The Way of the Range.
“Why do you always wear black?” “I’m in mourning for my life.” —Masha The Seagull To be alive is to mourn. Beds where we once rested our...
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jenparkhill
- Sep 4
On A Wednesday.
On a Wednesday morning, I’m cleaning an Airbnb for cash. Texas is hot. Severe heat warnings hot. Film work is slow. The thought of a 12...
jenparkhill
- Jun 20
We have to get on the floor.
“We have to get on the floor.” I said, “When this song comes on, we have to stop what we’re doing and get on the floor.” It was...
jenparkhill
- Jan 25
A 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...
jenparkhill
- Jun 29, 2021
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....
jenparkhill
- Jun 29, 2021
I 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...
jenparkhill
- Jun 29, 2021
All 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...
jenparkhill
- Nov 13, 2020
Noticing(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...
jenparkhill
- Nov 3, 2020
Handwritten 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...
jenparkhill
- Oct 17, 2020
Titties.
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...
jenparkhill
- Oct 16, 2020
Soft.
What is not pictured here: me in process - healing my relationship to my human shell, reclaiming my feminine energy, finding love for the...
jenparkhill
- Oct 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,...
jenparkhill
- Apr 18, 2020
CRYING WOLF X Help Ease the Number of Adverse Childhood Experiences During the Covid-19 Pandemic
As a survivor of traumatic childhood events, the livelihood of children for whom home is not a safe place and who are feeling the...
jenparkhill
- Apr 9, 2020
CRYING WOLF: Film Release April 19th, 2020
cryingwolffilm.com @cryingwolf_film April 19th 2020 via the film's website and Vimeo Hello, Like many of you, I find myself in quarantine...
jenparkhill
- Apr 1, 2020
We 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...
jenparkhill
- Mar 29, 2020
#HALFTHESTORY
I have kept my depression a secret from my loved ones, keeping the mask of togetherness intact, busying myself with “work” during my most...
jenparkhill
- Sep 24, 2018
Bus 7.27.18
My father’s father - my grandfather - “Dandad”- my grandmother’s husband, my great grandfather’s son - “Bus”. He stands in the kitchen of...
jenparkhill
- Sep 24, 2018
In Transit 5.27.15
It 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...
jenparkhill
- Sep 24, 2018
Leaving Monterosso 6.16.14
The 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...
jenparkhill
- Sep 24, 2018
Vernazza 6.15.14
The 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...