Thank you so much for your reply! It made my day hearing from you again, so please keep replying! I'm so pleased that reading my response felt good but please please do not for a second feel shamed! That is entirely besides the point! Any anger that you feel is inevitably justifiable, and never ugly! I loved your post on anarchy--not because it was ugly in any way, but because it was so passionate and knowledgeable. Even now, you're able to recommend numerous theorists and philosophers to look into (which I will definitely do!). It's very impressive AND inspiring, so don't for a moment second guess yourself or convince yourself that you need to do better because it sounds like you're doing pretty bloody awesomely! I can't imagine feeling like you're constantly screaming into the void, and it sounds impossible, but as you say, the fact that there are connections to be made and like-minded people to scream to, shows that it is always ALWAYS worth the effort so please don't ever stop! And with Proudhon, I think that's very good advice! And quite possibly he'll come under intense scrutiny very soon given the current social climate! I just want to say thank you again for your reply, and for all your recommendations! I will check out Emma Goldman and let you know how I get on next time! Best wishes, Mimi
Ps. Just got your letter of april 22. Much later than the letters of recent date. So I am not sure I received everything, and for sure not chronologically. big hug!
P - So now we are going into age discrimination? Brah, I was just tying up my shoes man, ain't nobody out here tryna choose, sup wit all the Q'z man?
S - I ain't trippin', you see this yard? Look at all of these heads, yeah, that's my work, I cut hair, old heads, young heads, all heads that's why they call me Swervo, because I swerve heads, you feel me? All that's me. (both LOL, soul handshake)
P - Aaawh, that's what's up, you got me? What da Swerve hit for?
S - This ain't no hustle, I been doing this all of my life, no charge, everybody got they own thang, cutting hair is mine, you sound like you got something to say, so, come sit and speak, that's how we do, and you pretty much created a crowd with that 1868 shit, Karl-Maria?...
Y - Anybody else heterosexual? Or just the O.G.? Anymore black Heterosexuals?
Crowd of black inmates - Heterosexual fosho, yep
Domino game stops, vacuum silence, all eyes on the youngster, and the entire crowd gathers around and on the side of the Elder, as the youngster stands with Basketball under arm, says:
Y - I do know my history enough to tell you that you are right, in 1868, just three years after the abolishment of slavery in America, a white man named Karl-Maria Kertbeny did coin the word, homosexual, but that same white man also coined the word heterosexual, so, you, and all of the rest of y'all just called yourselves something that a white man made up, I was simply looking for a place to land.
Crowd gasp -
Y - This ain't about respect, this is about disrespect, so like I said earlier, after you got a t me real disrespectfully, "so, now I'm supposed to respect whatever it is you plan to say next?". I'll fly away now.
E - I've been in prison, and walking these yards for most of my life, and I ain't never heard about no Karl-Maria Kertbeny, or where that word cam from, ( pause) so I can respect that.
Y - Cool, you coming out tomorrow?
E - I don't see why we need to wait for tomorrow to start over right now, I'm Eric, that's Peanut, Chally Boy, Swervo, Bam, Richard, Ham, Bando...
Y - Parallaxboi.
End scene
A Place To Land
Act 2
Parallaxboi,walking away from a group of black inmates onto an empty half court to shoot around. Swervo, the youngest of the group also joins Parallaxboi to shoot around.
Swervo - That was crazy, (smiling) they ain't never heard nothing like that before, they want to know why you asked of they was coming back out tomorrow, and why you ain't over there with the punks?
P - I didn't see no punks, fags, or none of that, I did see some Transgender looking people tho, and I'm not with them for the same reason you're not over there with the Crips, so, I was just asking to figure out if I wanted to be around all of that again tomorrow, that's all.
S - They respect you, and it was me with the extra Q'z, anyway, so you're into older dudes? Or why didn't you come over to where the younger homies are?
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Thank you so much for your reply! It made my day hearing from you again, so please keep replying! I'm so pleased that reading my response felt good but please please do not for a second feel shamed! That is entirely besides the point! Any anger that you feel is inevitably justifiable, and never ugly! I loved your post on anarchy--not because it was ugly in any way, but because it was so passionate and knowledgeable. Even now, you're able to recommend numerous theorists and philosophers to look into (which I will definitely do!). It's very impressive AND inspiring, so don't for a moment second guess yourself or convince yourself that you need to do better because it sounds like you're doing pretty bloody awesomely!
I can't imagine feeling like you're constantly screaming into the void, and it sounds impossible, but as you say, the fact that there are connections to be made and like-minded people to scream to, shows that it is always ALWAYS worth the effort so please don't ever stop!
And with Proudhon, I think that's very good advice! And quite possibly he'll come under intense scrutiny very soon given the current social climate!
I just want to say thank you again for your reply, and for all your recommendations! I will check out Emma Goldman and let you know how I get on next time!
Best wishes,
Mimi
S - I ain't trippin', you see this yard? Look at all of these heads, yeah, that's my work, I cut hair, old heads, young heads, all heads that's why
they call me Swervo, because I swerve heads, you feel me? All that's me. (both LOL, soul handshake)
P - Aaawh, that's what's up, you got me? What da Swerve hit for?
S - This ain't no hustle, I been doing this all of my life, no charge, everybody got they own thang, cutting hair is mine, you sound like you got something to say, so, come sit and speak, that's how we do, and you pretty much created a crowd with that 1868 shit, Karl-Maria?...
P - I get it, I'm there
S - Parallax, gotta look that up.
Crowd of black inmates - Heterosexual fosho, yep
Domino game stops, vacuum silence, all eyes on the youngster, and the entire crowd gathers around and on the side of the Elder, as the youngster stands with Basketball under arm, says:
Y - I do know my history enough to tell you that you are right, in 1868, just three years after the abolishment of slavery in America, a white man named Karl-Maria Kertbeny did coin the word, homosexual, but that same white man also coined
the word heterosexual, so, you, and all of the rest of y'all just called yourselves something that a white man made up, I was simply looking for a place to land.
Crowd gasp -
Y - This ain't about respect, this is about disrespect, so like I said earlier, after you got a t me real disrespectfully, "so, now I'm supposed to respect whatever it is you plan to say next?". I'll fly away now.
E - I've been in prison, and walking these yards for most of my life, and I ain't never heard about no Karl-Maria Kertbeny, or where that word cam from, ( pause) so I can respect that.
Y - Cool, you coming out tomorrow?
E - I don't see why we need to wait for tomorrow to start over right now, I'm Eric, that's Peanut, Chally Boy, Swervo, Bam, Richard, Ham, Bando...
Y - Parallaxboi.
End scene
A Place To Land
Act 2
Parallaxboi,walking away from a group of black inmates onto an empty half court to shoot around.
Swervo, the youngest of the group also joins Parallaxboi to shoot around.
Swervo - That was crazy, (smiling) they ain't never heard nothing like that before, they want to know why you asked of they was coming back out tomorrow, and why you ain't over there with the punks?
P - I didn't see no punks, fags, or none of that, I did see some Transgender looking people tho, and I'm not with them for the same reason you're not
over there with the Crips, so, I was just asking to figure out if I wanted to be around all of that again tomorrow, that's all.
S - They respect you, and it was me with the extra Q'z, anyway, so you're into older dudes? Or why didn't you come over to where the younger homies are?