Year: 2016
Casting Call: Humanizing Identity Needed
Last year, when Jared Leto won an Oscar for portraying a transgender woman in the film Dallas Buyers Club, proponents of Hollywood and mainstream media praised the social awareness the film promoted, claiming it furthered understanding of transgender people and shed light on the struggles that people in the LGBT community Read more
Sunflowers and Sticky Tape (some years ago)
We built a house out of a dream 10 minutes turned into a life of sunflowers and wooden porches and Etta James and Ella Fitzgerald and thrift stores with old record players and bread makers and a light bulb on a string over the kitchen sink and a couple in Read more
You’re Not the One Who Broke His Heart
I recently reconnected with my “it’s complicated” after a falling out. This was a mistake. But my rationale was, he had recently broken up with his college-aged girlfriend, and I felt like it was a good time to have the talk we never had after our falling out. My conscious Read more
“You… Sooo SKINNY!”
OK…this is one of my pet peeves and I will take a moment to sound off about it. In this weight conscious exterior directed society that we live in, weight is often the topic of conversation. However, people don’t realize that comments about weight can swing both ways. There is Read more
The Anatomy of a Break-Up
Panic flight illuminated by lines of city street lights cries out in the night, gunned down, violent massacres an anchor weight around society’s neck. Controlled chaos – a death here and death there, no one really stops to stare, not for too long these days. Own to an “It could Read more
“It’s All In Your Head…”
Invisible illness is considered a chronic illness or disease that affects a person to a debilitating degree, only we don’t look sick. One hundred and seventeen million adults in the USA are suffering from Chronic Illness. Ninety-six percent of those have an illness that is invisible, they show no outward signs Read more
