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There is a new wave of anti-bicycle rhetoric in my city, likely mirrored throughout other major cities in the United States. This is in no small part due to recent comments from politicians about "D.E.I. bike lanes", a term that doesn't actually mean anything, but contains enough fun buzzwords for people to latch onto and direct their anger toward. Suddenly, bike lanes are political. One of the…
Last night, I went to a strength-training class in the park. This is my second time in my life going to a workout class (the previous being a yoga class which I talked about here ). I saw the class advertised on Instagram, a one-month, weekly series hosted in my favorite park, and, most important of all, free of charge. As a grad student with little by way of savings, that has been probably the…
I attended a cyanotype workshop today at a local nonprofit gallery/community space. Having no previous experience with creating cyanotypes , I didn't know what to expect in terms of process or level of difficulty. It is an incredibly playful art form, and I spent much of my time arranging my materials in new and interesting ways. Funnily enough, I have become somewhat obsessed with arranging…
A group of eight anti-ICE protestors recently received their respective sentences, ranging from 30 to 100 years. They were convicted of terrorism charges in March 2026 for attending a protest outside the Prairieland ICE Jail on July 4th of 2025. One of the defendants who has been drawing a lot of attention is Daniel Sanchez Estrada , who was not even present at the protest, but received a 30 year…
Some of my favorite movies have been produced by A24 - Saint Maud , The Florida Project , I Saw the TV Glow , Everything Everywhere All at Once , The VVitch , so on and so forth. They produce plenty of films by female directors and those that aren't directed by women still often pass the Bechdel test . Their films explore themes I tend to gravitate towards, especially their horror films, and I…
I went to Trader Joe's yesterday for various sundries (think, canned beans and teeny tiny avocados). I markedly did not buy one of their new, allegedly viral mini tote bags that were being carefully guarded by a frightened-looking employee. I have been spending time on the practice of little pleasures. The other day, I used the steamer on my Breville espresso machine instead of heating my milk in…
I am so grateful to live in a neighborhood that has a Little Free Library every few blocks, if not more. There are so many in my area, in fact, that I am postponing shepherding my own until I live somewhere that needs another. Not only is there an abundance of these cute little book homes, but the turnover is rapid. I usually check a few particularly close ones every day on my walks, and I always…
For most of my blog posts, I have written without capitalization, save for some proper nouns for clarity. I find that, when I write this way, I tend to flow less rigidly. Maybe it's some strange, psychological phenomenon where I don't take myself too seriously if I write in all lowercase, and that in turn lends itself to more fluid writing. But, really, who knows? I am going to test out writing…
Looking back, it seems impossible to recall the body I lived in before that summer when I was twenty-two, when my skin was wrought with a wrongness I couldn’t yet name. The air hung heavy that year, everything swollen with heat: curtains sticking to damp skin, groceries rotting faster than I could eat them. I slept poorly, sweating through sheets, scratching at the itch that had appeared between…
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