Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit. “Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.” “Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,” he asked, “or bit by bit?” “It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It takes …
This has been a dream of mine, and when all the details got hammered out yesterday I teased my facebook friends that something exciting was coming….. I can’t keep it a secret anymore. I am absolutely thrilled to announce that this summer I will be partnering with Queers For Economic Justice to offer a 4 …
Kicked Out has always been about family. Most obviously of course, the families we lost or ran away from, but in many ways more importantly, the families that we’ve built along the way, including the larger kicked out family, a community of those of us whose scars in some way align. Thursday night was the …
me not long after my 18th birthday The Lammy’s are the day after tomorrow. I can hardly believe how soon they are, can hardly believe that ‘Kicked Out’ is real and in the world, and a finalist for this prestigious award. On a very personal level the approaching awards ceremony is making me think a …
Stumbling around the internet late last night I came across a new website/organization called 4 LGBT Rights:Equality and Justice for All, and noticed that they had an article posted about the epidemic of LGBTQ youth homelessness titled ‘Homeless LGBTQ Youth Should Be Seen. And Heard.” I was really excited to see this issue was something they …
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Kicked Out on the table with other local Lammy finalists There remains (and probably always will) a very real part of me that still cannot believe that I’m a published author. That’s before I even let myself try to come to terms with ‘Kicked Out’ being two-time ALA honored and a Lammy finalist! I certainly …
You are not alone. Let me repeat that again. You are not alone. This is a rough day for most of us. Mother’s day is a time when society tells us that we should feel ashamed of who we are because our family doesn’t look this iconic image of what family “should” be. Take care …
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I’m feeling really heartbroken about this weeks’ news that NYAC (National Youth Advocacy Coalition) closing their doors for good almost ten years to the day after I attended my first queer conference – NYAC national in DC. I was a homeless queer kid and I remember being absolutely in awe. Until that point I had …
Last night I attended “Sleeping on the streets or walking down the isle? Prioritizing LGBT youth” a panel hosted by The Center here in NYC. The panel was moderated by Cathy Renna and the panel consisted of Carl Siciliano, Lewis Fidler, Tobias Barrington Wolff, Kai Wright, and Nico Sifra Quintana. The premise of the evening …
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NEW YORK • MAY 12, 2011 Bluestockings Books 172 Allen Street, New York, NY 10002 7:00 pm Reading Readers: Eileen Myles, Michael Klein, Sassafras Lowrey, Barbara Hammer, Ann Herendeen, Daniel Talbott, Rob Stephenson, Gayle Salamon, Eleanor Lerman, Kathleen Warnock, Georgeann Packard, Rafael de la Dehesa, and Richard Stevenson. I’m absolutely busting at the seams with excitement about Kicked Out having been named a finalist for this years Lambda Literary Awards …