers Workshop about self-publishing, embodied writing, metaphors, and so much more.
Every Family Forward: Solidarity and community for LGBTQ+ families
How can we build solidarity with and community for LGBTQ+ families?Every Family Forward I appeared alongside Krista Scott from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Sade Dozan from Borealis Philanthropy for a wide-ranging discussion of LGBTQ+ families in this moment. We discussed community, legibility, looking beyond protection to possibility,
Code injection to remove author name and photo
Thank you to Cathy Sarisky for this example of using code injection to modify the Ruby theme. I hated that my theme put my name and photo on each post. It's my site, I don't need to see my name all the time! It made me
curation (or how the half-finished becomes whole?)
It's hard to decide what to put up on this site and what to leave aside. I wish I'd just had one site for the past decade, and everything would be there, whether I liked it or not. I didn't move all of my
the shape of completion
I'm working on consolidating all of my work on this new Ghost site, and I'm thinking about what it would mean to feel complete. The blog or newsletter form often has a sense of incompletion – there's always a "next one" that you
How to Survive as a Writer in a Capitalist Dystopia by Russell Nohelty
I just finished reading How to Survive as a Writer in a Capitalist Dystopia and I was intrigued by how he broke down audience growth. Specifically: * It's ok and very possible to pay for advertising to get newsletter leads, and you can see this as a way of
Seduced by Sensemaking
They say smart people join cults because their minds crave cohesion. Basically, smart people are suckers for an explanation that makes sense.