Reinvention is not self-improvement. It is disobedience. Essays on queerness, deafness, and refusing to make yourself smaller so a room stays comfortable.
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Testimony
I recorded this song thinking I knew what it was. A number from a musical. The moment a raided speakeasy full of people picks itself up off the floor and keeps going. I knew the plot of it.
Then I sang it, and my voice did things I have ne...
Every Queer Historical Figure I've Been Told Wasn't Really Queer
Nobody forgot. Somebody filed it, edited it, burned it, or changed the pronouns on purpose
In 1623, a man named Michelangelo Buonarroti (the Younger) published his very famous great-uncle’s poems.
What Came After the Dazzle
A year ago I wrote a love letter to the Pansy Craze, and I meant every word of it.
If you haven’t read it, start there. It’s about a few extraordinary years in the late 1920s and early ‘30s when queer people in America were not hiding. Dra...
I Would Have Said Yes Too
I wrote a sentence last month that I had to stop working for a moment after.
It’s five words long. It comes about a third of the way into a Silent Horrors story called A Gracious Woman, which is narrated by a woman named Elena who has been...
Things My Grandmother Actually Said
I’ve written about my grandmother as the one who stayed. The one who kept the records hidden, who gave me a name in secret, who built me into someone who could survive being exactly who I was.
All of that is true.
Here’s the part I haven’...
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Deaf, queer storyteller who makes everything to be felt. Writer of dark literary horror in Silent Horrors, feral essays about rebuilding in Messy Reinvention, plus songs, a memoir, and a jazz musical about the Pansy Craze. Defiance, not inspiration.
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