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burden

“Are you carrying too much burden?” I asked my dear one. I made a mistake at the tea shop–I ordered my boba tea without specifying non-dairy milk.  So I gave my drink to my dear one who can have dairy.  They were carrying two boba drinks as we walked back to my car. As usual… Read More »

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freedom over our bodies

Hello, reader.  How are you doing?  Wow, I didn’t post for a while.  I’m working on a novel for National Novel Writing Month, so that takes energy.  And I made a new zine (see below).  But mostly it was a mistake.  I have a few half-written posts I just haven’t finished.  This morning I got… Read More »

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home

Hello, reader.  How are you doing?  I am adjusting to home after a transformative trip I took with my friend. When I got home, I had a big My Life Is All Wrong attack.  It wasn’t PMS time, the classic My Life Is All Wrong time.  I was just shaken up. The freedom I felt… Read More »

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story

Hello, reader.  How are you doing?  My housemate was telling me a story in the kitchen.  We were cooking our last dinner together before they left our community. When someone’s telling me a story, I like to interrupt them.  I say–wait, wait.  Can I guess what’s going to happen? It’s a bad habit.  May be… Read More »

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harm and how we can do better: interview with Jacks McNamara

Hello, reader.  How are you doing?  I’m excited–I interviewed Jacks McNamara about harm and how we can do better.  Please listen and share with anyone who cares about these ideas.   Caring, inspired people form activist groups, wanting to make a better world.  But despite our best intentions, we end up recreating the violence that… Read More »

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enbies

Hello, reader.  How are you doing?  Ming and I were talking about gender, as we often do.  Ming was telling me an aspect of enbies I don’t always think of.  He was telling me how there’s not a messed up team spirit like cis men have. Cis men are pro-men and like they have to… Read More »

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art show

Hello, how are you doing?  Ming and I put up an art show at a local library, then survived the reception.   There are zines, poetry memes, mixed media, art embroidery, and the St Brigid’s Cross of Lavender that I wove from lavender in the garden. Can I show you some pictures? Thank you to the… Read More »

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sometimes a truth becomes a burden

Hello!  How are you doing?  Sometimes people read one of my zines that’s a few years old, and they make the mistake of thinking all that stuff is still true.  If you read something, it might not be true anymore.  The reason I say anything can be that I need to say it, then lay… Read More »

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functionally ill 32

Hello, how are you doing?  I made a new zine.  Feels important–would you like to trade?  It’s functionally ill 32: autism plus crazy is a whole other thing. I copied it today at my old favorite copy shop Copy World in Berkeley.  It’s five cents a page–up from three cents a page, ten years ago. … Read More »

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zine interview with LA Public Library

Hello, I’m so happy.  My zine interview with the LA Public Library posted.  Please enjoy and share. https://lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/interview-zine-maker-laura-marie-river-victor-peace-nopales I love libraries as a gem of society.  If we’re going to have a government, may it do wonderful socialist things like public libraries.  Zines are my favorite, I enjoy being interviewed, and I love LA! I… Read More »