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When We Become Ours

Storytelling matters. It can make us feel seen and connected,…

The Magical Root

That’s what it used to be like in our very tiny, rural Minnesota town where everyone knew each other, they knew what you liked to drink, and they most likely knew a lot of your secrets too.

Postcards From Within

Sometimes, like today, it may not be a pleasure to play the caregiver.

Small-Scale Homesteading

Excerpted from Small-Scale Homesteading: A Sustainable Guide…

How to Learn a Language

Lately, I’ve been trying to dream a little bigger about what I do know in my first language.

Poem: “Be That Ripple”

Someday the stones are weathered

Strokeland

Men are far more likely to divorce their chronically ill or disabled spouses than are women.

New Young Adult Book Explores Archeology, Gender, and Vikings

This turned out to be a story that is so much more than DNA testing.

The Way to Our Queer Ancestors

There is another aspect to historical research when you are talking about lesbians, and that is intuition.

Let the Black Women Say Asé

We would tell stories about our origins, and what we have endured, on our own terms, without whiteness determining how we should tell those stories.

Out of the Sierra

The decisions that they have to make on a daily basis about what to assimilate into, and what to resist, is something that comes out viscerally in small moments everywhere you look in that community.

Poem: “The Body”

Your life is a brief parole from non-existence.