Working in harm reduction I have heard people describe certain substances in a way that they “turn up the experience.” Some drugs will synergistically turn up the effects of others, while other substances have the ability to turn up the experience of the music, the lights, the emotions. Sometimes this amplification is a desired and desirable effect. Other times it… Read more →
The magic in-between: My interview on Little Red Tarot
I was honoured to be interviewed this week for andi’s column on the website Little Red Tarot. I talk about spiritual work, tarot, psychedelics and gender fuckery. To read the interview in full check it out on LRT. Oh and while you are here- you will probably see a little pop-up that prompts you to join my mailing… Read more →
Cracking Pregnancy Stories
Hello to all my readers who have so patiently been waiting for more than a facebook update every now and then from me. It seems like everything here on the land is up in full swing. I can find myself so busy patching holes in pig fences, transplanting seedlings, harvesting the first spring wilds, fetching eggs before ravens’ steal them… Read more →
Of a Long Fierce Line…
Today kicks off me and andi’s workshop tour, the Glitter Rebellion. A part of what we are hoping to hold space for during these sessions are opportunities to creatively explore and express the strength, resilience, diversity and love that we come from. Much of the time when we think about ancestral lines we think about blood and bone. Verna… Read more →
My Vote of Confidence
A few months ago andi and I were having acid church in my bus house and started chatting about the topic of breeding. I had, since my miscarriage a couple of years ago mostly backed away from the plans and connections that I had had with that whole realm. I had at one time had a room in my house and… Read more →
Pre-Everything
To those who identify as “Pre-everything”, I see this a lot, especially on trans groups and on tumblr. People who have not engaged in any medical interventions that they may be hoping to someday pursue. The implication is that they are in a stage where everything that will make them who they are is yet to come. I want to… Read more →
Learning to Love the Body I live in- across binaries, through pain and into the flow.
Learning to love living in this body I live in has been somewhat of an epic and ongoing quest. In the lead up to this weeks’ focus in Resilience Building for Trans Folks and Our Allies; “BODIES”, I wanted to tell a bit of the story of how I learned to live in, tend to and work on loving my… Read more →
Kootenay Morning Interview on Resilience Building
Reflecting on Time: Non-linear, wibbly wobbly adventures in creative thinking and expression
As a woo inclined psychedelic exploring imagineer and sci fi fan it can be hard for me to think of time as something that is neat enough to fit along a line. I understand it to be wibbly wobbly and one of the things that is actually more detailed and complex than our human brains have an easy time getting… Read more →
Telling Trans Stories: Coming Into Authentic Self During the Rise of the “Trans Tipping Point”
“You guys know about vampires? … You know, vampires have no reflections in a mirror? There’s this idea that monsters don’t have reflections in a mirror. And what I’ve always thought isn’t that monsters don’t have reflections in a mirror. It’s that if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any… Read more →