#21 Something more than what I felt which was nothing

It’s been a few weeks since I’ve written here and I do want to explain that I’ve relocated to a place where writing has been historically easier (kidding that’s not a thing) where I only have one job, which is to write, and I seem to have come out the other side of whatever the fuck the last few years were, so this bodes well for this newsletter.

I made it across the United States—from New York to California—in five days, driving on the day Roe was overturned from Santa Fe to Los Angeles in one gulp. That morning I was on the phone with a friend who lives in Europe, a dude, who was the one to inform me. He said “oh shit Roe was just overturned if you need to go I understand.” I didn’t need to go because Roe was overturned, but I thought that I should be that affected so I lied and said yes, I was upset, I needed to get off the phone.

Emily and I were supposed to record a podcast with Angela Chen that day on her Very Brilliant Book That Everyone Should Read about asexuality, and the two…