Buckling to the popular demand of two (count ‘em: 2!) readers, I’m posting the notes I used in my talk on campus yesterday about why and how I write.  I extemporized a lot, so some of what’s below didn’t get across.  Plus more slipped in.  But this is the jist. 

Arse ends @ Little Farm, Tilden Park, Berkeley, CA.

One far away and far off, one nearby and soon.
(1) BlogHer LesFam ChiTown MeetUp. BlogHer, for those who don’t know, is an online community of and for women who blog, and BlogHer, as a thing you might “go to,” is their bodacious annual conference. More about ‘em at their About page here.  
They do regional conferences as [...]

Boy, raven, girl, seal.

E.U.P.   •   February 27, 1995 — March 24, 2005.
[I posted this very same photograph and poem last year (here).
Muted backstory here (I provided an anchor link to the relevant part). Reader Chumpy posted this link to Joby Talbot's "Cumulonimbus" in a comment on last year's post, and I still find it compellingly apropos.
I [...]

The COLAGE News Blog passes on the news that the Williams Institute at UCLA’s School of Law recently released a report showing that LGB Americans are more likely to be poor than their heterosexual counterparts.
The study, “Poverty in the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Community, “ [opens PDF file], was released last week, and reported on in national media [...]

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