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My remarks at the 2023 University of Washington Online MPH Graduation
Roughly 72 percent of commencement speeches by graduating students begin with, “Here we are, we made it,” so I am wary of beginning there. Okay, I just made that statistic up off the top of my head. But congratulations are in order! Remember to take time to thank all of your people who supported you these last 18 months, because we all relied on someone for guidance, strength, ad hoc…
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Tap tap, is this thing on?
Tap tap, is this thing on?
Well, the last four years have been an adventure, I suppose. I ran for office in 2018 for the state house in my legislative district, and came in a distant second, but the experience itself was life-affirming. My kids got older and I no longer have any diaper duty. Susanne went through the tenure process and has settled in as an Associate Professor, and is working on her next book. My book…
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Therapeutic Memory Reversal
Author’s Note: I’m doing my own mini-McSweeny’s, running pieces of fiction that received multiple rejections from semi-pro or professional paying markets. This story has come close to acceptance half a dozen times but I need to move on to other ideas. I hope you enjoy it for what it is. Ze lifts the small crystal cover with one finger and pushes the red knob underneath it. With zir other hand ze…
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From My Hard Drive
From My Hard Drive
Author’s Note: This is a reprint of a short story than originally ran in SPLIT Quarterly. Underwater He weaves the thick strips of brown leather together slowly, seemingly fascinated that they have a smooth and a rough side. On the suede he traces his index finger slowly, almost lovingly, pushing against the grain, and then smoothing it down with the grooves of his fingerprints. She looks him…
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Rainstorm
Author’s Note: This is a short story that got close to publication several times but just didn’t make it, and I’m cutting bait. I still think it’s a good story! It is time, however, to move on to the next project… I listened without amusement to the therapist’s clock. It was supposed to resemble an antique mantle clock, but the mahogany was a cheap veneer and the clock face was cardboard painted…
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Vote, Donate, Volunteer
I had the honor of speaking at a fundraiser for the 16th Legislative District in Washington State (I’m one of their two state committee members), along with another local activist, Jessica Monterey, and former Governor of Maryland, Martin O’Malley. Here is the text of my speech: Hello, everyone, and thank you for coming. One year and two days ago I stood behind the podium in the Press Secretary’s…
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Jenna's Rainstorm
Jenna’s Rainstorm
I listened without amusement to the therapist’s clock. It was supposed to resemble an antique mantle clock, but the mahogany was a cheap veneer and the clock face was cardboard painted to look like mother of pearl, which of course, looked nothing the fuck like mother of pearl. His crappy clock sat on an actual white mantle, which was not a good match for the dark clock, come to think of it, and…
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Trans & Gender Nonconforming Reading: Moderator Notes on Trans Literature
Trans & Gender Nonconforming Reading: Moderator Notes on Trans Literature
NOTE: These remarks were delivered at AWP17 on February 11, 2017 in Washington, DC. People ask, “What is trans literature? Is it literature about trans people or by trans people? Is it emerging? Is it literary or folk? Is it in vogue or invisible? Is it limited to a form or a genre or is it a post-modern queering of narrative?” These questions miss the point. Further, this questioning enforces an…
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Getting Past the Noise and on to the Resistance
Getting Past the Noise and on to the Resistance
AUTHOR’S NOTE: This was originally posted to my Facebook page. To resist, we have to get over a few narratives that American neoliberalism and reactionaries have handed to us. Namely: 1. The idea of scarcity—that there is only so much energy to use in resistance, or that there are only so many opportunities for resistance, so we need to all agree on how to approach an action or campaign. This…
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One Little Week in Issues
One Little Week in Issues
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, from Wikimedia under a reuse license. We began this week with the now-usual, unhelpful conversation about whether Donald Trump is a jerk for going on about a former Miss Universe and her weight and ethnicity. Lost in the noise around Alicia Machado’s value as a human being (Mary Matalin called her a “tart”), was the leering, grotesque womanizing personality of…
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Here There Be Puppets: My Experience as a Delegate to the 2016 Washington State Democratic Convention
Here There Be Puppets: My Experience as a Delegate to the 2016 Washington State Democratic Convention
I have voted in every election since I came of age in 1988, with one exception in 1989 because I didn’t file for my absentee ballot by the deadline and I couldn’t vote in New York State as a college student. I’d never really considered myself very into the Democratic Party per se, but I’ve voted for progressive and left-of-center candidates my whole adulthood. I can’t say I have a primary issue…
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Orlando United Vigil in Walla Walla, June 15, 2016
Orlando United Vigil in Walla Walla, June 15, 2016
This is the transcript of my piece said during the vigil. I’m sorry. I’m sorry that 47 years since the Stonewall Inn riots, 43 years since being gay was no longer listed as a mental disorder, and 13 years since the Supreme Court decriminalized being gay, that this tragedy at The Pulse nightclub in Orlando has occurred. I’m sorry that in the many years since Brandon Teena’s murder and Matthew…
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Movement Study: Allies, Backlash, Meaning
Movement Study: Allies, Backlash, Meaning
In just the last two months we’ve gone from the hurried lawmaking that pushed through North Carolina’s HB2 that halted Charlotte’s city ordinance against discrimination of transgender people, to a moving speech by the Attorney General suing the Governor over the law. But just to recap, here is a quick overview of the moments between those points: Wednesday, March 23: HB2 is introduced in the…
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Missing the Point
One of the more atrocious things the Walla Walla City Council did, after the brouhaha with the toy store’s mural faded away, was to pump in classical music at Heritage Square, a little strip of grass between storefronts on the downtown Main Street shopping district. At one point there was a playground structure, some limestone boulders to climb on, and a shelter like you would fine in a regional…
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The End of a Publishing Project
The End of a Publishing Project
Dear Friends and Readers— My publisher, Booktrope, is folding as of May 31, 2016, and my books with be (hopefully temporarily) out of print. I do have two works in progress: a follow up to my memoir with the working title of Bumbling into Baby, and the second in the Time Guardians trilogy, Intermediate Time Travel. The latter is further along than the former. I’ll be speaking with some colleagues…
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Quick Thoughts Regarding Our Political Morass, or Why the HRC Needs to Get into the Anti-Trans Legal Fight
Quick Thoughts Regarding Our Political Morass, or Why the HRC Needs to Get into the Anti-Trans Legal Fight
1: It seems anathema to a supposed democracy that the death of one conservative should shift our nation’s highest court toward such a more liberal position. The consequences of the court’s rulings have such far-reaching effects it terrifies me a little that out of 300-plus million people, the seating or not of a single jurist should make that much of a difference. Of course there’s a much larger…
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7 Questions of Utter Seriousness with Danika Dinsmore
7 Questions of Utter Seriousness with Danika Dinsmore
Everett: Okay, Danika, first let me thank you for serving as the editor on my own novel which shall not be named—you did a great job, despite what reader Debbie said on Goodreads about there not being enough “pauses” in the story, which I suppose I should just be accountable and own as my personal failure, I mean honestly there was only so much you could do with that manuscript. I really…
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