Miriam Suzanne

resilient design on an infinite canvas

with practical use-cases, tooling, and pitfalls

with grids & custom properties

designing software for humans, with other humans

A queer novel, in fragments of memory…

with grids & custom properties

with meaningful code and automation

Art installation featuring a mix of pieces from Riding SideSaddle*, PROPHETIA VETITUM MUNDI, Gods on the Lam, and elsewhere. I also put together an original diptych for this show.

We start by talking about design systems and design tooling – how they differ, and the problems they solve.

Pushing past the “variable” metaphor, CSS Custom Properties can provide new ways to balance context and isolation in our patterns and components.

designing software for humans, with other humans

designing software for humans, with other humans

Struggles in re-writing the narrative of my life

trans-femme 90’s-alt sad-girl rock

dark indie-rock soundscapes with evocative poetry

with practical use-cases, tooling, and pitfalls

with grids & custom properties

Steve Jenkins interviews me about the state of CSS, and what’s coming next for the language – from Intrinsic Design to Dynamic CSS.

live-filmed music video

with practical use-cases, tooling, and pitfalls

with grids & custom properties

live-filmed music video

unofficial, autobiographical, trans-femme monologue

with grids & custom properties

Thunder Nerds interview me before her talk at VueConf US 2019.

designing software for humans, with other humans

lively debates of the inconsequential

Erin talks about fainting from too much empathy before my surgery.

it’s time to move past grid systems like Susy

an un-rehearsed play by Greg Wohead

it’s time to move past grid systems like Susy

The panel and the guest talk about grid systems, fonts, and more!

Why Is No One Talking About The Mouthfeel?

unofficial, autobiographical, trans-femme monologue

with grids & custom properties

A family struggles to find humanity and normalcy in a world made uncertain and strange after the transformation and “othering” of one of their own. This physical theatre piece imagines what happens on the other side of the iconic door in Kafka’s Metamorphosis.

with meaningful code and automation

with grids & custom properties

On Episode 18, the TalkScript team continues the live-ish at JSConfUS podcast series with guests Myles Borins, Tim Doherty, and Miriam Suzanne. Listen in!

with grids & custom properties

with grids & custom properties

The Journal of Mennonite Writing asked me to submit for their queer issue. I don’t identify as Mennonite, but I did grow up in the church, so I asked my friends what to write about. They suggested the common question: In a world without rigid gender roles, would anyone need to be trans?

Yesterday, I shared an article about my impending surgery, and a request for help – both social and financial – as I go through this. I was embarrassed to ask, and not sure what to expect, but your response has been swift and overwhelming. I can’t thank you enough, but I’ll keep trying.

lively debates of the inconsequential

Denver Health has started offering vaginoplasty in addition to their other trans medical services. While I’ve been on the waitlist for various surgeons around the country, Denver Health called me this week to give me a date: September 10, less than two months away.

Minimalist music with fragments of memoir

Minimalist music with fragments of memoir

Minimalist music with fragments of memoir

it’s time to move past grid systems like Susy

designing software for humans, with other humans

designing software for humans, with other humans

designing software for humans, with other humans

with meaningful code and automation

with meaningful code and automation

with meaningful code and automation

A queer adaptation of the classic novel

We are not here to flatter egotism, or prop up humbug; we are merely telling the [queer] story. We value what is good in the book; but we believe in the existence of other, and more vivid kinds of goodness.

it’s time to move past grid systems like Susy

it’s time to move past grid systems like Susy

lively debates of the inconsequential

“I don’t have many guy friends, but my guitarist is one. Parting, I lean in for the cheek-kiss but he plants a good one right on my lips.”

it’s time to move past grid systems like Susy

it’s time to move past grid systems like Susy

Inspired by Robin Rendle, I demonstrate some of my early experiments combining CSS Grids and custom properties to create dynamic layouts and data-visualizations.

it’s time to move past grid systems like Susy

At the family vacation in Moab, everyone is doing their best. It’s not enough, and my day is peppered with the wrong name and pronouns. I hide in my room through dinner so they won’t see me crying.

