I shared with a friend the blog post sacred song, about ishtadevas and re-finding a lovely tune I’d lost, but mostly about being accepted no matter what. When I shared the post, I realized that although I don’t use the words, it’s about cancel culture and unconditional love. I made a zine some months ago,… Read More »
A friend mentioned saneism, a word I don’t usually use because sane and insane don’t make a lot of sense to me. But I like the naming of the idea of saneism. Yes, I see it–discrimination, hate, lack of respect, and over-simplifying of people such as myself all the time. crazy camp The conventional belief… Read More »
“Uuugh! Uuuuugh! Jeeze, who needs weightlifting when you have cabbage?” I asked Ming. I was in the kitchen, asking a free cabbage to submit to my will, to be sliced by my biggest knife, into the colander. “There’s a lot of cabbage in a cabbage,” I told Ming. “That’s my wisdom for you today.” He… Read More »
“What do you mean, it was dysfunctional! As long as you did exactly what she said, exactly how she said to do it, everything was fine!” We laughed, talking about happy community, reminiscing. Yes, those were the days. daydreaming I was daydreaming about other futures. We were thinking about where it would be best to… Read More »
I made a Venn diagram. Not sure I ever made one before. I was working on a new zine, and there was stuff about community. A strong impulse stirred inside me, to diagram it! I thought “me” should be small, since I am small, but the the smallness caused difficulty of the circles. No matter. … Read More »
Hey, gmorning. I wanted to tell you how the chicken experiment went! Yes, so we got that 15 pounds or whatever of free chicken in the culinary school free box. There were other foods that I would consider normal foods, like carrots, onion, rice, potatoes, apples, beans, corn tortillas… Ming and I don’t eat mammals,… Read More »
This post fat liberation 101 started out as an email to a friend, offering feedback on something he’d written about healthy eating. I thought it might be good to share here, in case anyone wants to know these basics. I don’t talk much about the injustices fat people face, but those are everywhere. Instead I… Read More »
Yesterday I made chicken cacciatore. That might come as a surprise to you, seeing as I have a reputation for being vegetarian. I don’t eat birds at all–I haven’t eaten bird since I was young. I made a bird version and regular, which was vegan. elders This is what happened. There are elders who live… Read More »
Hey, we went to a protest. We were opposing evictions and rent in general, really. It was good to show up. I flew my Community is Possible sign. But the cops were acting bad. They were in one spot, and a tow truck was with them too. Then one circled around behind us, so we… Read More »
I made this art, with sentences like affirmations. I like the colors–I felt brave, never using colors quite like this. And it helps how the sentences go on the colors…? It changes their movement. Then I made this one for Ming to have sentences to say to me when I’m really upset. I talk to… Read More »