Hearthing Devotion

An interview with Zena Sharman about her memoir-in-essays, Staying Power: On Queerness, Inheritances, and the Families We Choose Nb: This interview with Zena was created for an upcoming zine about Hestia, the Goddess of the hearth and the home. Below is the longer version of that interview. I

Anti-Blackrooms

In a white supremacist society, whiteness is unmarked, the default category of the human. To be white is to be a subject, a citizen, a member of society; to be non-white is to need to constantly prove your social belonging. But to have full personhood you must be white.

Art Under Empire: Amir Khadar

The Art Under Empire series explores the importance of staying engaged with our artistic/creative endeavors in these precarious times, and why art matters now more than ever! Each featured radical creative answers the same ten questions about the intersection of art, politics and the personal, sharing insights on how

Art Under Empire: Alyssa Rose Rumrill

The Art Under Empire series explores the importance of staying engaged with our artistic/creative endeavors in these precarious times, and why art matters now more than ever! Each featured radical creative answers the same ten questions about the intersection of art, politics and the personal, sharing insights on how

The Breakup Theory Episode 35 - Give Out But Don't Give Up with Josh Rivers and Conner Habib

I talk with two beautiful thinkers, Josh Rivers and Conner Habib, moving associatively through the meeting of our thoughts, references, and questions. It was sparked by a series Conner made called A New Spiritual Society, inspired by Conner’s spiritual teachers Rupdolph Steiner’s fourfolding.

The Straights Are Not OK

Obsession is a feel good story. Not the movie, no, the movie feels really bad. But the industry story around Obsession is that rare happy one. 26 year old writer/director/editor Curry Barker, a sketch comedy Youtuber, brought the film, made for $750,000, to TIFF (the Toronto International

A Witchy Summer Solstice Circle

We are thrilled to announce that we will be offering a Summer Solstice Writing Circle this June 13th! We invite our paying members to join for free

if the trees

i wrote prayers and burned negative thoughts and buried the ashes in the park i fear the winter but in my mind i feel the cold hard dirt at the base of trees as the roots burrow down into their system my mind doesn’t hold on to seasons the

an Anarcho-Trekkie crossover with The Spectacle

We are back! it's been a few months, we've missed spending time talking about our favourite shows and we hope to do more in the coming months! For episode 4, we did a special spacetime summit with Io and Miriam over at The Spectacle! Come hear

Episode 34 - A Listener Letter with Amar: All Relationships have some form of pain

Today, I tackle a letter with an old friend, Amar, who some of you may know from The Final Straw. The breakup of a long monogamous relationship and the debut of a new polyamorous life, international romance beset by war and geopolitics, and a planned encounter canceled at the last minute.

MAGACore Mummy

Now Im gonna level with you: I went to see Lee Cronin's The Mummy because I had an afternoon to kill on my book tour, and it was this, Michael (lol yikes nope) or Super Mario Galaxy. While I briefly considered Mario, when you're traveling around

Dean Spade and I Talk Transness, War and Liberation Struggle

Dean and I talked at the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies on Trans Day of Visibility, and we had a really beautiful conversation that was very needful for me on a hard day. It was released this week as an episode of Dean's great podcast, Love in