• Accountability is Not a Useless Sacrifice

    Welcome back to my blog. This is the second post in a multi-part series about the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and their policies on children’s gender and sexual health. This post is about accountability, from a feminist/intersectional perspective. If you don’t know who I am, check out my Re:Introduction. And if you’d like to…

  • The AAP Needs a Unified Position on Genital Modifications

    I’m continuing to draw alt-tarot cards from The Fantod Pack, created and illustrated by Edward Gorey. If you’re new to my blog, check out my Re:Introduction to get to know me. Today I’m talking about the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and gender, but first, the reading… The Tarot As usual, I shuffled the tarot…

  • Re:Introduction

    Howdy! The Fantod Pack is a pack of alternative tarot cards created and illustrated by Edward Gorey, whom you may know from his iconic illustrations in an ominous, gothic style. Think classic literature like Dracula or the works of children’s author John Bellairs. Did you know that when someone demanded to know Edward’s sexual orientation,…

  • Seen and Unseen

    Recently I discovered a cache of documents dating from my high school years, and I wanted to share something that I once thought was lost to time. In 2006 I gave this valedictorian address to an auditorium of high school seniors and their families in Logan, UT. I was allotted 90 seconds to speak. As…

  • Communicating Complex Research: Auditory Training and Age-Related Deficits

    I’m going to chat a little about a freshly-published auditory training study. I found it in the wild, with people discussing the paper as if it supported exactly the opposite conclusion that should be drawn from the data. That was troubling. So I took a look and I want to share what I think. The…