“I’ve seen myself in the mirror. I find me… disorienting. What do they see that I don’t? Why aren’t they laughing at me?”

“Mother finds me at her wardrobe, in her pumps and pearls. What are you doing? Being a mommy. Are you, then? She clips on the earrings (they pinch!), reaches for her lipstick.”

it’s time to move past grid systems like Susy

Viewport units have been around for several years now, with near-perfect support in the major browsers, but I keep finding new and exciting ways to use them. I thought it would be fun to review the basics, and then round-up some of my favorite use-cases.

by Christopher David Rosales

A queer novel, in fragments of memory…

I wasn’t born in the wrong body. I was born, a body. Without my body, I don’t exist.

lively debates of the inconsequential

It feels like CSS Grid has been coming for a long time now, but it just now seems to be reaching a point where folks are talking more and more about it and that it’s becoming something we should learning.

official music video by Gio Toninelo

The Denver Quarterly vol 51 no 2 features side-by-side excerpts from Riding SideSaddle*, and Buntport’s adaptation: 10 Myths on the Proper Application of Beauty Products.

I’m still reeling from this year of insults,  a traumatizing campaign turned traumatic election. I’m not sad about a contest lost, but what those results mean for real people around me. 2016 is over, but 2017 is going to be even harder.

There’s a lot of language that gets thrown around, but much of it comes loaded with over-simplified baggage and misconceptions. Here are a few that have been on my mind – from gender identity to biological sex, transition, passing, and visibility.

Award-winning stage adaptation of Riding SideSaddle* weaving myth with everyday ritual

It’s been a month since our country pseudo-elected a bigoted blow-hard for president. I’m heading to DC to protest his inauguration in January, visit friends, and go on a mixed-media resistance tour…

No matter what acronym drives your selectors (BEM, OOCSS, SMACSS, ETC), loops can help keep your patterns more readable and maintainable, baking them directly into your code. We’ll take a look at what loops can do, and how to use them in the major CSS preprocessors.

Miriam Suzanne creates experimental experiences with her band and her fellow developers.

dark indie-rock soundscapes with evocative poetry

Chris Coyier interviews Miriam when she joins the CSS Tricks team as a Staff Writer. We talk about gettting started in the industry, name confusion, fouding OddBird, building Susy, and more.

In this episode of the Versioning Show, Tim and David are joined by Miriam Suzanne, best known for Susy, a responsive layout toolkit for Sass. They discuss going from being a lurker to finding your voice, the importance of writing about what you’re learning, stumbling into fame, approaching new projects, and unit testing in Sass.

The writing and comedy of Jordan Wieleba

There are some questions that come up again and again if you are trans. A few of those questions are terrible, but most of them are well-intentioned. I’m lucky to have a supportive community around me, so I thought I’d write down my most common answers to help ease your stress about getting it right, and ease my stress about answering the same questions over and over.

dark indie-rock soundscapes with evocative poetry

a site-specific performance in the Utah desert

Award-winning stage adaptation of Riding SideSaddle*, weaving myth with everyday ritual

Using Sass, you can write your stylesheets in a more concise, dynamic, and readable way, and cut down many of the repetitive tasks that come with writing vanilla CSS. This book provides a thorough introduction to Sass for the beginner.

A queer novel, in fragments of memory…

A stage adaptation of my novel, Riding SideSaddle*, created with Buntport Theater and Teacup Gorilla.

Design systems streamline development, communication, and consistency – but often rely on dedicated teams and extended budgets. We wanted a tool that helps create and maintain living style guides & pattern libraries in an agile process, and on a budget. Herman helps you keep your development process simple – and your UX consistent – as you iterate on patterns and scale over time.

This interview serves as a follow up to my performance of The Obsolete Book in a Post-Obsolete World as Represented by a Post-Obsolete Book About Dance at the Media Archeology Lab.

designing software for humans, with other humans

a site-specific performance in the Utah desert

a case-study in building and sharing open-source Sass

A queer novel, in fragments of memory…

dark indie-rock soundscapes with evocative poetry

Teacup Gorilla’s debut album

An interview with the insightful Ryo Yamaguchi at Michigan Quarterly Review.

a case-study in building and sharing open-source Sass

A queer novel, in fragments of memory…

A fragmented memory of friendship – navigating fluid genders, relationships, and bodies that resist order, category, or completion. Inspired by Margaret Clap, and the many myths of Hermaphroditus.

