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Welcome to Jibber-Jabber with Jodi.
This is a place for curiosity, storytelling, fandom, culture, and the ordinary moments that become something more. If you are new here, these essays are a good introduction to what JJwJ is and where the jibber-jabber might take us.
If you want to meet Jodi
Start with More Than One Thing, an essay about identity, expectations, and refusing to fit an entire life into one convenient description.
Then read I Have Questions, which may be the closest thing this publication has to a mission statement.
If Star Trek brought you here
Read Star Trek Is Still an Audacious Idea, a reflection on the future Star Trek asks us to imagine and the work required to build it.
Then visit I Thought I Was Going to a Star Trek Convention, a story about fandom, friendship, belonging, and finding community in the place you hoped it might be.
If life has not followed the original plan
Try The Path I Almost Didn’t Choose, The Future I Couldn’t Imagine, or I Thought I’d Have This Figured Out By Now.
These are stories about changing direction, becoming more than one thing, and discovering that uncertainty does not always mean you are lost.
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There is no required reading order. Pick the question, title, or story that catches your attention and begin there.
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