July 21, 2011 Jack Knoxville My heart is broken at the way that otherwise good people so smugly sit on national television, smirk on faces as ignorance takes over. It’s not them, I tell myself. But let’s face it, it is. A
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Penned: June 15, 2011 The entire experience of “A Gay Girl In Demascus” drained me. Seriously. Perhaps it was my insomniatic mind playing tricks on me or toying with my emotions but I sat here the night that I wrote about this
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May 31, 2011 It’s another long and lonely sleepless night. 6 am and I see the sunlight. Birds are chirping and all I can think about is putting on a pot of coffee. What’s the point of fighting this mortal enemy of
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Guide to Surviving Homelessness by Jack Knoxville If you’re reading this, I’m going to assume it’s because you’ve found yourself with nowhere to go and need some help. First, let me tell you: your present is not your future, and right now,
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I was being interviewed for a magazine on trans voting, when my own story around elections finally occurred to me. They asked How old I was the first time I voted and why? This was my answer: I was 21 when I
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Cis-colonizers are not ok right now. They are having meltdowns, throwing life-threatening temper tantrums, and getting so angry over not being able to carry on with the same privileges and entitlements that they’re used to. For weeks, I’ve been watching these escalating
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In Dec. 2018, I had an encounter with the Knoxville Police Dept. that I don’t know if I will ever shake, because I wasn’t sure I was going to survive that day. After months of being harassed, stalked, antagonized by someone that
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On my walk down This eternal highway My body has grown tired I am spent This showerless skin Grows heavier Between each breath I am heavier My body is ready to lie down It’s lonely out there on the highwy My soul
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Life has changed quite a bit As I hop From dream to dream Reality the sleep I catch in between I’ve already lived through a thousand forevers Each time different, each time the same Each time maybe just slightly better Sometimes it
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