I have seen the news of the order to release Rümeysa Öztürk. I am glad of it and it should happen while she can still breathe. [edit: It did.] I had an asthma attack myself this morning and while I often have the feeling that I am being tortured to death by the medical establishment, she has a much better case against the state.
This week went past in such a combination of highlight and blur that I did not manage to share the tactile dialogue of the trans bog body poem which I read at the start of it, Izzy Wasserstein's "Come Back Wrong" (2025). Obviously I am biased in this department, but I would be fascinated to see someone who isn't me trace the motif of the bog body in queer/trans art, since Wasserstein's poem was instantly joined off the top of my head by Corvyn Appleby's Pull Me from the Earth (2021), Riwhi Kenny's bog body, watching (2024), and Tristwch y Fenywod's "Gelain Gors" (2024) with an asterisk for the community embrace of Hozier's "Like Real People Do" (2014). Even when I can read het variations, I strongly suspect there are more of the other kind which I have just not encountered yet. It was not an impetus for the taproot of Seamus Heaney, but that's what happens under the earth and the acids: things change.
I had no hesitations about this meme: instant travel and the ability to read any written language. Linear A or bust.
P.S. I have just been alerted by![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rushthatspeaks that my poem "Amitruq Nekyia" (2024) was one-third featured by Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth in this week's Reading the Weird! What an honor. I love its company of the ecological niches of hauntings.
This week went past in such a combination of highlight and blur that I did not manage to share the tactile dialogue of the trans bog body poem which I read at the start of it, Izzy Wasserstein's "Come Back Wrong" (2025). Obviously I am biased in this department, but I would be fascinated to see someone who isn't me trace the motif of the bog body in queer/trans art, since Wasserstein's poem was instantly joined off the top of my head by Corvyn Appleby's Pull Me from the Earth (2021), Riwhi Kenny's bog body, watching (2024), and Tristwch y Fenywod's "Gelain Gors" (2024) with an asterisk for the community embrace of Hozier's "Like Real People Do" (2014). Even when I can read het variations, I strongly suspect there are more of the other kind which I have just not encountered yet. It was not an impetus for the taproot of Seamus Heaney, but that's what happens under the earth and the acids: things change.
I had no hesitations about this meme: instant travel and the ability to read any written language. Linear A or bust.
P.S. I have just been alerted by
rushthatspeaks that my poem "Amitruq Nekyia" (2024) was one-third featured by Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth in this week's Reading the Weird! What an honor. I love its company of the ecological niches of hauntings.
