"A born writer… she’s also a synesthete, whose mixed-up senses serve as a gateway to multiple creative mediums." – Westword
Here's what happens when it's your ninth birthday and your mom works at Meow Wolf. I'm not a Meow Wolf artist; I do public relations for them. I only mention my job because the artists and the surreal, otherworldy immersive environments at Meow Wolf inspire me every day. In fact, I was particularly inspired by … Continue reading I Painted a Galaxy Room for my Nine-Year-Old Son’s Birthday
I'm so excited to be on the Herizon Music podcast with Thea Wood. She's a bad ass and asked all the right questions to get me talking about things that are important to me. I'll include her wonderful show description below. Herizon Music: The Podcast features interviews with trailblazers and rising stars in the music … Continue reading A Riot Grrrl’s Fury Painted BlacK: Podcast Interview on Herizon Music
It's Halloween 2020, and your'e escaping pandemic lockdown for the first time to party in a ghost town with your friends. Super blue full moon. Someone will get laid tonight, and someone will die. This is Life and Death on Halloween, a personal essay I wrote that was published in The Razor, a literary magazine … Continue reading The Razor: Life and Death on Halloween
In non-monogamy, a metamour is your partner's partner. This is one of the most rare and unique relationships and deserves its own ode. Pick up the Spring 2021 issue of BUST to see my explainer on how to cultivate the exact relationship you want with your metamour.
Today is the day to announce my book deal with UNIVERSITY OF HELL! I'm really proud of the announcement video. It was filmed at an undisclosed location in Denver where two very kind souls allowed me to smash things on their property, in a swimsuit, in the cold and snow. We learned the hard way … Continue reading Glory Guitars: Memoir of a `90s Teenage Punk Rock Grrrl to be released by University of Hell
I don't want to curse her. I don't want to fight her. I just want to eat Ikea meatballs with my metamour, because she rules. Here's a love letter that I wrote to my love's love for Men's Health. Releasing this into the world wasn't easy; in fact, it led to a massive coming-out moment … Continue reading Men’s Health: My Husband Has A Girlfriend…and I Love Her
"I wonder if everyone has a tragic doppelgänger story," poet G.M. Palmer* said in reaction to my recent essay. "I know I do." He proceeded to tell me a tale that echoed my experience of the surreal, then tragic feeling of finding and tragically losing a real life double. It thrilled me to think I … Continue reading Monologging: My Tragic Doppelgänger Story
I'm a lover. I love meeting new people, and I love exchanging a passionate discourse. Whenever I meet a kindly new stranger, it's so exciting to me that I feel this burning desire to share the love with my platform. That's why I'm sharing with you today, dear readers. God yes, John. I wanna. Roses … Continue reading From the Mailbag!
When Tyler Jacobson and Michael Trundle first met at Paris on the Platte, Denver's goth cafe, they spent hours exalting music and ridiculing the world around them. It only made sense that they would become DJs and that their first project together, Lipgloss, was a vibrant misfit in the Denver club scene. Naming it after … Continue reading Indie As Fuck – How an Unconventional Club Night Called Lipgloss Became America’s Longest Running Underground Dance Party
After throwing a virtual birthday party on Zoom, I wrote about weird ways to stay virtually connected in this strange new world for OK Whatever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKKONgfNONU All I wanna do is a Zoom Zoom Zoom Read About Physically-Distanced Connecting
Erin K. Barnes 