Artist, game designer, musician. Created Anthromancer. Lover of bodies, hater of lies.
Cowardice
I am fully in support of human rights for queer and transgender people. I suppose I feel it needs to be said. I was once asked to hand away the keys to a social media account when I impulsively shared a similar sentiment on instagram. The people I worked with felt I’d exposed us to economic risk in doing so — that we would lose business from churches and family values types — and that, therefore, I was not to be trusted with the social media. It was alright — they understood that it came from...
Cowardice
I am fully in support of human rights for queer and transgender people. I suppose I feel it needs to be said. I was once asked to hand away the keys to a social media account when I impulsively shared a similar sentiment on instagram. The people I worked with felt I’d exposed us to economic risk in doing so — that we would lose business from churches and family values types — and that, therefore, I was not to be trusted with the social media. It was alright — they understood that it came from...
The Fool's Manifesto
For the exiles. I wrote a bonafide manifesto recently. I poured seven years of hurt into a sixteen-page cathartic screed that laid everything bare; all the salacious details about how it wasn’t my fault, and every suppressed thought that hadn’t been freed to breathe. Then I put it away, and waited. I shared it with those I trust. I reflected. Why did I write this? Who was it for? What did I expect to happen? In asking myself those questions I realized it was for the wrong people. Anger fueled...
The Fool's Manifesto
For the exiles. I wrote a bonafide manifesto recently. I poured seven years of hurt into a sixteen-page cathartic screed that laid everything bare; all the salacious details about how it wasn’t my fault, and every suppressed thought that hadn’t been freed to breathe. Then I put it away, and waited. I shared it with those I trust. I reflected. Why did I write this? Who was it for? What did I expect to happen? In asking myself those questions I realized it was for the wrong people. Anger fueled...
Bulletproof: What is a Woman
The other day, my partner (who is nonbinary) shared with me a video clip that was making the rounds on twitter. The clip is from the documentary “What Is a Woman,” by conservative youtube personality (some might say “grifter”) Matt Walsh, in which he interviews Dr. Patrick Grzanka, a professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality studies at the University of Tennessee. If you don’t know who Matt Walsh is, Dr. Grzanka didn’t either, and the segment begins somewhat innocuously. The professor seems un...
Bulletproof: What is a Woman
The other day, my partner (who is nonbinary) shared with me a video clip that was making the rounds on twitter. The clip is from the documentary “What Is a Woman,” by conservative youtube personality (some might say “grifter”) Matt Walsh, in which he interviews Dr. Patrick Grzanka, a professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality studies at the University of Tennessee. If you don’t know who Matt Walsh is, Dr. Grzanka didn’t either, and the segment begins somewhat innocuously. The professor seems un...
THE FOOLISHNESS OF PRIDE: AN ESSAY ON CANCEL CULTURE
What do you think of when I say the words ‘Cancel Culture’? You’ll feel some kind of way about it. You’ll either posit that it doesn’t exist (that the cultural practice of ‘cancelling’ is a form of accountability and consequences for bad behavior), that it does exist but isn’t that big of a deal, or that it is a huge cultural problem. At any rate, you have a neuronal pattern that lights up inside of your brain when you process the english word pairing ‘cancel’ and ‘culture’ in immediate succe...
THE FOOLISHNESS OF PRIDE: AN ESSAY ON CANCEL CULTURE
What do you think of when I say the words ‘Cancel Culture’? You’ll feel some kind of way about it. You’ll either posit that it doesn’t exist (that the cultural practice of ‘cancelling’ is a form of accountability and consequences for bad behavior), that it does exist but isn’t that big of a deal, or that it is a huge cultural problem. At any rate, you have a neuronal pattern that lights up inside of your brain when you process the english word pairing ‘cancel’ and ‘culture’ in immediate succe...
Hyperviolence
What do we want, and do we have the courage to demand it from the universe, or the cleverness and patience to construct it without permission? There are a lot of people who don’t actually know what they want. To be fair, it’s kind of a modern challenge, isn’t it? Used to be ‘wanting’ stuff was as simple as going and getting food, or building a fire. These days, you’re expected to invent an abstracted map of your life in the near, mid, and long term timescales, and then devote every waking min...
Hyperviolence
What do we want, and do we have the courage to demand it from the universe, or the cleverness and patience to construct it without permission? There are a lot of people who don’t actually know what they want. To be fair, it’s kind of a modern challenge, isn’t it? Used to be ‘wanting’ stuff was as simple as going and getting food, or building a fire. These days, you’re expected to invent an abstracted map of your life in the near, mid, and long term timescales, and then devote every waking min...
