Maintenance as a Creative Act
Why did I never question my desire to "grow my newsletter"?
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Interview: Taking Our Desires Seriously
A conversation with Shea in the Catskills, creator of Tarot as Questions
Ambivalence, Irreversibility, and Leaning Into the Wonky Parts
I gave birth eleven weeks ago, which means I now have the culturally fraught experience of living in a postpartum body, even if my postpartum body happens to be that of a man. And my body exists in a particular way in relation to my baby—I wake in the
Catch the Letdown
They say a manual pump will help me catch the letdown—
the milk that seeps from the other breast when my baby suckles,
milk I catch now in a blue cloth I drape over his body,
then toss in the wash.
They say if I catch the letdown, maybe I
Five Metaphors Activity
The "Five Whys" is an approach in which you ask and answer a "Why?" question five times to try to get at the root cause for a situation you'd like to address. It's used extensively in quality improvement in healthcare and other
I Do Not Wish to Become a Better Me
Feeling unprepared is not a problem to be solved.
Don't Get Invited Into Narratives That Don't Serve You
As a pregnant trans man, I'm learning to find the stories that serve me, and to let go of the rest.