I am returning to this medium because it was always a helpful place to record and organize my thoughts. Perhaps the latter was much more of a necessity than I ever cared to give attention. At 26, I have come a long way in terms of my struggles, but tonight I really need to express, if only to myself, how I feel. I know when I am being picked on ( Read more... )

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( Today )

[2:37:49 PM] Robert: are you on a call ( Read more... )

I've never joined a political party but I'm thinking I'm either going to join the Socialist party. I need to do more research. If you told this to me ten years ago I would have been frightened. Now, knowing what I know, it just...makes sense. One of the things they say is that they think socialism and democracy are inseparable, and I think that ( Read more... )

So for grad school I'm going to apply to these programs:

The History of Human Consciousness
Cultural Studies
Medical Anthropology

when there is no hope to speak of.

No, I won't let George Michael lyrics let me trick myself into believing there isn't any hope. I am glad today happened, and I am glad that my life put me where I am right now, because I have a pretty damn great place to go forward from, why waste it?

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Maybe this is mania. But maybe this is just me happy. I decided I want to organize a program for next year, so I talked to one of the LGBTRC interns who I consider my friend, and he was supportive. The program would consist of Angela Davis coming to Davis and talking about how queer, racial, and gender performative issues exist in the prison ( Read more... )