Writing

The World’s Longest and Slowest Piece of Music March 24, 2022 Those Deserving of the Truth Voices in Time: Sylvia Rivera On Writing Distractions: FakeFriends Do the Work Before the Work Does You In On Being a Bad Writer Location Less Writing Unbearable Whiteness of Being Winging It Works?!? Gender Confirming Gender Getting Nothing for That Deal Who Should STFU? On Regret Body Words From the Past On Transsexual Metaphors How to Write 1.2 Million Words a Year Caveat Scriptor: Let the Writer Beware Scribler’s Paradise Writing in and Out Images We, the Transsexuals Scribbler’s Paradise: 100% Effort November 4, 2018 You: A Transsexual Love Story November 3, 2018 Sincerely, Your Transgender Friend When a Beta Reader Says No Wonderful, Radical Transsexual Acceptance A Minimalist Guide to Gender - Transgender or Otherwise No One Talks About Murder Like They Talk About Transsexual Genitalia Call Me Enraged: Simplistic Transsexual Metaphors Be Daring: Love the Body You Have, Not the One You Want Off-Kilter Transsexuality: The Barrel of a Gun A Beautiful Form of Politeness November 9, 2017 What’s up With Cisgender Anyway? October 14, 2017 Transsexual Man Becomes the Subject of His Life An Improved and Unusual Transsexual Origin Metaphor Transgender People: Your Unconditional Right to Creativity In a Weird Way, Gender-Neutral Bathrooms Might Not Be Neutral Huge Gift for Transsexuals: Love The Value of Unsurpassed Transgender Self-Love April 18, 2017 A Perspective on Transgender Memoir: Where to Start? The Bottom Line on Disclosing Our Transgender Histories Strange Bathroom Logic of Transgender Opponents April 13, 2017 The Secret to What Is Underneath (Transphobic) Shame Radical Acceptance: My Wonderful Transsexual Body Why I Might Not Tell You I’m Transsexual Simplistic Transsexual Transition Metaphors Breakthrough, Beautiful Transsexual Transition Metaphors Our Monumental Desire for the Binary Gender System If You’re Transgender, Are You Unnatural? A Fascinating Truth About Privilege Buddha Lives in Versailles & Dog Dung The Viewfinder A Confederate Flag Flew From a Northern House July 27, 2015 I Got Hacked, Part 2 March 31, 2015 I Got Hacked March 30, 2015 Toni Morrison & Angela Davis - the Purpose of Freedom Twenty-Five Cent Words March 25, 2015 Toni Morrison & Alice Walker - There Are Only Black People The Duty of an Artist March 23, 2015 A FtM in a Pink-Ruffled Shirt Drives Into a Truck Stop Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea - Dunya Mikhail March 21, 2015 Narcissism, Humility and Juiciness Are You a Book Marker? January 20, 2015 InTouch Magazine Is OutofTouch, and so Are We January 19, 2015 The Right to Cause Offense Racial Sadist or Father of American Gynecology January 13, 2015 Read Better, Write Better The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows September 6, 2014 Open City, by Teju Cole The Forever Internet and Our Digital Identities Limits and Having a Thing for the Blue Suit Transgender Memoir: The Ever-Present Memory August 12, 2013 Masculinity and the Feminism of Simplicity, Part Two Masculinity and the Feminism of Simplicty, Part One Fiction Friday: Rubyfruit Jungle Transsexual Stories: You Can’t Have a Hysterectomy! July 23, 2013 Trans Publishing July 22, 2013 A Transsexual Man Dresses Himself Sex and Chronic Illness There Is No Try Manners: Those Pesky Pronouns Memory and Imagination in Memoir June 17, 2013 A Day of Rest and Thanks June 16, 2013 Fun Friday - ? Me and the Rain I Used to Give Up June 5, 2013 The Immorality of Messiness Washing by Hand and Other Vacation Adventures June 1, 2013 Why Not Wash the House by Hand May 30, 2013 First Summer Pie May 29, 2013 Dis/Connected May 28, 2013 Relaxation May 26, 2013 The Plague of Plagiarism May 22, 2013 Cleaning Windows May 20, 2013 On Rejection and Moby-Dick, Expanded May 17, 2013 Gratitudes: Paella With Friends Radical Acceptance: The Universe Is in Us May 8, 2013 Gratitudes: The Value of Waiting April 30, 2013 If It Weren’t for the Last Minute Who Owns Social Justice? April 17, 2013 What’s My Gender, Again? Part Two April 16, 2013 Setting My Own Style Agenda I Suppose I Am a Grown-Up Man, Now April 10, 2013 Giving up Coffee, Almost April 9, 2013 What’s Underneath April 6, 2013 Everyone Was a Child Once April 5, 2013 How Can I Make Today the Best Day of My