Taking Steps

Folks, I am not dead!
A lot has happened over the last few years.
I stepped back from writing online for a while, for a lot of reasons.  One reason is that I was seeing more and more people use my work for profit--by reading it at events, teaching it in classes, putting it on mirrored websites--without any of that...

Folks, I know I've been quiet, but plenty of folk haven't, and we're all fighting in our communities in the meantime. One person with an online presence whose on-the-ground community activism consistently leaves me in awe is Cripchick, whose work organizing...

Comrades and gentlefolk, it has come to my attention that I have apparently been nominated for Lesbian/Bisexual Woman of the Decade. I am not even kidding. To this, I say: I am extraordinarily flattered to be on that list next to a pile of women I look...

So here we are, everyone, at the beginning of another decade. This seems bigger to me than many of you, I imagine, because this has only happened to me a couple of times.
I am twenty-seven years old. Now, people keep talking, at this time of year, about looking forward and looking back. They say, let's check in with what I thought a year ago, what I planned and promised and was. Let's check in with who I was ten years...