Pandora Scooter

Let me begin with a huge caveat: I am all for imaginative, subversive, radical casting choices when the production takes into account that these are casting choices that necessarily challenge the text.  Please understand my upcoming denunciation of color/gender-blind…

Feeling stuck with your writing?  Need some writing prompts?  Here are some that I use to keep me writing.  Some of these are good for starting off and others are good for continuing something that's already started.

• Write the one…

I’ve done a lot of thinking and writing about whether or not there is an LGBTQ Community.  I’ve thought about it on a national level, a regional level and a local level.  And I’ve come to the general conclusion, that…

In last week’s blog I wrote about safe(r) spaces and who they are for, exactly.  Are safe spaces reserved only for the most damaged, the most oppressed in our society/community?  Or is a space supposed to be safe for everyone?…

I’m a fan of RuPaul’s Drag Race and, I dare say, a fan of RuPaul, the performer, as well.  I find him to be a very talented performer.  But more importantly, I find his show to be a bastion of…

A very wise brilliant black trans woman (we’ll call her Helena) once told me, “Just because you’re oppressed, don’t mean you’re not responsible.”  She was referring to one of her trans sisters mistreating her based on her race…

Spoiler Alert: There are spoilers in this post.  Read at your own peril.

So, I guess you can tell from my title that I LOVED the new GHOSTBUSTERS.  I loved it on so many levels.  First off, it was a…

Last week, the day after the Dallas shootings, I got into a bit of a kerfuffle with some Black Lives Matter folk.  The exchanges happened exclusively over Facebook - in the comments section of an Event page for a Protest…

In the wake of Orlando and Pride Month, we now have the 153rd, 154th and 155th shootings and killings of low-offense, unarmed Black men by police officers.  As my close friend Cedric Hill said, "They're just shooting us out there…

Between June 13th and June 17th thousands upon thousands of LGBTQ folks plus straight folks came together to mourn the loss of the 50 killed at Pulse nightclub in Orlando and the 52 wounded.  At our vigil in central New…

In last week's post I was talking about how important it is to radically self love ourselves in the LGBTQ community and beyond.  I went into detail about how without radical self-love, it is not possible for the LGBTQ community…

Radical self-love is just that: radical.  From radical self-love can come great things: positive change, acceptance, collaboration and bonding.  Those who embrace themselves thoroughly - faults and all - are more likely to spread that kind of acceptance to others…