I just turned 41. I m the age my parents were after having me late in life . My brother is eighteen years older than me. At this point in her life, I would have been six for my mom and a toddler for my dad. By the age I am now, my one sister owned a [ ]
To be trans is to be regularly pinched before dozens of bystanders who ignore it all until you respond. People have been conditioned to ignore this harm. Not just from the normalized transphobia in comedies and podcasts and and the news and social media feeds; but from years of doing the same to cis women [ ]
The White House has released its new counter-terrorism strategy, which includes the following quote: In addition to cartels and Islamist terror groups, our national CT activities will also prioritize the rapid identification and neutralization of violent secular political groups whose ideology is anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist. 2026 United States Counterterrorism Strategy…
I kicked off my weekend by going to an Ottawa Charge game on Friday after work. On Saturday, I stopped by a Mexican bakery, and got a few donuts that were literally just out of the oven. Afterwards, I biked to the Tulip Festival and spent some time by Dow s Lake. I had just fixed [ ]
A few weeks ago I got wind of an anti-trans rally occurring in Ottawa. It was the same old actors peddling conspiracy theories about trans people. The new one by its keynote speaker, who was flown in from the US, is that estrogen turns trans women into mass shooters. They started off the day with [ ]
I feel shame at not being enough of a man. When I can t pull off a male-coded task, I fear a man glancing at me with the don t you know this? look. I feel like a pig with lipstick when I femme up. I feel emasculated when I lose my cool. I replay a moment [ ]
Software engineering will never fully disappear as a field, but we re on the cusp of a vast permanent contraction of the workforce. I ve been a professional software developer for eighteen years. In that time, one of the things I ve learned is that unremarkable code is good code. As is following industry standards. Doing both reduces [ ]
This is a short story I had written in 2020. It s in draft state, it was never published. Ceres The Atlas approached the satellite floating around Ceres. Launching… Now. The bell-shaped drones, nicknamed The Divas, detached from ports on the side of the trawler. The screens showed the drones cutting into the derelict satellite. [ ]
Here s a list of written works I ve released in the past decade or so: Other projects are listed here. I ve also written a number of articles.
A Useful Ghost is a 2025 Thai tragicomedy by Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke. I went in expecting a comedy about how women are raised to please; what with the plot centering a wife s ghost being trapped in a vacuum cleaner. I didn t expect all that much from it. I vastly underestimated where this film would go. The [ ]