Patti Savard- Guest Blogger In a bar not known for its queer-friendly energy, a man in a ballcap pulled me aside after my set. “You were funny, girl... and you had me fooled.” It wasn’t an insult. There was no hesitation in his voice. Just a...
In corporate culture, we talk a lot about authenticity. We fill keynote stages and workshop slides with buzzwords like “diversity,” “belonging,” and “inclusive leadership.” But too often, these words stay at the surface — intellectual concepts, rather than embodied...
There’s a narrative we’re fed from a young age: that life is about becoming. Becoming successful. Becoming respectable. Becoming someone the world will accept. But no one told me that in chasing all that becoming, I might lose myself entirely. As a non-binary person...
There’s a myth we’re taught early on—that becoming who we’re meant to be is a process of adding: adding accolades, identities, achievements, labels. But for me, it was never about adding. It was about taking away. It is about unbecoming. I didn’t always have the words...
