Evergreen (Evie to her friends) Ippolito is a library worker, writer, and transsexual living on occupied Lenape land in Brooklyn, New York. She also blogs now.
Website handmade by August Kline, 2024
Published Work
+ The Tears of Other People: A History and Memoir of Displacement in Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Irrelevant Press 2025
Fiction
+ "Never Ever" - Imposter Review. May 2025. Four lesbian transplants watch a terror attack unfold from the gay beach in Queens.
+ "The Witch of Coös" - self-pub chapbook with illustrator Gaia Asher.July 2024. A New England gothic tale of trans revenge.
Nonfiction
+ "Portsmouth, Displacement, and Belonging in The Tears of Other People" - Public Seminar. Feb 2026. Interview with Eva Szilardi-Tierney about the settler colonial roots of contemporary urban displacement in Portsmouth, NH.
+ "There's a Word For It Now" - Transfix Magazine Issue 06. June 2025. On guilt and transmisogyny at a queer liberal arts school.
Why a blog ?
No corporate is a responsible steward of my information. Or yours! Really, I'm not sure any highly trafficked social network on the internet today has the potential to be secure or liberatory for its users.
But what about a self-hosted blog? Also not a lot of potential probably, for those things. But it can at least be fun... :^)
Maria Farrell and Robin Berjon have an essay called "We Need To Rewild The Internet" that asks,
“But what if we thought of the internet not as a doomsday 'hyperobject,' but as a damaged and struggling ecosystem facing destruction? What if we looked at it not with helpless horror at the eldritch encroachment of its current controllers, but with compassion, constructiveness and hope?”
Can the ecosystem be saved? Maybe not. Should we move all our communications to ham radio? Maybe. Until then, I'd like for this site to act as a tiny little conservation project in my backyard. Maybe someday, if we're lucky, we'll see the self-hosted site overtake the social media profile again.
If you manage your own blog site, Wordpress, NeoCities, etc, shoot me an email about it and let me see!!!!