It grew out of my personal experience researching Black history museums; but in reality, it began a lot earlier, maybe before I was born.
I share real world examples of why I believe the trans community uses empathy as a powerful tool to combat transphobia and promote self-love.
This piece situates me in a set of sour in-laws relationships that also involved the legal system and it is in the form of autoethnography.
Nothing prepared me for the xenophobia and homophobia I would encounter in Italy. No one warned me how to avoid becoming their victim
This autoethnographic essay offers a musing on the intricate relationship between language, writing and identity through an autoethnographic account of my reading and writing experience from childhood to present, and from China to the UK via Germany.
However, this autoethnographic piece helped me recognize the importance of levity even when the intellectual content is heavy.
I share the complexity of my frustration about a failed site visit to the British Museum and wonder about the meaning of the experience.
This work is part of a larger ethnography of scars, one that addresses the intersection medicine, religion, and body politics in (among other places) Nebraska.
“Answering the Call of Conscience in the Call Out Culture” continues my accounting of, and critical reflection on, the ethical and political dimensions of having been falsely accused of sexual assault online.
This piece recounts a trip I took to the Czech Republic and it is proof that language barriers similarly embolden people to speak cruelly.
Jesus and Fentanyl: A Mortician's Perspective is actually thoughts from a funeral director and also an ode to an overdose victim.
In this essay, the current reality of queerness is juxtaposed against milestones in my own life as a queer man in America.
