My hands are small but they’re stretched wide
Like a spider’s net and
They’re trembling like tissue paper
So I don’t notice your stares
No, you can’t know what’s wrong with me
It would take years to explain and honestly
I feel way too old
To compromise.
I could use the word atrophy
But that’s such a vague word
For such an old friend.
For now, why [...]
WordPress & I are having some serious problems: For some reason, my home laptop will not allow me to access the page neccessary to write a new post. I’ve tried everything. Yet for some reason, WordPress is persistantly denying me the ability to post.
It’s only WordPress I’m having a problem with. I can access any [...]
If you aren’t already a regular reader of the blog Sweet Perdition, I urge you to go read Tera’s latest entry, No Words. It’s a courageous piece that reminds us the face of abuse is far from one-dimensional.
It’s My Favorites Monday, and I’d like to highlight: Queer Zine Lit.
What It Offers:
Manifestos - soap box talk from free form expression to essays
Free Verse
News Headlines
Message Board
Artwork
Links & Resources - on LGBT issues, fat acceptance movement, sexual freedom, racial diversity, and disability
What It’s Like:
“Identities are multiple. Identities are complex. And while we often are asked [...]
Today is my birthday, and I consider it a wonderful present that I recently won the Excellent Blog Award from lastcrazyhorn over at Odd One Out.
In the tradition of the award (originally started by Shannon at the Mommy Project), I now must pick ten others to bestow it upon. However, I’m going to bend the [...]
This post is a continuation of the same theme found in my poem, A Piece of Fruit. I wrote it in honor of April being Sexual Assault Awareness month.
I used to think rape was about desire.
I know better now.
I know better now because as a queer crip my body has never been the subject of [...]
Don’t
Push the button, you tell me
I look down at its red surface:
dial-a-nurse
I listen, but I want
to keep pushing - keep pushing! -
Until someone realizes the state we’re in
“Another girl came in, her girlfriend sat beside her -”
says the nurse, talking, - talking -
We are so quiet
I nod but wonder - girl friend or girlfriend?
You look [...]
The assaults.
Assault? What assault?
My brain asks.
It just keeps repeating the word:
Assault assault assault assault assault all the way into the distance.
My throat hurts. My chest hurts.
The gigantic weight of what I have to say
Feels awkward in my throat,
Like I swallowed a piece of fruit -
I am choking.
I have choked before,
And it was in some ways [...]
I’ve been having a few problems with WordPress…among them being it’s tendency to publish drafts without the addition of any editing done after the save…it did this earlier and I had to delete the post… Publishing from a computer other than my laptop, I don’t seem to have these problems…
Anyway… a quick post to focus [...]
I’m mimicking lastcrazyhorn here, and posting the ABC descriptor song regarding myself. This little post should bring some positivity to my blog while I round out the week:
A - Artistic
B - Benign
C - Curious/Creative
D - Defiant/ Diligent
E - Exquisitely simple
F - Friendly
G - Genuine
H - Hopeful
I - Intelligent
J - Joyous
K - Kind
L - Loving
M [...]
