My Dear, I mean absolutely no offense, but I cannot keep worrying about you when I’m trying to pour all my energy into getting good with myself. I’m over here trying to play, trying to heal. Practicing self-care as a priority. Rolling the emotional waves of everyday mirror-gates while trying…

you may have been inquisitive an aspiring electrician curious about internal wiring an existing structure the frame, its knotted veins a building in progress in neighborhood streets, viewed as a violation on familiar sidewalks, stalked as a target did you know the trees? did you recognize the truck? …

“The political struggle then becomes: to find a better way of answering questions, ways of questioning the questions, so that the world that makes some beings into questions becomes what we question.” — Sara Ahmed (Living a Feminist Life) “Where are you from? And where are you from?” As a…

Colleagues, We know in our hearts and minds that we need to do things differently. Whatever shifts we implement, whatever change we create, since we seek to do the deep work of social justice and liberation, we know we must do it together. Our bodies carry tension every day and…

Hi friends, From my position as an administrator leading equity and inclusion efforts in higher education to the depths of my own reflections as just one more person trying to live through 2020, I’ve been wrestling (and sometimes really struggling) with the gravity and complexity of issues we are all…

“What are you doing to cope?” This question was asked today in a small group, and since I spend pretty much every day reflecting on every day, I had a ready answer. A couple weeks before the start of quarantine, my relationship ended. What would have been our anniversary passed…

About ten years ago, I had experience with trolls before they were ‘trolls.’ Well, they were still trolls, but the word ‘troll’ didn’t have the same social capital or specter of international conspiracy behind it like it does now. Back then, there weren’t sophisticated networks of intentionally-groomed and deeply-financed college-going…

Justin Willman has the kind of credibility I didn’t know I wanted or needed from a magician. He seems as present with this audiences as he is clever, and his show on Netflix, “ Magic for Humans,” is an easy recommendation for anyone who wants to feel good things. I…

For those wanting a crash course on some of my favorite feminist articles and key concepts that have framed my own thinking, two online courses are now available through Colorado State University Online as a non-credit badge program. …