honeydunce

I don’t talk about my depression and anxiety very much. I’m open with only a few close friends, and even that comes with a certain kind of quiet. It is something I never want to mention, even though I loathe the stigma that comes with mental health. My own mind bewilders me, can get lost […]

On May 1st I went back to Dayton to read at a tribute for a fellow poet who passed away. Doug. There was a giant box containing hundreds of his poems, all of them written by hand on everything from notebook paper to flyers to small folded bus schedules. My hands shook plucking through the […]

“Do everything with a mind that lets go.” - Achaan Chah
I can’t go into the next ten with anything but a carry-on, and the contents must be shit worth carrying on with. The stuff I touch often, the things that tether me well but release when ready. A roundabout way of saying in forty days […]

The Aging Paradox - scene from Waking Life
(Two women are having lunch - English professor Lisa Moore and author Carole Dawson)
Time just dissolves into quick-moving particles that are swirling away. Either I’m moving fast or time is. Never both simultaneously.
It’s such a strange paradox. I mean, while, technically, I’m closer to the end of my […]

There are moments in your life that you can’t forget, because they’re everything you wake up for. You start another day for them, you connect for them, you create for them. They cover your heart like a layer of fat.
So what of these things: being anxious and nervous as you walk to the first […]

The snakes will have to be torched. Scales, venom and all. There will be no donating the fangs to science. We will not wear them round our necks like drilled victories. We will cover our mouths with the necks of our shirts when the smoke rises. Try to breathe a little less.
“Come home, to […]

December 17th(today) is the international day to end violence against sex workers.
To check out gatherings today in/near your city, click here
Stopping the Terror: A Day to End Violence Against Prostitutes
by Annie Sprinkle
In 2003 “Green River Killer” Gary Ridgeway confessed to having strangled ninety women to death and having “sex” with their dead bodies.
He stated, […]

A video from a public meeting on Maine’s marriage equality bill on April 22, 2009, via boinboing.net:

Found via feministing.com & mediaed.com
War Zone
What does it feel like to be a woman on the street in a cultural environment that does nothing to discourage men from heckling, following, touching or disparaging women in public spaces?
Filmmaker Maggie Hadleigh-West believes that the streets are a War Zone for women. Armed with only a video-camera, […]

Last night, my friend Joe hosted the second official “Classic Wrestling Night.” Highlights included the Jumping Bomb Angels vs. The Glamour Girls(January, 1988), “My Breakfast with Blassie”(Andy Kaufman has breakfast with his hero Fred Blassie and it is a mindblowing 68 minutes), and Ric Flair razoring himself during a fight with Macho Man Randy Savage(including […]