It’s been a while, but I’m back with a non-photographic update. Specifically: I switched my downloadable projects from Gumroad to Itch because of Gumroad’s questionable NFT messaging.
Everything on my Itch is pay-what-you-want. If you didn’t get to save a zine you got from my Gumroad before I deleted it, you can always get it again for $0. If this work is new to you, I hope you’ll take a look!
Here’s what I’ve got up there:
I published this guide for coping with short-term isolation, boredom, and confinement in March 2020. I had no idea what was coming.
Curbing Cabin Fever isn’t the best for coping with long-term isolation. It will probably be helpful if you have to quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19, or if you’re temporarily housebound or bedridden like I was in 2018.
Uncomfortable: Content from Dark Corners of the Internet
I published this found poetry webzine in August 2017. In it are 33 poem-collages I made out of screenshotted tidbits of text and images online. They are meant to be vague, unsettling, hard to interpret, and, indeed, uncomfortable, but I hope you see something of yourself in them as well.
I made this webzine in July 2017. Here’s what I wrote about it then:
15 poems about love, intimacy, and sex while trans, made of lines taken from Craigslist ads. A little sad, a little bitter, a little tender. NSFW unless you work at Good Vibrations.
The meaning of this zine has changed for me since I made it. In 2017, I didn’t realize I was creating an artifact of the pre-FOSTA/SESTA internet. Revisiting it makes me think about what we lost because of FOSTA/SESTA : Backpage and other sites that increased sex workers’ safety and ability to vet clients, the ability for queer people to post (even in a totally chaste way!) about ourselves and our lives without risking social media censorship, and things like Craigslist Personals. Anyone want to make something like this using Lex or Grindr?
How to Give Yourself a Testosterone Injection
Finally, from all the way back in 2015, I bring you How to Give Yourself a Testosterone Injection, a hand-illustrated guide to doing exactly that.
This project came out of my transition. When I went on T in 2014, a nurse showed me how to do my shot one time, and then I was on my own. During the first few shots I did alone, I kept second-guessing whether I was remembering her instructions right. I wanted to document how to do it, both so I had something to refer back to and so other trans people taking T could avoid that uncertainty.
