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What I know, the only thing I know for sure…

26 Saturday Feb 2022

 

To say that it has been a very challenging time in my life could be the
understatement of my rarely to never understated life.
Honestly, the last 3 years have been one Bitch-Slappy whack after the
other, quite continuous actually, in every.single.area of my life and
health, but I refuse to give up on myself.

Most particularly, though, I refuse to give up hope that I will be
inclined, have the energy left over after work and keeping at bay that
which ails me, to do what has literally kept me alive in the darkest
moments of my life: to write.

To write about what hurts, to write about the individual and collective
experience, to write about what is right, to write about what is wrong,
to write about everything that matters, or should. To write beautiful
and dark and silly poems.

I will not give up on myself to write. Just to fucking write!

~Marcela: not uninspired, just un-something… un-everything…

“When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.” -bell hooks

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence. It is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” -Audre Lorde

“Write hard and clear about what hurts.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Write what you know.” – Mark Twain

 

 

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Was there a different, more unifying solution?

15 Tuesday Feb 2022

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Taking down Gassy Jack

A group of what some folks are referring to as Wokes took down the statue of Gassy Jack in Vancouver’s Gastown yesterday. And while I absolutely stand behind and share, their outrage at the reasons behind his fall from positive to not-so-aggrandizing notoriety, he ‘married,’ think about that, a 12 year old Squamish Nation child, and went on to father his own child with her. In other words, he was given legal permission to rape a 12 year old girl.

I clearly see how leaving his statue up comes off as condoning his (and others’) heinous acts of child-rape, legally condoned by every system and individual who co-signed it, but I fail to see how this particular action serves to remedy anything over the longer term, and isn’t that what we really want? To air the dirty laundry of history while working toward not repeating it?

I find (and some of the comments support this train of thought) that this kind of action, while very gratifying in the moment, is divisive and inflammatory, and isn’t that what we’re trying to steer away from?

Would it have been more useful to erect a statue of her beside him, and a plague, articulating the actual history? You know, owning the colonial and paternalistic crimes committed against her and mega thousands of others, taking responsibility, acknowledging her and by direct extension her people and the suffering they endured?

Just a thought or two…

~Marcela.

Relevant Tyee article by Jen St. Denis is here, the photo is also hers::

https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/02/14/Gassy-Jack-Statue-Toppled-Vancouver/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=021422-f&utm_campaign=editorial&fbclid=IwAR2FJzVc0QCru-LvwzM5Lv487-lFaSbbhrxucmxYequCMrADve9waPB_Lc4

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Gag Me With the Decapitated Head of a Martyr… or Two… The Origins of Valentine’s Day…

14 Monday Feb 2022

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Origin of Valentine's Day

Gag me with the decapitated head of a martyr…

If you hate the consumeristic commercialization of a holiday that literally had nothing to do with romance, rather “originated as a liturgical feast to celebrate the decapitation of a third-century Christian martyr, or perhaps two,” by the Roman Emperor Claudius Gothicus, then please, by all means,  do STOP commercializing and bastardizing it.

I am still a devout Atheist, but that does not preclude my belief that people should not be decapitated, for theirs.

I have long abhorred this particular Hallmark Holiday, single or attached, and have repeatedly requested of my Royal Consorts to kindly, NOT engage.

xoxo

~Marcela: Still the Queen of This here Quackdom, and happily not receiving Valentine-specific overtures from one Salty-Ass Sailing Man, without having to ask, because he gets it, all by his-self.

P.S: Do Check out the Smithsonian link, I don’t just make this shit up to suit my perspectives and beliefs….though admittedly, in this case, it worked out well for me… :)

 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gory-origins-valentines-day-180968156/?fbclid=IwAR25lxC3FfMdLG63OYqoYEIprvziNDUB5FVlm-BAApebFaa2oAM3qjqB60w

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