It’s the end of Pride Month. Usually I’m overflowing with words about queer topics, especially in June. I had a year of queer rage in 2022. And 2023 has me filled with even more rage. And yet this month, when I should have been able to say something I’ve had trouble saying anything. Every time I…
Month: June 2023
How to Write a Story?
I want to share something with you. Partly because I think it’s funny, and partly because I think it’s interesting: “The Himalayan salt crystal his mother sent him for his last birthday tasted quite good on eggs. Did they taste better on eggs than the salt that came a can? Of that, Sisyphus couldn’t be…
Birthday Suit (Big Cat, Little Cat)
Big Cat, Little Cat: Birthday Suit The Birthday Suit and the Paradox of the Cat I think I like cats because they combine some of the best traits–affection, playfulness, musicality–with some of the worst traits–distrust, schadenfreude, lack of accountability–of people. A cat will break something and just walk away. A cat will play with its…
The Pearl Collector #2: Follow Me!
He comes to visit me in Hong Kong, bringing with him two huge traveling bags. They are allfor me: winter clothes, books, and chocolates and even salted hams. I take him to Stanley. He takes pictures of me.He says he is tired and goes to bed early Follow Me! When dad got his driving license…
‘Like the Wind’: Brain Frog and Ancestors
“I had to learn to think, feel and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink. The great majority of artists are throwing themselves in with life-preservers…
Pride is for… ?
I began June not with celebration, but with tears. “Happy” Pride, right? Who the fuck thought I would be watching a TV show with a character who was wearing overalls and I would absolutely breakdown in tears? And now, I’m alternating between writing and ugly crying. And the makeup I put on earlier today is a mess…