Arab Spring

5 posts

RED LINE: reflections on resistance to genocide

Genocide in any age is horrifying…for painful months, my outrage has burned–but I had not found time to do more than share posts or talk about the issue in my communities…  On Saturday, June 8th, I was proud to take to the streets… our mobilization attempted to surround the White […]

CATASTROPHE: words of peace in times of war

It is excruciatingly lateAnd I need to sleepBut I also need to write I need to processDissecting this confluence of emotionLiving in a moment of historic proportionsFlirting with the precipice of barbarismAn apocalyptic age of mass destruction I am torn between worldsDeluged by diametrically opposed positionsOut of alignment with much […]

EROTIC FAITH

You are radiantErotic energy amplified by leatherFaith in a higher powerAligned with desire I could never believe in a godWho doesn’t sanctify consensual pleasureI cannot be guided by a religionThat demands that I suppress who I am You have described your journeyGrappling with queer identityReconciling this inner truth\With the strictures […]

KARMIC INSURGENCY

whose streets—our streets so said the cops while suppressing speech black lives on trial—neo-nazis on the rise such a toxic miasma of moribund white pride a US base on holy land—a criminal alliance suppressing palestinian dreams—a magnet for arab defiance our world grows smaller—and increasingly imperiled climate change is threatening—our […]