Pausing for a moment of queer joy.

This world is stone-cold hard. It’s too easy to sink into that grayness. To see nothing but what paves over all we love, all we desire and yearn for.

To always feel, as the hauntingly beautiful new album from @blackoxorkestar phrases it in a song that could make a rock cry, that “there’s something missing that could make us whole.”

Queer joy makes whole. Not always, and for many, not often. Or not often enough.

Yet it never abandons the desire for that nonbinary messy beautiful wholeness, complete with cracks still visible and honored.

And when those moments come, queer joy knows how to revel in them, dance with them, share them; squeeze out every ounce of delicious, self-generated, spontaneous, otherworldly time-spaces; dream forward about more euphoric moments.

So one has to pause each time, and leave a “note to self” etched across the barren landscape. As remembrance, as fuel and fire. As shared wink to others of what’s possible. As concrete evidence that those moments aren’t mere moments. They are the connective tissue of lives worth living.

#QueerAsFuck
#BeGayDoCrime
#BeGayDoJoy
#ArtOfRemembrance
#ArtOfResistance
#TryQueerAnarchismForLife

(photo: purple circle A spray painted across a sidewalk leading into @defendatlantaforest, because #QueerNotCops, paused by in mid-October, and woven—through friendships new and older—into the queer-joy pause of the few days in Oberlin and Cleveland, thanks to too many fabulous anarchists to name here)

In a time of rising and “more successful” fascism around the globe, not to mention its white Christian supremacist version in the so-called United States, along with fascism’s virulent and violent conspiracy theories that weave antisemitism, anti-Muslim, anti-Blackness, anti-immigrant, and other racist, ableist, queer/transphobic, misogynistic (etc.) worldviews into an always-genocidal worldview/practice (aka they hate and want to eradicate everyone who isn’t them)—it feels extra sweet to be among anarchist(ic) friends and accomplices here on Mastodon, including feeling to wholly/holy seen by Kolektiva’s emojis :anarchismhebrew: :anarchoheart3: :queeranarchy: :antifa: :anfem: :anarchoheart2: (to share only a few)

#TryAnarchismForLife 
#TryJewishAnarchismForLife
#TryQueerAnarchismForLife
#TryFeministAnarchismForLife
#SolidarityIsOurBestWeapon 
#TryAnarchismForLove
(photo: proofreading a picture-prose piece about a month ago from my just-birthed new book, “Try Anarchism for Life: The Beauty of Our Circle” [published by @tangledwild and available via @akpressdistro], with circle alef here by Naomi Rose Weintraub)

In a time of rising and “more successful” fascism around the globe, not to mention its white Christian supremacist version in the so-called United States, along with fascism’s virulent and conspiracy theories that weave antisemitism, anti-Muslim, anti-Blackness, anti-immigrant, and other racist, ableist, queer/transphobic, misogynistic worldviews into an always-genocidal worldview/practice (aka they hate and want to eradicate everyone who isn’t them)—it feels extra sweet to be among anarchist(ic) friends and accomplices here on Mastodon, including feeling to wholly/holy seen by Kolektiva’s emojis :anarchismhebrew: :queeranarchy: :ancomheart: :anfem_star: :af: :blob_anar_raccoon: :anarchoheart2: (to share a few)!

#TryAnarchismForLife
#TryJewishAnarchismForLife
#TryQueerAnarchismForLife
#TryFeministAnarchismForLife
#SolidarityIsOurBestWeapon
#TryAnarchismForLove

(photo: proofreading a picture-prose piece about a month ago from my just-birthed new book, “Try Anarchism for Life: The Beauty of Our Circle” [published by @tangledwild and available via @akpressdistro], with circle alef here by Naomi Rose Weintraub)