Yellow Springs News Blogs Section

• Ask a transperson | Reaching out

  By Iden CrockettDecember 30, 2024

  

  The tone of debate in our country seems to lean ever further toward pettiness and argument. It is more  important than ever that we continue to lean in the opposite  direction and facilitate open, honest and respectful conversation.

• Ask a transperson | What’s the deal with drag?

  By Iden CrockettApril 27, 2023

  

  In the third installment of “Ask a Transperson,” YS News columnist Iden Crockett answers: “Are drag shows supposed to be funny? At whose expense?”

• Ask a Transperson | Adjusting to transition

  By Iden CrockettApril 20, 2023

  

  In this second entry of News columnist Iden Crockett’s “Ask a Transperson” blog, Crockett answers several questions on her experience with the physical and emotional adjustments related to gender transition, including surgery, hormone replacement therapy, sex and physical intimacy and effects on family members.

• Ask a Transperson | Considering the non-binary

  By Iden CrockettApril 13, 2023

  

  This is the inaugural entry of “Ask a Transperson,” a temporary blog by News columnist Iden Crockett intended as a “space dedicated to answering your questions” about what it means to be trans — from Crockett’s perspective. In this entry, Crockett answers: “Can you explain the variations of meaning for the term non-binary?”

• COLUMN: Into the thicket

  By Cheryl DurgansAugust 28, 2020

  

  A briar patch is a “thicket formed by any number of unrelated thorny parts.” The briar patch figures prominently in the escape route of “Brer Rabbit,” the trickster figure in African American folktales in the mid-1800s.

• BLOG— Our paper

  By Audrey HackettApril 10, 2018

  

  Almost 20 years later, I landed another job at another community paper. This one was in Yellow Springs, Ohio — perhaps you’ve heard of it — and the paper was well over 100 years old, with Quaker roots.

• BLOG — A funny old dog

  By Lauren ShowsMarch 28, 2018

  

  Lauren “Chuck” Shows writes about a favorite children’s book — and what it means to belong to yourself.

• BLOG-The Calypso Grill Opens

  By Amy MagnusMarch 25, 2018

  

  The irony of this new fallen snow is that it landed on the opening day of a Caribbean experience…The Calypso Grill.

• BLOG— New light that is also old light

  By Audrey HackettMarch 13, 2018

  

  The moon this morning is a golden horn. To the south and west, the planets are shining — Jupiter, Venus. Yesterday at the same morning hour the moon was a creamy horn, caught, like an animal in a thicket, in a mesh of trees.

• Of cabbages and kings

  By Lauren ShowsMarch 12, 2018

  

  Lauren “Chuck” Shows writes briefly about cabbage soup and American attitudes toward food assistance.