CW: discussions of homelessness, transmisogyny, anti-trans racism, transphobia, persecution of sex workers, suicide, violence, trauma
The past several months have forced me to rethink my life. A major curveball has been the introduction of a spicy new fact to that life—
I am a homeless trans woman.
This is That Thing I’ve spent most of my life afraid […]
Content warning for frank discussion of transmisogyny
Let’s talk about coding. Not every message is spelled out unambiguously. Fiction in particular tends to deeply integrate the implied, messages expressed behind the text. You may already be very familiar with a common form of this: queer coding.
Queer coding is when a character isn’t explicitly queer, but seems […]
Art is hard.
At least, it’s quite an undertaking. It’s generally harder to create something than to destroy something, and that art is a particular labor of creation: creation from the disorganized substances of the artist’s life, hopes, memories, beliefs. Numerous little deities of sorrow, passion, and fury people the halls of our imaginations, and they […]
If I had to name the part of my role as an editor I find the most daunting, I’d probably say sensitivity editing. But I’d also name that among the most important.
For those not familiar with the term, sensitivity editing is editorial focused on making sure a work is written with care toward its audience. […]