Thus far, I have been trimming and cutting portions of my hair. But now the back part has gotten quite unruly. So, I finally made an appointment to make my hair look somewhat more orderly.

Just received word of the publication of this book which includes my contribution for one of the chapters. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

What Big Tech has done is dilate the Overton Window around copyright and the value of art. They position creators (and copyright law) as obstacles to "progress", and use this to crowbar people in power. "Art has no value. We already have enough art. We can puree it all and vomit 'new' iterations."

Moving Love will be at World Pride. pride.amsterdam/event/moving...

Grief takes a lot out of you.

YOUR signature on the linked petition is a vital brick in the wall of reconstructing trans people’s rights in the U.K. It will take only moments and is worth so much. translucent-org-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/transluc...

Grief You can also listen to this blogpost. My mother passed away on the 27th of May 2026. Just six months short of turning 89. Because of my own personal circumstances, I won't be going home for the funeral, but there is a livestream and distance is lessened by the daily calls and check-ins with…

An excellent read. jennmjacksonphd.substack.com/p/the-proble...

What do we do when the archivists chose to leave out our histories? Why…we fabulate. Of course. #queeringhistory #queerjoy #queerlove

Co-Creation Lab’s Spring School is always intense. But I loved meeting the beautiful people from Afrontosas. One day, I want to visit this collective in Lisbon. #queerandproud #fabulatinghistory

On my way to Amsterdam. Repairs on the track have complicated my travel a bit but I am getting to my destination earlier.

Marks on a page You can choose to listen to this blogpost. A little while ago, the mother of two of my students passed away. She was still quite young and while I'd only met her briefly, I experienced her passing as a personal loss. Maybe it was because of the care with which she introduced her…

Theee’s so much beautiful birdsong in Kruller Muller’s sculpture garden. 😊

Read Nisi’s beautiful letter to Octavia Butler. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Oh dear. It’s raining and I forgot my hat. 😱

Reading through the letters of Jose Rizal; I am amazed to find a Dutch connection. Dr. Jose Rizal wanted to study Dutch. 😲 #trivia

Letters as presence You may be elsewhere but your words are here They are still warm with your presence. -For my Dad who left this world in 2016-

Small Planet: The #SFinTranslation Magazine will bring back the tradition of asking people to report on what's going on in the SF scene in other countries. In the first issue, we have Wales, thanks to the fabulous @cherylmorgan.bsky.social !!!

I wrote about trans community suicide prevention, including a 4-step guide to peer interventions with links to further resources, for Xtra: xtramagazine.com/health/we-mu...

Good morning, part 1 of our written Humanity in Stories panel is up: philippinegenrestories.com/2026/05/huma...

Of course there is also the massive environmental degradation that disproportionately impacts BIPOC and working class people...

The AI tech billionaires want strip us of our ability to think independently, relate with other beings outside of the digital sphere and its manipulations, and create knowledge free of surveillance and corporate influence.

The issue with the AI industrial complex is not so much that it seeks to transform machines into sentient beings, but rather that it seeks to turn human beings into machines. The goal is to subjugate us not only physically under the demands of capital, but also to dominate us in the psychic realm

Forgot to add tags. #LGBTQ+ #asylumseekers #intheirownvoices

So proud of the young makers who made the ten short films which premiered at Utrecht Schouwburg. Also thankful for the supportive crowd who showed up for our filmmakers. The exposition will continue to be shown at Schouwburg Utrecht at the Henkman Zaal and the Escher Foyer.

Heading to Utrecht for the Moving Love premiere at Schouwburg Utrecht.

