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  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…