Thank YOU.

Your generosity means so much for our team here at Scarleteen! We’re so grateful to continue doing this work alongside colleagues and supporters like you. Sincerely, thank you!

Me, in my scholarship: bodies are amazing. We should lean all the way into embodiment. It is the correct and just thing to do. Fuck dualism.

Me, every time I experience moderate physical discomfort: Okay, maybe Plato was right.

*I am aware one cannot, medically speaking, feel this. It is a figure of speech.

It is also amusing to me to contrast this with the invoice, which lists the tests she refused to allow as simply "DECLINED"* as if she gently but firmly told them "no, thank you."

*yes, I'm aware this is standard billing language; I'm still amused.

Anyway, she usually lets people do procedures on her as long as I'm there; unfortunately ultrasound days are also the days I'm on campus teaching, so I had to drop her off.

(Also I have been sitting on this announcement for a bit and have had A TIME keeping my mouth shut, let me say).

Donation link for Disability Justice Torah Circle: secure.givelively.org/donate/svara...

And I publicize this bit not to pat myself on the back, but to draw your attention to these projects and suggest that, where you are able, you chip in to them too: www.scarleteen.com/contribute

…and to Jess Belasco’s pioneering Disability Justice Torah Circle, which continues to do transformative, lifegiving, and criminally under-appreciated work.

Given the topic of the book, and the general *waves hands* Situation, I will donate some of the prize money to @Scarleteen.com, which has been a lifeline providing accurate, honest, queer and trans affirming sex education since well before I was a confused baby queer…

Maybe he meant Winstanley? /s But the math still doesn't math.