It seems to me, there’s a blog where someone records the things they’ve written on bits of papers – notes to themself– and most of the time, they have no idea why they wrote what they wrote, or even if they themself wrote it. Maybe it was a quote from someone else, a song lyric, something they overheard.
Well, Tex and I have been working the FLYlady as we transition from house of teens to house of two middle aged queers who are, hoo doggie, ready to spend more time on art and lovin’.
I have been coming across lots of little pieces of paper, femme sisters, let me tell you!
Below is the found poem of these small records of my thought process, the emotions and wee moments of clarity that grace us all the time. We may not remember what it was, exactly, when we wrote, as I did, “PURE manners manners” but it’s a reminder that we are always thinking, always creating, always observing the world around us and parsing through all that the information to find where we are situated, what is important to us, and how to continue on with our gifts and ideas.
As a writer and a queer femme organizer and activist, I need to remind myself all the time that not every idea has to come to fruition, never mind that “PURE manners manners” might have been a memo to myself about some world-changing event I was machinating. The amount of these bits of paper reminds me that I am always coming up with things, that I am never at a lack for ideas, that there are so many other wonderful queer folks out there, who, like me, are doing art, loving each other, coming up with amazing community-building events and making positive change. And also, that everybody has to go grocery shopping once in a while.
PURE manners manners
not acquisatory – connective
As James Baldwin says
cumulative retreat
Lacey Baker queer skater
Reductress – lez comedy
fruit of generosity
can easily turn bittter and sour
without reciprocity
Femme sister, doing for.
I love myself!
I’m super fly!
I applaud myself
When I walk by!
Queer sex ed
minorities w/in minority; link with other queer youth (or just queer) organizations; law enforcement; policy making; younger
Mary!!
45 mins! An hour!!
mayo lemonade
Ignore culture @ your peril
Trump ignores as much as a progressive liberal might
gay man friend
pretense – can’t tell if femme or butch
indicates he doesn’t want
to look too hard at dykes
respect? misogyny?
DARK GLASSES
reviews
Zoe?
I see you, and I like it!
“faceless suburbia”
face of suburbia
art tattoos
cat pee
This is it
Every Monday, I offer a Meditation for Queer Femmes, in the spirit of my maternal grandmother, Mimi, who was fabulous, and from whom I inherited her Meditations for Women.
The Total Femme 