What's new?
New piece on Medium, "An Apology to MAGA from the Universe: 'Sorry for Being So Hard'" (a brief satirical letter)
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started posting reactions by trans and gender diverse writers and artists to the recent election and the incoming
GOP assault in a new initiative, the citizen trans project. My own modest contribution, AMABFU, went live on December 11.
The stories so far...
Most of these are available online. Please check them out if you're interested.
Books
The Girl Who Wasn't and Is [poetry] (bd-studios, 2022)
Essays
This brief piece reflects on my experience with public restrooms as a transgender woman, and on their multivalent signification as public spaces—intimate and anonymous, leveling and politically contested, and ultimately carnivalesque in a way few if any other such spaces are.
Poetry (since 2015)
"Androgyne" (Vagabond City Issue 81, March 2023)
"A Blue Sky Big with Memory, Desire," "Body Temple" (The Light Ekphrastic Issue 52, November 2022)
"If I'm Home After Dark These Days" (Gyroscope Review 22-4, "Crone Power Issue," Fall 2022)
"Both/And" (Medium September 10, 2022)
"There Are No Mermaids," "'Biological Male'" (Midwest Quarterly Review Issue 63.4, Summer 2022)
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"American Nihilism" (Medium May 31, 2022)
"i, scattered" (Ekphrastic Review June 22, 2021)
"9:29 Is Long Enough" (Medium June 8, 2020)
"The Hole," "The Girl with Eyes of the Sea," "Love Song (Aversion)," "AJ’s Arms," "Love Song (Dad)," "Dancing with Nicky," "'You Have Two Sons'" (BlazeVOX 20, Spring 2020)
"Night Songs," "For Muhlaysia" (S/tick Issue 4.3, Fall 2019)
"The Length of an Arm" (Lavender Review Issue 19, June 2019)
"Philomela," "Medusa" (Scrivener Creative Review Issue 44, April 2019)
"Lily n the Street Queens," "To All the Beautyfull Weeds That Won't Grow Straight" (S/tick Special Issue 13: Repeat Defenders, Winter 2018)
"The Girl Who Wants to Be a Girl," "Remembrance (January 2013)" (S/tick Volume 2, Issue 4: OUTreach, Summer 2015)
"Sounding Lines," "The Girl Who Loves Marilyn Monroe" (Outrider Review Volume Two, Issue Three: Transcendence, 2015)
"Eleusis" (Adanna Literary Journal Issue #5, 2015)
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| Women's March, DC, 2017 |
Blog articles
Medium
"An Apology to MAGA from the Universe: 'Sorry for Being So Hard'" (February 1, 2025)
"Enough With the Stupid Horse Race Framing of the 2024 Presidential Election Already" (July 6, 2024)
"When Hate Comes to Your Town" (April 19, 2023)
"The Future Is Trans..." (March 4, 2023)
"When They Go Low, We Get Hurt" (April 25, 2022)
"No More Lip Service: It's Time for the Biden Administration to Stand up for Trans Rights" (April 29, 2021)
"Reductio ad stupid: On Trolls, Cancel Culture, and the GOP's Minority Insurgency" (April 1, 2021)
"The Right's Profoundly Insulting Assault on Trans Women and Girls" (March 19, 2021)
"FWIW: An Open Letter to Senator Pat Toomey on the Upcoming SCOTUS Confirmation" (September 30, 2020)
"The Tragedies of the Stay-at-home Protests" (May 8, 2020)
"Trump and the Flag" (March 5, 2020)
"Echoes in the Gaslit Chamber" (August 13, 2019)
"Reclaiming the Big House: Trump, Lying, Racism, and Power" (July 20, 2019)
"Trump 4EVA, or Jokes, Trolls, and Coups" (July 5, 2019)
"Out/ed: On Shame, Survival, and Inclusivity" (April 15, 2019)
"Erased in Plain Sight (A political meme, far-right animus, and trans visibility)" (April 3, 2019)
Huffington Post
"Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer: A Queer Appreciation" (December 15, 2017)
"Cleveland State and the Degradation of 'Free' Speech in Trump's America" (November 29, 2017)
"The GOP Pushback Against Trump's Trans Ban: A Potential Turning Point for Trans Rights" (August 7, 2017)
"The Eyes of the Texas GOP Are Upon You: Far Right Animus, the Alt-Reality Media, and the GOP's 'Gay Agenda' Games" (July 28, 2017)
"Refugees at Life's Door: Learning About Transgender Trauma from Joy Ladin" (July 1, 2017)
"Empathy and Spectacle in the Transgender Killing Fields: On Media Coverage of Anti-trans Violence" (April 15, 2017) [aka "Here's How Media Coverage of Anti-trans Violence Needs to Change"]
"Demonize and Divide: Trans Rights and the Far-right Assault on Civil Liberties" (March 10, 2017)
"From the A-bomb to ISIL, or Duck and Cover, Here Come the Trannies" (February 24, 2017)
"'Common Sense' Arguments Against Trans Rights: Keepin' It Simple and Stoopid in Post-truth America" (January 26, 2017)
"Texas Judge Signs Anti-trans Injunction: A Dramatic Reenactment (Prologue to 'Trans Under the Trump Régime')" (January 11, 2017)
"Wonderfull Lives: My Complicated Relationship with a Holiday Classic" (December 9, 2016)
"Who's Your Dada?: Public Deplorable #1 and the Future of LGBTQ Rights" (October 20, 2016)
"A Truth of One's Own: Un/telling Our Stories" (October 6, 2016)
"Genital Fundamentalism: Exploring the Un-Christian Roots of a 'Christian' Belief" (August 26, 2016)
"The Word ‘Cisgender’: An Unlikely Semantic Revolutionary" (July 10, 2016)
"Embracing Caitlyn Jenner (Bad, Ugly, and Good)" (June 5, 2016)
"The Ongoing Battle Over Transgender Bathroom Access: The ‘Problem’ in Lieu of the Problem" (May 14, 2016)
"Policing the ‘Tranny Whoosh’: A Trans Citizen’s Open Letter to the Governor of North Carolina About HB2" (May 1, 2016)
Reviews
Panels and speaking
Panelist, "Panel Discussion with Community Leaders," Exploring Transgender Lives and Issues, Tenth Annual Assembly of the Unitarian Universalists of Greater Pittsburgh Cluster (November 11, 2023)
Panelist, LGBTQ+ Session for Centre County SAP, Pennsylvania Association of Student Assistance Professionals (PASAP) Virtual Conference 2021 (November 10, 2021)
Panelist, GSA meeting, Jericho (NY) Middle School (October 29, 2021)
Panelist, Pride Panel, MFS Investment Management (June 24, 2021)
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