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Friends of Fledgling Podcast

I spoke with Sammi LaBue of Fledgling Writers Workshop about self-publishing, embodied writing, metaphors, and so much more.

Every Family Forward: Solidarity and community for LGBTQ+ families

How can we build solidarity with and community for LGBTQ+ families?Every Family Forward I appeared alongside Krista Scott from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Sade Dozan from Borealis Philanthropy for a wide-ranging discussion of LGBTQ+ families in this moment. We discussed community, legibility, looking beyond protection to possibility, care

Code injection to remove author name and photo

Thank you to Cathy Sarisky for this example of using code injection to modify the Ruby theme. I hated that my theme put my name and photo on each post. It's my site, I don't need to see my name all the time! It made me

curation (or how the half-finished becomes whole?)

It's hard to decide what to put up on this site and what to leave aside. I wish I'd just had one site for the past decade, and everything would be there, whether I liked it or not. I didn't move all of my

the shape of completion

I'm working on consolidating all of my work on this new Ghost site, and I'm thinking about what it would mean to feel complete. The blog or newsletter form often has a sense of incompletion – there's always a "next one" that you

Seduced by Sensemaking

They say smart people join cults because their minds crave cohesion. Basically, smart people are suckers for an explanation that makes sense.

more useful than legible

This is a phrase I wrote down from Erin Kissane's post a few weeks ago, where she discussed the concept of vernacular institutions. Vernacular institutions as I am thinking of them have three essential qualities: They emerge from highly specific local conditions. They prioritize needs on the ground

Inbox Full of Striving

A zine about email.

Spreadsheets.boo

Just for fun, a website celebrating spreadsheets as a means for self-discovery!

Even the Cemeteries Have Space Here

About the book A trans man, devastated by infertility, moves to a small town to start over and immediately gets his period back. In this lyrical collection, Finn Schubert explores the liminal spaces between urban and rural, past and present, maleness and menstrual blood, erasures and taking up space. An

The Right to Care for Those We Love

A report of the TGNC Families Think Tank.

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

New book out now!

Simple, Lovable, Complete

What would a “simple, lovable, complete” report look like?

administrative debt

In software engineering, technical debt is when you work quickly and take shortcuts in coding that prioritize completing the work sooner over long-term stability and consistency of the code. Essentially, you borrow time and resources from the future (to fix problems arising from these shortcuts) in order to have a