CODA
A novel-in-progress
Alissa is 19 and going deaf.
Feeling lost, she leaves college and moves back to Western Massachusetts. When she starts working at the local food co-op, she meets Lance, a CODA: Child of Deaf Adults. As he begins to teach her sign language, a friendship forms, and then a complicated romance. At the heart of CODA is a question: when is it best to speak, and when is it best to stay silent?
Bumping Uglies
A sex podcast
LET’S TALK ABOUT SEX.
From 2017 to 2019, I hosted a podcast about sex and sexuality called “Bumping Uglies.” I interviewed friends across the gender spectrum about their unique perspectives on sex. Topics ranged from LARP sex to growing up in the Mormon church.
POLYGLOT
A dictionary for the non-monogamous
“WE NEED MORE WORDS.”
POLYGLOT was a dictionary for the non-monogamous, polyamorous, and relationship anarchists among us. This crowd-sourced project relied on submissions to build a dictionary of words that captures the nuanced behaviors and complex feelings that non-monogamous relationships entail. It’s a different way of relating, so why use the same old words?