Miriam Suzanne

A reflection on change, desire, choice, and the stories we tell about ourselves Last week, my dad sent me a newspaper clipping from the Gary (Indiana) Post-Tribune – December 20, 1999.

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Erin talks about fainting from too much empathy before my surgery.

The Journal of Mennonite Writing asked me to submit for their queer issue.

Yesterday, I shared an article about my impending surgery, and a request for help – both social and financial – as I go through this.

Denver Health has started offering vaginoplasty in addition to their other trans medical services.

An LGBT concert of writers and composers by the Playground Ensemble, with three works by LGBT authors and the composers.

Inspired by Robin Rendle, I demonstrate some of my early experiments combining CSS Grids and custom properties to create dynamic layouts and data-visualizations.

At the family vacation in Moab, everyone is doing their best.

A reflection on the nature and value of productivity for the SuperYesMore series: The Human in the Machine.

Viewport units have been around for several years now, with near-perfect support in the major browsers, but I keep finding new and exciting ways to use them.

Cover art commissioned by Perpetual Motion Machine Christopher David Rosales and Perpetual Motion Machine commissioned me to create custom artwork for the cover of this great new book.

I wasn’t born in the wrong body.

The project attempts to humanize, educate and destroy the assumption that trans folks are solely defined by their physical experience.

It feels like CSS Grid has been coming for a long time now, but it just now seems to be reaching a point where folks are talking more and more about it and that it’s becoming something we should learning.

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The Denver Quarterly vol 51 no 2 features side-by-side excerpts from Riding SideSaddle*, and Buntport’s adaptation: 10 Myths on the Proper Application of Beauty Products.

I’m still reeling from this year of insults, a traumatizing campaign turned traumatic election.

There’s a lot of language that gets thrown around, but much of it comes loaded with over-simplified baggage and misconceptions.

It’s been a month since our country pseudo-elected a bigoted blow-hard for president.

No matter what acronym drives your selectors (BEM, OOCSS, SMACSS, ETC), loops can help keep your patterns more readable and maintainable, baking them directly into your code.

Chris Coyier interviewed me when I joined the CSS Tricks team as a Staff Writer.

Jordan and I were never close.

There are some questions that come up again and again if you are trans.

A joint tour for Teacup Gorilla’s debut album The Holes They Leave, and my debut novel Riding SideSaddle*.

Founded in 2001, The UMS is an annual three-day celebration of music featuring hundreds of bands across multiple venues.

We’re excited to be part of the single release for Species of the Stars by our good friends Open to the Hound!

A Screw Tooth installation & performance built from the prophetic 1982 science-fiction/horror movie, “Forbidden World,” filtered through the mind of an obsessive, self-proclaimed prophet.

The last demo of new material (for now): Pig Sez demo, including words from CA Conrad’s Book of Frank Hear studio recording of this track on our debut EP: The Holes They Leave Reply via Email | Mastodon | Bluesky

Another demo: this one features Daniel Rule on the second guitar & vocals.

I love this city.

I have no time to write this before I dive back into the fray.

I’m overwhelmed by all the music!

The first in a new set of demos: Demo recording of A Dark Plain, lyrics by Gil Scott Heron Hear studio recording of this track on our debut EP: The Holes They Leave Reply via Email | Mastodon | Bluesky

So many people!

An artist residency at the Media Archeology Lab, working on development of The Post-Obsolete Book.

Layer tennis is a design game made popular by Coudal Partners.

Sometimes you have a great idea for a project, or one aspect of a project, and you throw everything at it, but the idea turns out to be a dud.

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You don’t publish without editing, why would you perform without rehearsing?

It’s always useful to remember where you are in the overall creative process.

Now that you have a seed worth exploring, you are ready for step 2 of the creative process.

The editors at SpringGun Press asked me to design cover art for The Posture of Contour, a new book by James Belflower.

You can’t start working until you know what you are working towards.

Dan Eisenstat & Sondra Eby, a sketchy couple I began this portrait in the same manner as the Kitten Karlyle illustration, and quickly found that it was the wrong style for these two.

Cycles have become the core of my creative process.

Kirby Ferguson argues that the three basic techniques of remixing (copy, transform, combine) form the foundation of all creative process.

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I’ve been told that you can’t teach creativity, but I disagree.