Reshaping Reality

July 6, 2021

My Open Letter to City Designers

I originally wrote this email for the Des Moines City Council. For the past year, I’ve adjusted the verbiage to reflect what I’ve heard in their City Council Meetings with the Public. I also adjust the bullet points and actions I (and others) wish to see them take. Otherwise, most of the letters are verbatim Continue reading

activism, Author, disability, Race, transgender

ableism, access, accessibility, Accessible Cities, disability, disability justice, Disability Pride, Fight Ableism, Homelessness, No More Ableism
December 8, 2019

Trauma, Boundaries, and Healing

I wrote this on Facebook but wanted to share here too. Fractal was created by me, and I named it “Opening up.” Opening up to Healing We are enough. Despite our trauma, no matter our trauma, we are always enough. These are reminders for myself, but maybe they will help some of you too. I Continue reading

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boundaries, healing, trauma
November 23, 2019

Crosspost: Trans Day of Remembrance

Transgender Day of Remembrance was November 20, and honors all the trans people who died by murder this year — not just in America but other countries as well (the ones we can at least find information). In the past, the events would have some spoken words and then a reading of the names. It Continue reading

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September 15, 2019

Patreon Posts and Updates

Here are my latest patreon posts. Some are open to the public, and others require you to be a patron to see it. (feel free to join a tier if you wish to support my work!) I’ll be posting more essays, Elivera lore and world-building, and poetry at my Patreon. Some will be behind the Continue reading

Author, Elivera, Poetry, Writing

anti-capitalism, capitalism, fractals, patreon, patron, poetry, worldbuilding
July 30, 2019

Fractal Art and Poetry

I plan to do a livestream of my fractal art on my patreon here. A lot of the creation of fractals involve me thinking about the shapes, colors, and memories that make up the ingredients of a fractal. I use Apophysis 7x as my main software, but have experimented with other fractal software. I have a Continue reading

Art, Author, Writing

art, fractal, fractal art, livestream, patreon
May 10, 2019

Update on the Fight for Trans Healthcare

On Friday, May 2nd, 2018, Governor Reynolds signed HF766 into law. She made the regrettable choice not to use her line item veto to eliminate the amendment designed to discriminate against transgender Iowans. The Amendment, tacked onto a Budget bill last minute, was specifically coded directly into the Iowa Civil Rights Act. This is the Continue reading

Feminism, transgender, Writing

IATransHealthCare, Iowa, legislation, legislative battles, LGBTQIA, TAGIowa, trans*, transgender, transgender healthcare, transphobia
May 1, 2019

Fight for Transgender Healthcare in Iowa

Transgender Iowans had a victory in March when the Iowa Supreme Court ruled that the ban on trans-related surgeries for Medicaid and Medicare was unconstitutional. However, this long-fought victory was shortlived. Around Thursday or Friday of last week, Trans Iowans discovered that the Costello Amendment was added to the HF 766 Budget bill at the Continue reading

Author, Feminism, transgender, Writing

IATransHealthCare, legislation, legislative battles, trans healthcare, trans people of color, transgender, transgender healthcare, won’t be erased
April 28, 2019

Deconstructing the Biases Within

Crossposted to Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/25299584 Deconstructing the biases within Everyone has a bias of which we may or may not be aware. This isn’t to say that everyone is bad — biases are due to socialization by a imperfect and often discriminatory society, where we internalize the racist, sexist, transphobic, homophobic, ableist ideologies of society from Continue reading

Author, Feminism, Race, transgender, Writing

ableism, bias, cisnormative, colonialism, deconstructing bias, feminism, heteronormativity, indigenous, intersectional feminism, LGBTQ, LGBTQIA, Race, sexism, transgender, white supremacy
April 5, 2019

Compilation of Thoughts

About Taxes and Poor People and the Narratives surrounding both Written January 17, 2019: I know folks don’t like reading long things, but I really thought hard about the twitter feud going on about the post concerning taxes. Read what I wrote here if you want. Walk away if you want. This is the twitter Continue reading

Feminism, Race, transgender, Writing

facts, feminism, impact we have, love, narratives, politics, poor people, taxes
March 30, 2019

Trans Lives Festival

I haven’t been well for awhile due to a minor surgery, but I was determined to make the Trans Lives Festival that was organized by the First Unitarian Church. I’d been helping with some of the organizing, mostly with getting the word out and encouraging folks to keep at it. Since the end of March Continue reading

Art, Author, Elivera, Poetry, Writing

art, fractal, fractal art, poetry, trans day of visibility, trans lives festival, transgender
February 12, 2019

The Bullets We’ve Taken

Originally posted on Reshaping Reality: When I was a child, I used to walk along the cracks in the pavement at recess. Carefully walking as if on a tightrope. Each step I took a vivid reminder of the fine line I walked at home and at school, where one false move and I might garner… Continue reading

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