jem z.Jul 17, 20196 minHow My Family Is Learning to Heal After 25 Years of AbuseIt’s not quite been two years since the last time I spoke to him. He is out of my life, but stays a ghost in my head.
jem z.Mar 20, 20195 minSlash Fiction vs. Women AudiencesA little over a year ago, I got into a really nasty online argument with a couple of trans men about the issue of non-men finding dude-on-dude romance attrac...
jem z.Feb 23, 20192 mina few stories about my creative process as a young deviantwhen i was around 10, i decided i was going to write a choose-your-own-adventure romance book, except i accidentally printed it off without noticing. my pare...
jem z.Jan 24, 20191 minmr ma'am meets jem z.two of my pieces were recently published in queer zine, mr. ma'am! check it out. (page 37 & 43 if you're in a hurry.) #zine #art #queer #published
jem z.Jan 16, 20191 mingay, trans, and disabled in detroithey! i don't update this too much (oops) but a development popped up a few months ago: a journalistic article written about me and my fiancée. check it out, ...
jem z.Aug 9, 20183 minthe uphill chomp #1Welcome to my first episode of The Uphill Chomp. The purpose of this blog series is to give meal ideas to people with disabilities, chronic illnesses, and/or...
jem z.Jan 19, 20188 minstill writing, still gayLast night was my first live reading of something I wrote literally ever. I think it went really well, even though my beloved friends and family borked the r...
jem z.Dec 12, 20172 minneuroDifferentit is very hard to be neurodivergent. you are the cigarette butt of every community you might seek solace in, and considered disposable even by other mentall...
jem z.Dec 7, 20171 minimperfect legislation is a farceMcCain tweets: "the bill is not perfect," despite justifying his support of it. That right there is where the bill should have died -- any bill. I'm a writer...
jem z.Dec 6, 20173 minMedia Wars: The Bitter Fight Between Lesbians and BisexualsSomething that often irks me is the "She's bi!" / "She's lesbian!" wars that pop up surrounding many WLW characters. I want to deconstruct that a bit. Here i...
jem z.Dec 6, 20173 minautistic, and the journeyNo one wonders if I might be autistic until I’m 25. My brother was diagnosed as a kid, and Daryl used my mum’s speculations about his place on the spectrum t...
