i just completed moving out of the detroit apartment i have lived in for five years. i moved into the apartment directly above it, with my sweetheart. i learned some […]
Month: August 2014
love scholarship lessons 14-20
14. if i want love, i can’t hurt love. i used to be very cavalier about the idea of boundaries in love. ‘that’s not how humans ARE,’ i’d insist. ‘we […]
michael brown’s homegoing
i have been watching ferguson and feeling many many things. how unique this moment is, and how familiar. how exciting the responses have been, and how exhausted i am by […]
remarks from a radical wedding
this past weekend i had the honor of officiating my first wedding. it was a queer wedding, a trans wedding, a love story. here are my notes and remarks from […]
collapse, release, feel
I crawl up the hill My life too full to carry I practice collapse I’m writing haikus this month for Black August, a month of remembering and honoring our political […]
thank you to the gallant david strathairn!
so. yesterday i get on my plane and i am minding my business and look up and see this guy: i knew him. i could see him in an FBI […]