The Maenad's Bone Garden

 The video for the January reading from the December issue of Writers Resist has gone live. I know many of you will want to know when I'm in there - I read twice, I think fourth along and then toward the end. ALL of the pieces are good and I urge you to please watch the whole thing - I especially was fond of  Yvonne Patterson's reading of hegemony: footnotes in future history , Kathy Kremins' Ode to My Reflection in the Mirror (on just one day)   and I was completely blown away by Tara Campbells reading of Prolapse . Watch the whole reading here. 

A rant.  There are two things I’m never ever going to write unless presented with specific kinds of sell-out money – something six or seven figures. Transition narratives and some meandering plodding thing talking about how much I resent being a mother.  Each is 'the pigeonhole' – the thing that as trans people and women respectively we are "expected" to write. Fucking ew. The second one is soaking in biological essentialism and women as second class citizens. Also, I’d have to actually lie – I’d have to have been able to have a say in raising my child for me to be able to hold it in contempt. I don’t, and never have encountered a single one of those that didn’t leave me with a feeling of “must be nice to be that much of an asshole.”  My kid wound up with her Trump voting relatives for high school because birth-mom had better things to do.  Now she runs with Godslurping dipshits and wears an NRA hat.    Besides, I'm from Texas. There was NEVER a p...

 If you follow the kithbooks page on Insta, you will be rewarded by the absolutely stunning and just totally spot on reading of my poem, Column E, from Flying the Jolly Scarlet, Gambling with the Gods ( Available March 6!  Pre-orders available now! )    as read by Katherine, my editor and chief collaborator on this project.   I think she put the story up late last night or this morning.  I am not *super* familiar with navigating that aspect of Insta tbh but if you are following them it should be right there at the top of your feed.  Maybe one or two back (or more if you're following a bunch of active accounts).    Give it a listen, it's amazing!    By the way, if you go to the Get in Touch page on the kithbooks website, there is a montage at the bottom of the page that just makes me giddy happy.   

 So much on my plate now.... the second (full) issue of the Viridian Door dropped a few days ago. What kind of editor am I? (Rhetorical question - save those cards and letters thanks.) Get it here by scrolling down and clicking on the lovely issue 2 cover by Syreeta Muir.  Be sure to check out her work within the issue as well! the Viridian Door To download it directly walk thorugh the Door by clicking here, though some people are apparently having a problem with this. We're researching the problem. I suspect Google is being Google.  As always back issues and more about the Viridian Door on our website.    https://theviridiandoor.wixsite.com/main

this is a cool magazine. (Not just, or even because I'm in it. Okay yea that helps but not what I'm talking about. At all.) But I am banging the proverbial joy buzzer about being in any way part of this action. rather literally now that I think about it. hah     *a chorus of squeeing weasels* Read it my children.   Not just this one, but read it all.    Cream Scene Carnival the Maenad is reforming the pink ladies as a mob.  And she's pissed. 

Super pleasing news this afternoon; my review of Beyond the Silk Roads has been vetted and is now live, available for your viewing pleasure.  Beyond the Silk Roads: Trade, Mobility, and Geopolitics (A Review)

 So my new chap, Flying the Jolly Scarlet, Gambling with the Gods comes out on March 6,  preorders are available at the kithbooks website , linked throughout. :)   But I know some of you are wonder, just wtf is in this book.  Thus and so What is in this book. Like my previous, it is awfully autobiographical. I started writing the first pieces in this just as the Ishtar Cycle went into preproduction, and I struggled as a non-documented, uninsured person to get a biopsy, or proper diagnosis (let alone treatment) for a visible recently discovered tumor my dentist found in my mouth. I was trapped in an increasingly malfunctioning and toxic relationship that I was nonetheless dependent upon for survival. (ahem...no longer) I was running to the end of a long period of intense self-diagnostic to work through the library stacks like layers of trauma I am working through now with a very good therapist. And amidst it all, to be somewhat cryptic (I think it works ...

Some random notes on this relatively pleasant (to me) dark future early evening here in central Seattle. -So congratulate me on this new program I am in. I have a new Chromebook. It's mine to keep. So paired with my rebuild (Industry) we have a younger sister in the temple - Capital. The program is looking like lit might be very good for me; this is a longer subject and would be boring but the last week has been overall a really good one. Though am totally and completely broke right now lol Whatever. - (Some of you might want to skip this one CW Sex work) . . . . . . . . . . . . . I suppose I shouldn't be surprised but I need to remember for future reference that on nice and pleasant evenings like tonight when I find myself out....Walking the Streets, I should really consider wearing my Wonder woman top again. Go figure. . . . . . . . . moving on to other matters -going over (...gushing over) the second proof for Jolly Scarlet and OMG I AM SO FUCKING...