Thank you for listening! Here are the hospital boudoir photos I referred to in the letter: Here’s the info on the Texas Foremothers Galentine’s Day Tour in Austin, TX: Monday, February 13, 8-9am $44.40 Meet at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin Coffee, crystals, and chosen ancestors journal prompts included in the tour price. TICKETS HERE And the full text of my letter to Brandi Carlile (lol, I can’t help but laugh at myself for being a person who wrote a letter to a celebrity) is...

(Correction: in this recording I said last year was the 48th anniversary of Roe v. Wade but it was the 49th.) Thank you for honoring these important foremothers of civil rights and bodily autonomy: Coretta Scott King and Sarah Weddington. You can find my original “Legacy is a penis word” essay complete with photos here. Join me at the Texan Feminist Throwdown Sunday, January 22 from 4-8pm at Distribution Hall in Austin! Tickets here. Get full access to Democrasexy at...

On this first day of the 88th Texas legislature, it feels more important than ever that we as organizers and activists and advocates tend to the emotional challenges of working to create change in a state that is so often hostile to our efforts. I don’t know a single Texas progressive who hasn’t been filled with dread as the start of this legislative session loomed. And now the day we have been dreading is here. One of the things I observed in the response to my events and content leading up...

Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown is a must-read for anyone doing organizing work (as are all her books, especially Emergent Strategy, but this is the one I started with): https://www.akpress.org/pleasure-activism.html Audre Lorde’s essay “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power” was essential reading for me. Find it here. Come to my “Election Lessons Learned” knowledge-sharing session on December 15, 6:30-8pm at the Brew and Brew in Austin, TX:...

Welcome to the first "episode" of the Democrasexy podcast! (It's not really a podcast, it's just informal voice memos to you, my friends.) I get vulnerable about contemplating giving up on Texas after this last election and talk about how "She Said" brought me back from the brink. Please please go see this movie, it's so important. https://www.shesaidmovie.com/ Get full access to Democrasexy at democrasexy.substack.com/subscribe