Laws are cropping up all over the United States banning people who are transgender from using the appropriate bathrooms for their gender identities. In some places, these laws have gone so far as to inflict fines or jail time (six months to be precise, in Oxford, AL) in for using a bathroom which isn’t labeled for their assigned gender on… Read more →
I remember the day that I got my PTSD diagnosis, and it was as though the heavens had opened and someone finally understood what was happening in my head. The nightmares had been going on for years. When I finally snapped in high school, when I finally had what’s called an episode it was after so much time had passed… Read more →
There’s a saying that you can’t pick your family, but you can pick your friends. Well this is also true of your performance context. You can’t pick what has come before you, but you can pick how you inhabit the space created by the past – and who you choose to share that space with. As a burlesque performer, and… Read more →
Some of you may not be aware of the fact that I do research on obscenity law as a part of my academic career which means I keep track of banned books and obscene materials in the news. Today I read about a mother in Michigan who wants the Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank’s diary) to be banned,… Read more →
