Stream of Consciousness
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Indoctrinated As Straight
“There ought to be a time in one’s adult life which is dedicated to rediscovering the most important readings of our youth. Even if the books remain the same (though they too change, in the light of an altered historical perspective), we certainly have changed, and this later encounter is therefore completely new. –Italo Calvino, Continue reading
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Dear Gloria
What follows is a slight rewrite of a class assignment. The assignment was to write a response letter to “Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to Third World Women Writers” by Gloria Anzaldúa which can be found in the pages of A Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, an anthology edited by Continue reading
2024 Presidential Election, Activism, Adolf Hitler, Borderlands/La Frontera, Cheerie Moraga, Dinesh D’Souza, Donald J. Trump, Ernst Röhm, germany, Gloria Anzaldua, history, Homophobia, Islamophobia, Michael Brown, Nazi Germany, Politics, Protests, Racism, Sean Hannity, This Bridge Called My Back, Trayvon Martin, Vivek Ramaswamy, Women of Color, Writing As Healing -
“They were all in love with dyin’”
Back Pain & Dream State I woke up with back pain this morning. The sensation seeped into my dream world, creating a moment in panic (both within and outside the dream) that my legs had given out. That they no longer worked for me. That sometime in the night, my spine had snapped and cut Continue reading
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Maybe These Daily Prompts Aren’t So Bad After All
What bores you? My son spins around on the extra wheeled chair in my office, staring blankly at his phone. Majority of his classmates are probably still in their beds, sleeping off late night excursions on Minecraft or Roblox or Fortnite or whatever games kids play on their tablets and phones these days. I can’t Continue reading
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An Atheist Christmas Special 2022
He spends too much time watching TV. Staring at the screen of his cell phone. Sometimes, he does both at the same time. Wasting hours that he’ll never get back watching media he won’t remember the next day. Remember that one TikTok video you watched while taking a shit? You sat there for at least Continue reading
Chapin City Blues 