Resistance

“You’re bad at art,” they said, though not quite in those words. I was about eleven and experimenting with ocean scenes and cheap oil paints at our dining room table. I was proud of my use of glitter nail polish on the whitecaps and the way the scene turned out, but their attention was on my younger sister who…

Re: The Magdalene Collective

I want to take responsibility for adding the language in question. It was me. I fucked up and I am so sorry. I used language that I have been reclaiming for myself in my own healing, but that language has historically been…

There’s a lot of interesting politics at Laney right now. The Oakland A’s want to build a new stadium on…

I’ve been wanting to sit down and write and every time I start my brain draws a blank and I realize that my WordPress install is sad and needs help, which distracts me for several hours and no words get put down.

I’ve written a lot of really good things about depression, and how I got here. There’s a part of me that really…