some things i have written

• Texas Writers Byline Scan (Home with the Armadillo/Substack) — An annual examination (2021, 2022) of byline representation along the axes of race, gender, and location in Texas magazines, with the aim of improving accountability around the diversity of writers telling stories for and about Texas and Texans in the state's mainstream and legacy glossies. I've published follow-up coverage in the Columbia Journalism Review.
• The Well Actually (DAME magazine) - I write DAME's monthly media criticism and cultural zeitgeist column using an intersectional feminist lens.
• "Local Boos: Terror in Marghoulritaville," "The Stair Sweeper" and "The Ghost of Quarantine Present" (Home with the Armadillo/Substack) - Spooky fiction stories published annually in my newsletter.
• "Biden's Troubling Response to 'Dobbs'" (The Nation) — I penned the print editorial for the 8/15/22 issue on President Joe Biden's historic and contemporary reluctance to champion abortion rights.
• "Fake Clinics Aren't the Answer" (New York Times) - First in Texas, and then across the nation, anti-abortion lawmakers are remaking the safety net for reproductive health care in their own image of God. I am not a fan.
• "How Texas Became Ground Zero in the Abortion Wars" (Rewire News) — a three-part series looking at the history of abortion legislation in Texas from Roe v. Wade to today. Part one covers the Roe years and the 80s; part two covers the late 80s until the early 00's; part three covers the 2013 filibuster until today.
• "When Cancel Culture Means Letting Go" (Dame magazine) — a look at "cancel culture" from fans' perspectives, examining what it means to let go of a favorite cultural artifact when it no longer feels good to consume work you once loved.
• "From 'Friendly' State to Enmity State" and "Even 'Turning Texas Blue' Won't Save Us If We Don't Face Some Hard Truths" (Texas Observer) - Two 2021 op-eds for the watchdog magazine look at Texas leaders' bad decisions and bids to pit neighbor against neighbor amid a raging pandemic.
• "Can We Please Make Cancel Culture Happen" (Home with the Armadillo/Substack) - If we're going to be out here hand-wringing about who's really a good guy, can we at least actually cancel some bad guys?
• "We Are the Daughters of the Silent Generations" (Home with the Armadillo/Substack) - The first installment of my newsletter, wherein I unpack the Highwomen's reimagining of a country music classic.
• "Texas is the Last Stop" (Medium) - Is a genuinely less fucked-up Texas even possible? Beto O'Rourke tried it!
• Bad Advice (The Establishment) - A weekly (bad) advice column in which the Bad Advisor validates all the worst ideas of the world's advice-seeking public.
• Resistance Kitchen (Tumblr) - A few years ago, I moved to California by mistake. While I was there, I wrote and edited a food blog about politics. A sampling: chili for Texas, and the ceviche of ghoulish fuckery.