Today was the kids’ first day back, and boy did things go differently! I’ve been a school cleaner for 16 years, and, interestingly, I’ve never before had less to do than I do right now. Thi...
https://janitorqueer.com/2020/09/10/what-cleaning-looks-like-at-school-during-covid-19/
This has been the longest stretch of not posting since I started this blog – something that would have freaked me out not too long ago, but so many things have changed lately, it feels like som...
The bathrooms (all except for two) at the school I work at are getting a complete makeover this summer! (This is only a part of the remodeling / demolition that’s been going on – it’s bee...
WordPress sent me a notification today letting me know that it’s my 5th anniversary of blogging here. So I’m scrambling to do a celebratory post! When I started this blog, I was trying sooo...
https://janitorqueer.com/2018/07/17/5-years-of-writing-here/
I haven’t written one of these since 2014! That’s way too long! My spouse and I just watched Another Earth for the second time, and I had forgotten that the protagonist, Rhoda, is a high...
https://janitorqueer.com/2018/04/23/janitors-in-pop-culture-4/
Within a week of me coming out at work, a new protocol had been put in place for how we should go about cleaning bathrooms. And for the first time, it applied to all cleaners in all bathrooms, ...
https://janitorqueer.com/2018/02/20/bathroom-anxieties-a-genderqueer-janitors-perspective-pt-2/
At the school I work at, there are two main sections to be cleaned – upstairs and downstairs. For the vast majority of my time there, I’ve always cleaned the downstairs. The water fountai...
https://janitorqueer.com/2017/09/12/im-doing-something-i-dreaded-and-its-not-so-bad/
My co-worker’s last day was yesterday. He is moving on to work security at one of the middle schools. Some people have a lot of co-workers; I really only have just one. I have a superviso...
https://janitorqueer.com/2017/03/25/saying-goodbye-to-my-co-worker-ally/
Last month, I wrote about coming out at work, and I left a few loose ends that I want to circle back to. Real quick first though, I wanna acknowledge this blogging milestone! It’s been 3 y...
https://janitorqueer.com/2017/01/29/200th-post-i-came-out-at-work-contd/
This has been my biggest transition goal. For a long time. I always knew I would / could, at some point in the (distant) future, but usually it felt like there’d be no way. I’ve been ri...