EEDA Newsletter Vol 6, Res 21: Postage Stamps, Revolutionary Actions, & Help for Sore Feet
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends! Last weekend, Nicole and I went on a little getaway...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 6, Res 20: Disability Pride Month
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends! How we are halfway through 2025 already I do not...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 6, Iss 7: The Soft Butches Who Raised Me
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EEDA Newsletter Vol 6, Res 19: Trans News and How to Help
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends! This week I managed to write another issue of...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 6, Res 18: Fact-Checking Resources
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends! There is literally only one thing on my mind and...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 6, Res 17: The Book of Alchemy
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends! Happy Pride! The thing that is keeping me going...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 6, Res 16: What is Needed to Help People Leave Substack
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends! We had a three-day weekend last weekend and used...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 6, Res 15: Viral Misinformation on Canadian Hotline & Budget Go-Bags
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends! We went on our annual fruit adventure last weekend...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 6, Res 14: Portable Feminist
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends! This week contains our wedding anniversary (yay!),...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 6, Res 13: Painkillers, Postcards, and Who's Afraid of Gender
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends! We went to see Parliament-Funkadelic on Friday and...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 6, Iss 5: Expectation Frustration
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EEDA Newsletter Vol 6, Res 12: Cooking Can Be Good for You & We Need Your Art
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! 10:12 pm Pacific, Thursday: It is past my bedtime but I am...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 6, Res 11: Queer Time Capsule & Radical Book Rec
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends! I’m still overflowing from our trip to NYC. I’m so...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 6, Res 10: Eject Disk Manifesto, Sustainable Alternatives to Amazon, & More
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends! Tuesday was my birthday and the weekend before we...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 6, Res 9: Deleting DNA Data & Managing Burnout
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends! My birthday is on Tuesday and I have so much...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 6, Iss 4: Lessons in Grief
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EEDA Newsletter Vol 6, Res 8: Credible Sources, Sitting with Emotions, and Organizing 101
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends! I have an obscene amount of things I want to get...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 6, Res 7: Books and a Boycott
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends! Some housekeeping: Please share this newsletter...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 6, Res 6: AskJAN, Dump Substack, LGBTQ+ Purges, & More
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends! The other evening my wife and I watched Butterfly...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 6, Iss 3: Thoughts on Queer Photography
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EEDA Newsletter Vol 6, Res 5: New Activist Guide & a Book List for Resilience
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends! Last night, Nicole and I finished a documentary...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 6, Res 4: Deleted Guidelines, Mutual Aid How-To, Helping Trans Folks, and More
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends! Last weekend I took the vintage typewriter I scored...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 6, Res 3: Six Years and Still Going (So Many Resources!)
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends! I have been so wrapped up in that it wasn’t until...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 6, Iss 2: Focusing on What I Can Control
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends. Unclench your jaw. Take a full, deliberate breath....
EEDA Newsletter Vol 6, Res 2: Trans People & Sports, LA Fires, & a New Project Announcement
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends! There is so much going on in the world and in this...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 6, Res 1: Book Bans, Accountants of Color, and a Better To-Do List
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends. It is Wednesday night as I write this and I’m...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 6, Iss 1: New Year and I'm Glad You're Here
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EEDA Newsletter Vol 5, Quickie: This End of Year Liminal Space
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends! I had thought I would have some 2025 thoughts for...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 5, Iss 24: Things I Learned in 2024
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EEDA Newsletter Vol 5: Best Books I Read in 2024
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends! December means we are constantly exhausted, but not...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 5, Res 26: Insurance Claim File Helper, Covid Safety, & Info for Trans Folks
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends! Last weekend we went to a craft faire here in...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 5, Res 25: Resource Encore, More Actions, & an Optimistic Piece
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends! Yes, we went to see WICKED on opening weekend. Yes,...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 5, Res 24: The Future of EEDA, Directional Living, What to Do Now, and more
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends! I’m shaking up the cadence of this newsletter a bit...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 5, Res 23: Post-Election Resources, Self-Care App, and How to Winter
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends. We had planned a road trip to southern California...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 5, Iss 23: Oh no.
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends. I’m writing this on Wednesday evening, the day...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 5, Res 22: CA Voting, Vote for Libraries, & Purrli
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends! I’m writing this on Halloween evening and if you...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 5, Iss 22: Prepping for Election Day 2024
This week, I give some advice on preparing for the upcoming election day. If you’re looking for the free Resource issues, they post every other week and the...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 5, Res 21: Hard Voter Convos & Help From Sesame Street
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends! What a week. On Sunday, we went to closing night of...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 5, Iss 21: I Answer an Awkwardly Deep Icebreaker Question
This week, I share my answer to a somewhat wild work icebreaker question I answered at a recent work retreat. If you’re looking for the free Resource issues,...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 5, Res 20: Hurricane Relief, Black Disabled Woman Syllabus, & Opting Out of AI
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends. At 5:23 pm today, it was 102°F where we are in...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 5, Iss 20: Life Lesson from Mechanical Engineering 101
This week, I share a life tip that I actually learned during my brief time as a mechanical engineering major. If you’re looking for the free Resource issues,...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 5, Res 19: Mental Health Crisis Resources & Beyond the Gender Binary
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends! In case you missed it, Buttondown did a profile on...
EEDA Bonus: A Lovely Profile on EEDA by Buttondown
Hi friends! I know it’s not the usual EEDA Newsletter day and please forgive my excitement but: Buttondown did a profile on me and Enthusiastic Encouragement...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 5, Iss 19: My Most-Used Communication Technique
This week, I write about a communication technique that I learned almost twenty years ago as a sex educator (and I still use this technique today!) If you’re...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 5, Res 18: Moderating Our Violence Intake and Mobilizing
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends! Before I get into things: I’ve been told that in...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 5, Iss 18: You Are My Other Me
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends! Can you believe that August is just about over and...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 5, Res 17: Covid Emergency Kit List and Sustainable Fashion
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends! This past weekend we attended an iPhone photography...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 5, Iss 17: Inheriting Generational Debt
This week, I share a story about one of the things “we don’t talk about” when we lose a parent. If you’re looking for the free Resource issues, they post...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 5, Res 16: Voting, Book Bans, & Expecting Black Women to Save the U.S.
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends! I’m going to share the exciting thing first: There...
EEDA Newsletter Vol 5, Iss 16: Communication 101: Tough Conversation Considerations
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