All in Liberation
From north to south, and back again- I’m welcomed home by a snowy owl. After spending five weeks amongst the barred. Now, Minnesota- under siege, spun open, small circles binding beLoved neighborhoods. These words allows me to queer again my intimacy with place, pain, the plurality of love and hate.
Jordan’s Passion points us not to romantic love or sexual fury but to the tools she uses to make her work memorable, modern, experimental: urgency, time, music, pain, white space, marked silences, hushed pauses, earned wisdom, the language of the female psyche.
Recipe for Queering End of Summer 2021
1 Water is Life festival
1 Weekend Leo bday flavor visit w/ Dad in chiTown suburbs
1 Week turned 2 at beLoved western NY cottage w/ maternal family.
3 Days = start of grad school saucy remote learning style
5 Days back in Chicago for 77 yo Dad’s wedding/Irish Polish loveFest
Dash of Frida Kahlo, Ani, Willa, Joy
Heaping spoonFull of fab sister and cousin time
Sprinkle with wildness, adventure, anti-abortion wack, and generosity
Put in oven and bake to a queer crisp climate change is everywhere 450 degrees.
Queering time is a transgressive practice dedicated to subverting the dominant paradigm, asking what justice means in 2021, and living life on the queer margins of linear reality. Queer Intimacy with Time connects us to our ancestors who used pleasure to create movements committed to freedom.