Welcome.

I'm curious about systems, metaphors, and finding liberatory shapes for our stories.

I write, I speak, and I work with nonprofits and hospitals to design systems that bring their values to life.

COLLECTED WRITING BY THEME

Exploring creative process.

Experiments in "productivity," ease, and discernment.

What I read, what I thought, what I learned.

Reshaping our stories means reshaping our world.

Selected essays from There Are No Rules for a Pregnant Trans Body.

Kitchen drawers and laundry baskets: On metaphors and data

“Metaphorical thinking half discovers and half invents the world it describes."
Productivity app or futile bargain with the universe?

I fell again for the idea that if I restrict what I can do, I’ll magically become a better me.
Maybe online writing is like squirreling away acorns

"Practice telling and retelling your story. Over time, it will clarify."
It wasn’t writer’s block. I needed a new workflow.

What had seemed like a willpower issue—(why am I not writing?) or an intelligence issue (am I not smart enough?) or a time issue (when can I write, I have a baby)—was really an issue of workflow and tools.
Learning to exist in public

My public existence was not an equation to be solved to other people’s liking.