A few years ago I used to grow herbs in pots (pot herbs: perbs) and witter on about them at great length. Recently I decided to start growing things again, this time brightly-coloured and sweet-smelling to attract wildlife.
Read moreOn Saturday, July 23, at 4 pm Pacific/7 pm Eastern, I’ll be co-hosting the first #CripLit Twitter Chat with Alice Wong of the Disability Visibility Project (@DisVisibility). I hope you can join us.
Read moreToday is the 28th anniversary of the day I met and fell in love with Kelley at the Clarion Writers’ Workshop. And the first anniversary of marriage equality.anniv
Read moreAs all those English (and Welsh) citizens are about to discover, you get the country you vote for. Things are going to get worse for a while. Meanwhile, people will suffer and die.
Read moreAfter the events of the last week I’ve decided to re-list the twelve daily deeds of delight for health and happiness. Each must be performed every single day. Each must be done without hurry, without thinking about what comes next.
Read moreI woke up today to news that an American citizen went to, Pulse, a queer nightclub in Orlando, F, and shot and killed at least 50 people and injured at least 50 more. This is the worst mass shooting in US history. It was aimed squarely at QUILTBAG folk (and on a club’s “weekly upscale Latin night”).
Read more“You were magnificent, I think, but hidden: a black hole at the heart of history. We can trace you only by your gravitational pull.” This essay first appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, September 2015.
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