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So, the Barbie thing. 7 Jun 2013 | 02:50 am
Googling "Quiet dignity" "Barbie" does not in fact turn up a new toy line, but rather references to the latest tempest in a teapot among organised science fiction writing/fandom/thing, such as this on...
Dis/Ability 19 May 2013 | 06:42 am
Little white pills. (One and a half of them - I cut them with a kitchen knife every other day.) Little white pills Treating to the numbers (I never knew to notice but Maybe when you're fifteen you do...
Runnin' Down a Dream 1 Mar 2013 | 11:01 pm
Last night I dreamed my teacher told me to get to know a goddess. I thought that was interesting, so I did a little research. (The goddess in question has an odd intellectual presence in my life, so...
The Yellow Wood 22 Feb 2013 | 04:40 am
I was thinking about this before I read Dver's post on Choice, but I think I have it articulable now. People talk about the price that comes of doing intense spirit-work, the obligations and taboos t...
Nome for the Holidays 21 Feb 2013 | 06:42 am
I've been thinking a lot about nomes. There's this illusion, you see, of a unified religion in discussions of ancient Egypt, usually a variant on the Heliopolitan cosmogony, with Amun-Ra instead of A...
The Physical Possibility of Gender In The Mind of Someone Watching 19 Feb 2013 | 09:03 pm
Last week my liege and I took the kids and went to visit his grandmother. This is always an exercise in barely-contained chaos, really, and at one point the three adults were sitting in the kitchen w...
Summoning the Irony Demons 14 Feb 2013 | 02:32 am
Because really, having my previous post about my state of crisis being constantly barraged with the sort of spammer who shits on the most recent post is bothering me. I am making a post just for the ...
Once Upon A Time 6 Feb 2013 | 08:00 am
Sometime, a lifetime ago, I was severely depressive. I know, I know, a big shocker that. But one of the things that happened with that depressive episode is, basically: I never fully recovered from ...
Back to Breath Again 22 Jan 2013 | 10:16 am
I have been pondering how to find aspirations - a word which, again, is rooted in the concept of breath. A friend who I was talking to when I was having my health breakdown this weekend referred to F...
The Illusion of Able-Bodiedness 20 Jan 2013 | 02:02 am
Right now, I really want to be able to pretend to be able-bodied again. I have spent much of my life getting good at pretending. It meant that my incapacities were moral failings rather than concern...
