Writing*

All our circus, all our lions: Tightrope sitta

Scribbled: Filling in the blanks

Don’t tell my friends I’m speaking at Medium Day 2026: Community and the stories we almost didn’t tell

The wrongs that make me write: Subtitle included for search optimization, I guess

Trauma bangs: A little off the end

The time after the worst of times: Recovering hope and meaning after trauma

Pouring over: What keeps you warm?

Community care and the wind in our sails: Gift of the Black Pearl

The slow practice of recovery: I hope, you hope

Tainted love: Domestic abuse, imperial violence, and patterns of control

Grimace, you’re on candid camera: Fight unconstitutional surveillance in your town [free template!]

Political burnout and creative motivation: It’s not you, it’s everything

Reporting party: Evidence in the hand

The Mediocre Black Woman podcast: For the ones who grew up too soon

Take my breath away: Dat asthma

Happens to the best of us: All it takes

Reads for the exhausted activist: Oct. 2025 book club

Read it & weed book club: Get literature

In five years time: The luxury of looking ahead

Introducing: The Hide & Speak podcast

Recovery that doesn’t suck: Reading guide

St. Louis tornadoes show need for grassroots disaster response: Show me mutual aid

Google AI may be orangewashing Trump’s legacy: How algorithmic bias shapes collective memory and understanding

Falling apart (but make it art): Trauma recovery by design

Nobody wants to talk about your abuse: Surviving without the heroic ending

Take a break (or else): Hyperproductivity won’t get us to the finish line

Abusive systems built by abusive men aren’t made to hold them: Bozo in the Ozarks

Misinformation loves company: A favorite trauma response turned act of resistance

The Orange Rock method?: Laughing at dictators is bad for his health

Societal response to sexually ‘naive’ victims: #WhyIDidntReport

Project management for laundry?: Lighten your load with this simple subtask method

Survivorship discount: Because if anyone deserves a discount, it’s you

Jay and silencing Bob: Freedom of expression and political Dogma

But… How are you, really?: Dropping the act so we can scream together a little bit

Moral noncompliance: Let history remember us as a problem for the bigots

Procrastinating productively: Hyperfocus as a distraction from coping

Accessible activism: Low bandwidth edition

Brux laid plans: Healthy living is a grind

It’s always something: Respite for the chronically unlucky

The hazy intersection of vulnerability and visibility in writing: The uncomfortable necessity of promoting my trauma

Don’t look at me: Traumatized, over-productive, and exhausted

National park lost and found: More like Gawn Wall

The most wonderful time to steer clear: Can stop, should stop

A hard and a rock face: Trauma responses, survival instincts, and healing through grit

Gaming the tooth fairy: Drama on the 2nd grade soccer field

If survivors were honest on social media: What ever happened to her?

The last day with my best friend: Nothing but a puppy

Dearly departed: Baggage at the terminal