queerness
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Transitions #4
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. – Plato, Phaedo Apophasis. The cis soul denies, moves-away-from the dawn that beckons in the dark night. The problem they face is an allic problem: because they witness themselves as standard, they can’t recognize themselves as a one-in-many / many-in-one. The cis soul is… Continue reading
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What is a Woman?
On ne naît pas femme: on le devient. – Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex This is an adaptation of a writing from a Queer Memoir class. Parts of this text have incorporated elsewhere on this site. To Matt Walsh. I: The Bio-Survival Circuit Activates at birth. Either/Or. Nurturing/Noxious. Trust/Suspicion. The body is a woman.… Continue reading
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Transitions #3
“Hope” is the thing with feathers —That perches in the soul —And sings the tune without the words —And never stops — at all —Emily Dickinson, Poem no. 254 We world, us dwellers. Incarnate wisdom, the accumulation of nature buzzing restless in our bones. I en-habit. Think back: the I. The indexical points, it describes… Continue reading
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The Begotten One
If you want to be complete, go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor. Then you will have treasure in heaven. And come follow me. – Jesus, Matthew 19.21 (CEB) The pipes are frozen and the shelters are full as we gather in a squat to help deliver God into the… Continue reading
Fish In the Afternoon 