Transmissions: Secrets and Truths
I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Trans people – and I am using the term in its broadest sense, inclusive of gender fluidity and nonbinary identities [...]
Parting Glances: A visitor from my Past
It's been 65 years since I last saw the young man who now sits across from me. He has at age 19 what a friend calls "the lyric poetry of youth:" a freshness of [...]
This Is What's Wrong: NASSAR and MSU Are Not Alone
BY SUSAN GRETTENBERGER I am a Michigan State University alum. Currently, I am a faculty member at Central Michigan University, where I and my colleagues are [...]
Creep of the Week: Donald Trump
Donald Trump I was in a coffee shop and the song "Safe and Sound" by Capital Cities started playing. I've heard it many times and while it's good, I've never [...]
Here's Your Sign
Being transgender in the late 2010s means you talk about restrooms. Indeed, it's a topic you end up having to revisit over and over again, with what has been [...]
Parting Glances: Dreams Wet and Otherwise
The mind-boggling possibility of recording dreams may soon be a reality predicts "How It's Made," a British monthly science magazine. The nanotechnology/brain [...]
Creep of the Week: Matt Walsh
It should be obvious by now that the Creep of the Week every week is Donald Trump. He is a cancerous tumor on the U.S, and as a nation we desperately need a [...]
Creep of the Week: MassResistance
As I write this it is April 9, 2018, my birthday. It's also the day John Bolton starts as Trump's National Security Advisor. Bolton, who was ambassador to the [...]
Parting Glances: Gay Life, Circa 1955
At 19, I went to my first gay bar, The Silver Slipper, a dyke bar on Grand River, near downtown Detroit. I used borrowed ID, was escorted authoritatively by [...]
VP Mike Pence is on my Radar, Wonder Why?
Is Vice President Mike Pence a closeted, deep-in-self-hate raging homo? Is that self-hate so intolerable for him that he's become the commander in chief at the [...]
