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A funny thing about getting divorced is that you're allowed to change back to your pre-married name for free, but you have to go through a whole (expensive) process to change it to anything else. I had lots of reasons for taking my then-husband's surname when I was 22... read more

This is a write-up of a talk I gave at CESTA on January 29, 2026, with an epilogue covering the last few weeks. The talk wasn't recorded, and since I wrote this up later, it's less off-the-cuff and probably a bit better than the original... read more

(Tomorrow is 321 Plays for Trans Futures [https://morrism.notion.site/321-Plays-for-Trans-Futures-24b729614ded80888158f5061b3ca065], an "an 11-hour performance art show honoring the work of trans, non-binary... read more

A funny thing about academic life, and perhaps digital humanities in particular, is that you end up building solid friendships with people you've spent very little time with, physically in the same room... read more

I hadn't thought much of it, but there's a good reason the inflatable frogs were most often nocturnal, and found in northern climes: the iconic Portland Frog suit is hot. The zipper is in the back -- making it hard to pop out for a few seconds of fresh air -- and the only way to see is through a thick rectangle of transparent plastic that quickly fogs up with condensation... read more

A year ago this month, I went to look at an apartment. A ground-level unit in a big house, with the landlords living on the second floor, one of their adult children on the third, and two more adult children in the back... read more

Through all my years in the educational system, nothing has become so deeply embedded in my brain as the 5th grade music curriculum that involved watching Les Misérables. It made an immediate impression... read more

The following is the text I formally submitted to the US Copyright Office as part of a comment on the 2024 proposed expansion to the DMCA exemption for text and data mining. The expansion was granted, ... read more

For his 9th birthday, I took my middle kid and theater buddy to see Hamilton in San Francisco. I've listened through it hundreds of times, and watched the recorded performance several more, but seeing it in person is always different... read more

There is a story that comes before every story. I went back to Rebecca Munson's blog looking for mine. I wrote about Rebecca for the Data-Sitters Club [https://datasittersclub.github.io/site/dsc13.html#rebecca-munson]... read more