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Meet Violet Jessop, the White Star Line's Final Girl

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PASTA+PLAGUE turns 4 today and this piece pretty much sums up its conception as well as my expat (aka white immigrant) M.O. in a country some of y'all romanticize to the point of absurdity lol. Here's to demystifying places and not treating them like movie sets.

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My review of Rob Wildwood's latest book Magical Britain for SABAT Magazine: https://medium.sabatmagazine.com/magical-britain-37132468be19

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Today on PASTA+PLAGUE

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Featured in Caption Magazine Issue 9

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http://www.crannogmagazine.com/

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Remembering this shoot on the west coast from over 5 years ago, with the wonderful Michael Datoli. It was among my last "photoshoots," done to accompany a piece on depression I wrote for American Slander.

I miss the west coast, I miss the people of the west coast, I miss being brazen with my body (but do not miss being punished for it), It will all return. Shot on black & white film.

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I don't mind that the publishing world has all but moved online, with print slowly but surely going the way of parchment & quill. I love a tangible book as much as the next person, but I also love having an app that's basically a Library of Alexandria that allows me to move around and travel without missing my reads. (Also,ahem,an impressive library is not a stand-in for an informed and unique mind.) I love the visibility and reach of online publications, how they offer more room for more diverse voices, for greater sharing--at the end of the day, isn't that the true purpose of words, of stories? The downside of course is that many publications fold due to lack of funding, support, and/or overall stamina, and I've had more than a few pieces disappear into the PAGE NOT FOUND ether. So it's truly a gift when a well-founded publication you've followed for years revives a formerly defunct piece that means as much to you now as it did when you wrote it, maybe more. Many thanks to Sword & Kettle Press for running my piece as their first creative non-fiction feature.

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"I have no wish to go back to normal. Normal has never been kind to me. Normal abuses and alienates — it is the worst kind of coward, a bully. Normal insists that we question nothing and risk even less, leave the waters untested or otherwise reserved for only the elite to traverse. Normal normalizes harmful behavior, bids us repeat the patterns of our parents and their parents, even if it kills us. Normal has no use for the rich and strange, prefers that it remain submerged fathoms and generations below. Normal insists that inequality is normal, desirable even. Normal commands us to strike our sails and suffer the storm in the name of “well, that’s life.” Normal is the simplification of the soul. No, I’m done with normal, even if I’m unsure of what the new normal should be." My latest piece for Sabat Magazine, featuring artwork by Hidden Velvet.

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PASTA+PLAGUE is a Medium-hosted blog I started from my quarantine in Italy, featuring delicious, inexpensive, and easy-to-make Italian recipes, weird tidbits from history, and personal tales. Give it a view and get your quarantine, babes: medium.com/of-pasta-and-plagues

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Primavera Quarantena, Italy

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"For Be Nasty Day I’ve listed six of my all-time favorite trailblazers who didn’t just demand a place at the table, but brought the whole damn feast. They were sex workers and empresses, pirates and inventors, champions of human rights and causes that, during their respective eras, were ahead of the minds of the time. And yes, I will add loud and proud, their persistence was all the more bolstered by equally nasty, class-act men who were far too ahead of their own times to hold them back."