Just a housewife with cats

lgbtq+ \ journalist \ advocate \ chicago lesbian \ feminist\ she\her 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🦄 Windy City Times cofounder 1985 \ author Skeets my own.

Journaling poetry and songs, singing, playing guitar, exploring creative writing in sci-fi horizons…keeps me busy!

OG Punk rocker decaying into the new fascism .

Author of "Amazing Grace" (33 1/3; Bloomsbury), "Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power" (University of Chicago Press) and co-author of Ramsey Lewis' memoir, "Gentleman Of Jazz: A Life In Music" (Blackstone)

Singer/harmonica player with the James Dean Joint Freelance writer with the Reader, Chicago, Streetsblog and other publications Host of "Hoodoo Party" on WLUW-FM

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