Writing
Someone
Baubles From Bones
Short Fiction
"My life has been an exercise in magical thinking, only for my closing feat to be just maintaining a moderate speed ahead of an extinction-level event."
The Verge of Utopia
Kaleidocast, Season 3
Short Fiction, Audio
"Her mind wandered to Calvin and his teachers, the way they whispered with her and Pete about her son’s lonely obsessions—the below-ground forever-flooding railroad tracks, the descending tunnels and 'mole people'—the way she nodded along and jotted notes. But really, in these fraught end-times, was Calvin going to stop making go-bags to kick cans with other children? Stop tallying the shrinking population to have an actual conversation?"
Getting Pre-Gender with Sarah East Johnson, LAVA Brooklyn
Posture Magazine
Article
"LAVA is more than a performance ensemble. It’s also a community centered on a performance aesthetic: the body, gender-ambiguous, strongly supported in impossible positions, daring, earth-moving positions, upside down and on its hands."
6 Ways to Put the Yule Back in Yuletide
Brooklyn Herborium
Essay
"Every birth begins in the dark. If you’re lucky, you might barely hear that secret movement, not Santa’s reindeer on the roof (though that’s fun too), but the Goddess in her darkest aspect as she births the sun."
Imbolc Whispers
Brooklyn Herborium
Essay
"Taking a moment to appreciate the very middle of winter, to me, honors that singular beauty at its height, right at the chilliest, sparest dead-quiet of the season."
The Spring Equinox: Opening to Ostara
Brooklyn Herborium
Essay
"Spring can feel 'female' in a way that is far beyond pretty. The opening it mandates is dramatic and even cataclysmic, a literal and figurative pouring forward of energy, of self perhaps, into untried and possibly dangerous spaces."
The Birds and Bees of Beltane
Brooklyn Herborium
Essay
"The fertility invoked on this day is not only physical. It can also bless our minds and spirits, our creativity, activism, work, families and community, the richness of our personal connections and expression."
Exquisite Midsummer
Brooklyn Herborium
Essay
"What do we do with all this light? Maybe we make like the sun and expand, stretch our limits. Maybe we’re strong and bright, calling up secret dark places, shining on the spaces that need it most. Maybe we’re bold and big. And maybe we’re still."
Late Summer Lammas
Brooklyn Herborium
Essay
"The leaves fall with our fond hopes, and though we know by simple repetition that they’ll return, we’re called to take the cue of the trees and let go."
The Autumn Equinox: Balance and Release
Brooklyn Herborium
Essay
"The leaves fall with our fond hopes, and though we know by simple repetition that they’ll return, we’re called to take the cue of the trees and let go."
What Will You Be for Samhain?
Brooklyn Herborium
Essay
"The cold and dark are invitations to deepness, a unique chance to enter the void of renewal, both beautiful and frightening. Will you brave the boundary?"