LIVING YOUR TRUTH: What we can do to strengthen Scranton’s unenforced LGBT anti-discrimination law
I’ve always had a high opinion of Scranton, and these days, I’ve been falling in love with it even more. Northern Light is my idea of the perfect coffee shop. Eden is the place to go for vegan delights. I visited Adezzo for the first time last week for a volunteer meetup of the Scranton […]
LIVING YOUR TRUTH: Another transgender woman has been murdered, so what will we do about it?
Monday evening, a little after we had just finished recording Episode 36 of the NEPA Scene Podcast, I left the studio to head home. The humid air outside TwentyFiveEight Studios clung to me like a warm, wet sweater. It was about 12 a.m. when I took notice of my surroundings and how eerily quiet and […]
LIVING YOUR TRUTH: Restroom incident at Kildare’s brings up gender identity issues in Scranton
Gender identity and restroom usage has been a hot topic lately. As transgender awareness and visibility increases, it’s only reasonable to expect that people are looking out for us more than ever, and that means a false positive report was bound to happen sooner or later. Well, it finally did. According to her Facebook post […]
NEPA NERDS: Is Pennsylvania, greed, or pessimism responsible for hitchBOT’s demise? It’s complicated
Philadelphia has been treated as poorly as its infamous reputation by the media for the unfortunate death of hitchBOT, a social experiment with the kind of outcome that science fiction has warned us about time and again. By association, all of the United States has been criticized as well for being too violent, cold, and […]
LIVING YOUR TRUTH: Caitlyn Jenner’s speech was inspiring, though her politics need work
How amazing was Caitlyn Jenner at the ESPY Awards, delivering her acceptance speech for the Arthur Ashe Courage Award? Of course she was amazing, and I felt all the feels. The part that got to me, most of all, had to be where she thanked her family for standing by her and supporting her, stating […]
LIVING YOUR TRUTH: Marriage equality is great, but we’re not done yet – far from it
June 26, 2015 – Decision Day. The day the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the ban on same-sex marriage can no longer be upheld. Probably one of the biggest days in American LGBT history since the Stonewall riots. The day those of us in the LGBT spectrum became first-class citizens. This is […]
LIVING YOUR TRUTH: Transgender education in schools could change and save lives
As strange as it may seem, one of the things that kept me accepting that I was transgender was that no one had explained to me that I could be a woman and still be attracted to women. Not understanding this, I convinced myself that I was just confused about who I was and who […]
LIVING YOUR TRUTH: Why Rachel Dolezal shouldn’t be compared to Caitlyn Jenner
I’ve been told that, scientifically, race does not exist. So the story goes, we are all one people, descendants from a tribe in Africa that were descendants from earlier forms of humans that once populated the Earth. Over the millennia, as the tribe grew and separated, they spread out into different regions where the climate […]
NEPA NERDS: X-Man coming out as gay is character development, not a continuity crisis
“Have you tried not being a mutant?” This was one of the best lines in the 2003 film “X2: X-Men United,” making the general metaphor even more obvious in the “X-Men” sequel. Bobby Drake is “coming out” to his parents about being a mutant when his mother poses this question, serving as both a nod […]
NEPA NERDS: ‘Daredevil’ is the superhero TV series with nothing to fear
A few weeks ago, I was going to write a column about how “The Flash” is currently the best superhero show on television, but I hesitated because “Daredevil” was set to premiere on Friday, April 10 on Netflix. By Saturday, the Man without Fear had beaten the Scarlet Speedster for that title – and Barry […]
