About Waiting For Lefty

I’m Rebekah D. Mason—a Chicana storyteller, lovingly partnered performer, and later-in-life queer. I write from the body—fat, disabled, and in recovery. My stories live at the intersections of identity, advocacy, and imagination.

Waiting for Lefty is where I show up fully. It’s where my legal advocacy, creative resistance, grief, and joy find voice together.

I’ve been a legal aid lawyer, a veterans advocate, a policy director, a performer, and a playwright. I’ve danced in devised theatre labs and testified in hearings on long-term care. I’ve fought to keep people housed and held vigil for clients lost too soon. Every version of me shows up here.

This is a blog for the in-between moments. For stories too tender for LinkedIn, too holy for grant language, too layered for the courtroom.

Here, I write about: Sacred resistance and what it means to stay in broken systems while still speaking truth.

Fat, queer, and mestiza identity—and the long road to body liberation and joy, family and grief, justice and joy, recovery and return. And the holy act of storytelling as survival.

I’m inspired by the Tectonic Theater Project, Teatro Campesino, Mexodus, and the Civil Rights Movement. My work lives in the lineage of artists, elders, and organizers who believed that art is not a luxury—it’s a practice of freedom.

Thank you for reading. If something here moves you, I hope you’ll subscribe—and share it with someone who needs it.

We’re not just waiting for Lefty anymore. We’re telling our own damn stories.