Personal essays on finding your own voice and getting out from under everyone else's.
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It’s Alive: My Substack Essay on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Is Now a Film
Content note: This video includes some nudity and graphic, grotesque imagery, including monsters and corpses. AI was used to create the film’s visual scenes and to help with research. Every word of the script is my own.
Last month,...
No Contact: The Complicated Truth About Family Estrangement with Jenny Bartoy
What if walking away from your family isn't an act of rejection, but an act of self-preservation? And what if finding the words to tell your story is how you begin to reclaim your reality?
These questions challenge so much of what we’re ta...
What Yoga in Prison Taught Him About Fear | Emmett Tatter
“Don’t fall into the trap of the own mind. Like, break free. It’s the harshest confinement of all.” — Emmett
What happens when surviving prison requires you to harden yourself, but healing requires you to do the opposite?
At 22,...
He Went to Prison at 22. Who Came Out?
Hi friends,
Tomorrow, Friday, October 2nd at 8 a.m. PT / 11 a.m. ET, I am interviewing live on Substack about his prison memoir, COUNT TIME.
Emmett was sentenced to ten years in the Florida prison system and ultimately served eight and a...
Waiting for Frankenstein: Mary Shelley Had Writer's Block Too
I’m not going to tell you the scandalous part of the story about Mary Shelley: how she ran away with the famous poet Percy Bysshe Shelley when she was sixteen and he was already married, or how Percy’s wife Harriet later drowned herself whi...
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Essays + author talks on creativity, courage & the saboteurs. 16 years writing CMNS for entertainment & government taught me to sound like anyone but myself. Writing here is how I’m undoing that. Suspicious of gurus. Including me. ❤️ ↓ Free guide
I was counted 15,523 times in Florida’s prisons—and that’s not including the recounts. Five times a day, I was reminded I wasn’t a person—I was inventory. This is what happened between those counts. Author of COUNT TIME. Yoga teacher. Truth-teller.
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I am here to show you when to use AI and when to leave it the hell alone. Full Professor of Critical AI Literacy and bestselling author.
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