Late in the noughties I took post graduate papers in Feminist Studies and Sex in Film at The University of Auckland. During this time I wrote some slight pieces about the works I was reading and from time to time I’ll publish them here. This is one of them. The generic characteristics of the stag […]
‘How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay: The War on Effeminate Boys’
What follows is Brock Thompson’s excellent summary of Eve Sedgwick’s article ‘How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay: The War on Effeminate Boys’ and he wrote it because the APA was again revisiting its assessment of gender and Ray Blanchard had become the new Dr Evil. I republished this in 2009 and re-read it today […]
e iti noa ana, na te aroha *
For Cushla There is so much space Between me And the sky In every way Less between us That heart of yours Sends shockwaves Sun blasts from the sky Heats the back Pacifies Drawn deep from the belly Of Papatuanuku You are wild You are Full of storm You are the eye of your own […]
Omoiyari ~ take time to really care about others
A Seido karate meditation by Kaicho Tadashi Nakamura, founder of World Seido Karate Organisation, from the book: Karate ~ Technique and Spirit by Kaicho Tadashi Nakamura. I often use this meditation as it really speaks to me. Osu! I want to concentrate on the word omoiyari which means thoughtfulness, sincere thoughtfulness. It means caring: caring for […]
Akróstichis #1 ~ The Enchantment
For she who is embedded in the text … Smiling Even (at least sometimes) in the wrong places Magic ~ I doubt you own up to that ~ Played out in All your silent tongues In all the dialects we both may anguish over Forgotten by morning Indiscrete nights/discourse denied Objuration unspoken/agreed? Not, it would […]
Deliverance (In Progress)
For Amy Is this the torture I am to be delivered of? You With your Abu Ghraib eyes That bore me Bore into me Sodomise my spirit I plead guilty Yes, it was me Who stole that moment How was I to know that this was it That this was Your moment of truth? I […]
An End To Indifference ~ Zurich See
Sometimes it’s just good luck! From Berlin I was to travel to Rome via, I was to discover later, the Czech Republic. Fortunately, as apparently happens often, the trains were on strike. I say fortunately because I hadn’t realized that the train I was booked on detoured into Czechoslovakia and I had none of the […]
Saoirse ~ Without Freedom and Liberty, Life Is Just Skin and Bone
It was the second time I’d tried to find his grave. Having traveled twelve thousand miles to sit with him and reflect on how our ‘lives’ had crossed I wasn’t going to give up and go home with this ambition unfulfilled, with just some solo, dangling conversation to reflect on. Twelve months earlier I had […]
Rosemary ~ That’s For Remembrance
A reflection on Shakespeare’s old home town … The harshest European winter for over one hundred years and there I was in a short-sleeved blouse in Warwickshire. Stratford to be totally accurate, and staying at the Greensleeves Guest House just over the bridge to the north of the town. In the afternoon of the first […]
Girls are from Gaia, Boys are from Penis ~ the truth about gender difference as might have been mooted by Tiresias
It’s all about sex. Like, you didn’t know that. Not sexuality, not gender, but simple fucking. You knew that too, didn’t you? You just don’t like to admit that it’s something so primitive ~ so without love, so without affection, so without … meaning. Fucking, of course, is never that simple. Why? Because we, as […]
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