jenparkhillJan 25A New Year's Resolution. A new year’s resolution: This year I would like to be the person who helps the laundry make its way back into the drawers. And I’d like...
jenparkhillJun 29, 2021Autonomy and Find-You-Later-Love. “I’m living my best bachelor life,” I say. In minutes,“hey Jen, you wanna kiss me, Jen?” We’re kissing in the street. Night. Warm air....
jenparkhillJun 29, 2021I Kicked the Can that Spilled the Trust.I was programmed from birth, that my worth need be validated by men. 2 years into my life as an out queer person, while navigating a long...
jenparkhillJun 29, 2021All I Really Wanna Know is Who Can Love Me in the Dark.I looked this way throughout most of 2020 and well into 2021. Hair in a knot, a haphazard combination of clothing, always involving a...
jenparkhillNov 13, 2020Noticing(s)Lately I’m finding that we heal one another the most in the smallest actions, the little noticing(s) — It’s not the big overtures of love...
jenparkhillNov 3, 2020Handwritten Letters Have a Heartbeat (Why I love the USPS and the value in making our love felt when hugs are not available and text is not our only option) The way we...
jenparkhillOct 17, 2020Titties.I love my tiny titties. There was a time I padded my bra, wore push ups and cutlets and googled breast alteration surgery late at night...
jenparkhillOct 16, 2020Soft.What is not pictured here: me in process - healing my relationship to my human shell, reclaiming my feminine energy, finding love for the...
jenparkhillOct 11, 2020"Coming Out"This week, the good people of Clit Talk release an episode of their pleasure positive podcast in honor of National Coming Out Day,...
jenparkhillApr 18, 2020CRYING WOLF X Help Ease the Number of Adverse Childhood Experiences During the Covid-19 PandemicAs a survivor of traumatic childhood events, the livelihood of children for whom home is not a safe place and who are feeling the...
jenparkhillApr 9, 2020CRYING WOLF: Film Release April 19th, 2020cryingwolffilm.com @cryingwolf_film April 19th 2020 via the film's website and Vimeo Hello, Like many of you, I find myself in quarantine...
jenparkhillApr 1, 2020We weren't built for this.Spring in India. I find myself in the very back of a van with the windows down in the heat as we make the six hour drive, up up up, into...
jenparkhillMar 29, 2020#HALFTHESTORYI have kept my depression a secret from my loved ones, keeping the mask of togetherness intact, busying myself with “work” during my most...
jenparkhillSep 24, 2018Bus 7.27.18My father’s father - my grandfather - “Dandad”- my grandmother’s husband, my great grandfather’s son - “Bus”. He stands in the kitchen of...
jenparkhillSep 24, 2018In Transit 5.27.15It will be 9 hours before I touch down in London. From there I will carry on to Frankfurt, and finally Florence, where I will be...
jenparkhillSep 24, 2018Leaving Monterosso 6.16.14The first car smells of feet and the air doesn’t move. The next has air conditioning and smells like a hospital. I go in search of a...
jenparkhillSep 24, 2018Vernazza 6.15.14The morning is misty and calm and we are the only people on the trail. Omri and I idle a while taking pictures. We listen to music and...
jenparkhillSep 24, 2018Corniglia 6.14.14We wake in Manarola around 9am. We shower and pack our things and head downstairs to check out of the hostel. We are reluctant to leave...
jenparkhillSep 24, 2018Manarola 6.13.14Back back back to Cinque Terre. The train couldn’t have moved fast enough. How silly to be escaping one of the most beautiful romantic...
jenparkhillSep 24, 2018A Secret 6.13.14The seven of us return from Cinque Terre with enchantment percolating in us. A tribe has emerged. In class our teacher Jonathan asks us...