Ari Drennen
@aridrennen
Journalist, poet, songwriter. Optimistic transsexual. Work featured in the New York Times, Pink Balloons (2024), and Heightened Scrutiny (2025).
Make yourself the center of your own gravity, and everything you need will flow to you.
This week for the first time an anti-trans amendment failed in Congress with Republican defections open.substack.com/pub/aridrenn...
The way I'm yearning to see The Odyssey (2026) again open.substack.com/pub/aridrenn...
Come for the retelling of one of The classic epics, stay for the audacious historical theory about the origins of The Sea Peoples
If you kiss me will it be just like I dreamed it? Will it patch your broken wings?
one of the things I like best about makeup is how I feel when it comes off at the end of the night and I discover once again that there is beauty beneath the mask.
such a bummer that I already got a tramp stamp because this would be an incredible one
Every problem can be solved with another half syringe of Juvederm Ultra Plus XC
Seattle cancelling a light rail line to one of its busiest neighborhoods for budget reasons instead of taking measures to increase revenue like installing fare gates is genuinely infuriating
A 19-year-old trans woman was killed in UW student housing Sunday night. Police are still searching for the suspect. She was the seventh trans woman reporter attacked in the Seattle area in twenty months, but the first to die. tinyurl.com/4kxerszd
Sold out show at the SIFF world premiere of @miamoore.bsky.social’s tender, touching, beautifully lit “Again Again”! So unbelievably proud of and inspired by her for turning pandemic-era viral shitposts into such heartfelt art. 💕