Hello, reader. How are you doing? Studying Spanish is grounding– so blissful. Sometimes I forget what grounds me, and then I remember. Feeling connected to a huge group of people is so comforting. Spanish is colonizer language, but widespread to the ones I need to speak with. Spanish is a place I can be myself… Read More »
Hey, reader. How are you doing? At an event watching local Indigenous people dance, they were burning copal. I felt so happy, some things came together in my mind. I connected dots, and I felt excited. It made me want to write a blog post and tell you what dancing is for. prayers Dancing is… Read More »
Hello, reader. How you doing? I’m so busy, working hard to build a more loving world. And I’m always fat, which is work in and of itself. I’m dodging barrels of harm like Mario in Donkey Kong. Disabled too! It’s been years now I’ve known it’s my destiny to be in the tank brigade. If… Read More »
Hello, reader. How are you doing? I’m glad to be asked anywhere. I’m rarely invited to any gathering, to the point that being invited to a party or workshop is cause for celebration. I consider it carefully. Recently I was reading an acquaintance’s social media post about being nonbinary, assigned female at birth, and invited… Read More »
Hello, reader. How’s things? I was talking to a new friend yesterday. Lately I’ve been meeting trans, queer, disabled, and crazy people I like. I realized that in conversation, new folx who don’t know me yet are often wrong about what I’m actually thinking. They guess wrong because they don’t have much to go on. … Read More »
Hello, reader. Would you like to dance? Do you know that all bodies are valid bodies, fat is ok, and fat people have as much worth as thin people? Maybe you know those ideas theoretically, but I wonder if you know the ideas in your heart. Do you respect fat people similarly to how you… Read More »
Fat transqueer disabled dance is a guest post by Ming. Photos by Ming! *** The dance happened on the same day as a national political protest occurred, Hands Off. We at the Fat TransQueer Disabled Ecstatic Dance were creating and celebrating the world that the protesters were dreaming for. Here is now. Why not? Before… Read More »
Hello, reader. How are you doing? Trying to be responsible, I’m seeking medical care and dental care. I’m trying a new Nurse Practitioner after a bad experience with the last one. Today I’m thinking about what I need from a doctor. I’ve had decades of medical trauma. Previously I’d preferred to be shot, over going… Read More »
I was trying to figure out why medical care hurts so much. There are many factors, such as a handover of power I’m supposed to do–I’m supposed to believe the doctor can handle the well-being of my body better than I can, which is incorrect. There’s also trauma I carry from decades of medical harm. … Read More »
Fuck exercise! I’m so sick of people framing my movement as exercise and praising me like I’m a three year old. I move for pleasure. My fatness is forever; I am unconditionally fat. No amount of movement will unfat me, thank God. I’m not moving my body to lose weight or do health on anyone… Read More »