A Table Read for STRINGS
I’m part of the table read for my friend Lisa Chiu’s sitcom pilot, STRINGS, which she co-wrote with writer Claire Robinson May. For more, check out this graphic–and write to Lisa and Claire to get on the list to attend!
Idaho’s Transgender Athletes Ban: Why it doesn’t hold water
A new legal case claims Idaho’s transgender athlete ban makes sense if you frame it in Title IX terms. I was neck-deep in Title IX for months working on a museum exhibit. Here’s why that explanation fails.
Protected: “Show notes” for Yi Shun’s talk at Desert Nights, Rising Stars 2021
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Clubhouse! Here’s why it’s working for me
As I’m typing, I’m listening in on a room I wouldn’t have had much opportunity to step into before. It’s a room on digital accessibility, and it’s on Clubhouse. Access to great conversations that I didn’t know were going on…
Submission guidelines for Reads & Eats
In July, I started a new publication called Reads & Eats. (View it here.) Each month, I pen an essay about an American food I’m obsessed with, from club sandwiches to Long John Silver’s crumbly bits and everything in between….
Meanifesto: How I’m addressing my complicity in the America we have today
Years ago, at my MFA program, a person who was considering joining the MFA test-drove a workshop. After, the new guy came up to me and said, “I just wanted to tell you, you’ve adjusted to life in America really…
Seeing hidden systems: Part 6 of live-blogging Dolly Chugh’s _The Person You Mean to Be_
This is part 6 of a multi-part series on Dolly Chugh’s The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias. Chugh writes about how to move from believing in good, with all of its slippery connotations, to building structures in our…
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Tipping Points
Over Twitter a little while ago, the author Sequoia Nagamatsu posted this: I don’t have the same feelings Mr. Nagamatsu has about literary Twitter–I think I probably read Twitter with full knowledge that the medium is totally curated–but I think…
Finding Your Fingerprint: Live-Blogging _The Business of Being a Writer_
This is Part 12 of a multiple-part live-blog of Jane Friedman’s The Business of Being a Writer. Parts 1-11 can be found here. Writer and editor Jane Friedman believes writing can be a career, and her latest book, The Business of Being a…
