Writing

January 1, 2020

2019 in Review: BOOKS

I don’t have energy to write about my decade. That’s intense, and I recommend just exploring Reshapingreality.org. Happy New Year, and Happy New Decade! Let’s talk about the books I read in 2019, and my goal for reading in 2020. 38 books in total. (Edit: There may be some eBooks I read and forgot about Continue reading

Writing
December 10, 2019

Crosspost from Patreon: Examining Whiteness

Crossposted from my patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/examining-32183696 Examining Whiteness Our culture is saturated with whiteness; whiteness and its performative values are socialized within all of us from a young age. Those who are not white are socialized to react to whiteness in specific ways, and those who are white (or white-passing) are socialized to perform whiteness without Continue reading

Author, Feminism, Race, transgender, Writing

checking one’s privilege, dismantling bias, dismantling whiteness, racism, white fragility, white privilege, white supremacy, whiteness
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

Author, Writing

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

Writing
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