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Dec 31, 2024
My favorite books and media of 2024
Dec 31, 2024

2024 turned out to be the year of the witch, and not just because of Wicked fever. Across books, movies, and TV, there were space witches, island witches, and Marvel witches too. Animated robots charmed me this year, and queer/trans authors and filmmakers produced some of the best content. Oh, and I watched Jaws!

Dec 31, 2024
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May 23, 2024
Welcome to the battlefield: Reflections on graduating Harvard in 2024
May 23, 2024

Today I attended Harvard Commencement from my company’s laptop, tuning in to the latter half of the livestream after a couple morning meetings. After four years, I’m graduating with a Master’s in Creative Writing & Literature. This felt like an appropriate conclusion to an (unintentionally) virtual four years.

May 23, 2024
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May 7, 2024
Reflections on one year living in Noho
May 7, 2024

I've been living in Northampton MA (“Noho” or “Hamp”) for a year now. That’s home of Smith College, murals, coffee shops, dispensaries, and counterculture dreams. It's been exciting, overwhelming, and well... soupy!

May 7, 2024
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Jan 3, 2024
My favorite books and movies of 2023
Jan 3, 2024

2023. The year that saw the Trans Rights Readathon and Barbenheimer. There were bookfairs, author events, queer film fests, and even a Dolly Parton 9 to 5 viewing party. It was also the year I bought my first real TV and hardly watched any TV at all…

Jan 3, 2024
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Oct 15, 2023
So, I've been Away: On changelings and radical transformations
Oct 15, 2023

Changeling tales are often about how sudden, inexplicable change in a loved one can be terrifying when witnessed from the outside. These stories center the value of consistency and the danger of deviance. But what would a changeling tale look like if it focused on the changeling’s experience instead?

Oct 15, 2023
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Dec 30, 2022
My favorite books and media of 2022
Dec 30, 2022

2022. The year of getting back to book festivals and movie theaters. The year I watch Eleven battle Vecna while I battle Covid. The year I read great horror novels but watch bad horror films. The year of bird births and freaky waffle parties…

Dec 30, 2022
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Nov 27, 2022
Freak out, far out: On Bowie and embracing chaos
Nov 27, 2022

It’s eight p.m. on Black Friday, and I’m walking to catch the bus to go see “David Boobie,” a David Bowie tribute burlesque show at the Crystal Ballroom at the Somerville Theatre….

Nov 27, 2022
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Nov 26, 2022
I used to be a poet: On abandoning my craft
Nov 26, 2022

It’s officially been a year since I wrote a new poem. It’s also been a year since I last performed poetry in front of an audience. Before the pandemic, being a poet was so central to my creative and even personal identity…

Nov 26, 2022
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Nov 20, 2022
Everything scares me, so nothing does: On writing horror
Nov 20, 2022

This summer, lunching solo by the ocean in Provincetown, I wrote down a list of my fears. Ten fears and ten loves, that was the exercise. I numbered facing pages in my spiral-bound notebook, one to ten…

Nov 20, 2022
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Sep 10, 2018
Adventures in metamorphosis: Raising monarch butterflies
Sep 10, 2018

From August 11 to September 2, I had the joy of raising three monarch butterflies. My friend rescued a batch of eggs from milkweed that was about to be mowed down in a cemetery in Newbury, MA. I adopted three of them…

Sep 10, 2018
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