Coloradoooooo

Friends! I'm back! 

I didn't send a newsletter last week because I was romping around Colorado with best friend of the show Z Griffler—expect several photos of that in second. But I have returned to you on this fine day of Taurus season, eating several slices of expired gluten-free vegan cinnamon raisin bread like the fancy trash person that I am. (I'm not gluten-free, and it's important to me that you know that, just in case someone wants to offer me something highly glutenous someday.) 

 I wish that I had some podcast-related news for y'all, but my only real update is a non-update: I've had three interviews reschedule this week and scheduled two additional interviews, so I can't tell you who anyone is yet but we will have a podcast again! Someday!! Probably!!! 

In the meantime, I've been putting together a pair of workshops in which I do my best to explain everything journalists need to know about covering trans people and gender topics in an hour or less. (If that feels like a run-on sentence, imagine how rambley I get trying to cram together gender theory and style guides and media critiques and sensitivity trainings into 60 minutes.) Anyway, it's fun and good, and it gives me a positive outlet to funnel all of my Jesse Singal-flavored rage. (If you don't know who Jesse is, good!!!!!!!! Never look it up!!!!!!) 

I feel compelled to write more words because I missed last week, but honestly, y'all are busy people, you don't want more words. There are already too many words and we'll never read enough of them and it's overwhelming. Let's get into the camera roll section of the newsletter. 

When Z isn't talking about gender with us, they're working on the Open Sanctuary Project, which is an online resource for animal sanctuaries. Z spends a lot of time at nearby sanctuary Luvin Arms, where I met this nice cow-boy named Tito. 🤠

More of Tito. I intentionally close my eyes in photos a lot because I am... a child??? A self-saboteur????  Please help me.

I also got to meet Z's big cat boys for the first time and friends............ they're big. (Hand for scale.)

Z has a tiny 1997(?) Miata convertible, and at first I was like "who the heck wants a convertible in Colorado, it's literally snowing" but it turns out that THIS CAR CHANGED MY LIFE. I love it! I'm so scared of driving, and in this car, I'm STILL very scared but also having a good time?!?!?! Look at how happy I am in this photo wow.

Meanwhile, back at home, my cats are still very good and very covered in fleas. Anyone know how to kill fleas? We've tried prescription-strength flea medicine, DE, vacuuming, washing everything we own many times, and are now considering lighting our house on fire. (Photo by my roommate.)

Oh hey! Friends! I ran this Twitter poll about possibly making Patreon-only podcast content because I love to make more work for myself!!!! (and am also trying to figure out how to survive under capitalism while still making that good good gender content.) What are your thoughts on this? Please send them to me if you have them! In the meantime, here's a meme someone sent me. 

I'm going to leave you for now because nobody has time to read a novel-length newsletter, and also I'm out of expired gluten-free vegan cinnamon raisin bread, but please tell me all of your gender-y thoughts about Lizzo's new album, and Homecoming, and Game of Thrones, and ethical journalistic coverage of trans topics, and anything else you wanna share with me. Also, join us on Slack? We're fun.

Okay, here's one more photo of Z because I love them. It was 80 degreeeeees before I got there, but then a bomb cyclone(!) made it very snowy so I hiked around icicles in sneakers like a fool. But it was still good and fun and anyway we're cute. 

XO,

Molly