I wrote this a week ago: It is a truth that LGBTQ+IA persons do not have a literature that reflects us. We have a literature that reflects some of us, and we have a literature that reflects many of us partially. We don’t have a literature that reflects how varied the community is and how different we can be, one from another. How differently we are treated and how differently we respond to our … [Read more...]
George Herbert Walker Bush
The Congress, at this moment, is delivering eulogies in the Capitol Rotunda. Somebody said, “A man of grace.” Vice-President Pence was moved to say, “He was a good man.” Well, no. George Herbert Walker Bush, in his campaign for president, accepted the help of the infamous “Willie Horton ad.” It was the first “dog whistle”—that is, racist—ad in my lifetime, which is clearly not the ad of a “good … [Read more...]
Earthrise 4
During most of my life, there has been only one way to get a manuscript into format in which everybody can read it, and that is through the publishing industry, owned and operated by large corporations whose expertise is in making money, not literature. They do it by making books and selling them. They do it by thinking in terms of a print-run of, say, 10,000 copies, in which the publisher’s … [Read more...]
Earthrise 3
This, said to us by the man who says of himself, “Call me Ishmael:” It [the spermiceti] had cooled and crystallized to such a degree, that when, with several others, I sat down before a large Constantine’s bath of it, I found it strangely concreted into lumps, here and there, rolling about in the liquid part. It was our business to squeeze these lumps back into fluid. A sweet and unctious duty! … [Read more...]
Earthrise 2
Two weeks ago, on April 26, 2018, the Legacy Museum and Memorial for Peace and Justice opened in Montgomery, Alabama, funded by the Equal Justice Institute. This is the only museum and memorial in this nation dedicated to the victims of the crime of lynching. The memorial is a large building, open to the outdoors, in which steel cases or boxes hang from the ceiling, and, it is said, when you enter … [Read more...]
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