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You Are Not Alone: How to Respond to Escalating Fascism
This post was originally published in October of 2020. Now, more than five years later, 45 has started his second term, his buddy Musk is helping him stage a coup, CDC data is being purged, and many many other horrifying things as a result of his executive orders that amount to the country falling apart at the seams. Escalating fascism is quickly getting out of control. This post offers resources on what you can do next.
The Road Less Traveled: Where I’ve Been
For the past year, I have been significantly less involved in activism, at a time when the need for involvement is more than ever. That has eaten at me constantly and yet I could not find a way around it. I finally figured out why.
Uplifting Black Voices: An Interview With Mugabi Byenkya
You might remember Mugabi Byenkya from the guest post he wrote for Yopp back in 2022. He and and Denny Upkins, our resident interviewer extraordinaire, hatched a plan to add an Interview with Mugabi Byenkya to to Denny’s ongoing series, Uplifting Black Voices.
Putting the “Chronic” in Chronic Illness: Lessons from 10 Years of Chronic Illness
Now that I am coming up on 10 years of chronic illness and dynamic disability, I wanted to reflect on some of the lessons I’ve learned during that time, and what I wish I’d known about chronic illness from the start.
Resources Created by a Disabled Writer & Artist
It’s July, which is disability pride month, and as such I wanted to share with you a compilation of the resources and work I’ve spent the last seven years assembling. If you’d like to learn more about the experience of disability and chronic illness, or you’d like a list of resources to point family and friends to, this is the list for you.
Dissociative Identity Disorder, Gender, and Sexuality: The Intersection of LGBTQ Identities & DID
In honor of pride month, we decided to cover a topic we’ve wrestled with ever since our diagnosis: The intersection between our dissociative identity disorder, gender, and sexuality. How does it work? What language do we use? We’ll explore it all in this article.
Uplifting Black Voices: A Roundtable with 5 Black Youtube Creators
Continuing Denny Upkins’ new series “Uplifting Black Voices,” this week’s interview features not one, not two, but FIVE black youtube creators who have contributed to the Black LGBTQ entertainment community online.
New Merch: LGBTQ Pride Mosaics
My pride mosaic patterns are now available on etsy on skater dresses, phone cases, drawstring bags, and stickers!
Photos of My Alters: What It Looks Like When My Dissociative Identities Front
Many of you know by now that in the summer of 2020, I was diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder. But have you ever wondered what it would look like to see photos of my alters?
Complexion for the Protection: White Privilege– Real World Edition
For today’s post, it was extraordinarily difficult to find photos representing white privilege: the phenomena of white people receiving umerited protections from external consequences, which is the topic of Denny Upkins’ second installment of Complexion for the Protection. Only this time, real-world public figures are in the spotlight.