Karen LeonardBirthday BluesI got me some birthday blues. Blues like sorrow. Blues like swimming pool. Blues like not swimming in a pool. Blues like drowning. Blues…·2 min read·Mar 3, 2023----
Karen LeonardI Wish For Us ChoiceI’ve sat down to write this many times in the last almost two years. The night I stood in the cold outside the Supreme Court Building and…·5 min read·May 4, 2022--1--1
Karen LeonardTodayCall us miracle and precious. And yesterday, today, and tomorrow. There was an existence outside of occupation dependent on white supremacy·4 min read·Feb 7, 2022----
Karen LeonardA Case for Renaming OurselvesI would wager to say that our aliveness, if I can call it that, is not altered by our naming, but confirmed.·5 min read·Nov 5, 2021--4--4
Karen LeonardThe Mundane Motions of Preventable Platonic Breakup After I Share How Queer I AmShe asked who I lost and I said you. I said something. I said I didn’t know. I lied and said nothing. Which name would you like me to…·6 min read·Jul 27, 2021----
Karen LeonardI Wrote My Own Eulogy In Case They Kill Me TooThere is not enough time in the day to write all of the eulogies that need to be written. But at least let me write my own in preparation.·6 min read·Apr 19, 2021--4--4
Karen LeonardWhen They Call Us Dead Before We Die and We Call Them MonstersAs surely as they pay a price for dehumanizing us in the process of marginalization, I will learn from their mistakes and call them by…·2 min read·Mar 19, 2021----
Karen LeonardI’m Gonna Stay Right Here In This BecomingI had another voice before this. I believe it to be true. Somewhere in some womb, forever unknown to me, I heard a mother-tongue calling…·3 min read·Feb 24, 2021----
Karen LeonardThis is the HeartbreakIf I wrote the piece I am scared to write it would go something like this:·5 min read·Jan 8, 2021--4--4