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Our national conversation about gender identity is one big miscommunication

I had a friend in junior high whose father and uncle decided they’d had enough of his long hair (beautiful, silken, golden wheat-colored, cascading well below his shoulders). They trapped him in the bathroom one Sunday night, held him against […]

Philadelphia Inquirer Op-Ed on Gender Identity

At Play in the Land of Identity

Lonely Rebels Unite: It’s Novelicious

You go through quite a journey of discovery when you write a novel. The reason that long fiction is so important is because it’s an extended opportunity to learn and think about being in the world. Sometimes novels and their […]

Girl looking in a mirror

Writing in a Girl’s Voice

Never tell a character in your head to get lost A slightly different form of this essay was published in Medium.com One morning nearly ten years ago, a voice showed up in my head as I was walking up the stairs […]

Ivy and Rita waiting for the sunrise

Old Music for New People: Coming Soon

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