writing circles
“Mourn the dead, and fight like hell for the living” Another rough year is coming to a close and a new one sits beyond Samhain’s door at this most sacred time. How do we mourn and celebrate the wise ones who have crossed the threshold? How do we draw
fragments
An interview with Zena Sharman about her memoir-in-essays, Staying Power: On Queerness, Inheritances, and the Families We Choose Nb: This interview with Zena was created for an upcoming zine about Hestia, the Goddess of the hearth and the home. Below is the longer version of that interview. I
Nitrate Fires
In a white supremacist society, whiteness is unmarked, the default category of the human. To be white is to be a subject, a citizen, a member of society; to be non-white is to need to constantly prove your social belonging. But to have full personhood you must be white.
Art Under Empire
The Art Under Empire series explores the importance of staying engaged with our artistic/creative endeavors in these precarious times, and why art matters now more than ever! Each featured radical creative answers the same ten questions about the intersection of art, politics and the personal, sharing insights on how
Art Under Empire
The Art Under Empire series explores the importance of staying engaged with our artistic/creative endeavors in these precarious times, and why art matters now more than ever! Each featured radical creative answers the same ten questions about the intersection of art, politics and the personal, sharing insights on how
The Breakup Theory
I talk with two beautiful thinkers, Josh Rivers and Conner Habib, moving associatively through the meeting of our thoughts, references, and questions. It was sparked by a series Conner made called A New Spiritual Society, inspired by Conner’s spiritual teachers Rupdolph Steiner’s fourfolding.
Nitrate Fires
Obsession is a feel good story. Not the movie, no, the movie feels really bad. But the industry story around Obsession is that rare happy one. 26 year old writer/director/editor Curry Barker, a sketch comedy Youtuber, brought the film, made for $750,000, to TIFF (the Toronto International
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We are thrilled to announce that we will be offering a Summer Solstice Writing Circle this June 13th! We invite our paying members to join for free
i wrote prayers and burned negative thoughts and buried the ashes in the park i fear the winter but in my mind i feel the cold hard dirt at the base of trees as the roots burrow down into their system my mind doesn’t hold on to seasons the
We are back! it's been a few months, we've missed spending time talking about our favourite shows and we hope to do more in the coming months! For episode 4, we did a special spacetime summit with Io and Miriam over at The Spectacle! Come hear
Today, I tackle a letter with an old friend, Amar, who some of you may know from The Final Straw. The breakup of a long monogamous relationship and the debut of a new polyamorous life, international romance beset by war and geopolitics, and a planned encounter canceled at the last minute.
Now Im gonna level with you: I went to see Lee Cronin's The Mummy because I had an afternoon to kill on my book tour, and it was this, Michael (lol yikes nope) or Super Mario Galaxy. While I briefly considered Mario, when you're traveling around
Dean and I talked at the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies on Trans Day of Visibility, and we had a really beautiful conversation that was very needful for me on a hard day. It was released this week as an episode of Dean's great podcast, Love in
My book The Extended Universe: How Disney Destroyed the Movies and Took Over the World, comes out officially from Haymarket next Tuesday, and I'll be doing a number of tour events to celebrate the launch! My first string of events is on the East Coast, but I'
Today I talk with the great writer and friend Megan Milks about their new essay collection Mega Milk, published by Feminist Press. Megan explores milk both literal and metaphorical toward questions of names, transition, family history, nourishment, animals, agriculture, business, and land.
If we normalize not hiding financial issues, then we start to reframe our relations to money away from privacy, and more towards knowledge sharing, which can then lead to resource sharing.
Today I am sharing a conversation I recorded with Elia Ayoub to discuss and analyze the US-Israeli war on Iran. We recorded on Tuesday March 10, and events keep changing, but this conversation will be relevant since we look at the geopolitical causes and consequences.
The Art Under Empire series explores the importance of staying engaged with our artistic/creative endeavors in these precarious times, and why art matters now more than ever! Each featured radical creative answers the same ten questions about the intersection of art, politics and the personal, sharing insights on how
The right wing is correct: this is a culture war—and we cannot cede ground or meet them on their territory. The question we pose—how do we live now?—aims to turn our attention towards the beauty we make every day in refusal, relationship, dreaming, and making life both individually and together.