First, thanks to all of those who joined as paid subscribers this week during our sale! Your contributions mean I can keep scribbling and also feed the lovely floofs. I really appreciate your interest, trust, and generosity. Thank you!
And if you didn’t join—even without the sale, the price is pretty low! $5/month, $50/year. Consider becoming a paid subscriber! The floofs will thank you!
Okay; enough with the begging (for the moment.) Here’s what I wrote this week.
If you read one thing by me this week, read:
An interview with Florence Ashley on trans identity, human messiness, and her new book Gender/Fucking. (The Present Age)
Politics
Biden’s fight against monopolies is a fight for democracy. (Public Notice)
Dick Durbin needs to hold hearings on Alito, ffs. (Public Notice)
Why is Mitt Romney debasing himself to Trump? Partisanship. (EIH)
Why Christianity isn’t (always) evil. (EIH)
Cultural Criticism
Richard Linklater’s Hit Man reimagines the femme fatale with less misogyny—which is a boon for both men and women. (CNN.com)
An Education is about how patriarchy makes ambitious women vulnerable. (Splice Today)
C.S. Lewis’ Space Trilogy and the blessing of being insignificant. (EIH)
Poetry
A Pessoa-inspired exhortation to self-consciousness. (Blue Unicorn)
A poem about Courtney Cox and forgotten 80s superhero shows. (Synchronized Chaos)
Two short poems. (Five Fleas)
dusk
crow
bough
After Chiya
hototogisu
hototogisu again
daylight again and
Advice for writers! (Five Fleas)
write about
what you know
write about
nothing.
Little haiku based on a painting by Shibata Zeshin. (Cold Moon Journal)
Look! And you, look too!
In the waterfall, the hawk
sees its reflection.
I enjoyed reading your interview. I like their message that trans experience is human experience, and the messiness of being human. Thank you for sharing it.
Yours is consistently one of my favorite subs, and also, great haiku!