My blog is home to several kinds of writing. You can find talks like the keynote on Queering Leadership that I gave at Yale University—it was later featured on the Queering Leadership episode of the UnLeading Project.
You’ll find the articles I write for Xtra Magazine, where I share personal essays like this one about co-parenting with three other queer people. I also write empowering, research-based articles on topics like Queering Death and how we can build intergenerational communities where queer and trans older adults can thrive.
As a queer femme who came of age in communities of Leatherdykes, queer perverts and witches, knives have a way of grabbing my attention. In this spirit, I have engaged with Perry’s question as a means of sharpening my thinking on what I have learned about holding power and creating change in LGBTQ+ health.
What is my knife? What is yours? What becomes possible when we wield them together in service of queer and trans survival and liberation?
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