Station Theater, my comedy home for the past four years, has been forced to suspend shows, classes, and events due to coronavirus and will not reopen until it’s safe for people to begin gathering again. It sucks. It is absolutely the right call to make from ethical and public health standpoints and I applaud the … Continued
Working from home is better for the environment. It’s better for people with disabilities. It’s mentally and physically healthier. So why the seven habits of highly effective hell did it take a global pandemic to adjust the American workforce’s thinking on the advantages? Because the advantages are legion. I’ve been fortunate enough to work from … Continued
Writer, comedian, and social media professional Kathryn Way launched her online shop Lowborn Goods in 2018 with the goal of making stylish, ethically-produced handmade homewares and restored midcentury modern furniture available at an affordable price point. She recognizes the difficulty in balancing one’s finances with the desire to do right by both laborers and the … Continued
Content Warning: Death and dying I think about death a lot. Partly because it’s a requirement to receive admission into a liberal arts graduate program and partly because she’s my favorite character in Sandman. Coming from a giant Sicilian-Italian-Irish Catholic family that absorbs people like some sort of basil-scented, hand-flailing siphonophore*, we go to so … Continued
Without Marsha P. Johnson, there is no LGBTQIA+ liberation. At least, not as we know it now. 50 years ago today, she threw the first brick of the Stonewall Riots and forced Americans to take seriously the oppression of those marginalized along sexual orientation and/or gender lines. Yet racism and anti-trans sentiments continue to spread … Continued
