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PDX, some kind of forest gremlin.
also a trans femme mom lawyer writer.
2023 Literary Arts Fellow, words at Slate, Rumpus, Catapult (RIP), etc. More charming irl
also a trans femme mom lawyer writer.
2023 Literary Arts Fellow, words at Slate, Rumpus, Catapult (RIP), etc. More charming irl
chat is this a big deal
October 20, 2025 at 8:14 PM
chat is this a big deal
Portland Update: Palestine peace protestors have blocked Burnside downtown right in front of Powell’s.
October 4, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Portland Update: Palestine peace protestors have blocked Burnside downtown right in front of Powell’s.
“War ravaged Portland” where EVEN ICE FUCKING HEADQUARTERS IS CALM AND QUIET BASICALLY ALL THE TIME
October 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
“War ravaged Portland” where EVEN ICE FUCKING HEADQUARTERS IS CALM AND QUIET BASICALLY ALL THE TIME
also drinking from streams straight off the glacier was pretty cool
September 2, 2025 at 9:17 PM
also drinking from streams straight off the glacier was pretty cool
scenes from the mountain
August 31, 2025 at 10:25 PM
scenes from the mountain
Me and the kid figuring out where to be at 100°
August 24, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Me and the kid figuring out where to be at 100°
One of the immediate implications of this is that these “biological reality” definitions of sex are essentially incompatible with any meaningful civil rights law addressing societal hostility and harm *because of* sex. For one, bc most of that stuff is better framed as gender
August 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
One of the immediate implications of this is that these “biological reality” definitions of sex are essentially incompatible with any meaningful civil rights law addressing societal hostility and harm *because of* sex. For one, bc most of that stuff is better framed as gender
When the butlerian jihad comes
August 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
When the butlerian jihad comes
Got back from a week out of town and the raspberry hedge was out of control. Gave away like a half gallon yesterday and still picked another quart before bed. We’re at that part of berry season
July 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Got back from a week out of town and the raspberry hedge was out of control. Gave away like a half gallon yesterday and still picked another quart before bed. We’re at that part of berry season
down in the Bay Area for the week and now on a jaunt out to Marin County
June 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
down in the Bay Area for the week and now on a jaunt out to Marin County
unfortunately acab actually does include the nyt spelling bee
June 23, 2025 at 2:43 AM
unfortunately acab actually does include the nyt spelling bee
No disrespect to Ari but this seems really imprudent given everything we’ve seen on emergency appeals and SCOTUS slapping down any injunction benefiting trans people. Until we know SCOTUS has let the injunction stand the prospects are dim, and if your marker’s correct now you could lose it renewing
June 18, 2025 at 1:53 AM
No disrespect to Ari but this seems really imprudent given everything we’ve seen on emergency appeals and SCOTUS slapping down any injunction benefiting trans people. Until we know SCOTUS has let the injunction stand the prospects are dim, and if your marker’s correct now you could lose it renewing
whatever. fuck it. happy pride
June 16, 2025 at 11:55 PM
whatever. fuck it. happy pride
I don’t think the dissonance will ever fully resolve of like clearly remembering this era as a kid and having my sense of gays in society heavily shaped by jokes like this and then backfilling as a queer adult the contemporaneous realities of the peak AIDS crisis
June 12, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I don’t think the dissonance will ever fully resolve of like clearly remembering this era as a kid and having my sense of gays in society heavily shaped by jokes like this and then backfilling as a queer adult the contemporaneous realities of the peak AIDS crisis
Ok maybe doing my big weekly draw from the law school campus was a mistake
June 9, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Ok maybe doing my big weekly draw from the law school campus was a mistake
one of the more deeply woven and charmingly psychotic threads of Oregon culture: an Oregonian sees another whale wash up and you immediately see that gleam in their eye, that hunger for dynamite
June 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
one of the more deeply woven and charmingly psychotic threads of Oregon culture: an Oregonian sees another whale wash up and you immediately see that gleam in their eye, that hunger for dynamite
nature is so fucking beautiful man
May 31, 2025 at 12:16 AM
nature is so fucking beautiful man
… and also that I stuck a wild Oregon iris flower in here to press and dry, then forgot about it, and now I’m kind of scared to take it out
May 31, 2025 at 12:12 AM
… and also that I stuck a wild Oregon iris flower in here to press and dry, then forgot about it, and now I’m kind of scared to take it out
Noticing that my thriftbooks copy has a (displaced) borders sticker with specific lesbian lit tag 🥲
May 31, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Noticing that my thriftbooks copy has a (displaced) borders sticker with specific lesbian lit tag 🥲
It gets less attention than hospitals closing for obvious reasons, but PSLF is literally the only reason you have degreed professionals in rural areas (medicine, law, nursing, etc) and the GOP is just abolishing those kinds of services in their most loyal diehard areas. Like game over, time to move
May 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
It gets less attention than hospitals closing for obvious reasons, but PSLF is literally the only reason you have degreed professionals in rural areas (medicine, law, nursing, etc) and the GOP is just abolishing those kinds of services in their most loyal diehard areas. Like game over, time to move
Millennial stereotype? Maybe, but if you are in community with het women in the PNW you know that Ms. Chungus’s counterpart Man Child is also a long-standing kind of Liberal Northwest guy, and his prevalence has long made hetero dating here a unique kind of hell
May 19, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Millennial stereotype? Maybe, but if you are in community with het women in the PNW you know that Ms. Chungus’s counterpart Man Child is also a long-standing kind of Liberal Northwest guy, and his prevalence has long made hetero dating here a unique kind of hell
Apparently we spent this Sunday training for a half marathon in a couple weeks (a flat soft track trail run around a lake) by running a half marathon on this:
May 19, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Apparently we spent this Sunday training for a half marathon in a couple weeks (a flat soft track trail run around a lake) by running a half marathon on this:
“Eagle Creek trail is great! Astounding scenery, and actually not bad as a run, totally manageable” I say, sending another out of town trail runner acquaintance to their death
May 18, 2025 at 11:44 PM
“Eagle Creek trail is great! Astounding scenery, and actually not bad as a run, totally manageable” I say, sending another out of town trail runner acquaintance to their death