we who are alive

Life is a gorgeous experiment.Or, at least, life is an experiment.Wild and precious and over too soon, Mary Oliver reminds us.Experiments are messy, indeterminate, unpredictable by their very nature.Wrought with failure, too.And so is life.Aren’t we lucky, then, that...

ritual of remembrance

rituals of remembrance are holy—remembering is resistance in this world of fast forgetting, where we have to fight for our lives, our names, our bodies, our loves. we need to remember each other, and remember our beloved dead—our dear ones, our sisters, our lovers,...

after anti-trans policy – we remain

Each time they write us further into struggle: scratching us from the list of their protections, severing the lifelines upon which we depend, slandering us before crowds aching for an enemy – we mourn the poison of their policies and proclamations. Time collapses in...