Essay – The Power of Wearing What You Want, Shondaland
My piece about embracing my gender is up on Shondaland: She grew up wearing girly clothes to fit in with her family. Years later, she cut off her hair and dressed in masculine clothes, embracing her true gender identity. “When I was little, I learned that pretending was a skill I should cultivate. I pretended …
Queer Love Stories
Hello! I’m interviewing and profiling queer lovers of all kinds for a coffee-table book during my nomadic workshop travels in 2020. I will update this page with dates as the tour comes together. Are you gay, lesbian, queer, trans, transgender, genderfluid, or any type of member of the lgbtqiaplus community AND living a love story …
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Daily Ritual Creation + Self-Tying as Self-Care Parasympathetic Nervous System (PNS) Activation Workshop Build a daily ritual that creates space for healing and processing. Help yourself heal and learn to relax by embracing the built-in self-care system your body came with + learn and practice rope self-tie. Limited space! Rope included. Please bring a yoga …
Pulp Mag – Being The Feast
“And I think I’ve been content to let it go, not think about it too hard, and not let myself want too much or care too deeply that the feelings of disgust and vileness about my body persist. I turn the attention away from me and on to them. I make my partners feel beautiful …
Podcast – League of Badass Women on Gender
Parts 1 & 2 of a podcast I did with Valerie Orth from League of Badass Women is live today. I get personal and talk about how instrumental Joe Crawford was in my process of coming out. <3 “In this week’s episode I continue speaking with health and wellness writer and mentor, and serious badass, …
Ravishly – I’m Genderfluid and Here’s What I Want You to Know
“Believing in a gender binary, where only “men” and “women” exist, has created a stifling system where personality traits are attributed to one gender or the other. This ignores the vast intersections where male, female, and non-binary characteristics exist, co-mingle, and crossover. What’s wrong with a man crying and being sensitive? What’s wrong with a …
Medium – My Drug-Induced, Near-Death Visit From Jesus
Read it here. A collection edited by Mitch Albom, author of Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven.
Podcast on Gender
I was asked by Ally Timm to share my thoughts and feelings about being genderfluid. You can listen to the podcast here.
After the Drought
The first bit I wrote after the drought where my words were stuck past my teeth down my sore throat weak from loneliness deep into crevices under my ribs and ribboning around my heart in ways that hung the truth was a piece about how love stomped down the barbed wire fence in just enough …