I need $400 to reach current mini-fundraising goal

Another update – $250 to reach the goal! UPDATE – now just $300 to go thanks to Amy! While I still need help with my general Legal and Living Expenses Crowdfund, I have a mini-goal. Essentially, I need $560 to pay for a mobile video kit and to be Meta verified by Facebook and Instagram. […]

How I Spent My Summer Day

First off, I realized I wrote a blog post about August 26 on August 26, but referenced August 27. It doesn’t change the tone or tempo of the post. A little embarrassing, but let’s try to look at it as a symptom of the trauma . OR a sign the trauma isn’t as bad as […]

The three worst August 27s of my life

Today, August 27, marks three of the worst days of my life. August 1992 In August 1992, I had just moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana for graduate school. A Hurricane named Andrew was coming our way. I was terrified. My roommate, a lifelong Louisiana resident, left me to go to her sister’s apartment, saying there […]

Kindness is more than money

Time is ticking away until the trial. A lot is happening behind the scenes, both mundane and intriguing. I have a specific request – two tools to help my blog be more sustainable and thus less likely to be a casualty of this situation. I need two things * ‘kit’ of simple equipment to make videos […]

Video: Back to School with Pittsburgh Air

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sue Kerr (@pghlesbian) This past week, I created a little reel about going back to school shopping in Pittsburgh. It sort of went south as a bunch of sad memories spewed from my mouth. So I tried again and this time the memory is lovely. It […]

Review: ‘Cookie Queens’ documentary unboxes unique experience of Girl Scout cookie sales

Who wouldn’t love a documentary about earnest young women plying their neighbors with everyone’s favorite treat – the Girl Scout cookie? They are cute, the cookies are cute, the people who buy are supporting wholesome values, and the meanies who don’t buy are just mean. This documentary has very little of that treacle. Instead, it […]

Dems flipped State Rep Daryl Metcalfe’s seat three years after he retired, ending his 24 year anti-LGBTQ reign of terror.

This blogger is savoring a moment of simple satisfaction On Tuesday, Butler County residents voted in a Special Election to fill the vacancy of PA House District 12. Democrat Brandon Dukes defeated the Republican nominee by fewer than 100 votes. One of the most overt homophobic and transphobic legislators in modern Pennsylvania history represented the 12th […]

Three years ago, Roxane Gay was my last minute accomplice.

Content Note: involuntary civil commitment, police, trauma, mental health system, domestic violence “Books are often far more than just books.”― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays When the police came to handcuff me and drag me from my home on August 27, 2023 – to execute what I still believe was an invalid civil warrant for involuntary commitment […]

Trans woman Juju Nadeau killed by a stranger on a hiking trail

She loved Anthrocon and Pittsburgh where she was known as Chlugsy The Crime Maine was the scene of a recent terrible tragedy. A stranger stabbed a 21-year-old trans woman to death. It happened while she was hiking with friends. Her name was Juju Nadeau. Juju Nadeau was showing her friends a special spot along a trail […]

Losing my health insurance in a divorce might break me

It’s Saturday night. I’m watching The Devil Wears Prada 2 while sipping cranberry juice. Exciting times. Here’s my regular crowdfund update. First witness interview yesterday. It went well, but left me pondering if there is any win/win scenario. Why do either of us have to lose? #idealism The court scheduled the trial for Oct 20 […]