It’s the small things in life that often bring the most happiness moment-to-moment. In some ways I feel like one of those research monkeys that spent a lifetime in a sterile cage doing nothing but whatever experiment was demanded of me. My life pretending to be a man was sparse…

There is work to be done for a better future. We can all take a moment to feel relief at the end of the most wretched presidency in modern history. Just a moment, though, since nothing is over and all the work remains to be done. For the left and…

We can either benefit from the system or attack it, but not both. If we speak against power — or worse, act against power — we will be punished according to the caprice of the powerful. In our time this can mean loss of job, homelessness, social isolation, hunger, violence…

To keep living we’ll need to change this thing we’ve been taught to serve called ‘the economy’. The economy is destroying the planet and threatening all of humanity. That is a matter of fact. The ecological and human disasters of the economy are too many to list in full but…

Or maybe I was. Or maybe I changed along the way, or maybe I decided to live like this. It doesn’t actually matter, though. I know I’m supposed to say I was born this way. That is the party line for LGBTQ people, and I understand why, but I can’t…

Answering a question I’ve received from a surprising number of people. Since coming out a lot of people I know have asked how I knew I was trans, so it must be a common curiosity. The complete answer is, of course, both beyond my own understanding and also kinda messy…

The ability to help ourselves doesn’t mean we’re to blame if we try and fail to do so. There’s a common sentiment — usually uttered with good intent — that goes something like this: it isn’t their fault because they couldn’t help it. That by itself is true enough;. …

We’re killing ourselves trying to win at games that aren’t real and have no stakes. My five-year-old nephew, Connor, once fled in tiny adorable anger from our little pile of LEGOs into his room and slammed the door. His mom went to check on him. Why was he angry? He…

We can’t stop them from giving advice, but we can be a bit less annoyed by it — science shows us how. I don’t think anyone enjoys hearing sentences that start with ‘you should’; no one wants to be told how to live their life — especially if their life…