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If you’re reading this, you might not know what hard work looks like

I want to make something clear up front: Jason Fried’s recent [as of 2017] piece, If you’re reading this, you probably don’t do hard work — which this is a response to — is part of an important conversation. You should read it. The thesis of Jason’s piece is simple…

Minimum Wage

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If you’re reading this, you might not know what hard work looks like
If you’re reading this, you might not know what hard work looks like
Minimum Wage

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The Coolest Webdev Tool You Didn’t Know You Had

Giving some love to an under-appreciated (and under-developed) code visualization — Front-end development can be a messy, tedious affair. Even with the all-singing, all-dancing modern workflow that live-reloads, preprocesses, lints, and phones for a pizza when it detects your blood sugar dropping, a big part of building websites is, well, building websites. …

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The Coolest Webdev Tool You Didn’t Know You Had
The Coolest Webdev Tool You Didn’t Know You Had

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The Coffee Break Primer on Polyamory

The author and her community run a number of meetups and discussion groups for the non-monogamous, and we’ve identified the need for a simple guide to bring folks up to speed on the concepts, terms, and common wisdom we sometimes take for granted. This is our best attempt to compile…

Polyamory

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The Coffee Break Primer on Polyamory
The Coffee Break Primer on Polyamory
Polyamory

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May 17, 2021

The Workplace

An innocent-seeming question came across my LinkedIn feed: Should we discuss politics at work? | LinkedIn Some argue political issues should occupy the same space as chats about weekend footy team results, while others suggest…www.linkedin.com It’s easy to have an opinion on this. The question leads you there itself, begging you to read: should obviously non-work things be allowed at work? Open and shut.

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Jun 29, 2017

Trans Visibility: The Digest

Earlier this year, I participated in a month-long challenge to post a series of personal essays about my experience being trans. I wrote them originally as Facebook notes, then tried to create a Medium Series, but their length kind of broke the format. I’m compiling them here, in hopes someone…

Transgender

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Trans Visibility: The Digest
Trans Visibility: The Digest
Transgender

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Apr 27, 2017

“Why don’t you just be gay?”

Today, whoever decides such things has declared it #lesbianvisibilityday. Normally, I take a step back on topics like this one, but today I’m deciding to take a step forward instead. Not sure where this is gonna go; some of my thoughts on the matter are complicated. So, I’m a lesbian. …

LGBTQ

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LGBTQ

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Jan 29, 2017

The Fallacy of Misspent Resources

If you’ve spent any time on social media in the past decade, especially in politically or socially active circles, you’ve no doubt seen many variations on these statements: “Before we start focusing on what’s going on overseas, maybe we should work on our many problems here at home” “How can…

Activism

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Activism

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Jul 21, 2016

The Only Poly People You’ll Ever Date

The Elder Hippie with Limitless Sexual Appetite They’re probably among the first poly people you’ll meet — at the sacred tantric cuddle gatherings, the Burner parties, the tantric Burner cuddle parties — singlehandedly upending your entire understanding of the human life span. Free as birds and wise as owls, bright…

Sex

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Sex

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Gender Shrug

·Jun 5, 2016

damn gametes

it’s fortunate, no doubt for medicine to be so synonymous with treating a condition it’s privilege, truly to take matters into your own hands and force an institution to support all your endeavors but what happens when that well runs dry, or caution stays your steady hand or you decide that maybe…

Poetry

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Poetry

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Gender Shrug

·May 14, 2016

on bodies, specifically ours

we’re here now, you and i, an ally, i can only assume in full bloom beneath these sheets from the mean streets, my smirk and silver tongue bely how nakedly i lie with you in far more than just skin i shaved my tits for this, you know, against the grain for décolletage…

Poetry

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Poetry

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Ada Powers

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