california
Heat Domes + Fire Crumbs
Pregnant during a once in a lifetime heat wave that happens twice every summer.
Latest
If We Die, We Want to Die Together
The state can always find a reason for us to kill each other.
Angry Girls, Angry Women
What was the first album by a woman you remember feeling was forbidden?
embodiment
The Colonoscopy + The Couple
There is no ladylike way to say, “Sometimes I bleed from my butt.”
The Sounds of War
The fighter jets that invaded Iraq train over my backyard.
books
An Ordinary Age
Raised in a culture veined with the fool’s gold of American Exceptionalism, I thought I had to be exceptional.
california
At Home with Anica Wong
An elegant dance in a utilitarian kitchen.
Historic Character
My neighborhood’s fight for integration changed America. Now white neighbors are suing a Black pastor over his social justice work.
art
Challenging racism is homemaking
Racial Justice at the Kitchen Table
My Mother Risked It All on the Beanie Baby Boom
She was a Mormon homemaker who just wanted to take part in the market economy. Then it all came crashing down.
family
Finding My Family’s Bones
How visiting Appalachia helped me begin to understand my family
housing
Power Grids Are Failing All Over America
Profit, power, preconceived notions. For these things we let dreaming children die.