Soren Kierkegaard wrote: “The most ludicrous of all ludicrous things, it seems to me, is to be busy in the world, to be a man who is brisk at his meals and brisk at his work”. The hustle is real, I get it. The forced work one must accomplish in…

Socratic conversation is dead, snowed out by all the snowflakes crushed daily by the patriarchy. Piled up, blocking access to deep altering conversation, turning the world into a nuclear winter where people act cold and reactionary and even more troublesome, violently offended. When people erase facts, they enter the land…

The day after I missed my period, I had one of the most amazing dreams. And if you know about me and dreams, you know I have lots. My oracle guide, who has been with me for many years appeared to me, filling the dreamscape with her beautiful face and…

When I wake up, I usually glance at my phone. I know, it’s a shitty habit I’m working on. I squint at all the notifications. I think this makes them harder to see or at least the appearance of there being less. I motivate my legs to move by the…

As a formerly queer, I can’t really lay claim on heterosexuality, because I still love the softness of women. And boobs are best, hands down. Don’t come at me yet, I am just getting started. I call myself formerly queer because I cannot really get into this whole endless number…

“You act like that baby is a fucking handicap.” I stared back in disbelief at the words that came out of her mouth. I had just opted out of going to the park with everyone to play bocce ball, and to take a nap instead. I felt like I had…

Am I shrouded in mystery, or am I running from broken parts shaking beneath my skin, right under the surface? Soothing them out with a rub, hoping the jagged edges don’t burst through, or at least contorting in ways to create the illusion of smooth. Sitting in a graduate seminar…

I knew it wasn’t the mental ward’s job to make me into a functioning member of society. I knew that was no one’s job but my own, what I didn’t know was how I was supposed to accomplish this given the current circumstances and treatment options. I was still at…

I was at the grocery store the other day, doing some domestic shit I had put off because I have been scrambling to redevelop my MA thesis and had to essentially shelf the last academic year of theoretical readings on shamanism. I threw a few tantrums and moved on. Sometimes…