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shel
@shel

Hello this is the pinned post of my blog. I am going to link to the higher effort/quality posts/essays I've made on this blog so they're easier to find. I'll update this periodically.

Introduction post

My oft-neglected website, with links to all my poetry books

The Vulva Shrine Saga

Transformative Justice & Social Dynamics:
Lashon Hara.
Friendship Espionage Paranoia.
Opt-In Culture and Opt-Out Culture.
Gossip Versus Lashon Hara.
Abuser is Not a Class (AKA My Least Favorite Word).
Ideology ∨ Pathology || Incarceration ⩒ Transformation.

Unions and Labor:

Breathing Solidarity

Creative Writing:
Posted to Western Mass Queer Exchange
Vinyl Records
So, the World is Ending

On Social Media:
Ma Nishtana — Why this Website is Not Like Other Websites
Tips for new Cohost users.
Reflections on not using Twitter main
My Unhealthy Relationship to Twitter
Like Makes Right — Social Media Derived Morals
The Revolution Will Not be Posted (in absence of other political organizing)
Anywhere you are is important if you are there long enough

Judaism, Jewish Culture, and Liturgical Poetry:
Those Who Give You Life: A Dvar on Parshat Yitro
Starting Recommendations for Talmud.
Interpretive Achat Sha'alti.
Eicha — Lamentations and Mourning on Tisha B'av 5782.
Shidduch and Jewish Geography.
Martyrology.
Zionism isn't what people think it is (it's worse)

Chanukah 5783 Nightly Reflections:

First Night
Second Night
Third Night
Fourth Night
Fifth Night
Sixth Night
Seventh Night
Eighth Night

Autism, Mental Health:
Autistic People Grow Up Too.
Appreciating an Elegant Autistic Social Skill.
Detransition, Baby & Vulnerability.
Mental Health Pro Tip: I want to quit.
The Key is to Begin.
Neurodivergent Interior Design Things I've Done
If they didn’t want to be here, they wouldn’t be—and if they’re here anyway, that’s not my problem
Growing fewer branches as I age

Public Transit, City Planning:
Trolleys are Better than Buses.
Thoughts on Two Bus Systems.
Geeking out about the MBTA Communities Act.
The Comforting Loneliness of Suburban Anti-Places

Gender, Sexuality, Kink, Queerness, Heterosexuality:

Advice on Transness on the Tenth Anniversary of my Transition
Heterosexuality is a Fetish and So Can You
Expansive Queerness and the Dreaded Straight Queers
On Straight Men and Personal Grooming
Wealth and the Erotic—Labor Exhaustion and Orgasmic Relief
Positionality, Not Identity
Telepathy, Astral Projection, and the Time Traveling Transsexual

Librarian Stuff, Books:
How to Read the Newspaper for Free (US Only).
The UQ holder! Incident
Urban Librarianship is a Broken System.
Pay attention to local library boards
My Library Ideology: Everyone Deserves Access to Society’s Creations

Reviews of the Noumena Duology (see tags on this post for my other book reviews).
What I Read in 2023

Posts tagged #shel weeds:
It began on Freak Day....
According to Dragon Law....
Gay Twitch Chat Moderator Erotica.
Vampires in Atlantis


shel
@shel

Updated my blog index with more of my favorite and high effort posts of 2023.


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