A Positive Sense of a New Political Order OR Gifts from the Future

Ya’ll, things have not at all been themselves since last I wrote which is a consequence of [so many things and] the current administration doing exactly what they said they would do and my having to live through the world coming to terms with the turbulent soup of predictions of our worst nightmares coming true.Continue reading “A Positive Sense of a New Political Order OR Gifts from the Future”

This Machine Kills Fascists

I lost my uterus in the war against the oppressors. Thanks uterus, our fallen comrade, your memory will live on in the actions of these humans that you grew. The righteous labor of gestating them to term, plus the endometriosis ablating and the de-cancer cervix hole-punching, it was too much for you. By the end,Continue reading “This Machine Kills Fascists”

Impermanence, OR how to act when the future isn’t coming

Reading [listening to] Terry Tempest Williams’s essay collection Erosion: Essays of Undoing while building my retaining wall [and maybe doubling down on irony]. It is a transcript of a conversation between herself and Tim deChristopher before his 2011 sentencing after being found guilty of violations of the Federal Onshore Oil and Gas Leasing Reform Act.Continue reading “Impermanence, OR how to act when the future isn’t coming”