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 […]

MESSAGE FROM THE UNDERGROUND

bypo’s rollin’ psychotropic bombed that wall before you noticed raise your fist and keep it focused hit the streets and roll like roaches street art flying cyber-wired scarred barbed and crudely filed press on nails branded black spray paint bombed on cyber-blast hitting streets and rolling deep showing love and […]