I’m bad at sharing. I should qualify. Thanks to poly, I’m getting better at sharing people. I’m bad at sharing stuff. And I feel a lot of shame around it. I feel like “good” people wouldn’t care about material possessions. Attachment is suffering. That’s why I don’t think I am a very good Buddhist. It […]
The Cycle of Abuse
A friend recently posted in a group on Facebook asking for advice about her current relationship. She mentioned being worried about it, but unsure if the behavior really was unhealthy since she didn’t have a history of healthy relationships to compare it to. Her post was full of red flags, however, and everyone who commented […]
Surviving Abuse
I have a lot of complicated emotions surrounding the coverage of Leelah Alcorn’s suicide in the media. I’m not transgender, but I am queer and the child of conservative Christian parents who did not deal well with my coming out. They cornered me in my room and wouldn’t let me leave. They threatened to turn […]
Book Review: Not My Father’s Son
Not My Father’s Son, a new memoir by bisexual actor Alan Cumming, is at once poignant, honest, heart-wrenching, hopeful, humerous, devastating, and affirming. That may seem like too many contradictory emotions all at once, but in the book, Cumming details a particularly difficult and emotional span of time in his life. The book centers around […]