The kind of guy who would overthink even his own bio (because who are any of us really?), Garrett... well he exists... sort of.
After a long semi-conscious search for his place within social justice circles, especially after moving for grad school to the unceded Ho Chunk lands now known as La Crosse seven years ago. There, he learned not only a bunch of theory and academics that have much less meaning to him now than when he first arrived, he also connected with with some of the most powerful mentors, peers, and family he could ever find. He learned beyond just academics of oppression and his own shallow understandings of his own (trans, queer, neurodivergent) and other identities. He learned the messiness of holding community and conflict, what accountability and connection could look like, what it means to stand on the shoulders of giants. These days, as a grant writer at a technical college (I know, right?) exhausted beyond recognition in watching the country jump further into fascism and complacency, Googling "how to grieve a genocide," and feeling as though he both couldn't breathe and needed to carry his communities on his back, Garrett accidentally fell into a vortex of his own healing, re-finding parts of himself he long since lost and healing some of the shame of the parts he only wished he lost. In this healing, he was finally able to find what he was searching for all along; his place in the revolution. Since then he has been reflecting, learning, and curiously exploring Disability Justice, Arabic and Palestinian culture, uncolonization, and all the different factors that lead to this "accidental" discovery in hopes to be able to help others find theirs, amplifying the voices of those who got him here while also hopefully adding to their ranks to allow for true healing and rest.
When not spending every conscious moment exploring this work and his place within it, Garrett... does not have much of a life. He sits on multiple boards for queer and disability community organizations and finds joy in so many various things, including the simplicity of a good fidget or stim. He tends to be a bit of a hermit, spending time inside decompressing through YouTube, films, and television, not to mention his mot important task, hanging with his main girl (his cat, Frankie). Garret also finds joy in various other hermit and non-hermit activities, including playing games, listening to music (lately mainly Teddy Swims); karaoke; dancing; randomly breaking into song, freestyle dance, or both; trying to get other to do the same; visiting zoos and art museums, watching and learning about children's shows & edutainment (especially PB one and mot especially Sesame Street); reading; listening to Podcasts (not THOSE Podcasts!); joking or waxing poetic about how birds aren't real; and hanging with friends and talking about anything and everything, from "What is the meaning of life?" to "If we had to categorize food as either a Salad or a Sandwich?"