crime thrillers with a feminist kick
I thought I’d take a break from my serious discussion of trans issues to share something funny. To counter the overwhelming number of telemarketer calls we got at home, my wife (being a brilliant tech guru) switched our home phone line over to Ooma, which crowdsources a blacklist of telemarketer phone numbers. More recently, she … Read more Bot Wars Silliness
Being transgender is traumatic on so many levels. This trauma comes with consequences. It kills so many. It’s time to take a stand.
When your gender identity and assigned sex at birth match, it can be hard to understand what it feels like when they don’t.
All arguments favoring anti-trans bathroom bills fall apart when you look at the facts. In this post, I pick apart the myths.
Many transgender people are forced to choose between breaking the law or not surviving.
I always knew I was different. But it took more than twenty years to find the language to describe who I was.
Nothing lasts forever. As Ani di Franco says, even our tattoos are only as permanent as we are. So it is with computers, as many of us have experienced. This past week, the hard drive on my Mac Book Pro took a dump only a few weeks after I finished the rough draft of my … Read more When Hard Drives Crash
I am so excited to have Greg Barth, author of the gritty-as-fuck Selena series, to guest post on my humble blog, sharing about one of my favorite musicians of all time, Joan Jett. Take it away, Greg! I write like a girl. And not a nice one. I guess I should say I write like … Read more Selena and Joan Jett: Guest Post by Greg Barth
Ernest Hemingway is reported to have said, “The first draft of anything is shit.” Decades later, in her book, Bird by Bird, Anne LaMott had a chapter called “Shitty First Drafts”. And author Mur Lafferty is fond of saying, “Don’t be afraid to suck.” I understand what they are getting at. First drafts are rough. … Read more Your Rough Drafts Aren’t Really Shit
One of the great things about fiction is that we get to see the world through another’s eyes. We can slip into the skin of a Caribbean pirate, a bounty hunter in Jersey, a spaceship captain, a child dealing with cancer, a vampire, a person living in the ghetto, a circus animal trainer, or a … Read more Into the Skin of Another: The Gift of Fiction