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On Metaphors

Is my blue your blue?

Who knew an Ikea rug would spark such an existential crisis? Ours is a color-block rug, with stripes loud enough for a child’s room, but sophisticated enough for the living room. (We should know — we’ve had the rug in both places. Right now, it’s in the living

Lessons from the Cisco Icon Set

If you designed an icon set from scratch to diagram something important about your world, what would it look like?

Kitchen drawers and laundry baskets: On metaphors and data

“Metaphorical thinking half discovers and half invents the world it describes."

Interview: Taking Our Desires Seriously

A conversation with Shea in the Catskills, creator of Tarot as Questions

"Everything extraneous has burned away": An Interview about Love Alone--A Solo Play for World AIDS Day

A conversation with the director and actor from Love Alone, a new staging of Paul Monette's 1988 poetry collection grieving the loss of his partner, Roger, to AIDS.

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

Trans Ancestor Frank Woodhull and the Stories That Come From Necessity

How do I make sure to separate the stories that I tell from necessity—for advocacy reasons, for example—from those that feel most personal, most true, most alive?