and the last installment of Chapter One of UndiaGnosed is up. it is already getting completely out of control even though it was mostly already written.
I used to be a man-hating dyke. That is, according to a certain strand of American popular thought, I must have hated men, because I was a dyke. Back then I did at times feel more than a minor annoyance at some men, and on the odd occasion I came close to kicking a stranger in the junk because he was following me too closely on an uncrowded sidewalk…
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Tagged female-to-male, gender, gender dynamics, gender transition, language, man hating, men, transgender, women
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Well, you cannot say I have not been busy. I have books to mail; videos to plan, film, edit, and release; and I am posting my autobiography, UnDiaGnosed online piece by piece, partly as a spur to finish it already, and partly as a serial experiment in publishing and distribution over the internet.
We do live in a discursively constituted, culturally mediated environment as postmodern Westerners and narrative does tend to be where one looks when one is trying to discern the grounds of classical Western metaphysics. But “narrative” does not equal “not real” or “not binding” or even “voluntary” or “at somebody’s whim.”
Like most urban dwellers in the US, I am from somewhere else. I have been from somewhere else for as long as I can remember. But what I mean to write about is going home.
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That is I read on the internet all the time but soon I am going to post videos of myself reading out loud to the internet: by April 10 I should have posted the first of a series of readings from One Last Ditch at the book’s blog, onelastditch.com. I do not know exactly how [...]
I want to write letters. Dear Michael. Dear Richard. Dear Patti. I have written the last one already but it is possible to write a thing more than once and sustain the same sort of sense while varying the precise wording each time. We share approximate cultural milieux although different social circles although the two [...]
When I was six nobody knew where Seattle was. That was not at all what I meant to say.
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Tagged autobiography, Berkeley, disability, flight, fundamentalism, nonfiction, politics, queer, San Francisco, Seattle, writing
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why do fundamentalist Christians worship “all-for-me, nothing-for-you,” greed-driven, planet trashing consumption-driven capital above just about any other kind of economic system?
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Tagged capitalism, christianity, ecological crisis, economics, end times theology, environment, environmental degradation, fundamentalism, politics, war
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Taking care that one is engaged every moment in productive activity is related to the meticulous care that some say must be taken to guard one’s thoughts from the temptations of the devil, and that has roots in a distaste for anything that distracts from the Platonic Good.
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Tagged autobiography, cultural theory, difference, disability, diversity, neurodiversity, paradigm shifts, psychological disability
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