Will everything be OK?

from a dark room, a view out a window at a snowy landscape. The glass distorts the view. Bare trees and another house are visible in the distance.

No one can promise, but we can prepare. Put your plan into action. Uncertainty is a fact of life. We can promise each other we’ll do the work. We can iteratively take that moment to think about what we need and to prepare.

We need to talk about the Heritage Foundation ‘enchilada’

silver fork and spoon pry an enchilada, smeared with red sauce, yellow cheese and green chilis, and lift the gooey creation off the plate

If you’re trans, lesbian, gay, bi, or a woman, you’re not safe from these people. The version of the USA that the Heritage Foundation wants is governed by whiteness and by Christian authority. Don’t let them do this to people of any age.

Beast, in or out of a net

abstract art. on second glance you see the contours of a beast: perhaps a wolf, perhaps a horse with wings, on fire, inscribed in an eggshell. color palette is vivid turquoise and violet with a little blood red and pink. overall the image is textured like needlepoint.

Art by Tucker Lieberman. Everything moves in the twilight: the beast, the net, the Moon, the Earth it orbits, you. Nothing dances in the same place twice.

A hinge that opens the heavens

Motel with a neon sign on a road with little traffic at night. MOT-L is lit up. The E is dark.

A small reflection on my daily reading. You’re at an apparent end due to a failure of wit. You can’t imagine what comes next. But you’ll recover wit, you’ll find horizon, and universe won’t end.

Why are you trans?

brick wall painted with abstract graffiti in bright '90s colors, mostly bright pink with a little blue and yellow. there appears to be a triangle at the bottom.

Will they be mad that they were given a reason? If so, why did they ask? Trans people didn’t invent gender stereotypes. Collectively, we don’t reinforce them any more than anyone else. We navigate societies that stereotype us.

Your gamete isn’t what wins a boxing match. That’d be your fist.

If they're accurately representing what trans people say, why don't they invite a trans person on their show to say it? Why the intentional exclusion?

And other ideas I have after listening to Richard Dawkins tell Lawrence Krauss about his book chapter in ‘The War on Science’. If they’re accurately representing what trans people say, why don’t they invite a trans person on their show to say it? Why the intentional exclusion?