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Critical Northwest, 2024

So, my wife and I took a trip out to Critical Northwest for our 13th anniversary this year. We have been many years deep, both in attendance and in year-round volunteering (to various extents) at the various central texas burns, and really had built up a lot of burnout/cynicism/exhaustion/whatever about the whole endeavour. We bringContinue reading “Critical Northwest, 2024”

Let’s talk about Trump and political violence

So, last weekend happened. Let’s talk about last weekend, then. Before we start (and I’ll remind you, reader, again, before we end) I will state that I am a pretty extreme pacifist. I think that violence and intimidation against people is virtually never justified, and the cases where it is involve clear cases of selfContinue reading “Let’s talk about Trump and political violence”

The Catholic Church has declared trans people abominations

https://apnews.com/article/vatican-gender-surrogacy-abortion-pope-3f84d8eb97f045b0cfb0ec1efa4e614e So, the vatican has release a new encyclical today, and there is some attempt at threading some sort of needle, but on balance, the thing is hard to read as anything but a full-throated slam of trans people. Some key quotations from the article above: “It follows that any sex-change intervention, as a rule,Continue reading “The Catholic Church has declared trans people abominations”

Written for TDOV 2024

Each day, that I put the rainbow onAnd walk out in the streetyou see me, that unabashed trannythat freak, that weirdo, that thingAnd you dare to speak know that, each day that I’m out there, wearing the rainbow, wearing those heelsstanding with my head held highI am remindedThat my transition is paid for by myContinue reading “Written for TDOV 2024”

X-posted from the great blue satan

Ok, so adam schiff giving money to Republicans is toxic and fuck him fuck him fuck him. (EDIT: I misunderstood a source here. he sent out mailers that identified who the MAGA candidate was so that he could contrast himself. This had the effect of helping to consolidate the Republican vote. Obnoxious, but not theContinue reading “X-posted from the great blue satan”

Estranged. 22 Feb 2024

Estranged. it’s such a funny word to me To be rendered strange unusual, different, lost as if normalcy was ever an option much less an option back then —————– This estrangement, though doesn’t feel like I’ve been made other it is just a loss, or a wound and rather than disembodied and distant my feelingsContinue reading “Estranged. 22 Feb 2024”

Protected: What I Would Say To My Mother (if she were talking to me)

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

The real thought that I can’t stop processing

If you knew me both ways, and you come to the me that exists now, telling me that you preferred the version that wanted to die, how on Earth can I take you seriously in saying that you like either one of us?

Listening to Tori Amos as an egg

I picked up this 33 1/3 that is being meta talked about in this Guardian article. Read the first few pages while waiting to get my blood drawn at the clinic. I really have trouble articulating all the feelings this album has given me over the years. It felt like a sledgehammer to the faceContinue reading “Listening to Tori Amos as an egg”

Processing

Hi. I’m feeling raw today, and the best thing that someone can do when raw is to sit down and actually go and write. Why write, you ask, well, 2024 has already been a big year in the story of Zoë Dahling. You see, as of December 31st, 2023, she is completely, fully and completely out. To family,Continue reading “Processing”