Tag Archives: United States
This protest needs more tubas
Scientists have the best signs. Unions are the most organized. Federal workers are just…sad. Trans folks make accommodations for disabled people. Woman are savage. We’re the protesters. We’re the ones saving empty boxes for a clever sign. We’re the ones writing the name of an emergency contact on our leg with a sharpie. We’re the […]
My friend works for USAID and she’s not a criminal or a lunatic (but she is keeping you from getting Ebola).
I’ve worked in the arts since I was a teenager, with a brief exception in the mid-90’s, when I took a job at a chain bookstore. There—despite earning minimum wage—I was offered something my three freelance theater jobs were not providing: healthcare. My colleagues at that store were a dynamic and smart group and among […]
The privilege of being a mutt
When I was fourteen I changed my last name. It wasn’t legal until I turned eighteen and visited a judge, but that didn’t stop me from spreading the news of my changed nomenclature to everyone I knew. I went so far as to use my school’s printing press to create hundreds of business cards featuring […]
Picnic at the Cathedral 