Popular CSS layout framework used by Virgin America, The Smithsonian, and others

Design systems must be meaningful to both humans and machines Accoutrement provides Sass design-token management that improves readability and consistency, while encouraging automation. These tools integrate with Herman, the OddBird pattern-library generator.

Story panels for PROPHETIA VETITUM MUNDI (available as prints)

in a Post-Obsolete World, as Represented by a Post-Obsolete Book About Dance

dark indie-rock soundscapes with evocative poetry

an introduction to the Susy layout toolkit

a case-study in building and sharing open-source Sass

an introduction to the Susy layout toolkit

indie roots-rock featuring Rachel Eisenstat

a case-study in building and sharing open-source Sass

in a Post-Obsolete World, as Represented by a Post-Obsolete Book About Dance

in a Post-Obsolete World, as Represented by a Post-Obsolete Book About Dance

An artist residency at the Media Archeology Lab, working on development of The Post-Obsolete Book.

in a Post-Obsolete World, as Represented by a Post-Obsolete Book About Dance

True is a full-featured unit-testing library for Sass. The core functionality is written in pure SassScript, so it can be used anywhere Sass is compiled. Advanced features are available with our test-runner integration and Mocha.

in a Post-Obsolete World, as Represented by a Post-Obsolete Book About Dance

Part 7 of Fuck the Muse

dark indie-rock soundscapes with evocative poetry

Part 6 of Fuck the Muse

Part 5 of Fuck the Muse

by James Belflower

Part 4 of Fuck the Muse

Part 3 of Fuck the Muse

Part 2 of Fuck the Muse

a series of articles on creative process

interview with Richard Wall of the Boulder Writers’ Workshop

in a Post-Obsolete World, as Represented by a Post-Obsolete Book About Dance

the art of Jason Nelson

in a Post-Obsolete World, as Represented by a Post-Obsolete Book About Dance

An archival rhizome ecology in ten parts, and a reflection on the obsolescence of obsolescence – documented on the cloud, and open-sourced as a defense against post-post-obsolescence.

theater, code, and creative writing

A novel about new love, moving apart, and what comes next. A love story, and an after-love story – told wiith poetry and pictures.

Rachel’s powerful vocals combine her Appalachian roots with a hard-rocking force. Mixed with the indie, post-rock-inspired experimentations of the band, they create a layered sound that aims for the gut and head.

indie roots-rock featuring Rachel Eisenstat

A modern, theatrical interpretation of the Catholic Mass – created by Grapefruit Lab and Teacup Gorilla.

Combining the sacrifice, transcendence, blood, and circumstance of the Catholic Mass with history, live music, science, dance, literature, and pop culture to find a wholly modern communion experience. What we have left is our selves, broken and battered, but surviving together.

meta-media performance collective

multimedia performance & theater ensemble

Susy is a lightweight grid-layout engine for Sass, designed to simplify and clarify responsive grid layouts without ever getting in your way. Originally released in 2009, Susy has become one of the most popular layout frameworks on the web.

meta-media performance collective

meta-media performance collective

meta-media performance collective

10-show political theater collective

Founded in 1995, The LIDA Project is a meta-media art collective dedicated to experimental live performance.

10-show political theater collective

Countdown to Zero is a political theatre collective established in 2007 by Brian Freeland & Julie Rada. The collective has committed to a series of 10 theatrical works (10 counting down to zero) at which time the collective will disband.

blues-inflected bright/dark music

ensemble theater and event space

ensemble theater and event space

ensemble theater and event space

ensemble theater and event space

ensemble theater and event space

ensemble theater and event space

ensemble theater and event space

ensemble theater and event space

theater, code, and creative writing

ensemble theater and event space

theater, code, and creative writing

ensemble theater and event space

ensemble theater and event space

Founded in 1998 as New World Players, we produced original & alternative ensemble theater for over a decade – along with an art gallery and event space.