Bask in your own heartbreak
I cannot remember when I first began to hate December, but it was at least a few years before the Counting Crows released their interpretation of that...
"What if everyone disobeyed the law?"
I am packing for 9 or so days in Mexico, which means there are bags and clothes and shoes strewn about as I whittle the options down into whatever will fit...
we protested but not enough
It was one of those weeks when I didn’t so much consciously leave the office as find myself collapsing into my apartment at 9pm, 10pm. On Friday night I...
To all the tweets I didn’t send before
And in their mentions, well you can guess. I will never forgive the “well it would be an interesting thought experiment if someone who campaigned on explicit...
i'm just doing my job
“Why are you doing this?” someone asked me today, at the beginning of our conversation. “Why are you reviewing people’s resumes for free?” Suspicion, sure....
if you can’t make your own neurotransmitters
I baked those cookies again, one of my contributions to a friendsgathering / strategy session I have had the privilege of sharing with a handful of brilliant...
Good year to hate lettuce
I have three strong cues that I am successfully taking a vacation: no alarms setno smart devices on my person; especially not one that doubles as a “fitness”...
these are the answers, you feel me?
I spent this week wearing a mask, trying to avoid an asthmatic spiral despite the smokiness of the California air. I was mostly successful; and I have...
what are you doing to make revolution irresistible
Sometimes the answer is one cup of tea after another and the songs that remind you your grief is not novel. Sometimes the answer is books and poetry....
& who, this time, will serve the reminder
I said last week that I’d tell you about a lie I tell myself, that I have recently stopped telling myself. That I have mostly stopped telling myself. It is...
are you ok is code for we are not ok
What you do, when you are not allowed to vote and the issue at hand is whether you deserve to live, is buy art that reminds you how to survive. What you do,...
The striking aphorism requires a stricken aphorist.
For some weeks I have had in my head a quote, “It is not incumbent upon you to complete the work, but neither are you at liberty to desist from it”. I cannot...
Go the way your blood beats
Still in bed, barely awake, I realize my heart is thrumming in my ears. I am reading the notifications about a fatal shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh. I...
I am splintered by great waves
Some years ago I decided to retrain myself from reflexively and excitedly asking the question, “oh boy or girl?” whenever a friend or colleague announced...
Instead of stressed I lie here charmed
I’ve spent several hours of the past two nights sleeping on the floor. Not because of visiting guests or temporary domestic dysfunction, but because of my...
Do inconvenient things
In 2017 the San Francisco Public Library chose Black Against Empire for their “One City One Book” campaign. A year later I am finally getting around to...
Let the horizon be what it is
.Issue One. You may have the privilege of deciding what you will risk. Or you may have no such agency; losing everything, regardless. Sometimes these look...
Welcome to the Main Event
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