March 25, 2020I am writing this now because I am approaching the limits of my capacity for writing. I'm 36. I've lived…
March 1, 2019Patti Poblete has an awesome how-to conference post that's practically canonical at this point, and I still refer back to…
January 20, 2019My orientation to the world is dread, because its consistent if unpredictable promise is painervation, which is a word I…
August 23, 2017One week into tapering off Savella, which would not have been possible save for my paranoid hoarding of medicines I'm…
May 4, 2017I want you to know you're killing me. You always were. It isn’t news. But assume your postures of defense…
April 27, 2017It's the last week of classes, and my course announcements, as usual, have stacked up like this: Hey class, Due…
February 15, 2017Here I was yesterday, in my office, feeling cute, feeling my invisible pain acutely. I'm drafting this today, on my…
November 11, 2016Today, I stand inside my apartment, in front of a closed door, as I have done each morning since Donald Trump…
June 5, 2015Yesterday I struck my magnet while opening my fridge door and felt it shift like an intruder in my flesh.…
April 2, 2015After writing that last post on biohacking, I've been thinking more about the body as a (media) system, or a…