Emily (they/them) is a writer, musician, athlete, and organizer based in Wisconsin. Their work also appears at The Recombobulation Area, Tone, Our Lives, and elsewhere.
Vol. 73 In This Issue: ESSAY | NOW READ THIS | RESOURCES | FINAL FRAME One of my favorite arguments against the use of generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude is this: You don’t go to a gym and use a forklift. The point isn’t just to move heavy things
Vol. 72 In This Issue: ESSAY | NOW READ THIS | RESOURCE SHARING | BOOK NOOK | FINAL FRAME On Staying. This past weekend marked the 25th anniversary of my moving to Madison. A whole quarter century lived in the same place. It’s sort of wild to think about, even after all this
Vol. 71 In This Issue: ESSAY | NOW READ THIS | TAKE ACTION | IN PERSON | FINAL FRAME I have been online since 1994. I was 13 years old and my family purchased a Macintosh Power PC that had a whopping 14.4 bps modem included. It was the first time we owned
Vol. 70 IN THIS ISSUE: Essay | Now Read This | Listen Up | In Person | Final Frame This essay originally appeared in The Recombobulation Area, part of the Civic Media network, on July 23, 2025. Earlier this month, Wisconsin saw an important win for checks and balances in our state government. It
Vol. 69 (nice) IN THIS ISSUE: ESSAY | NOW READ THIS | TAKE ACTION | IN PERSON | FINAL FRAME It’s no secret that I love the sport of roller derby. I’ve been involved since 2012, when I finally worked up the courage, time, and money to try out for my local
Vol. 68 In This Issue: INTERVIEW | TAKE ACTION | NOW READ THIS | IN PERSON | FINAL FRAME [Give me a tip on Ko-Fi!] Several lifetimes ago, during my senior year at Edgewood College, a small, Catholic, liberal arts school, I became co-editor of a campus newspaper that had fallen into serious disrepair.
Vol. 67 IN THIS ISSUE: Essay | Listen Up | Now Read This | Final Frame This essay originally appeared at The Recombobulation Area, part of the Civic Media network. We’ve long been primed by popular culture to expect some kind of robot apocalypse. From the cyborgs of the “Terminator” franchise to
For love, for resistance, for revolution. Vol. 66 IN THIS ISSUE: Essay | Take Action | Now Read This | Final Frame I got an out-of-the-blue text early last week from a friend, J: “Do you know anybody who is legally ordained as an officiant? My partner and I are looking to do
Vol. 65 IN THIS ISSUE: Essay | In Person | Now Read This | Final Frame I had a dream recently in which I was being introduced to a class full of young children. One of them, a little girl, asked for my name so she could tell the others. When I told
Vol. 64. IN THIS ISSUE: Essay | Now Read This | Listen Up | Final Frame This essay originally appeared in The Recombobulation Area. Thanks, as always, to Dan for inviting me to contribute. Please be sure to subscribe over there for award-winning, Wisconsin-focused reporting and commentary! Do the means justify the ends?
Vol. 63 In This Issue: ESSAY/INTERVIEW | NOW READ THIS | FINAL FRAME With the current maelstrom of fuckery coming out of the White House and its allies, the overwhelm is the point. It’s almost impossible to keep track of the many and varied ways the Trump Administration is attempting
Vol. 62 In This Issue: ESSAY | LISTEN UP | LIVE AND IN PERSON | NOW READ THIS | TAKE ACTION | WATCH THIS | FINAL FRAME This essay originally appeared at The Recombobulation Area on March 28. Be sure to follow/subscribe - it’s a great resource for Wisconsin news and opinion! If you’