Monthly Archives: May 2021

Many thanks to Jen Michalski for our interview at jmww Journal. Jen posed excellent questions and I appreciated the opportunity to sit with them, especially regarding my lifelong struggle to feel accepted, and acceptable. “I’ve never felt like I belong, … Continue reading →

For The Rumpus, I wrote about the subversive reworking of traditional fairy tales and the twisting of patriarchal, heterosexual prescriptions in great reads from Roxane Gay, Matthew Salesses, Timothy Snyder, Louise O’Neill, Jennifer Berney, Tommy Orange, Amber Sparks, Carmem Maria … Continue reading →

This free webinar chat on Partings in Storytelling & Beyond is tomorrow, Friday, May 7th, at 9am PDT/Noon EST/5pm GMT. Registration link is here, if you’d like to join us: bit.ly/2RxfhNm This will be my first event around the themes … Continue reading →

Look at these beauties! Thanks so much to The Millions. These lists giddily feed my already out of control book buying habit. Nothing for it but to build an enormous tower of read books in the woods and live inside … Continue reading →

After a five-month hiatus BITCHREADS from bitch media and EIC Evette Dionne is back! They included IN THE EVENT OF CONTACT, selecting it as one of 17 books feminists should read in May and I’m breathless to be included, and … Continue reading →

I’m fascinated by numerology. In that vein, wild wonderful things have been happening of late. Moments that make me feel supported and invite me to re-print negative associations, a lot of which goes back to my childhood. I grew up … Continue reading →