Musical adventures:Pipe organ with Birds You can choose to listen to this blogpost. The snippet which I talk about is at the end of this blogpost. Today, I'm sharing a small audio snippet of a music experiment. For this experiment, I used a recording of birdsong layered with an excerpt from Bach's…

Moving Love Premiere It's a happy thing to note that Moving Love will be on exhibit in Amsterdam during WorldPride 2026. I'm not yet sure how much I can share about this jut yet but suffice to say, I'm really happy that we were able to find a location that's accessible to lots of people and also a…

I need to finish writing a number of things but it’s practice day and so I am getting me to the church for a couple of hours at the pipe organ. Will also try to make a satisfying recording for the blog.

Having a pocky break. Youngest son’s pasalubong from Japan. 😆

I’m so proud of this group of young writers.

Had a lovely afternoon at the QueerWork writing workshop where we were given a brief overview of Amsterdam’s queer history. I loved the reminder to the group that we stand on the shoulders of those who’ve gone before us and that we too can be shoulders for others to stand on.

Help 15 vulnerable displaced families! A few volunteers unofficially help these disabled people, young families, and elderly with food parcels. This is so essential as engineered hunger worsens. Click "weekly" if you can! Give/find their link here: chuffed.org/project/hope...

If you are in The Netherlands, on May 7, Moving Love will have it’s premiere at the Schouwburg Utrecht. Ten film portraits created by ten refugees coming from the LGBTQ+ community. Tickets are still available. #LGBTQ+ #events #madebyasylumseekers #support stadsschouwburg-utrecht.nl/agenda/seizo...

I know I've been quiet on here. If you'd like to know what happened, the update on my life in general is in the link—there's been no change really, except I used a credit card to get a very good HMO and that I quote Edward Elric to myself once a day: "I'm pretty relentless at staying alive."

This make me think of how every word we (humans) use is connected in myriad, lived ways to the world we inhabit, & to other people, some of whom we remember intimately (& might even replicate their oft-used phrases & intonation, pass them on to our children) but most of whom we will never meet.

Updated the blog today with random thoughts and a very short recording of birdsong from the morning walk.

Hey all. Piper Drake, a friend and a fellow romance author, needs some help funding her cancer treatment. It's been a long, tough road, but she's got one more story in her and we'd like to buy her a little more time to get it out. www.gofundme.com/f/help-autho...

I’m really enjoying learning the organ. It’s also a full body workout when pedal work is included. 😆

Bland. Generic. Absent of spice and specificity. At first glance, it looks pretty. But when you look closer, you realize it’s word salad. I can tell when someone has opted out of writing their own text and given the work to chatgpt. Please stop. It’s not helping at all.

Sharing this podcast where my friend, Brigitte van der Sande talks about her work and the dream for a Cultuurhuis. (Also she talks about sociocracy.) werkplant.substack.com/p/s03e17-bri...

Musical Adventures: In search of sound (If you prefer, you can listen to the audio recording of this post. It's a 6 minute listen.) I'll be having my third organ lesson soon, and I realise that it won't be long before I need an instrument with at least twenty-seven foot pedals to practice on when…

Friday’s event for Queer History Month On Friday, I attended IHLIA's programme for the sixth edition of Queer History Month. The first part was taken up by a keynote speech (in Dutch), and a panel (in Dutch) which included the keynote speaker and the curator overseeing an exposition for World…

It’s always lovely to find out someone wants to include my work in their project. 😊

Reading @bogiperson.bsky.social Song of Spores. Really good. I am already loving it and I just started. #reading #songofspores

Oh hey Fran has a patreon you can check out!

The ongoing journey I'm still basking in the IFFR glow of watching our young filmmakers from Moving Love having that epiphany of: I am a filmmaker. They finished the course, they made these films, and so they are deserving of that title: filmmaker. I'm looking forward to the premiere when all of…

THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR limited ed N. American hardcover is officially out of print, & no longer available. My BFA-winning book about a family of interreal refugees in 90s/00s Calcutta is still available as an ebook, & a paperback in S. Asia. Shares appreciated, reads even more so:

Boosting @laviecestmoi.bsky.social’s fundraiser once again. gogetfunding.com/medical-and-...

Thanks for the signal-boosts. ❤️