[I wrote this about 3 and a half years ago in 2016, but came across it today, and it’s still got some oomph, so decided to publish it!]
In a capitalist system where everything can only be valued as a commodity, rights and freedoms end up viewed through the same…
Who’s crazy enough to go to this much fuss to talk to me in-person? (say my self-doubting synapses)
I have had a weird career track. It’s been more of a career shamble, punctuated with increasingly tenacious self-talk (and associated actions taken) that I’m worth more than I’m making, that I’m…
If you reframe monogamy as a framework for romantic and sexual exclusion (inspired by the way I've frequently seen 'loyalty' and 'fidelity' used as synonyms for exclusivity) in service of one person's insecurity, it seems a lot less acceptable. We consider exclusion by a social group unacceptable in many contexts…
I continue to think about my relationship to social networking as offered by ad-driven, for-profit corporations. While I focus heavily on Facebook at the moment, the truth is I think we should be thinking about all of the services we rely on where a powerful and ubiquitous corporation has wormed…
An inability to move on is a tacit admission that healing is impossible. Or, it’s a belief that healing must equal the impossibility of going back in time, to reverse that which one cannot accept. I got to thinking about this after waking around 3am, and the idea persisted. Initially…
“I Love You” is a potion-filled vial
The impetus for this piece was a dream I had last night. In it, I was presented with a deteriorating committed relationship and real sadness at what had been lost. I had gone too deep in a kind of love that had tainted…
