Hello 2025. LA has burnt, like other places have burnt. Tenuous ceasefires have been suggested in horrific genocidal conflicts while some participants get some quick bombing in before the deadline...
NOTE: I wrote this for a guest issue of a pretty well known international fashion/alternative magazine in 2023. A good friend who was asked, nay, solicited, to write an article by them, tapped me to...
Masking is lesser than hiding —It holds positionCharacter carved and shaped Into immobile mien —Persona manufacturedIdentity found in isolationStamped in self-similar replication But...
So, belatedly I realised I hadn’t mentioned that my Episode on the The End of Tourism Podcast had gone live, so — tada! Entitled We Will Dance With Stillness, Chris and I discuss...
Grief is not bad, nor is the mourning wail something that should be proscribed. The very fact that we are encouraged to grieve, but only to a “socially acceptable” level, lest we...
There is no exit strategy. I was at a virtual event the other weekend, where the phrase “building capacities” was used. Almost immediately – spastically – my twisted, uspide...
So:What if I told youThat the blind Might sense moreThan the sharpestEyes of Eagles? The deaf moreThan the keenestEar – Infinite Angels TopplingFrom their pins – dropping likeA cacophony...
So, here’s the thing: a lot of societal and cultural metaphors around magic and occultism are in the so-called West, frankly, bad and a product of the imprecisions in the English language about...
Here is the talk I did at the WFSF conference with Loes Damhof and Martin Calnan in October 2023. In it, we explore the notion of disability as morally neutral, and what a shift in our views about...
The thing about one’s partner cooking you and others a vast meal of roast pig and onions and potatoes and other sundry delicious things, when they themselves are vegetarian, as an act of love...