Do you live in a fairly liberal minded area? Do you feel you have to continually be on guard? I feel like the racism is becoming more prevalent with Trump, but in my heart of hearts I know nothing really changed at all except the comfort level when engaging in racist shit
I immediately felt like the atmosphere was more aligned with my interpretation of a proper awards ceremony than anything the Oscars or Sundance could possibly offer.
Biggest pitfall is balance. Prevailing mental health philosophy is ‘oxygen mask goes on the self first’, right? But disability doesn’t care if the care giver is sick or tired or hurting or depleted, needs are still needs.
It means ‘cool heart’. It’s essentially this concept that making a scene in public is taboo and if you try any of that shit here mang, you have to worry about not just the person you’re fighting but onlookers as well...
Saleeby Savage bravely opens herself wide to encounter and imagine the worlds of her past and present, so we too can make some—perhaps more emotional than logical—sense of the worlds we come from and those we are now immersed in.
Sexy Coyote’s performance was a true highlight of the night, and despite a/v issues the band played on, their lead singer/keytarist at one point championing through the seated crowd and giving everyone a chance to punch the keys.
Alternating between the voices of expert bricklayers, hurt children, frank parents, and an omniscient third-person narrator who, in italics, ties the collection together, Mortar pushes past discomfort:
No regrets, without all I would have never become the emotionally disturbed person who called herself Pantifesto’s Pornastic Phunhouse on MySpace where I was encouraged to do open-mics.
Sampsell is fully involved in Tony’s perspective, imagining how a two year old (the book goes until age five) will interpret what he sees, given limited experience with the world and its contents...
We’re all telling ourselves a story about ‘how’ this all is ‘going,’ with no real beginning or end—and doing a lot of work to filter our actions and the world forces we’re responding to through shifting/incomplete/inherited taxonomies of meaning and meaning making…
