Finn Schubert

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We need to talk about trans people and power

I felt anxious today. I felt the sense of not being able to please everyone, of disappointing a lot of people. I felt the pressure and impossibility of being a trans person in leadership. We are not supposed to exist. We are supposed to be metaphors. We are supposed to

LGBTQ Health Equity Mantras

1. WORKFLOWS BEFORE RAINBOWS. 2. COMPASSION BEFORE COMPETENCE. 3. DON'T RAISE AWARENESS. CHANGE BEHAVIOR. 4. TOP OF MIND MEANS TOP OF BUDGET. 5. SET HIGH EXPECTATIONS. COMMIT TO THEM. 6. INVEST IN TRANS LEADERS. 7. PARTNER WITH COMMUNITY LEADERS WHO CHALLENGE YOU. 8. x PATIENT NAVIGATION IS HEALTH

intuition is a practice

When I was growing up, there was no way to look up when the train came. Sometimes a tourist would ask, "Where is the train schedule?" A New Yorker would reply, "There is no train schedule." I mean, there was. I suppose there probably was a

the old spiritual equation

Once, I might have boiled my beliefs about spiritual life down to a simple equation: MEDITATE MORE = BETTER LIFE Meditating more was easy enough to quantify. If a 30-minute period was good, surely a 35-minute one was better. If one period a day was good, why not two? Why not

What would a different container for online writing look like?

Let's think about the inherent characteristics of the blog format, which I would also see as including most online newsletters with a website archive. These generally have: * Work that is finished, or mostly finished * Presented in a linear, time-based format (typically reverse chronological order) * A sense of permanence

Rethinking Destination

Does a computer give your drafts "too smooth a gloss"?

In November, following the publication of his presidential memoir, it emerged that Barack Obama wrote the entire 760-page tome by hand, on yellow legal notepaper with a pen. A pen!? "I still like writing things out in longhand, finding that a computer gives even my roughest drafts too smooth