Friday, September 5, 2025

September 4, 2025

I cooked a big batch of chocolate chip cookies yesterday after my work shift. Some went in the freezer, but the rest on top of the fridge are the most evil sirens you can imagine.

  

Tuesday, September 2, 2025

September 2, 2025

The far right embraces reductionist fantasies about human sex and gender. It's worth noting that the complexity surrounding these things isn't limited to our species. Nature as a whole is a hot beautiful fucking mess.


  

Monday, August 18, 2025

August 18, 2025

I walked into my kitchen a few minutes ago to make myself a drink, and asked the pothos plants on the window sill, aka my monsters, where all the dishes in the sink had come from. They didn't look guilty, exactly... 

Saturday, August 2, 2025

August 2, 2025

This is the first time I've ever entered a contest like this, and I did so only because the press is located in Pgh. Not the result I was hoping for, but I'll take the kudos.


  

Thursday, July 17, 2025

July 17, 2025

My poem "The Rivers in Me" is out in The Rowayat, a journal that asks contributors to submit work that is "in dialogue with the transnational social realities of the Afro/Arab regions and their diaspora communities," if they themselves are not of Arab/SWANA descent. I was tickled that a piece by a WASPy AF middle aged trans woman taking a famous Langston Hughes poem as its point of departure fit the bill.



Wednesday, July 16, 2025

July 16, 2025

Just heard "Pink Pony Club," or most of it anyway, for the first time, and I expect the scars will heal in a couple of weeks. 

Friday, June 27, 2025

June 27, 2025

Hey Pgh, dial up the humidity, I'm not quite feeling waterboarded yet. 🤢