somewhere always a statement, skin concentrated
system inverted
attentive to the phases of love, this text
under the eye: June aroused by audacity
precise lips or this allurement of the clitoris
its unrecorded thought giving the body back intelligence
because each shiver aims at emergence
June the fever the end of couples
their prolongation like the most unexpected of
silences: lesbian lovhers

the texture of identities


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in reality, there is no fiction


from Lovhers
~ Nicole Brossard

tipping the velvet

i found this its me in The Crackwalker. i miss playing that part, i loved it.

The littlest birds sing the prettiest songs

From a foggy sleep I woke up to someone bird calling. At least that's what I think it was. The bird would whistle and he would whistle back. Whistle, respond, whistle, respond. I didn't know that birds would respond to things like us I thought only to their own kind. Or maybe anything that sounds like them. But they are smarter than that. It was a mating call. If I had known I would have been communicating with birds along time ago. In any case it was one of those little moments. A sweet one at that. I have always believed that life is made up of tiny moments, these moments are critical because when you add them all up you have your whole life. Tiny, precious moments. Magic moments, like the pudding mnmnmn.
there is this book by Anne Lamont called Bird by Bird its a book she wrote about writing but its not just for writers its for all but there is this part where she's talking about when her brother had a school assignment and he had to research and draw all these different birds and he was feeling pretty stressed about it and their dad came into the kitchen and asked what was going on and then he was like "just take it bird by bird, buddy, bird by bird."

Yesterday

Yesterday I did my bit at the awareness breakfast for the National Day to End Homophobia. I was sooooo nervous I don't know why I think because it was such an important event and there were people there who have worked really hard for the community. I felt really honored to even be asked. The speakers were great lots of different people all standing together in solidarity to end homophobia. Members of the LGBT community are still the highest target for hate based crimes in Canada. Things are getting better because we have such dedicated people fighting the good fight but it is a very slow process. Especially when the supreme court refuses to recognize hate crimes ( referring to Aaron Webster here)it is appalling. And in the paper yesterday a young man had his turban ripped off and his hair cut by a bunch of young men. I would like to see the court try and rule something other than a hate crime for that gassly event.
There was a member of the Jewish Canadian Congress and a speaker from ASSEC. There were lesbian parents and members of the community who all shared there stories. There were people who haven't spoken to there families in 25 years due to homophobia and Larry Campbell officially declared June 1st to be The National Day Against Homophobia in the city of Vancouver. So I challenge you to challenge those who by using the terms 'that's so gay', 'dyke', or 'fag' perpetuate hate. And to me in the life that I live in that's just not okay.