We are all culpable and participatory in the creation of the meanings of words, modes of interpretation, and methods of interacting; this culpability extends to our innovations.
2010
FondleMyBrain
We are all culpable and participatory in the creation of the meanings of words, modes of interpretation, and methods of interacting; this culpability extends to our innovations.
2010
The risk of criticism is that the aspect of insult inherent to criticism (and absent from critique) is received by target and audience; to criticize one social actor is to criticize any social actor who feels kinship or shared identity with the target of criticism, to incur stigma of association.
2012
Small talk isn’t small – it’s large, full of the effort and energy it took to leave the home and venture out to the social, making simple words exchanged about the weather, the bus route, the tea, the sports, the art into immensely meaningful moments of contact, the meta-language of community.
2017
Jokes that rely on ridicule
are not funny,
are instead cruelty
disguised as humour,
suffering reproducing itself,
gestating violence
in the sore
spots of our hearts.
2015
This is war, I suppose.
And on that note:
I don’t agree
to winning on your terms.
I want equality,
not hard-won supremacy,
and if you persist
in trying to conquer me
I will leave you be
to wield your sword
on empty ramparts.
2009
Art in all its forms is not simply an expressive outlet but also a vehicle for celebration and acceptance with the potential to alleviate negative experiences by transgressing and transcending hegemonic structures of communication; art is a medium of subversion. (Silman, 2012)