This is the presentation I wrote for the Spring/Summer 2022 collection, "Save Our Souls" by Vivienne Westwood. Full presentation after jump. Press link below. v.westwood-spring-2022-2Download
Restless Seas, Retired Souls
Category: Non-Fiction
Snappy Answers for Aspiring Writers
My home was very loud, but school was even worse. The entire world seemed to be a scary, chaotic mess. Even though I might have been precociously young, I was still desperate for a little peace. I would soon find my first safe place to inhabit. The year was nineteen-eighty. My sanctuary was the public … Continue reading Snappy Answers for Aspiring Writers
Fascism In The American Midwest
I’ve decided to add my stories to help people understand the situation with right wing terrorism and the way it applies to someone as innocuous-seeming as myself. I hope it helps you to understand me and my PTSD. Healing from trauma is ongoing, so if your friend displays signs of trauma, and that isn’t something … Continue reading Fascism In The American Midwest
About My Gender Non-Conformity
🍃 I first realized I was trans when I saw a cisgender woman, Karen Black, play the role of transgender woman, Joanne, in the movie Come Back to the & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (a character whose shoes I would fill acting in the play for three nights at The Percolator. 🌟 I was … Continue reading About My Gender Non-Conformity
The Heaviest Albums I’ve Heard
Hardcore punk rock was challenging itself to find heavier paths when Sleep’s Volume One was released in 1991. The lightly distorted guitars and heavily didactic vocals, were making way for more poetic, feelings-driven messaging. There was a stress hangover from the heady, violence-fueled days of the early punk era, and the music reflects that claustrophobic … Continue reading The Heaviest Albums I’ve Heard
The Nights You Crash
This story originally appeared on The Mental Illness Happy Hour Podcast blog on March 25, 2018. It was uncomfortably titled "The First Time I Dressed Up As A Transwoman." I'd be remiss to mention the demeaning grammar of the word "transwoman," which I did, immediately. It was not changed, clearly, so I've changed the title … Continue reading The Nights You Crash
12 Personally Pivotal Albums
I'm not entirely sure what makes an album "pivotal" to one's life. Good music should leave an impression. Maybe a song changed the way you pictured yourself or your view of future's dreams. Listening to full albums often takes you down alleyways you don't expect, or sometimes want, to go. So you're listening to an … Continue reading 12 Personally Pivotal Albums
Notes From A Red State
A very young, self-described male-to-female transgender woman was tortured and murdered miles away from me this week. I live in Kansas, but only four hours away in a small Missouri town, a young girl was subjected to hell. It scares me, not for my own well-being, because I live in the shadow of a liberal … Continue reading Notes From A Red State
