In the queer male world we talk a lot about pride… We talk about gay pride but not gay shame… Shame born of the fact that few of us fit the intensely sculpted archetypes of beauty to whom we pay allegiance… Shame born of internalized homophobia and the catty pettiness […]
grace and love
I invite you into this moment as he embraces you within his arms—I invite you into my present and the power of two to become one… This is digitized cylon sensuality transpiring within my mind–it is a subterranean erotic uprising transforming lust into a liberating grind… We can visualize sexual […]
Your pores exude a savage musky intensity, suggesting exquisite power and confidence… I feel your chest next to mine and I am intensely aroused… I feel our hips locking into synchronicity and I feel my snake magic rising to the surface of awareness… You are cock diesel—a master of seductive […]
Centuries of oppression and rebellion—of pain and joy—eddy in the waters of time—pregnant with generations of our blood memories… Valkyrie choose the slain in combat—they choose whose blood flows to extinction and whose lives are spared… Black women carry the weight of our struggle in their bones—with marrow communicating routes […]
Snake medicine pulsates through my being, unleashing immense powers of creativitybringing psychic energy into awareness and channeling this magic towards our need for healing The kundalini power arising from the root chakra ascends through our snake-like spinal columnI envision a serpentine double-helix armoring our spines and our minds through […]
Last night, the moon communed with Jupiter—someone told me to ask for what I want because I just might get it…with synapses firing at speeds faster than light, I asked for insight and foresight—I asked for knowledge of my noble purpose… today, I had a soul to soul convergence with […]
in our arrogance, we have claimed lordship over the natural world we have let the talons of profit claw at our sacred mother and our duty to defend the forces that give us life but the earth remembers—and our mother speaks she speaks through the trees and gives voice to […]
limp wrists and raised fiststrans and queer we rearm and resist we harness sacred powers arising in our midstmagical elixirs find their way to our souls through our lips emphatic euphoric and intensely orgasmicthe confluence of emotion is deep and hypnotic our dance with the dialectic is fierce and jaw […]
we are barricade freaks rocking prada in the streetwe style our rage in platinum shades shining strong and rolling deep the sacred healing we seek amplifies our quest for psychic peaceour erotic tectonics seduce the commanders of our dreadnought fleet as barricade freaks we charge ferociously into the streetswe dodge […]
i am only forty-one, but addiction has been a cunning enemy of my life for at least three decadesat first compulsive sexual stimulation and fantasybut also a foundational addiction to the power of intellect and self will while my head branded me an atheist, my heart and soul kept me […]
i have tried to cry for days, just feeling that grief is the right feeling to feelemotive songs have helped me choke up for protracted moments, but again and again the feelings pass and my mind clearsi wonder why i am not more ground down by this–why i am not […]
before we had a globalized system, we had globalized energy:fires of wood or wax to which we made sacred offerings of rare shells, silver, or gold before we had a world economy or planetary pandemics, we drew life and sustenance from the same sun and moon we saw our […]
the buddhist teacher tich nhat hanh taught me to see that we are like cloudsforever evolving and changing from one state to anotheralways becoming but never, ever, simply becoming nothing i am filled with exuberance in this moment, witnessing the deepening roots of recovery in my lifewitnessing the sacred inspiration […]
her voice soars, amplifying the resonance of visceral blood memoriesechoes of primordial pleasure emerging to coat our writhing bodies in glistening sweatechoes of days gone by when a woman pleasuring herself in a shower would have felt dirty and unclean she is a sun dragona divine spirit channeling the reverberations […]
my god is in the noticingnoticing the moment between when i start to breathe and when i feel the first rush of air into my lungsnoticing the energy and magic that surrounds usevident in birds that flock and fungi who thrive on the toxins leached by other forms of lifenoticing […]
its hard to be humble when the energy and adrenaline of an action are racing through my veinshard when my brain’s potent dopamine clinic is flying high on overdrive its hard to be humble when visions of fractals or sacred geometry meet my eyesleaving me feeling particularly empowered to participate […]
I am always looking for magicseeking the dilation of time, the deepest enunciation of truth, the most exquisite attenuation of the dancer’s fierce extension I am grateful for all of these momentsgrateful for the magic of the moon and the sunI am grateful for the serenity of silence and […]
I want to write about who I am becoming—and about what I am leaving behindI want to write about the web we are weaving to save the air we are breathing with the power of our minds I am a shadow worker in gestation—seeing the cracks through which liberation comespouring […]
so its official—we are now the epicenter of this global pandemicand we aren’t yet managing to even test everyone with symptomsthis is all likely to get exponentially worse before it gets any betterleaders of color have plowed the ground building networks for mutual aid and resistanceprefiguring the faintly visible outlines […]
this is not a drillcircumnavigates our globe in tandem with the relative scale of contemporary social dysfunction this is a moment for what is to be donea moment for protection from this infection: for connection and introspection this is a moment that calls for all of us to breatheand look […]
I feel alone–so painfully alone… Lost in a fog of fear, profound remorse, and omnipresent anxiety… My mind has been locked in a vicious cycle of FIGHT, FLIGHT, or FREEZE–a cycle only broken by cathartic tears of pain… I have been confronted in retrograde by a new landscape of harm–this […]
living in luminous sobriety is its own sacred highwe must craft a healing revolution to sanctify our hearts and minds the oxygen, dopamine, and adrenaline make me wild and super flyi am done being a spice junkie constantly lost in the ebb and flow of time i saw visceral visions […]
In this moment, I am a hot mess of regret, anxiety, and desire With boundaries collapsed I don’t know how to recompartmentalize I don’t know what to think or believe about my inner self I struggle alone at night: mourning the passing of a dearly held aspiration But I don’t […]
our eyes lock in the dark and i try to draw you inwe touch heart to heart, soul to soul, and skin to skinthis is an erotic duet whose seismic rhythms we beginthis is succulent and euphoric, but some among us would call it a sin we are the red […]
pleasure is so DAMN powerfulit arms us to sustain ourselves in resilience and to resist acquiescing to systemic oppression we aspire to liberation and seek truth in divine lessonswe aspire to build fortresses of healing across our polarized nation when i see a body, mind, and spirit to lust for, […]
i feel you in my blood as it permeates my veinsi feel your jedi mind as it bends the psychotropic planewe rise up for liberation determined to break the chainswe fight to heal our traumas–to set fire to historic pain… you are my prince of fire and i feel you […]