Just writing and Nothing Else

She was a beautiful force in my life, slipping into French to tell dirty jokes over a glass of wine. This is a play based on interviews in 2003, reflecting on her childhood in a time of war.

A queer novel, in fragments of memory…

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

Struggles in re-writing the narrative of my life

dark indie-rock soundscapes with evocative poetry

unofficial, autobiographical, trans-femme monologue

Script for My Body, My Gender rogue Vagina Monologue.

unofficial, autobiographical, trans-femme monologue

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.

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

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.

“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.”

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

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.”

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.

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.

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.

dark indie-rock soundscapes with evocative poetry

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

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.

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.

A queer novel, in fragments of memory…

dark indie-rock soundscapes with evocative poetry

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

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.

A queer novel, in fragments of memory…

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

dark indie-rock soundscapes with evocative poetry

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

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

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

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.

I studied these things

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

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.

multimedia performance & theater ensemble

ensemble theater and event space

What are you willing to die for? What are you willing to forgive?

What are you willing to die for? What are you willing to forgive?

What are you willing to die for? What are you willing to forgive?

ensemble theater and event space

Reflections of a Mennonite holocaust survivor after the war

I studied theater, writing, and visual art at Goshen College – but never took those 2 final classes required for graduation.