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…
By eriktrips
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Posted in autobiography, nonfiction, queer, transgender
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Also tagged female-to-male, gender, gender dynamics, gender transition, 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.”
In my dreams soldiers shadows steel-browed and tensile
summon aircraft screeching phallic and armed.
By eriktrips
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Posted in ptsd, disability, writing, poetry
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Also tagged disability, psychological disability, metonymy, ptsd, nonfiction, writing, poetry, experimental
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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
somewhere in the interstices between servers three of my posts for NaBloPoMo slipped away into dust or whatever it is that bits become when they cease to be…
By eriktrips
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Posted in artwork, nonfiction, photography, poetry, writing
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Also tagged abstract, artwork, computer graphics, digital imaging, experimental, nablopomo, photography, poetry, writing
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this started out as an unremarkable piece of ascii art which for just a moment became something kind of interesting but I ruined it and by that time I was out of undo’s and recreating it from scratch would have been a waste of time so…
By eriktrips
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Posted in artwork, nonfiction, poetry, writing
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Also tagged artwork, computer graphics, digital imaging, experimental, graphics, nablopomo, poetry, writing
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another way for relay fling incensed
a hinge strangled over stray beds enough thrall is not manger
shift bereft might cup or owned device to obscure free rales
breath stalks mead in severed steppe
I risk oversimplifying when I say that not only do I not really know what I am looking for but I have a fairly specific idea where I might find it either in the passage into agriculture of Anatolia and then bit by bit bits of Europe and then more of Europe and then most of Europe and or the imperial expansion of Rome into the Northern Mediterranean and its subsequently opening the killing floor to the bleeding hands of Christianity but I have not yet gotten through the question..
By eriktrips
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Posted in ethics, nonfiction, philosophy, poetry, writing
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Also tagged america, archaeology, death, dialectic, europe, imperialism, neolithic, prehistory, writing
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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, culture, discourse, ethics, European history, indigenous rights, Neolithic revolution, philosophy, politics, postmodernism, reading, restlessness, spirituality, textuality
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