Listening to Our Trancestors: Applying the Old Wisdom of Harm Reduction to a Novel Pandemic
It has been four months since we were first told to stay in our houses unless we absolutely have to leave. Since then, the US rates of Coronavirus have risen, and, mired in uncertainty and unrest, this surreal period drags on, sometimes feeling as though it will pull...
Penciling It In: Using Scarleteen’s Yes/ No/ Maybe List to Determine Your Sexual Desires and Boundaries
Scarleteen is a website born before its time. Now over 20 years old, Scarleteen is a frank, fun, sex-positive, trans, non-binary, LGBTQ+- and survivor-inclusive sex education website for teens. But it's helped a lot of adults over the years too, offering up a style of...
Sparkle, Pop, Boom: Staying Grounded Through Fireworks
The 4th of July can bring joy for some, and distress for others. Those who live with post traumatic stress disorder, who are on the spectrum, and/or who are survivors of other forms of trauma, may seek ways of reducing the negative impacts of experiencing fireworks....
Wild Grief
The bathroom door was shut tightly, more to keep me in than keep anything else out. Grief was a groundswell of embodied emotion I didn’t trust myself to touch. Certainly not in wide open spaces. I needed to feel contained in a moment when I couldn’t trust my own bones...
Prayer for Pandemic BOTH/AND
In process theology, we stop viewing the world with a binary lens. Rather than life being dreadful or wonderful, evil or good, or the world existing in only binaries of male/female, or right or wrong, we look instead through the lens of BOTH/AND as opposed to...
Recouraging
A queer epic fantasy author I enjoy, KA Doore, recently asked on Twitter: Tired of being discouraged. How does one get recouraged?— K.A. Doore (@KA_Doore) March 31, 2020 They wrote from a place of radical vulnerability that gave me pause. It seems our feeds,...