Looking at the anecdotes posted at tsastatus.net for SEA and SFO sent me diving for a Klonopin.
By eriktrips
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Also posted in autism, disability, domestic policy, flight, queer, transgender, US
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Tagged autism, culture, disability, domestic policy, nonfiction, psychological disability, ptsd, rape, sexual abuse, transgender, US
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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.
By eriktrips
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Also posted in autobiography, depression, nonfiction, queer, transgender, walkaway from fundamentalism
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Tagged autobiography, christianity, depression, fundamentalism, nonfiction, prose, ptsd, queer, transgender
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In my dreams soldiers shadows steel-browed and tensile
summon aircraft screeching phallic and armed.
By eriktrips
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Also posted in disability, poetry, writing
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Tagged disability, experimental, language, metonymy, nonfiction, poetry, psychological disability, ptsd, writing
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As it happens, I have decided to, if not systematically, then at least with some sense of deliberation, try to unpack the tangle of narrative and nervous tissue that constitutes my own origin myth. Some of this involves therapy; some of it involves finishing the goddamned autobiography already.
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Also posted in autism, autobiography, depression, disability, walkaway from fundamentalism
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Tagged american culture, autism, autobiography, christianity, disability, fundamentalism, introversion, mental illness, ptsd, religion, spiritual abuse
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You ever have one of those mornings you wake up before sunrise and you already know the day is going to be too bright and too warm and one whole side of your body is aching..
I’ve been thinking for a long time about my own sense of almost complete alienation from the white Protestant suburbanism I myself came from and that is often thought of as the neutral American identity against which all others are measured. For some time I’ve been thinking and sometimes acting on the question of how it is that I can figure my own deeply-felt need to find a time and place in which I might belong without engaging in the sort of cultural appropriation that makes the Other a source of commodified artifacts.
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Also posted in autobiography, ethics, nonfiction, philosophy, politics, US
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Tagged American history, autobiography, culture, discourse, ethics, European history, indigenous rights, language, Neolithic revolution, philosophy, politics, postmodernism, reading, restlessness, spirituality, textuality
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Because I am nobody sitting here in a deserted corner of the intarwebs, my post on the subject is not in this list, but bloggers all over the place are still talking about the racism inherent in blaming California African Americans for passing Proposition 8 on Tuesday. Alas, a blog has posted a list of [...]
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Also posted in autobiography, depression, disability, politics, Uncategorized
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Tagged autobiography, christianity, depression, fundamentalism, politics, ptsd, westboro baptist
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It is Friday for me although the clock says Saturday and Saturday is streaking across the Pacific Ocean towards the International Date Line where it will turn into Sunday streaking across the Pacific Ocean towards Asia and eventually back through here again and then it will be Sunday but right now it is Friday and [...]
When I was a Girl Scout–about first through fifth grade I’d say, until I got bored out of my skull sitting in this one church basement doing hideously useless “crafts” using Elmer’s Glue and paper plates and construction paper and maybe if we were lucky colored pipecleaners when what I wanted to do was go [...]
I almost cannot stand the sound of small aircraft flying overhead. I am reminded of this by the feeling I get when I hear a single prop engine plane passing over the city, something that does not happen often in San Francisco, I think because the airspace here is so crowded that most non-commercial low-altitude [...]
