HeyJaredThe Queer Pen Is Mightier Than The Fascist Sword
I write about my transgender, gay, and neurodivergent experiences; U.S. politics; environmentalism; progressive spirituality; the craft of fiction writing (including writing tips); and may occasionally post my photography and poetry.
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Very Little Life (opens the original)
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September’s Blood (opens the original)
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The Road (opens the original)
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I used to cry every time on the bus that led me away from you.Even from the first time we met - I knew then that what I was leaving behind was something I needed to come back to.But I also cried because I knew that the road I was starting down was one that would travel through short, sunny peaks of jubilant connection, and long, dark, cold valleys of being apart.In other words, no easy road at all.But I don’t cry, anymore.Is it because I drive now, my little dog (and perhaps your little dog?) in
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness (opens the original)
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,
To Be Loved (opens the original)
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When he hand-wrote me a note on a gift despite that he hates his handwriting, and just a couple weeks earlier swore that he’d never show it to me.When he asks me if I’ve eaten, or if I’ve made it home, because he knows I forget to eat and knows I ride the train late at night.When he let me put peaches in the fruit salad even though he hates them, just because I like them.When he notices that I haven’t been on Substack as much, and says he misses my writing.<a class="image-link image
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