what is that about, going out / and not having to explain
On Trans Day of Remembrance, mourning more murdered queer people. Over and over again. Attribution: what is that about, going out and not having to explain...
And yes, I have at times wished myself something different.
Seek to be useful in a crisis. Care about outcomes and consequences. Understand they are never evenly distributed. Let go of the conviction of intent. Do the...
the black sky rushed at us / like we were falling upwards
If you work in / around media and technology and/or care about electoral integrity but not in a “Stop the steal” way, you’re likely dealing with variations...
Some think / nothing is so / until it has been witnessed.
A list (of services that if you run a company or provide grants you should fund for your employees, especially if those employees work in media, and of best...
I want to roar but their ears / can never attune to my voice.
If I were asked to choose a favourite festival, and that festival could belong to a religion that is not mine, then I would immediately volunteer Divali. A...
Watch them seethe when stimulated
Somewhere, in the Discourse about Ye and Elon, is a forgetting. Subject / object collision and conflict, media mediated. We (that media we) show ourselves...
foolishly imagines / she has the right to exist.
We can look everywhere, even if we don’t want to, and everywhere we can look there is despair. And every where, every day, people keep going. The fight goes...
How much have I dared in opposition?
Stole away to Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge, a middle of the day matinee. One of those times when I could also recite large chunks of the source...
We give because someone gave to us. / We give because nobody gave to us.
What do you want remains a cruel question. But I suppose if I had to answer, and if I had to answer truly, I would say: time. Time that is mine. Time that...
Is there aught you need that my hands withhold, / Rich gifts of raiment or grain or gold?
I like seasons, perhaps because where I grew up there only two (rainy, dry) and other than the ongoing prospect of tropical storms or hurricanes that mostly...
then meaning came with its invincible glare
Sometimes I think about the parallels between “someone is wrong on the internet” and “the very serious function of racism”, which is of course distraction....
sun rises / like rent / sun rises / like a flag / sun rises / like the ocean
It is not like you remember it, they say. It is even darker than you recall. So instead you get snippets and shapes and songs and scenes, things that you...
The oldest among us will recognize that glow
Very very early in the pandemic, I started saying - in written memos and out-loud on Zooms - that it would be inaccurate to describe the adjustments of 2020...
divisions grow stronger. / That’s what “chosen” and “unchosen” will do.
Tried roller skating this weekend. Made it roughly (barely) halfway out of the locker room before practically (actually) falling over. So then I took the...
When disaster comes, some of us will stand on / the rooftop to address the ghosts.
On a plane leaving Las Vegas, where the temperature hit 41 degrees Celsius, or just about 106 F. Thinking about why people live there, about why I enjoyed...
The Destiny of Earthseed / Is to take root among the stars.
onward, to the stars
my family drowns again / on a microphone for strangers
36 degrees celsius. 102 degrees fahrenheit. These don’t feel like real temperatures, until you’re outside and walking around. And I’m just walking around....
We will be as falling stars to those watching from the edge
How hot does it have to be before it's a climate emergency?Conversations with friends about the return of low-rise jeans and visible thongs that segue into...
and pain becomes the only keeper / of my time
People who live with chronic pain or illness become experts in details. They will know if the muscle involved in a current episode is the erector spinnae or...
liberation from my own daily routines
Over the past several weeks I have been practicing making space. The thing about practice is that it is not about perfection; it is about consistency and...