Hey guys! It’s been a little while since my last… well, any sort of public post anywhere. I’ve been completely absorbed in school. I’m starting to get really antsy about graduating. And well I should, since I’ll be graduating in May! I’ve been in school for my whole life, and this will be the first time since preschool that I’m … [Read More] A Big List of Books: classic Black children’s books
Hi everyone! I had the distinct pleasure to make a booklist for my library in the form of a flyer they could hand out at a local middle school fair. The request was for a list featuring books with diversity–racial, ethnic, gender, sexuality, and ability variety. Oh, and the books were to be as recent as possible, not more than … [Read More] A Big List of Books: Diverse Books for Middle Schoolers
This summer I’ve been learning a lot about the ocean. It’s the first time I’ve lived so close to a coastline; I can literally walk to a beach in ten minutes! And for some reason I’ve been obsessed with learning about maritime history, marine biology, ocean ecology and related policy-making, and just about any and everything to do with saltwater … [Read More] my friend the boundless sea: intro/part 1
I’ve been having a rough few weeks here to be quite honest. Those with a keen sense of time might have guessed this since I skipped last week’s Free Zine Friday… although four weeks probably isn’t quite enough to get people hooked yet. I’ve been feeling simultaneously overwhelmed by my commitments, exhausted about the prospect of accepting new opportunities that … [Read More] Free Zine Friday #5: Audio zine edition
This morning I had to go to the DMV (Department of motor vehicles), except out here they call it the RMV (“Registry” of motor vehicles) which I will never get used to. Spent probably a good three hours all told panicking about whether I had all the info I needed to get my ID, then turns out I was already … [Read More] Free Zine Friday #4
Despite myself, I’ve been enjoying playing around on Instagram lately. There are a lot of zinesters there, and I’ve made a lot of connections and seen a lot of zines and generally it’s been a good time. Which I kinda hate to be honest, because I don’t like the model of Instagram–algorithms, bs tagging systems, weird restrictions on links, appearance-focused … [Read More] Free Zine Friday #3: Earth Day edition
It’s official, I’m doing Free Zine Friday and that’s that! It’s hot out and I had to do my taxes today and I’ve just been lazing around and complaining all day, but I said to myself that if this is something I want to do, I need to do it. And sharing zines is really all I want to do. … [Read More] Free Zine Friday #2
I got a typewriter! Finally! I found one at the flea market and jumped on it. It’s an Olympia Werke Ag. Model B12 in off-white, designed in Germany and made in Japan (don’t worry, I don’t really know what all that means either). This is one of those serendipity things that makes you wonder about magic and the universe and … [Read More] Typewriter Adventures, Part 1
Okay, so I’ve been wanting to do this for almost two years now, and for whatever fucking reason I’m having SUCH a hard time figuring out the format. There are so many amazing zines that I’ve come across that are entirely FREE to download and read! And I think a lot of people don’t know how to find free zines … [Read More] Free Zine Friday #1
I finally got around to uploading issue 3 of my perzine, Unfair Maiden. The theme of Unfair Maiden #3 is Homecoming, and in it I talk a lot about places I want to live, feelings of home, the grief of moving, that sort of thing. If you want to read it, you can get a physical copy from my store … [Read More] Deleted Scene from Unfair Maiden #3
Starting on this last new moon, the New Moon in Sagittarius, I felt like I was on the cusp of something very important. I’ve been writing and wrestling with it for the last week or so. Well, really, I’ve been writing and wrestling with it for many many years, it’s just that everything’s kinda coming together now. I really want … [Read More] I’m a Witch Now
This post is especially for my Youtube friend WW! But you might find it useful too. The “little white books” (guidebooks) for tarot decks printed by Lo Scarabeo are generally printed in six languages–English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, and Portuguese. I was asked how one might go about removing the non-English portions to make the guidebook smaller and easier to … [Read More] Tutorial: Resizing Lo Scarabeo Tarot LWBs
So last week was the autumn equinox… or was it the week before already? I’m still working on coming up with a personal cycle of special days and festivals and stuff, but the equinoxes and solstices are easy places to start. I like how they’re astronomy-based and not strictly agriculture-based, since I don’t have a garden so agricultural festivals don’t … [Read More] Autumn Equinox ’22: Symbols and Thoughts
Have you ever met someone who is perfectly nice, perfectly interesting, perfectly kind, and just fucking hate them? And you’re trying to figure out what it is you don’t like about them. You know it’s not that you feel unsafe or have a “bad feeling” about them, you know it’s not anything they’ve done like “coming on too strong”, or … [Read More] When You Meet Your Shadow
I am afraid of something, and I don’t know why. Because by all accounts, it’s a good thing that’s happening. It’s almost embarrassing that this would make me nervous, because it aligns with everything I want for my career, for society, for the future in general. Alright, sorry about the clickbaity shit–this is about zines and libraries, and all the … [Read More] Libraries, Authority, and Zine Culture
I recently put up a video on my YouTube channel about astrological associations with the tarot. I’ve always really like the additional structure and depth astrology lends to the tarot, but there were certain traditional associations that I didn’t get along with. And this makes sense when you consider that the traditional associations–that is, those established by the Golden Dawn–are … [Read More] Astrological associations with the Tarot: New and improved!
July is Disability Pride Month, celebrating the passing of the Americans with Disability Act on July 26, 1990 and serving to unite the disability community. How is it that I’d never heard of it until this year? There’s even an amazingly cool flag (see below!). Quoted here are the symbolic meanings of the flag. From an article by Dr. Carlie … [Read More] A Big List of Books: Disability Pride Month
While I was in town, my aunt brought her new (now ex) boyfriend over for dinner to introduce us. (A little context about the guy himself: he turned out to be an asshole in a lot of ways. He was like a rich white rocket scientist or something who spent his money jetsetting and his time shit talking his ex-wife … [Read More] Libraries & my Aunt’s Ex-Boyfriend
I’ve been working on this website in bursts. And given that the entire site is about me, the question keeps coming up–how do I want to present myself? In principle, I want to present myself authentically. But, well, how do I do that? What does that mean? How am I supposed to capture every aspect of myself in two paragraphs … [Read More] A Site, a Space, a Creative Manifesto