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Hospital Girl Has Left the Building
I am writing after having spent the last two months in a treatment centre for mental health. I did not have a crisis that led me there; well, I did, but it was a long time ago. I had been on the...
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I’M NOT A GIRL, but I play one on TV.
I am going to invade my own privacy for a moment here and talk about some stuff that I am really not comfortable sharing with everyone right now, because I’m not ready, but I feel like I need to say...
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They are such a genderqueerdo.
Wouldn’t it be cool if we lived in a world where our identities didn’t need to constantly be explained and validated? Well, I’m going to attempt to partially explain my current identity anyway, and...
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Dear Diary: Am I Genderqueer Enough?
Dear Diary, I’m writing about genders and pronouns again. Everybody’s probably sick of me whining about it, but you’re not. You’ll listen. The Peak, a free local magazine, recently published an article...
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Roller Derby Was Fun Until it Wasn’t (thoughts on trans & queer visibility...
Last week, I sold my rollerskates and my derby gear, and this morning, I found out about the Kickstarter campaign for The Vagine Regime: A Documentary Where Vaginas Collide, about queer & trans...
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GENDERQUEER KILLJOY
Let me start this by telling you that I am not an encylopedia or a resource pamphlet, and I am only an expert on my own experiences, thoughts, feelings, and actions. I am really tired of explaining to...
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On Being an Introvert (Part One)
Read Part Two here! I’m an introvert. I always have been. And learning more about introversion has been helping me make sense of some of my personality “quirks,” such as a preference for hangouts...
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On Being an Introvert (Part Two)
Read Part One here! Now I am thinking about what it means to be an introvert in the communities I am involved in. Within punk and radical circles, I feel there is a huge emphasis on working in groups,...
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Dear Depression: Thank You
A letter for depression, the illness that tries to kill me and, strangely, gives me reasons to stay alive, too. Depression, thank you for helping me recognize when I need to step back and take care of...
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just another genderqueer femme with a cane
I got a cane today! I’m pretty excited about it because it’s already making walking a whole lot easier for me. My chronic pain condition has been progressing, and I knew this was inevitable, but I kept...
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friendship, jealousy, & fear of being forgotten
I’ve been grappling with the idea of paranoia as an intense expression of one’s fear of being abandoned or forgotten. I am thinking of abandonment as an experience that happens to one before they have...
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How to Be A Good Friend to Crazyfolk
I’m crazy. And I’m okay with that. I’m learning how to live as a crazy person, how to take care of myself, and I’m learning what I want and need in various friendships and relationships. There are so...
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Disrupting Recovery as a Linear Path of Progress
As a traumatized person, I don’t believe exclusively in clock-time, nor do I believe in static, unchanging memories or a linear path to recovery; my memories and my stories change all the time, my...
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Dear Borderlines: Love Letters & Mad Dreams
content notes: brief mentions of self-harm, alcoholism, death May is Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Month. I am generally both wary and weary of any and all awareness campaigns, particularly...
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Further Notes on Reclaiming Borderline and Resisting the Sane Gaze
content notes: very brief mentions of overdose, suicidality, unintentional weight loss I recently published an essay on The Establishment blog, Reclaiming Borderline: Dreaming New Meanings into...
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Beyond Borderline and The Protest Psychosis: black & white protest diseases &...
content notes: ableism, madphobia, borderline-shaming, racism, racist language Much writing about Borderline Personality Disorder is mediocre and redundant. It is bland and it says nothing new. Much of...
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Sometimes I Act Crazy and Conflict Is Not Abuse: continuing to reclaim...
content notes: examples of anti-Black racism, transmisogyny, self-injury, ableism, eugenics as metaphor (?), the post-suicide-attempt-charcoal (you know the stuff), pathologizing resistance,...
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