February 2012
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Beyond Gay Marriage and Queer Separatists–The Call... →
“Instead of carving out a tiny gay space out of the small stream of bourgeois, legislative rights, can we imagine a kind of sexual freedom that is for all people? A kind of freedom where a single mom is able to bring up her child without feeling obligations to marry? A kind of freedom that no one would be restrained in pantyhose at work anymore? A kind of freedom that as a culture we are...
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My first kiss was with a revolutionary. →
I am in Austin with one of my dearest friends. We met at church when we were 11 years old. He was wearing a Malcom X shirt and telling me about white supremacy. He taught me how to do the Running Man and Roger Rabbit and suggested I not call Asian people Oriental. It’s hilarious how we can look back on our friendships and see how they shaped us. At 15, he told me to read The Communist...
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absinthemindedfey asked: How do you feel about your awesome reproductive rights poem on video going ,or about to go, viral? I am seeing it sparking debates on many pages.
jessydoesit asked: I saw you at the NMF a year or so ago, I think before Jabee went on. I loved your poem!! So glad I found your tumblr!!!! Keep on keepin' on!!!
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WatchNews9 used parts of my poem, To The Oklahoma Lawmakers, in their 10 o’clock news report last night. Totally an honor. It was interesting how they didn’t mention it was a poem or that it was on youtube but was really cool to see it weaved into a story like this. Plus, Rep. Mike Reynolds looked like a total moron. “Most Oklahomans believe that life begins at conception. We...
mountaindewby asked: are you related to greta zuniga?
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Winter Issue of Muzzle →
stevietheclumsy:
I’m super duper excited about the latest issue of Muzzle!
With poems by Malachi Black, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Gregory Pardlo, Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, Sierra DeMulder, Megan Falley, Michael Mlekoday, and many other talented folks, this might just be my favorite issue yet. The poetry happening in this issue is just flat out stunning.
Oh damn. So many glorious writers in this...
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The Wolf and The Octoupus
Me: I keep seeing all these wolves. Like it just randomly comes up in conversation or I just see them in random places. Like I have never really been connected to wolves before or anything; I had a thing for turtles when I was 7 and gorillas when I was 11 but never wolves. I wonder what it means.
Jill: Your not gonna get your car spray-painted with a big wolf and dream catcher are you?
Me: Yep,...
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WatchI said a poem for my girlfriend on All About You which airs on KSBI “Family Television” here in Oklahoma, and they didn’t even register it as being “gay.” At the end she says, “That is just like every man.” I guess they didn’t catch the “Ellen fans” or the “tux with heels” or the “closet door” reference but...
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Unconventional Love Poem #4, Shira Erlichman, God...
Well, I said, I
just want you
to know I’ve got
hair
around my nipples,
a rash of red pinpricks
on both thighs plus
my bottom, I’m
pretty
sure it smells like
trashed cod down
there, my
plaque has
plaque, I’m hungry,
too fast and
tired, quiet to
a fault, but
when the waves
break
with their
tongues
I break
things, every
thing, plus
I’ll leave you
then tell my
girlfriends...
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Unconventional Love Poem #3 Erica Miriam Fabri,...
poem in the voice of Madelyn Dunham, Barack Obama’s grandmother
I got married on prom night, to a man my mother hated. He was from the wrong side of the tracks. And I liked it. He loved me, despite my beaked nose, and I love the way he kissed my painted eyelids when we slow-danced. We had to keep the wedding secret until after the graduation. I held the small gold ring under my tongue all...
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Unconventional Love Poem #2, Derrick C. Brown,...
Teased by success. we are like vampires in tampon factory. It doesn’t have to be this way.
The only good monologue has mistakes.
I will read out of this book of drawings. This is a book of lovers/freaks I tried to change. I had new visions of them and tried to draw them all in a book. The strange thing is… my drawings kind of look like you.
In some ways you look like the star of the...
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Unconventional Love Poem #1 Rob Sturma, Hard
She is all neck and bones flanking her velvet.
I take the gargoyle pill and hang over the church of her.
What a joke,
these useless marble wings, this casket shell.
I am a thousand pounds, threatening
to fashion her into rose petal pulp
if I spiral down. Stone trumps bone. My gravity
is poison to us both.
This is a sentence that can never end.
Every night while I repose and collapse
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Elizabeth Warren’s Oklahoma | This Land Press →
timekiller-s:
There was a profile of Warren’s youthful years in Sunday’s editions of the Boston Globe. I am sharing that one in a minute.
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Geoff Kagan Trenchard, Ode to My Bathroom →
I can’t embed the video because its from the original PodSlam series. Podslam has lots of great slam poets. I laugh at some of the cheesy effects and camera angles but its fun to see poetry being treated like a music video. This poem is brilliant. Geoff is one the greatest of our time. Find more of his work here.
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Wolves keep popping up in strange places. I had to... →
I am generally not that aware or connected with the idea of “totems” but I have friends who are. I finally had to take notice when my son randomly said, “That’s wolf for I am sorry” and then tonight I remembered I actually saw wolves the other day on my friends farm. So what the hay, I looked it up. Wouldn’t you know it? Wolf spirits are guides that tell you to...
Brilliant Democratic State Senator Tacks 'Every... →
ellaminnowpea:
stfusexists:
stfuhypocrisy:
Undaunted by the monumental failure of Personhood USA’s push to declare fertilized human eggs exactly the same as grown ass adults in Mississippi, conservatives in Oklahoma have pushed forward with their own Personhood Bill. But one Democratic smartass isn’t having it, and she finds the whole thing so absurd that she tacked on an amendment of her...
“All I wanna do is gunshot gunshot gunshot cash register noise.”
– Sylvia Plath (via incorrectsylviaplathquotes)
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