Finn Schubert

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Invoking the Creative Self

Invoking the Creative Self

Creative work is always a dance between form and void.

How to Make a Personal Website in Five Increasingly Existential Steps

How to Make a Personal Website in Five Increasingly Existential Steps

Cultivating Audacity

Cultivating Audacity

Hand drawn diagram of overlapping bell curves labeled "people who LOVE your work" and "people who HATE your work"

Calibrating Your Sharing: A Nerdy Exploration

Received and Subtly Answered: Online Sharing as Liturgy

Received and Subtly Answered: Online Sharing as Liturgy

Narrative says, "You can lie with numbers!" Data says, "You are just an anecdote."

Exploring Ways of Knowing

Book

There Are No Rules for a Pregnant Trans Body: Collected Essays

There Are No Rules for a Pregnant Trans Body: Collected Essays

New book out now! More than a trans pregnancy memoir, this essay collection is the story of a writer trying to puzzle out, in real time, just what the narrative of a pregnancy is or could become.

A Few of My Favorite Pieces

Cultivating Audacity

Cultivating Audacity

Comments on a Zen koan from the Book of Serenity (Case 4: The World Honored One Points to the Ground) and how it spoke to me about creative audacity.

Seemingly abstract geometric drawing, actually an architectural diagram of a chapel

Seduced by Sensemaking

Lessons from the Cisco Icon Set

How to Be a Seahorse Dad

Old black and white photo of man at a workbench repairing a shoe.

Maintenance as a Creative Act

Old photograph of a man with glasses, a large hat, and a tie.

Trans Ancestor Frank Woodhull and the Stories That Come From Necessity

Essays

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Seduced by Sensemaking

Habits

Lessons from the Cisco Icon Set

Interruptibility is a Superpower

How to Be a Seahorse Dad

Rethinking Systems

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Exploring Ways of Knowing

Seduced by Sensemaking

Simple, Lovable, Complete

administrative debt

Take Emotion Seriously

LGBTQ Health

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Every Family Forward: Solidarity and community for LGBTQ+ families

Terminology Won't Save Us

We Need to Talk About Health "McEquity"

Tribute: Pat Parker 1944-1989

Tribute: Michael Dillon (Lobsang Jivaka), 1915-1962

On Metaphors

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4 Metaphors for Strategy

How to Collect Metaphors

Is my blue your blue?

Lessons from the Cisco Icon Set

Kitchen drawers and laundry baskets: On metaphors and data

Poems

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Catch the Letdown

Death Workshop

Pretending

At the Gynecologist

In the Witch Shop

Trans Embodiment

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How to Be a Seahorse Dad

Catch the Letdown

Five Metaphors Activity

Being Trans at Naked Night Taught Me About Belonging

There Are No Rules for a Pregnant Trans Body

Publishing

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How to Make a Personal Website in Five Increasingly Existential Steps

Calibrating Your Sharing: A Nerdy Exploration

Received and Subtly Answered: Online Sharing as Liturgy

Substack Really, Really Scares Me

My Sharing Story

Postpartum Writing

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Entangled in the Culmination Narrative

How to Be a Seahorse Dad

What Does It Mean to Squander?

Ambivalence, Irreversibility, and Leaning Into the Wonky Parts

Catch the Letdown

Pregnancy Writing

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I Do Not Wish to Become a Better Me

There Are No Rules for a Pregnant Trans Body

Against the Linear Narrative of Pregnancy