Pride Month Is Next Week. I’m Not Sure How Visible I Want to Be Anymore. – The leaders of our movement are still the ones with nothing left to lose. Continue reading Pride Month 2026: Visibility Is Becoming Dangerous Again – If lists are being made, I’m fairly certain I’m already on them.
Human minds crave simplicity and easy, quick categorizations; that’s why many stereotypes and false assumptions about those in marginalized groups run wild in our dominant culture (because it’s easier for people to oversimplify by thinking in black and white while ignoring nuance). This creates a failure to appreciate people as individual humans, and pressure on everyone to fit within narrow, unnatural, binary norms and categorizations. Continue reading Human Binaries: NeuroDivergent and Queer – Coloring Outside the Lines Will Be Punished – Intro to my latest book, Neurodivergent Rebel’s, The Weight of Normal
The Impossible Weight of Assimilation for People Who Can’t Blend in – Assimilation Almost Killed Me. Authenticity Saved Me. – For Me Assimilation Was a Slow Death. This Is My Rebellion.
Continue reading “Let Them Choke”: My Rejection of Other People’s Comfort. I Refuse to Be a Bite-Sized Identity. – My Identity Isn’t a Monolith. Stop Asking It to Be & Why I Won’t ‘Stick to Neurodiversity’
I woke up before my alarm this morning, laying in bed as long as I could stand it, not ready to greet the cold that had crept into the RV overnight (or face the election results). By four-forty, my restlessness … Continue reading Election 2024: The Morning After – When Fear and Hate Win
David and I don’t ‘get out’ much. We also don’t have a habit of going places that charge admission fees very often, especially recently, because we’ve been in a period of ‘not spending’ since we’re trying to get ourselves to … Continue reading I don’t WANT to go back into the closet, but I don’t know if I will have a choice.
The coming out process is not a singular event but a recurring journey that many Queer People bravely and resiliently navigate throughout our lives, demonstrating ongoing courage, resilience, and the need for continuous support. Continue reading The Never-Ending Story, Coming Out, Again and Again: Why Coming Out is a Lifelong Process
This article explores the history and significance of Pride, highlighting its evolution from a protest to a global celebration and emphasizing the importance of remembering its origins.
Continue reading More Than a Party – Pride is a Protest: Remembering the Roots of the Movement
We live in a society where people are expected to follow the dominant social and hierarchal norms, and those who cannot fall in line (or refuse to) are often mocked, scolded, medicalized, dehumanized, and punished for their inability to blend in. Continue reading Human Binaries: NeuroDivergent and Queer – Coloring Outside the Lines Will Be Punished
Unfortunately, sometimes the people you think (hope) will be safe aren’t always safe. It can be tricky to know if someone will accept you or judge you harshly, thinking less of you when you tell them you’re Queer (regardless of what flavor Queer you are).
For those of us who feel safe enough to live “outside of the closet,” coming out is something we will choose to do (or NOT to do) repeatedly our entire lives. Continue reading Coming out: It’s not something we do “just once.” It’s something we will do over and over again our entire lives.
Learning I’m Autistic, and making the choice to learn who the most authentic version of myself could be is the reason I discovered I’m nonbinary.
Continue reading NeuroDivergent NonBinary NeuroQueering NeuroAdventures
