Originally posted on Facebook on August 8, 2020; edited to embed links (links originally posted in comments due to FB algorithms). Friends. If I see one more gd white lady roll into the comments of a post by a Black woman/femme/trans person writing about love, justice, vulnerability, trust, and accountability just so they can dropRead moreRead more

Originally posted on Facebook on July 13, 2020; edited to embed a link (link originally posted in comments due to FB algorithm). So… one of the things that has bothered me about the anti-“Hamilton” position the past few years is that the show’s detractors — not those who offer engaged critique but those who dismissRead moreRead more

Originally posted on Facebook on June 17, 2020; edited to embed links (originally posted in comments, to accommodate Facebook algorithms). So… can we talk about Shaun King? Maybe it’s old news and we’ve moved on — but I think if we don’t pause for a minute to talk about Shaun King, we’re never going toRead moreRead more

Originally posted to Facebook on June 7, 2020 so: abolition has entered the conversation on social media. let’s talk about it. first of all, though it shouldn’t even need to be said, let’s be clear about what abolition is not: a thanos-snap that ends all policing and prison instantaneously, plunging us into chaos. you probablyRead moreRead more

Originally posted on Facebook June 1, 2020 alright, so, protesting and policing and property. let’s talk about how we talk about it. cuz it’s very easy to say “i’m not the one saying they’re doing it wrong, i’m just concerned about how this narrative will look to *other people*!” but — consider for a momentRead moreRead more

Originally posted to Facebook on May 9, 2020 I’ve been sitting with my thoughts about Ahmaud Arbery, and about the racialization of Covid-19 in the US, and the reopen protests. And I am hardly the first person to note that the preponderance of straight cis white men (and the straight cis white women who haveRead moreRead more

Original Facebook post from April 19, 2020; plus comments written April 19-22, 2020. maybe i’ll use this time to finally write that 10,000 word essay about the racial dynamics of white millennials in ‘cougar town’ like how travis (the youngest and most progressive character on the show) only has non-white dudes as his named friendsRead moreRead more

Originally posted on Facebook on February 25, 2020 (unedited from original post) hi i have thoughts about the weinstein verdict because it’s a very good thing that a predator who operated with almost total impunity was disempowered. that someone with such resources and position faced consequences is really important and all too rare, and forRead moreRead more

It lives in uncountable pieces beating in international symphony, a trail laid down the East Coast and a cluster like Stonehenge alongside Lake Erie; dense in the Bay Area, a spiral jetty centered in Oakland and spun out to San Francisco and Marin and Santa Rosa, carried abroad to London and Japan, well-worn and treasuredRead moreRead more

This was written in 2017; it is unfinished, and ends abruptly after introducing a new thought, but much of it is still relevant now (even if Paul Ryan is out of power, he still deserves our mockery; also, David Koresh was a child rapist). The title is ridiculously pretentious but everything about this new siteRead moreRead more