New to Essays
Many profound thanks to Nehal and Hussein who, this month, provided me with an Arabic translation to my 2019 essay (the first I ever published!) Process-Centered Love: Dismantling Capitalistic Logic in Our Relationships. You can follow the link directly to the translation or find it on my Essays page.
I cannot overstate how much it means to me to receive translations of my work. I know that the labor of translation is great and requires intention and care, to the work itself and to the original author’s intent. That anyone wishes to expend that labor to make what I write more accessible to others is something I receive as a genuinely precious gift!
New to the Library
Articles
Kitzinger, Jenny- Who Are You Kidding? Children, Power, and the Struggle Against Sexual Abuse
Personal Update
Hello everyone! It’s been another very inactive month for me online, due to how busy and energy-consuming my offline life has been. I have been planning for a move to Portland for a while and in the last month finally found housing! My partner, our animals, and I are going to be moving back to the city in two weeks. I am absolutely thrilled! Over four years ago we moved away to the Midwest, largely because my disability was quickly taking my day job (and paying city rent) off the table for me. Now, with disability support finally acquired, we’re getting to come back. I am really looking forward to being surrounded by many other anarchists again, and Portland anarchists in particular. My time away has, if anything, cemented my love for that city and my sense of it as my home, the place I want to do my life’s work in. I’ve been spending a lot of time remembering all the Portland streets I explored. When I lived there before I walked all around its many neighborhoods and I still know it better than the town I live in now, better even than my hometown in Arizona. With my disabilities I don’t think I’ll ever know another place in the way I know Portland. I am so gleeful to return soon and explore it again in my wheelchair, cane, and post-hip-surgery crutches. I am most looking forward to reconnecting with my old Portland friends and meeting new ones! I remain COVID-cautious and mask in public, and hope to build new connections who share similar dedication to those practices and values. There are pockets of folks still holding strong on that in my town in Missouri, but the number is still very very small and dwindling all the time. As an immunocompromised person, this has been very scary. It’s been hard to see a future for myself when the conditions I need to live to a future are unsteady or already giving way, with little access to alternatives where I’ve lived. I think it will do me a lot of good to find more connections and social infrastructure (ex: COVID-cautious events) that doggedly refuse to abandon the more vulnerable for a false return to ‘normalcy.’ So, yeah, Portland anarchists please mask and make your events COVID-cautious. I want to hang out with you!
I anticipate being relatively inactive online next month as well, and perhaps longer. The final labors of packing and the multiple days driving across the country will be very difficult on my body, and there will be much to do as soon as we get there. I’m going to be trying to see a surgeon to consult on my hip as soon as possible, and getting into surgery as soon as they can see me. It’s been 10 months now since my hip injury worsened and I’ve been barely able to walk more than several paces and this is a very high priority for me. This is all to say, it might be a little bit longer of relative silence from me online. However, I want to add that I have high hopes that getting back to my city will ultimately be incredibly generative for my creative work of all kinds. I am always at my most enthused to create when I am creating in active conversation with others, in response to affinity and community, and when I have more anarchism in my life! I have also lately felt a new surge of invigoration and determination to write more on intimate authoritarianism specifically. When I finally have space and energy to give it (and when all my reference books aren’t in boxes) I anticipate a focused return to the subject, and essays devoted to it, soon. Overall, I feel more certain every day that this big transition back to Portland will ultimately enrich my life, my relationships, and the creative work I have to share with you all!
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