Ten years ago today, twenty-one-year-old college student Matthew Shepard was found, beaten, bloodied, comatose, and tied to a fence, near Laramie, Wyoming. Â He died five days later, October 12, 1998, in a hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado. Cathy Renna speaks for many of us in her Bilerico piece today on
[I feel compelled to remind us all that the ongoing election season content caveat applies here: nothing directly relating to lesbians or children or lesbians’ children appears below, except that we all ostensibly live in a democracy, whether vital or compromised or, as I often tend to think so many
Imaginary bird, Berkeley, CA. A tiny nuthatch hopped around our front porch and clung to the wisteria vines for a few minutes this afternoon. She wished it would hop in our house through the open door, and become our pet. I convinced her it was just as good for the wee thing