So excited to announce that I have two pieces appearing in the upcoming Leather themed issue of Salacious: a queer feminist sex magazine! It’s an incredible community based publication and I’m really honored to have my work alongside so many other great writers and artists.
Folks that know anything about me probably have some knowledge of how important picture books are to me. They are beautiful, tricky and dangerous works of art and storytelling that are far too often written off by people as meaningless, and simple. Picture books are how I have come to make sense of myself and …
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Within a few minutes of meeting me it becomes pretty abundantly clear how obsessed i am with dogs. Dogs have been a really fundamental part of my life, conception of self, spiritual understanding and so much more. No doubt, I am the person I am today because of the dogs who have shared my life. …
Sitting here on the last day of 2011 I’m sitting here speechless at what a huge year it was for Kicked Out. This little book was a tremendous labor of love not only for me, but for each and every contributor whose relationship to this book was deep, and raw in a way I’ve never …
I first posted this last year right about this time…… Credit for the inspiration behind this post goes to my friend and unofficial ‘Kicked Out’ fan club president Kelli Dunham who commented on my facebook this weekend suggesting I make a blog post about reclaiming holidays and saying “You are an expert on that. Beyond an expert. …
This weekend i unexpectedly had the chance to catch up with one of my oldest buddies. This was someone who I was closest to as a crusty punk, pseudo-homeless kid. Back in the day we hung out almost everyday and even lived together for a while in a studio apartment with two other kids, dogs, …
I’m really excited that this winter I’ll be facilitating a storytelling and zine writing workshop with the New York Public Library and Queers For Economic Justice! The workshop is open to all LGBTQ youth and we will be meeting on Wednesdays 7:30pm January 11th – February 8th at QEJ . Over the 5 week workshop …
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This is a video that I made last year as a response to the conversation that so many of us dread, yet so regularly have this time of year. I was speaking at NYU last night and had some wonderful conversations durring the Q&A and then later one on one with folks and something that …
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I’m very excited to be at NYU as part of their Trans Awareness Week! I’ll be giving my ‘Nobody Loves You. Now What? queer youth homelessness and creating chosen families lecture for the first time in NYC! Thurday at 7:30pm Kimmel 905 60 Washington Square South New York, NY In this engaging lecture Sassafras draws …
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I believe that telling our stories is one of the most powerful things that we can do, that storytelling is social change work, and that books have the ability to save lives. I’ve written before about how libraries were so important to me, and were in many ways the inspiration for Kicked Out just days after I …
Read more “‘Kicked Out’ and the ‘Make It Safer Project’ – books into the hands of youth!”