Volume 3, Resources 13: Reproductive Justice, 2 Pills 2 Furious
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends. It’s resource week and there have been so many...
Volume 3, Issues 11 - 13: Previews
Hi friends! The new platform was supposed to send out some previews of the last couple essay-ish issues and it did not; therefore, I’m sending out this bonus...
Volume 3, Issue 13: On Despair and Hope
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Volume 3, Resources 12: On Juneteenth and Essential Media on Queer Liberation History
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends! It’s resource week and today’s newsletter is going...
Volume 3, Issue 12: On Possibility
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Volume 3, Resources 11: Rainbow-Washing and DIY Self-Care Toolbox
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends, happy Pride month! We were cat sitting recently and...
Volume 3, Issue 11: On Getting Through
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Volume 3, Resources 10: Do Nothing, They/Them Pronoun Guide, & Disability Visibility
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends. The white-supremacy-fueled mass shooting in Buffalo...
Volume 3, Issue 10, Preview: What to Do When the World is On Fire
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Volume 3, Issue 10: What to Do When the World is On Fire
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Volume 3, Resources 9: Abortion Rights Resource List
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends. What a week! This week is a resource week and I am...
Volume 3, Issue 9, Preview: The Hard Way Isn't Necessarily the Best Way
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Volume 3, Issue 9: The Hard Way Isn't Necessarily the Best Way
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Volume 3, Resources 8: Vetting News Sources & 20 Trans POC-Led Orgs
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends! I’m happy to report that it seems like I’m now...
Volume 3, Issue 8: What If We Did Nothing?
This is supposed to be subscriber-only issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice but today it's free! Hi friends! Some housekeeping: I have quit...
Volume 3, Resources 7: Burnout as a Trauma Response, Guide to Accessible Images, and Some Bonus Treats
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends! Thank you for the overwhelmingly kind responses and...
Volume 3, Issue 7: On Not Needing to Struggle Alone
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Volume 3, Resources 6: Trans Legislation Tracker, Accurate Ukraine Info, & Habit Apps
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends! Happy Spring! Next Friday, April 1st, is my...
Volume 3, Issue 6: On Valuing My Own Work as I Value the Work of Others
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Volume 3, Resources 5: Big Announcement, Peptoc, and Hood Feminism
This is a public issue of Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice. Feel free to share it! Hi friends! Daylight Saving Time starts this weekend so don’t...
Special: Quick Note for Paid Subscribers
Hi friends! I’m reaching out to you outside of the confines of Fridays because I have some news and a possible action item for you. I have made the decision...
Volume 3, Issue 5: Filling Our Cups
Hi friends! Before I get into this week’s essay, I want to share these links with ways to support Ukraine: Global CitizenThe Washington PostNPR Last weekend...
Volume 3, Resources 4: Some Ways to Help Trans Folks in Texas
Hello friends. To quote my therapist this week, “I wish I had something lovely and poignant to say but things are just shitty right now.” I often talk to my...
Volume 3, Issue 4: On Not Letting Your Past Experiences Ruin Your Present Ones
Hi friends! For today’s issue I have an essay for you and I’ll get to that in a bit but first there is a new resource I want to share sooner than later. Mark...
Volume 3, Resources 3: African American Wellness, Book Bans, and Caste
Hi friends! Wow. I don’t know about you but full transparency: I am burned out. I am completely fried. I am crispy and my brain is ashes. I am amazed I’m...
Volume 3, Issue 3: Stay Ready
Hi friends! I know this week is a longform-essay-week but I have some things I want to share before I get to that and believe me, I will get to that. First,...
Volume 3, Resources 2: Berkeley Mental Health Technology Project, Nutrition for ME, and Atomic Habits
Hi friends! It is the two-year anniversary of this sassy little newsletter! Thank you, as always, for joining me on this ride. I am nowhere near out of steam...
Volume 3, Issue 2: Does It Have to Be You?
Hi friends! I have been extra-overwhelmed this week and last. It is not necessarily because of bad things, I just have a lot on my plate and I’m still trying...
Volume 3, Resources 1: Gender Unicorn & A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities
Hi friends! Two weeks in and somehow this is already one of the longest years that has ever existed. Nicole and I have been taking frequent walks and it’s...
