Trauma as excuse is a problem I see all the time. I do radical mental health and encounter many, many crazy people–I love crazy people such as myself. Especially the brilliant, creative ones. How we talk about our traumas and use them socially affects everything. trauma as excuse I notice some people have a horrific… Read More »
Hello, how are you doing? A friend of mine is torn up, suffering, heartbroken about needing to break up. She’s scared of hurting anyone and being the bad guy. So I have breakup advice on my mind. I would like to share with you too. Sex kindles such big feelings–deep needs and vulnerabilities. Emotions are… Read More »
Hello, how are you doing today? Lately I’ve been thinking about welcoming myself as spiritual practice. Do you feel welcome, in the world? I spent most of my life feeling unwanted, misunderstood, too weird, and too much. Part trauma, part autism, part crazy, part fatness too. It’s taken more than 40 years of hard work… Read More »
Art is transcendence. I love art as spiritual experience. It’s a reason I’m still alive. What else would I have done? I’m not good at making money. I didn’t make any people. Art is how I live. Art and love. I was talking about how art is transcendence with friends in a small group ministry… Read More »
You know I do self-care all day, and I’m pretty amazing at being good to myself. Ming supports me, and he is very kind to me. But sometimes, very rarely, I lose my shit. I wanted to write about how to recover from an autistic meltdown. Here is my process for the most recent one.… Read More »
“What exciting things do you like to do for fun?” the man asked me. He was a new friend in community, giving me the chance to speak about myself. My mind was a blank, trying to see my life in terms of this new friend and his values. Survival, I thought. That was all that… Read More »
Hello, how are you doing? Thinking a lot about racism lately. Racism in everyday life, disability, and in community. medication Recently Ming needed some medication picked up for him in Las Vegas while we were traveling. The medication has little to no street value. But it’s a controlled substance because of repressive Drug War laws… Read More »
Hello, I wanted to tell you Christmas cactus has been a theme of this trip. Almost to the point that it’s spooky. On June 20th, at the edge of summer solstice, we left Las Vegas and traveled to the coast, to the place we thought would be our new home in California. Two days later,… Read More »
Hello, how are you doing? Hopefully enjoying life, finding moments of intense pleasure within stress and heartache, like delicious bright blueberries in the muffin of existence. I hope you’re loving yourself however you are today, a valuable miracle of survival. I want to tell you about this fat zine archive that some people I admire… Read More »
Hello. I made a new zine: mad mappin. It’s colorful! It’s a mini and a different size than usual, at one-sixth size. I cut each piece of paper into thirds, and then those strips are folded in half. I really needed to do something different! So I’m happy that I could make that a reality,… Read More »