Post election all I wanted to do was read and sleep. Not news reading or nonfiction reading or anything like that. At a minimum I wanted to escape and at best I hoped for medicine. I asked AI to recommend speculative fiction with LGBTQ themes. The first one I picked...
Content note: racism, sexism, transphobia, violence When President Biden was safely inaugurated in 2021, I breathed a huge sigh of relief. The four years of checking my phone before getting out of bed to find out if Trump had done another horrible thing to the trans...
In a time when legislative, cultural, and physical attacks on transgender and nonbinary Americans are everywhere, it can be hard to maintain hope and resilience. To help you sustain yourself, FORGE is sharing actions people are taking across the country to counter...
How many of us survivors have dreamed or fantasized about our abuser/s giving us (finally!) a complete and honest accounting of their abuse, along with a heartfelt apology? Many, I suspect. V (formerly Eve) Ensler (of the Vagina Monologues fame) couldn’t get that...
Emotional Connections A Review of “Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience” Children are born with emotions, but we aren’t born with the ability to identify and talk about them. That’s something caregivers must do:...
