Mr. Business Man
Good morning John. I mean. You. Good morning, YOU!
It's Monday.
And it is my one-week anniversary as the Development Manager at Complexly, the company that makes SciShow, CrashCourse, SciShow Tangents, Journey to the Microcosmos, Dear Hank & John, PBS Eons... well, generally, a lot of well-researched and entertaining educational content.
If you aren't familiar with Hank Green and John Green, they're a little bit like Bill Nye and Judy Blume if they were millennial brothers. Together, they founded Complexly in 2012. Hank was the CEO until last year, when he went through (successful) cancer treatment and started like 10 more companies.
And now, I work there! My job is "Development Manager," which means I'm in charge of the crowdfunding part of their income and community. I'm doing this remotely from Los Angeles.
I'll be honest, when I saw my friend Fraize post this job, I couldn't believe that it existed — crowdfunding is one of my only marketable skills, and I love Complexly so much. They are even working to create a way you can get College Credit for cheap/free by watching YouTube videos. It's a company based on impact, not income. And everybody is very nice!
If you've been following my life recently, you know that I lost my marriage, apartment, and main source of income during the pandemic. I've been so, so lucky to have such a supportive group of people helping me get up on my feet. Y'all made it possible for me to make it through a few hard years while still making art! And not just art - but theater - which is famously not lucrative, even a little bit.
I'm happy now to be on the other side, looking forward to paying off my debts (oops) and feeling a little less terrified all the time. I have been doing consulting on my own to pay bills, but I'm real excited to not need to charge artists for my time anymore.
Stability in a job (without selling out my values!!!) feels like magic to me. So much that I barely even want to say it out loud in case it goes away.
So far, I'm very excited that the job is staying within its working hours, and I have also been able to keep working on some fun creative projects - writing songs, meeting with theaters who want to produce my musicals, and working on my (yet unreleased) gender podcast "Not Real Men."
We also did the first Doubleclicks show in almost four years at Wabash College in Indianapolis... and it was recorded!
Happy happy, I hope you enjoy that. It's my new voice at a Doubleclicks show!
And a reminder - I have a show coming up in Portland!
PORTLAND: my solo show about transgender men through history (and my own life) - is coming to Portland on March 7! I'll be performing it at 11:30 at the Lewis & Clark Gender Studies Symposium (free!), and also - of interest to humans with jobs - at Siren Theater on Mississippi Ave that night. Why not invite a friend? HUH? Why not?
TICKETS to Portland EVENING SHOW
INFO about Gender Studies Symposium
xoxoxoxoxoxo
Laser
PS: thank you to everybody who replied to my email last time! I may not be able to reply to everyone but I truly love reading what's up with you!