Life? April 3, 2013 My First Year in Transition March 30, 2013 The Art of Doing Nothing March 29, 2013 The Aim of Life Dreams of a Life March 25, 2013 Time and Money Equals Why I Won’t Buy a $30,000 Car March 18, 2013 Today We Recycled the New Telephone Book March 16, 2013 It’s My Job to Pick up the Trash March 15, 2013 Random Acts of Kindness in a Pink, Ruffled Shirt March 14, 2013 Naps Are Fantastic March 10, 2013 On Disorganization, or When Things Get Away From Us March 5, 2013 Casey Legler - a Female Male Model March 4, 2013 Uncleared Curb Cuts March 2, 2013 The Gym Terrified Me February 25, 2013 Parker Mill County Park February 24, 2013 Writing Historical Memory and Responsibility February 21, 2013 Who Decides Who Is Trans? February 19, 2013 Gender Paradox, an Excerpt, Part 4 February 12, 2013 Gender Paradox: A Life, an Excerpt, Part 3 February 11, 2013 Gender Paradox: A Life, an Excerpt, Part 2 February 8, 2013 Gender Paradox: A Life, an Excerpt, Part 1 February 7, 2013 Gratitude As a Political Practice February 6, 2013 Our New Kitteh: Moxie Lessons Learned From a Bucket Rosanne Cash The R-Word February 2, 2013 Preparation Equals Safety The Day My Gender Failed Ypsilanti: A Winter’s Sunday Squash Radical Acceptance: Our Time Here on Earth November 12, 2012 Ypsilanti: Cbc Radio 2 November 9, 2012 Gratitudes: For Ms. H. October 22, 2012 Intentional Practice: What Roads Uplanned Await You? July 9, 2012 Little Somethings: There Is No Age Limit for Riding June 20, 2012 Gratitudes: I’m an Idiot Some of the Time Tactics Versus Strategy May 23, 2012 No Hope, No Fear: On Radical Acceptance April 28, 2012 On Radical Acceptance: We Waste Our Existence April 27, 2012 Growing Is Forever, and Thank the Goddess for That April 25, 2012 Radical Acceptance: The Worst Betrayal Gratitudes: Snow Storming, Julie London and Perfidia Intentional Practice: Regret Analysis January 18, 2012 Ypsilanti: Archictectural Ruins at Gault Village Shopping Center January 7, 2012 Novel Writing: Completion Novel Writing: Hard Focus Intentional Practice: Constrained Choices, or the Work Uniform Novel Writing: The Novel Outline November 3, 2011 Radical Acceptance: With the Power Out, a Pencil Is In November 2, 2011 Radical Acceptance: What to Do When the Me That I Was Isn’t the Me I Am, Anymore, or Regeneration October 31, 2011 Intentional Practice: Personal Guidelines International Practice: Large Cash Purchases and Final Choices October 27, 2011 Radical Acceptance: My Fear of Hunger October 26, 2011 Gratitudes: Confessions of a Feminist Nutritionist October 25, 2011 Gratitudes: A Glorious Fall Day Why I Write Radical Acceptance: My Work - Novel Writing October 21, 2011 Bad Weather Is Bad Preparation October 19, 2011 Web Realignment: Then and Now Web Realignment: (Re)Writing My About Page, a Stub, Part 2 Intentional Practice: Goodbye to All That iPhone Email Web Realignment: Feeling Naked or the Beginner’s Mind Web Realignment: (Re)Writing My About Page, a Stub October 12, 2011 Radical Acceptance: Being Here Now, the Hater Edition Gratitudes: F.R. Catalogues: Assets Death Is Very Likely the Single Best Invention of Life A Transsexual Death Gratitudes: Ms. H. Little Somethings: The Lost Kingdoms of Africa October 4, 2011 Gratitudes: Hugh McLeod October 3, 2011 Website Realignment: What the Heck Are These Transgender Cartoons Doing in My Life, Part 2 Website Realignment: What the Heck Are These Transgender Cartoons Doing in My Life?, Part 1 September 30, 2011 Radical Acceptance: Clothing September 28, 2011 Creativity: My First Story Book Intentional Practice: Nothing to Say About Anything Gratitudes: Writing Everyday Early Morning Ritual If You Accept Death, Fear Disappears Radical Acceptance: Embrace Actions Not Expectations My Eulogy Making Myself Irrelevant On Excavating My Own Heart The Odds of Being Human, on Gratitude This Breath, or Why Change Is Hard Finding Peace Within On Saying Nothing Managing the Irrelevant The FtM Thinks He Can Buy His Masculinity June 24, 2010 Do You Make This Mistake As an FtM? March 15, 2010 Visit the Doctor Like a World-Class Trannie March 2, 2010 An FtM’s Dilemma December 11, 2009 Side Effects Include: Enhanced White Privilege October 29, 2009 Archives November 21, 2007 You Know Your Wife Is Devoted When… Where’s the Privilege? Too Small Self-Publishing - Part 3