Writing

Ukiyo-e-style illustration of 鏡開き: a wooden mallet cracks a large round mochi set on a decorated wooden stand, with a bowl of sweet red-bean soup and mochi beside it.

Cutting the Mochi/鏡開き

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japanese

Osaka at New Year, a block of stone-hard mochi, and the task a father left for an American hand to cut.

Jul 9, 2026
Bo Laurent
 

CAH-X Syndrome: Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome

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intersex

Mutations of CYP21A2 can cause both CAH and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome

Jul 1, 2026
Vertex Pride Menu. Five specialty drinks, each named after an LGBTQ+ historical figure, including Bo Laurent.

Ann Arbor’s Vertex Cafe Pride Menu

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intersex

Vertex Pride Menu. Five specialty drinks, each named after an LGBTQ+ historical figure, including Bo Laurent

Jul 1, 2026

Hunter Lane Grazing Coop awarded Gold Ridge Conservation District mini-grant

grazing

Gold Ridge RCD awarded us a mini-grant for materials to promote growth and sustainability of our grazing project

Jun 29, 2026
Kanae Nagasawa as a boy c. 1865

Nagasawa Kanae: A Sonoma Valley Life Shaped by a Global Turning Point

japanese

Nagasawa Kanae (1852-1934) was born a samurai but spent nearly his entire adult life in Santa Rosa

Jun 27, 2026
 

Affronting Reason

intersex

My first published article on intersex

Jun 27, 2026
page 3 of The Sciences V 33 (1993)

The Sciences/Letters from Readers re: The Five Sexes

intersex

first public debug of the Intersex Society of North America

Jun 27, 2026
disfigured rudolph the red-nosed reindeer

Hermaphrodites with Attitude debut issue

intersex

The first newsletter I issued

Jun 27, 2026
A padlock sprung open, pages breaking free

Access Journal Articles and Theses Without an Academic Affiliation

writing

How to access academic journals without academic affiliation

Jun 23, 2026
Bo Laurent
traditional Japanese fukurotoji binding

Four Hands: Historical notes

japanese
writing
Idle Chatter at the Beef Shop

I wrote a meditation on studying the kuzushiji text of 牛屋雑談. These are the citations that support the historical facts in that essay.

Jun 20, 2026
Bo Laurent

Four Hands: Between us, a whole reader

japanese
writing
Idle Chatter at the Beef Shop

The year Tokyo discovered beef, in a bestseller almost no one can read now. Two friends decode it across an ocean.

Jun 18, 2026
Bo Laurent

風流てらこ 吉書はじめ けいこの図

japanese
komonjo

Edo commoners practicing writing in a terako

Jun 18, 2026

Secret of Me doc featured on American Airlines

intersex

American Airlines in flight entertainment shows Secret of Me documentary

Jun 18, 2026
For Chris North, being born intersex in the 1940s meant his many childhood hospital visits, tests and operations were not explained or discussed. As he reveals, doctors encouraged strict secrecy.

Chris North: Coming home to myself

intersex

Wellcome Trust has published some wonderful graphic stories by Chris North about his life as an intersex man

Jun 18, 2026

牛屋雑談

Learning to read くずし字 (kuzushiji)

japanese
komonjo

Sharing my process of learning to read old Japanese

Jun 17, 2026

Emi Koyama at ISNA — her legacy

Emi passed away in June 2026
intersex

Emi Koyama was one of the movement’s most distinctive voices. A remembrance of her work and what she meant to intersex advocacy.

Jun 15, 2026

Print a Ukiyo-e at FedEx

japanese
ukiyo-e
printing
digital humanities

How to Find, Prepare, and Print a Ukiyo-e at FedEx

Jun 5, 2026
Press Democrat article

Press Democrat features grazing on front page

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grazing

Local paper features coverage of grazing for wildfire risk mitigation

May 6, 2026
CBS News sheep power

Hunter Lane Grazing Coop makes national tv news

grazing

Our neighborhood grazing coop, in your living room nationwide

May 6, 2026
Bo Laurent
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