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“No one ever changes their mind about abortion.”

A tiny migraine creeps into my brain whenever people say this. It feels a little bit true and a little bit not true. People DO change their minds about abortion sometimes. When do they change them? When abortion stops being theoretical and starts being as real as a plus-sign on a plastic wand dripping with […]Read Post ›

Why I Cannot Do Your Burlesque Show at the Last Minute

For many of the pre-show rituals I do below, you may well say, “Well, you don’t HAVE to do those things?” You’re right–I could do nothing. I come just come out, zits and all. I could just come out naked slathered in baby oil. But I want to project showgirl realness like a drag queen […]Read Post ›

Massachusetts #ArtsMatter Advocacy Day 2015

On March 25, I participated in Arts Matter Advocacy Day, spearheaded by MASSCreative. I was with a group of Massachusetts residents/artists that included powerhouse arts advocate Cassandra M. Cato-Louis. Most of the lawmakers we spoke seemed pretty open to the #ArtsMatter platform–at least one was already advocating for more local art funding. But one representative was […]Read Post ›

Things I learned from dystopian movies

In the future… …we will all be wearing one of the following fashion choices: 1) leather & strapped-on Uzis 2) pristine white pajamas 3) severe 1940s suits 4) unisex dirty coveralls …you will have many more economic opportunities to legally murder people, either by becoming a government assassin or a professional athlete. There will be […]Read Post ›

Entitled Cat Boston

A little backstory on why I started Entitled Cat Boston, a luxury catsitting care service: I have been a cat enthusiast forever. My parents wouldn’t let me own a cat until I was in middle school, so until then I had to content myself with befriending the neighborhood barn cats in my small New Hampshire town. My […]Read Post ›