Who are you?

Hello! I am Sara! I’m a 30-something trans woman who lives in LA and does improv, makes music, tutors, and tries to write.

I have an undergrad philosophy degree from Harvard and a couple years of law school from Berkeley, but I’m not an expert in anything really. I’m more just someone who thinks too much about a lot of different stuff.

What is this Substack?

Mostly, it’s an outlet for me. I feel like I have things to say, but nowhere currently to say them, so my thoughts fester unprocessed and underdeveloped. My main hopes are:

1) that this will give me reason to write more consistently, and

2) that other people might find what I have to say interesting. 

I know that “interesting” can be a vague and uncompelling word, but it really is what I mean. I’ve spent the last decade-and-change afraid that my longer form thoughts come off as boring, pretentious, and, worst of all, annoying. It’s the result of a history of gifted trauma that I explore in various posts. Of course, I would love it if my writing could some day help people laugh, help them feel seen, help them process their own thoughts, etc etc etc, but the truth is that I’m not writing for other people right now.

I’m writing for myself.

What should I expect?

This Substack, of course, won’t be all serious, because I am not that serious of a person, really. I have many topics I want to explore, from cults to improv to giftedness to anime to Latin poetry to politics to skepticism to LARP to fantasy to queer history to anarchism to, of course, GENDER.

Basically, I want to post about whatever happens to be interesting to me that week.

I might even post some of the fiction pieces I’ve been working on, though that might scare me more than anything else.

If you read this far, thank you so much! I hope you subscribe. It’s free. And it will make me feel better about what I’m doing. You don’t even have to read the articles if you don’t want to! Though of course I hope you do :) 

Also, there is nothing in this world I love more than conversation, so please please feel free to respond to anything I write! Disagreement is always welcome.

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