Announcements!
Calls for collaborators, sources, etc…
Updated 9/3/25
Enrolling now! I’m teaching an online nonfiction writing workshop this fall for The Workroom! It’s for intermediate and advanced literary nonfiction writers of all stripes (reporters / memoirists / essayists). It’s going to be Sunday late afternoons and we’ll be focused on writing about ourselves and others (whether our relatives and/or strangers and everyone in between). Learn all about it here. If you’re interested: Space is limited so urge you to sign up sooner rather than later. There is one half-scholarship slot available. If you have questions about the class, you can feel free to ask me via my contact page.
STORY SOURCE CALL: I’m looking for Brown University-affiliated trans/gnc people (especially trans/gnc alumni, students, staff) and any others who feel affected by the university’s transphobic actions and are interested in speaking with me for a potential upcoming reported piece. (If you’ve not read them already, check out my Boston Globe op-ed blasting the university’s administration, as well as my Assigned Media essay about my time as a closeted trans student back when.) For those who want to share their stories and are concerned for whatever reason, you can request anonymity if you like in your initial email. Please write me via my contact form.
STORY SOURCE CALL: I’m soliciting stories from trans folks in the U.S. who have moved from a red state to a blue in recent months especially (again for an upcoming potential story). If you — and your family/partner — have moved from a red state to a blue one because of trans-related concerns and you want to share your story with me, please reach out via my contact form. Please share whatever you want to, in your initial email, enough for me to get some sense. If you want, you can specify already that you’ll want anonymity; I’ll follow up if I want to interview you further … Right now I’m just in search of potential sources and an interested editor/publication; once I find the latter, I’ll follow up with some of those who’ve written for proper interviews. Thank you for your time and for sharing with me. (I’m aware others have moved abroad; I’m only interested in covering the domestic angle in this forthcoming potential piece.)
STORY SOURCE CALL: I’m looking for fellow trans masc folks who’ve received endometriosis diagnoses — whether only post-hysto like me, or whenever. Please see this public thread for more info on what I’m soliciting and why. In brief, if you’re willing and generous enough to share any of your own story with me, to start: Summarize your tale in as many words or as few as you like, and email me via my contact form here. (You can at any time ask to be anonymous/use a pseudonym; please just state so in your initial query if you prefer so.) Know in general: We can always discuss all such matters furthers once I contact you for further interview. If I want to speak further with you, I may follow up. I will try hard to respond to all these messages individually. Regardless: Know I feel great gratitude to all who share about something so intimate and vulnerable with me. This is just me beginning my research for such a story and I’m still finding the right editor and outlet. (I will interview any potential source before quoting them in any eventual story; your initial email to me is just for me to learn some as I meanwhile search for the right publication.)
SURVEYS: If you like, those who wish can still take my anonymous survey for trans/gnc people about friendship. (This is for another upcoming potential story.)
