December 16, 2013

UNSENT LETTER TO THE INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Dear International Olympic Committee Members,

Don't be silent on this -- LGBT folks are people who have proud and supportive families, friends, and fans; they are people who work just as hard if not harder, who share the same desire and passion to perform and ( Read more... )

Mr. Colin Bruce,

Thank you for taking time from your schedule to meet with Jake Hume, Sarah Dibiagio, Ian Kaufman and me on the October 4, 2013. It was a second opportunity to understand each other’s views and to follow-up on our petition action-items and re-iterate them in regards to the editorial “Sexual rights, public norms” published on Sunday, ( Read more... )

For atleast two years, I write to what I call 'my grandmothers' to ask them for guidance, to help express gratitude, and to send my prayers. My grandmothers came to me as the elder told me -- by whistling in a ceremony I attended two springs ago. I imagine them as this collective of wise, elusive, bantering, raunchy, feminist, crafty grannies who ( Read more... )

A Flapper's Appeal to Parents

In response to this link: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/cityhallpolitics/article/1228366--scarborough-shooting-mayor-rob-ford-says-gang-members-should-leave-the-city

I write an Unsent Letter to Mayor Ford

Dear Mayor Ford,

You are not addressing some issues.

I was reading the article in The Star and maybe their report is one that isn't representive of ( Read more... )

I'm not a huge Ansel Adams admirer, I like his photos, but I'm not crazy about his landscape photographs. I do enjoy reading this letter he wrote to his friend, Cedric Wright, on love and what it is and might be:

June 19, 1937
Dear Cedric,

A strange thing happened to me today. I saw a big thundercloud move down over Half Dome, and it was so big and ( Read more... )

It's been 3 years now since I've graduated and completed my thesis - Dammit. Give my professor tenure.
According to my friend and now also fellow comrade of my former advisor, he has a new job title.

Whenever I see Ben, we talk about babies, mothers, and his wife and his baby, Simon. I tell him how much I want to conceive a zine from the thesis. A ( Read more... )

I have missed writing in my livejournal.
I have been adhering and breaking Newton's Three Laws of Motion, particularly this year.

The motions are sort like one big synonymous wave of moving out, coming out, going out, working out.

And now it is already August, and at this time last year it seemed like no matter what was happening it felt right and ( Read more... )

March,
With the new season, comes the expression: in like a lion and out like a lamb. I kind of want to be both lion and lamb, this month. Whispers all seem to say keep Marching onwards. I want to have a spring in my step, I want to imagine possibilities and write and redefine myself in many ways. To be hunted and the hunter, to be gentle and soft. ( Read more... )

October
A portion of you I spent in the big city where so many of my good friends were fresh-faced and starting new chapters in many ways, too.( Read more... )