Looking at the anecdotes posted at tsastatus.net for SEA and SFO sent me diving for a Klonopin.
By eriktrips
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Posted in autism, disability, domestic policy, flight, ptsd, queer, transgender, US
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Also tagged autism, disability, domestic policy, nonfiction, psychological disability, ptsd, rape, sexual abuse, transgender, US
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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.”
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 [...]
I realized that in the reams of cultural histories that have been written, at least in any language that I can currently understand, the universe is assumed to rest upon eternal principles that almost everyone can participate in by virtue of their full assent to the gender to which they were assigned when born
…did you think that if you had been in her situation there would have been hell to pay? It seems like a sympathetic enough reaction, does it not, to think that you are so enraged by what happened to her that you would, if you could, search heaven, hell and earth for these hospital personnel and teach them a thing or three?
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.
By eriktrips
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Posted in autobiography, ethics, nonfiction, philosophy, politics, ptsd, US
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Also tagged American history, autobiography, discourse, ethics, European history, indigenous rights, language, Neolithic revolution, philosophy, politics, postmodernism, reading, restlessness, spirituality, textuality
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in order to address the experiences of another, we must humble ourselves before their complexity and before our own. We might use what we know of our experiences to empathize with another, but it is imperative not to universalize those experiences, and not to disregard or try to dispose of those differences that will always exist between discrete ways of getting along in the world.
By eriktrips
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Posted in ethics, nonfiction, philosophy, queer, transgender
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Also tagged education, ethics, experience, gender, language, nature vs nurture, pedagogy, philosophy, recognition, teaching, transgender
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I will be out on Mission Street reading at the spots indicated on the map in my venue post from last week.
ahhh. whatever other life forms there may be in this universe or in other universes, I hope they are able to experience something as unambiguously and uncomplicatedly Good as cool sparkling water. someone somewhere probably thinks the same thing about boiling ammonia. Because this is another post on the same topic but I want to [...]
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Posted in activism, Agamben, buddhism, ethics, Nietzsche, philosophy
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Also tagged activism, books, buddhism, direct action, eternal return, ethics, exposure, four thoughts, irreparability, karma, nothing, philosophy, responsibility, spirituality
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I had meant to come back and finish the fourth thought last night but I ended up doing something else. what was it? oh. I shaved and showered. wo0t! I need to finish The Buddha at War because I think it might have some more interesting things to tell me. I just looked at the [...]
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Posted in activism, Agamben, buddhism, ethics, Nietzsche, philosophy
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Also tagged activism, books, buddhism, direct action, eternal return, ethics, four thoughts, karma, nothing, philosophy, responsibility, spirituality
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