Like most trans people who have been working in healthcare for the past 15 years, I've frequently done Trans 101 type trainings for free. As a program assistant in my early 20s, I trained medical residents and faculty about trans health because there apparently wasn't someone
At Bergen New Bridge Medical Center, we are building a comprehensive LGBTQ+ primary care program. Let's talk about what that is. A comprehensive LGBTQ+ primary care program REQUIRES an interdisciplinary team. A clinician trained in LGBTQ+ health who sees patients without wraparound navigation or programmatic support is NOT
When I was growing up, there was no way to look up when the train came. Sometimes a tourist would ask, "Where is the train schedule?" A New Yorker would reply, "There is no train schedule." I mean, there was. I suppose there probably was a
When I was in first grade, my best friend David and I had our entire future figured out. When we grew up, we were going to design a rocket that would go all the way to the sun.
Once, I might have boiled my beliefs about spiritual life down to a simple equation: MEDITATE MORE = BETTER LIFE Meditating more was easy enough to quantify. If a 30-minute period was good, surely a 35-minute one was better. If one period a day was good, why not two?
Let's think about the inherent characteristics of the blog format, which I would also see as including most online newsletters with a website archive. These generally have: * Work that is finished, or mostly finished * Presented in a linear, time-based format (typically reverse chronological order) * A sense of
What to do with the seductive idea that it's all going to come together somehow, someday?
We deserve to put work out there that is still in progress. This is still in progress. We deserve systems for sharing and archiving our work that are weirder and wilder than a chronological list of every newsletter we've ever sent. We deserve rest. We deserve to re-
Sometimes we feel stuck, but we're not actually stuck. How do we know we're making progress? How can we choose a way of looking at this that's right for us? Table: Ways of Knowing You're Making Progress With Your Writing Way of
One of the core beliefs of this experiment is we deserve actual tools to get unstuck, not advice on what worked for whatever famous author or some cis white business bro telling us how to have better habits. But I am sort of fascinated with the overall fascination around famous