Two Laws, One Silence: What California Just Did—and What We Can Still Do About It
California's AB 2664 makes handing a flyer near a house of worship a crime. What the law actually does, who it targets, and what we can still do about it.
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Essays, reflections, and explorations of identity, culture, mental health, and the stories that shape us.
Labor, Complaint, and Institutional Risk
When Managing Dissent Damages the Relationships Organizations Depend On Introduction Values-driven organizations often understand themselves as exceptions to systems of domination. Yet precisely because they see themselves as ethical
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Am I Ace?
Am I Ace? Rather than asking yourself “Am I asexual?” Here are 24 questions you can sit with privately over several weeks to explore what attraction, desire, intimacy, sex, romance,
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PART 3: What Therapy Requires That Simulation Cannot Provide
What makes psychotherapy irreducible to supportive language? This essay continues the inquiry begun in Part 1 and deepened in Part 2, on why simulated care feels like care even when
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My Authenticity
My authenticity Is not a performance Moral clarity is a blessing And a curse It’s inconvenient It’s sad I wear it on my face Mask slipping Falling Ripped
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When Voice Is Conditional
Recognition, Exclusion, and the Politics of Care A follow-up to “When Care Becomes Extraction” In my previous essay, I examined how care work can become extractive; this piece turns
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When Care Becomes Extraction
A Statement on Nonprofit Labor, LGBTQ+ Community Work, and Why Workers Organize The Diversity Center of Santa Cruz County is a nonprofit LGBTQ+ community organization providing crisis support, peer connection,
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PART 2: Why Simulated Care Feels Like Care, but isn't
This essay is Part 2 of a series, which began with a critical inquiry into what AI companionship promises. Click here to see the whole series. Even when we know
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PART 5: The DSM- What I Wish I Had Been Taught
Learning to think about diagnosis—not just learn how to diagnose This is Part 5 of the DSM series — the final installment. Previously: If Not the DSM, Then What? Start
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PART 4: The DSM - When the Diagnosis Becomes the Story
This essay is Part 4 of the DSM series. Part 3 asked what the DSM actually does; here I ask what clinicians could do instead — and why training rarely teaches
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PART 1: Beginning a Critical Inquiry
This essay begins a series on what AI can and cannot offer as care. Part 2 examines why simulated care feels comforting even when we know nothing is home, and
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