Waving from the stacks, tunnels, and 28th floor.
Taking a quick bio break to reintroduce myself.
Hello, Sunday.
I’m knee-deep in a longer piece on respectability politics, the tension between reactionary and strategic political response, and libraries. It’s quite a brain teaser. And not ready for prime time.
But! Last week, I promised details from the Library of Congress’ tunnels. Here’s a fun little detail I discovered while walking through the quiet hallways last Saturday. What a delight to see a bit of whimsy in the gut of the world’s largest library.
While I’m here, a bit of personal news: I transitioned back to full-time work this week, joining the LinkedIn News team as their first Editor at Large, Editorial Design. It will take some adjusting my body and brain, both to the schedule and to the platform’s reach. LinkedIn has an almost unfathomable 1B members in 200 countries. No pressure.
I am so grateful to all of you for reading my writing, subscribing, and encouraging me to keep going. As a refresher for what this is all about and a deeper introduction for the vast majority of you who are new to me and
, here are two older essays that feature the central themes of this newsletter: transmasc storytelling, fatherhood, and creativity.xx037 • Draw confidence
New Year’s Day, 2023. Brisk winter weather, but warm enough that my daughter and I cycled our ebike the nine-plus miles up from Brooklyn to Central Park, and after watching the first glorious sunset of the year over The Great Lawn, eventually pedaled ourselves home.
xx033 • Provincetown
Writing to you from back home in Brooklyn after my single dad summer vacation— minus my actual child. (Don’t feel bad for her, she had two upstate trips bookending her first week of summer camp.) I started my adventures with a years-overdue return to Provincetown with my chosen family of gay men, their dogs, and gaggles of shirtless muscles. Then after an epic day of travel from Massachusetts to Mississippi, I spent the rest of the week in the Deep South visiting with another branch of my chosen family: two moms, their two kids, and their large extended southern family.
See you next week,
xx Kyle
