Archive - Unboxing Pride

Reality Shifts: Gaming, Grace, and Ground Zero

With DEI programs slowly disappearing (my career), I'm finding refuge in interactive fiction. My unexpected plan: developing a neuroqueer game as a…

Feb 22 •

October 2024

Do I, or don't I? The dilemma of free emotional labor

As an LGBTQ+ speaker, trainer, and solopreneur, I constantly ask myself the same question: Should I take on the free emotional labor or let it go?

Oct 31, 2024 •

September 2024

So, I broke my wrist...

What it's like over 25 years since I last broke a bone and how my queerness and neurodivergence are impacting it this time around. Or rather, how other…

Sep 30, 2024 •

May 2024

Losing, gaining, and losing my biological family again: part two

The emotional roller coaster that set the stage for a brutal last year in my grad program, and would eventually break off what little family I had left.

May 28, 2024 •

April 2024

Losing, gaining, and losing my biological family again: part one

The emotional roller coaster that set the stage for a brutal last year in my grad program, and would eventually break off what little family I had left.

Apr 28, 2024 •

March 2024

I'll pick weeds however I damn well please

How my family and second grade teacher publicly bullied me into masking my neurodivergence for decades and other stories

Mar 31, 2024 •

February 2024

My spellcheck got woke... and I liked it

I was in the middle of typing, and all of a sudden, a pop-up I'd never seen before appeared from Grammarly

Feb 17, 2024 •

January 2024

Giving up my membership to the itty bitty titty committee: part two

Seeing my results, follow-up surgeries, and finding comfort in not being alone.

Jan 6, 2024 •

December 2023

Giving up my membership to the itty bitty titty committee: part one

My first top surgery was on 12/14/2012. The story I'm about to tell isn't the norm, but it's mine. Learn about my decision to get top surgery, what I…

Dec 31, 2023 •

Early origins of becoming the awkward LGBTQ+ speaker and trainer I am today

From an impulsive 5th-grade culmination essay contest entry win through early high school and college years.

Dec 9, 2023 •

November 2023

The Binder Diaries

The paradox of binder liberation over the years from an anxious nonbinary and autistic perspective

Nov 19, 2023 •

October 2023

You're going to have to correct me

...is one of the responses I wish I'd stop hearing when sharing my pronouns. Here are my reflections on having my Pronoun & Name Mistake Flowchart out…

Oct 23, 2023 •

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