“F— Assimilation”: Keeping it Real as Native Americans

Here it’s not exactly often, but it’s definite when it happens, but if someone mentions Native Americans, you’ll have someone who moans and shakes their head saying something like, “I’ve seen how they live, it’s horrible. Drugs. Alcoholism. Just awful.” Wasn’t very different in the USA. I correct such people when I can, attempting to […]

“To Die” A Poem by Hannah Senesh With Commentary & Memories

I wonder what Hannah would have said about much of the world, and especially colonially, violently founded countries like the USA, supporting Israeli occupation and genocide of Palestinians? Hannah, a freedom fighter who fought not only for liberation of her own people, but others similarly oppressed? Her poem might be uttered today by someone from […]

Fading Summer, Finding New Songs & Flying Crows

When I am trying to relax, to slow my heart-rate, and calm my mind, I lay and look out of the window and from my view I see the top of a neighboring apartment building and the leafy crowns of several tall trees. On Friday, it was particularly windy in a city that is often […]

Recurring Spider Dreams & Interpretations

The dream I had was this: I am in a kitchen, which is rather shadowy and like one I remembered from my childhood. I am standing near a counterop looking out through shuttered windows that must have afternoon sun outside them. I focused back in closer, and I realize there is a small spider hanging […]

My Messages For Hop Against Homophobia

Since I’d already written an article, “The Inter & Trangender Question in GLBT Communities” which I felt was relevant for discussions of homophobia and transphobia, I included my giveaway in it’s introduction. My angle is from a “blow-by-blow” not having to just battle homophobes but from also within the GLBTIIQ community, those who say they […]