Volume 3, Issue 1: Composition Transcends Instrument
Hi friends! Happy 2022! I’m happy that you’re here with me. Before I forget (again), I wanted to share the Book Riot 2022 Reading Log that I had promised....
Volume 2, Issue 27: 2022 Goals, If You Are So Inclined
Hi friends! I know I said it before, but I’ll say it again: Thank you for being here. I appreciate you all so damn much. We have made it through the year and...
Volume 2, Resources 26: Best Books 2021
Hi friends! This year I’ve hit a personal record for number of books read. My goal was 120 books and I definitely surpassed that. I still have a full-time...
Volume 2, Issue 26: What I Learned in 2021
Hi friends! Holy shit, we’re almost through 2021 and I am SO PROUD OF US for making it this far. This year was a rollercoaster of emotions for so many of us....
Volume 2, Resources 25: The Wake Up, Happiness Calendar, and Just Watch
Hi friends! I want to send some extra love out to my fellow BIPOCs who are doing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, Justice, Access (DEIBJA) work in...
Volume 2, Issue 25: Some Healthy Phrases for Effective Communication
Hi friends! For the month of November, I worked on cultivating three habits: writing daily, stretching daily, and writing snail mail daily. I stretched all...
Volume 2, Resources 24: Supporting Native Orgs, Black Friday, Giving Thanks, and NPR's Books We Love
Hi friends! First up, we’re getting to the end of November and to keep myself accountable I want to check in about the habits that I have been trying to...
Volume 2, Issue 24: Xmas Shipping, Holiday Anti-Fatness, and Leveling-Up Your 'No'
Hi friends! This week is a non-resource week however, I have some things that I need to share with you sooner than later so it’ll be a little resource-y and...
Volume 2, Resources 23: Mental Health Apps & Emotion-Sensation Wheel
Hi friends! Last week I wrote about starting to cultivate specific habits in November and I’m happy to report that so far, I have stretched every day,...
Volume 2, Issue 23: November Habits
Hi friends! Last Friday my team at my day job had a virtual Halloween party. Someday I’ll write an essay about why Halloween is the perfect holiday but aside...
Volume 2, Resources 22: Origins of "Spooky" and Workers on Strike
Hi friends! Something hilarious happened this week that is too good not to share with you. Nicole & I have been married 4.5 years, together for almost 10. We...
Volume 2, Issue 22: On Being Deliberate
Hi friends! This week during a one-on-one meeting with one of my day job coworkers I said, “The burned-out in me recognizes the burned-out in you.” We...
Volume 2, Resources 21: Article Access and Queer & Trans Black People Exist
Hi friends! Recently I’ve been coming to terms with the idea of “when things slow down” and it being a lie. Things will never slow down because of...
Volume 2, Issue 21: On Self-Rejection
Hi friends! First of all, if you missed reading my first Alta Journal newsletter piece you can now read it on their website. Second of all, my wife and I...
Volume 2, Resources 20: Haitian Immigrants, Indigenous Allies, and Smarter in Seconds
Hi friends! Happy October, the month upon which I base my entire personality. This week I had my first piece published in the Alta Journal newsletter (it...
Volume 2, Issue 20: On Comfort in DEI Work
Hi friends! I had so many ideas of what to write about this week. So much has happened personally since my last newsletter. I attended FIYAHCON, which filled...
Volume 2, Resources 19: Book Shortage, Pandemic Fatigue, and To Do Lists That Might Work
Hi friends! As usual I’m writing this on Wednesday evening and I’m very excited to have the next couple of days off work because 1) I’m burned the fuck OUT...
Volume 2, Issue 19: On the Importance of Doing the Things You Enjoy & Do Well
Hi friends! Today’s newsletter is a culmination of a few things. Back in May, I wrote about the importance of doing things for fun, that is, doing things not...
Volume 2, Resources 18: Texas, Hurricane Ida, and Anti-Racism Daily
Hi friends! It’s September and just under two months until Halloween. I check this Halloween Countdown frequently because it brings me joy. As does this...
Volume 2, Issue 18: Should You, Though?
Hi friends! Today I want to talk about something I have been working on that I am by no means great at. Or even good at. It is a constant struggle for me and...
Volume 2, Resources 17: On Bearing Witness, Help for Haiti, and Help for Afghanistan
Hi friends. I don’t know about you, but I am feeling overwhelmed. There are always terrible things happening in the world but this week it has been feeling,...