Marsha “Pay it No Mind” Johnson (1945-1992) was a Black trans woman whose activism was critical in the push for LGBTQ rights. During the 1969 Stonewall Riots, she climbed a lamppost and dropped a brick onto a police car, shattering the windshield. Marsha was rumored to have thrown the first shot glass that incited the […]
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Last month I did a poll asking what blogs people would like to see based on prominent themes in my book, A SPARK IN HIS HAND, the first of Voltaik, a sci-fi trilogy launching from City Owl Press in June 2024. Votes for “there should be more frotting in M/M romance” poured in, so here
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Jem Zero is a disabled lesbian author and artist.
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No Cure This essay was originally published in 2018 with Argot Magazine, which is no longer active. I have revised the piece to represent my experience as an autistic person in 2021. ~ I’m the eldest of two children. My sibling and I share many traits, and always have. Back in elementary school we were
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This piece was originally published somewhere that is now dead, so I’m sharing it again here. ~ It’s not quite been two years since the last time I spoke to him. He is out of my life, but stays a ghost in my head. His rage still haunts the channels of my childhood home, leaving
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hey! i don’t update this too much (oops) but a development popped up a few months ago: a journalistic article written about me and my fiancée. check it out, maybe?
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it is very hard to be neurodivergent. you are the cigarette butt of every community you might seek solace in, and considered disposable even by other mentally ill people — usually people who have it less severe and judge you for not being able to keep it together and feign normalcy like they do. the